Addis, Katharine
8th year
Renaissance epics, slavery, critical race theory, Platonic and Aristotelian political theory, classical reception, Edmund Spenser, Juan Latino, Torquato Tasso, Cervantes, Shakespeare, the Ottoman empire, Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean studies, transnational literary criticism, critical theory, queer theory.
Afsari-Mamagani, Grace
7th year
Critical digital pedagogies; information experience design; contemporary multi-ethnic U.S. lit; women of color feminisms; design & data justice; digital & public humanities
Aldersley, Richard
4th year
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literatures; international modernism; transatlanticism; Irish Studies; genre theory; comedy
Courses taught: Literatures in English IV: Anglophone Literatures of the 20th century; Literatures in English III: American Literatures to 1900; Texts and Ideas: Unbelief
Armoza, Jonathan
8th year
Digital Humanities, Computational Text Modeling, and Analysis, Operationalized, Literary Theory, Data Visualization, Nineteenth Century American Literature, Poetics, Stylistics, Linguistics, Rhetoric
Arnone, Anthony
6th year
Eighteenth-century British studies; the history of rhetoric; the history of education; the sociology of literary study; media theory.
Asher, EG
5th year
medieval inter-religious (Jewish-Christian-Islamic) relations, medieval European literature, Atlantic Jewish diaspora, American immigration history, medievalism(s), feminist/queer/trans theories, poetry & poetics, creative writing
Courses taught: Teaching Assistant, Literatures in English III: American Literatures to 1900 (2021); Adjunct Faculty, Reading as a Writer (2021); Teaching Assistant, Texts & Ideas: Antiquity & the Renaissance, New York University (2020); Adjunct Faculty, Reading As A Writer (2020); Mentor/Instructor, Undergraduate Creative Writing, New York University, NY (2018-2019); Instructor, Seminar for Younger Poets, Bucknell University, PA (2016); Adjunct Faculty, Poetry II, Brown University, RI (2015); Adjunct Faculty, Poetry I, Brown University (2014)
Bejarano, Elizabeth
8th year
Eighteenth-century British literature, historiography, media studies, Romanticism
Bosu, Saronik
7th year
Economic Thought and Literature, Anthropocene in the Global South, Medical Humanities, Public Humanities, Pedagogical Studies
Bradley, RaNelle
6th year
Currently I am engaged in a rigorous study concerning issues of madness, disability, and temporality within early modern drama. I use disability theory as a lens to analyze depictions of madness in a variety of early modern plays. The areas of research that continue to inspire me include Early modern literature, Shakespeare, medieval literature, drama, disability studies, temporality, race studies, affect theory, animal theory, and environmental criticism.
Clark, Katharine
4th year
High and late medieval literature; spatial theory; premodern and contemporary technologies; material culture; migration and movement; digital design; critical theory; visionary literature
Cohn, Nicolas
1st year
Culver, Jeremy
8th year
Dagman, Alliya
5th year
20th & 21st Century Literatures in English; Poetry and Poetics
Courses Taught: Adjunct Instructor, Literatures in English IV-20th & 21st Century Literatures (Summer 2021); Teaching Assistant, Texts and Ideas: Unbelief in Western Thought (Spring 2021); Teaching Assistant, Literatures in English IV-20th & 21st Century Literatures (Fall 2020)
Darisse, Adam
4th year
Early Medieval Literature, Medievalisms, Digital Humanities, and theories of Space and Place
Dayal, Smaran
6th year
postcolonial studies, african american literature, science fiction, indigenous studies, queer theory, black studies
Courses taught: Core Curriculum Text and Ideas (Sunder Rajan), Core Curriculum Cultures and Contexts (Lee), German Language
Bio: Smaran Dayal is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University, where he is writing a dissertation on literary Afrofuturism. He is the recipient of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Masters Scholarship and the European Council’s Erasmus Mundus Fellowship. He is one of the co- organizers of the NYU Postcolonial, Race and Diaspora Studies Colloquium, co translator of the book The Queer Intersectional in Contemporary Germany and co-editor of the anthology of American literature, Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts.
Dominick, Gina
9th year
Medieval British literature; Chaucer; Malory; critical theory; aesthetics; affect; T.W. Adorno; film; horror and discomfort; Gaspar Noé; Lars Von Trier; Jörg Buttgereit
Donne, Ayda
1st year
My research interests are in Indigenous Studies, Archival Studies, Queer Theory, and Marxist Theory.
Duron, Nicholas
9th year
Chicana/o & Latina/o studies and literature, U.S. multi-ethnic literature, comparative ethnic studies of the Americas, affect theory, technology, post colonial theory, women of color feminisms, queer of color theory, borderlands methodologies & history
Foister, Emily
6th year
20th and 21st century British and American literature, the novel and film, the apocalyptic nuclear imaginary and the cultural cold war, postcolonial literature and theory, Fluxus and participatory art performance, fourth-wave feminisms and the legacies of the Women’s Liberation Movement, contemporary autofiction, the viral and the catastrophic, pulp fiction futures, invisible texts, avant-gardism in plain sight, French and Francophone writing and critical theory, freak pastoralism, countercultural making, la flâneuse.
Courses taught:
Instructor of Record: Autofiction: Advanced Studies in Transatlantic Literature, English Department, Drew University, Fall 2020
Instructor of Record: Cold War Paranoia: Intermediate Topics in Literature, English Department, Drew University, Fall 2020
Adjunct: Literatures in English III: American Literatures to 1900, English Department, NYU, Spring 2020
Adjunct: Texts and Ideas: The Other, Core Curriculum in College of Arts & Science, NYU, Autumn 2019
TA: Anglophone Literature and Civilization Studies for the Agrégation Département du Monde Anglophone, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, September 2015 – July 2017
TA: MEEF Anglais viz. English Teaching Masters, Département du Monde Anglophone, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, September 2015 – July 2017
Instructor of Record: Introduction to English Literature, Département du Monde Anglophone, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, September 2015 – July 2017
Instructor of Record: Anglophone Literature and Civilization Studies for the university faculty, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, September 2015 – July 2017
Instructor of Record: English for all first-year students ISEM/ESMOD Paris, September 2013 – June 2015
Gerace, Emily
1st Year
Early medieval literature
Courses taught: College Writing I and II at Rockland Community College
Healey, Ryan
5th year
Eighteenth-century literature, corpus linguistics, history of science and economics, communization, mereology, artificial intelligence, abstraction and dispossession
Courses taught: COREUA 400 - Texts & Ideas; ENGLUA 112 - Literatures in English II: Literatures of the British Isles and British Empire 1660-1900
Juarez, Miriam
4th year
21st-century Latinx/Chicanx fiction; aesthetic and affect theory; race and phenomenology; gender and sexuality studies
Johnson, Gabriella
6th year
Black women's narratives, African American women's literary and intellectual histories, Black feminist thought, prison abolitionist thought
Courses taught: Literatures in English III; Literatures in English IV; Texts and Ideas; Gender, Violence, and Redress in 20th-Century African-American Fiction
Kruchten, Joshua
4th year
Book History, Material Culture, History of Science, Pedagogy
Lastarria, Wynter
6th year
Post-Black Arts Movement African American novels and drama, contemporary satirical African American literature
Courses taught: ENGL-UA 114 Literatures in English IV: Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literatures; CORE-UA 400 060 Texts and Ideas: Unbelief in Western Thought
Lopez, Yollotl
8th year
20th Century American ethnic literature and youth literature
Courses taught: Reading as a Writer
Yollotl Lopez hails from the Mojave Desert of California. After completing her master's in English literature at Cal State Northridge, she joined NYU in 2015. She is currently working on her dissertation "Dream On: The Rhetoric of Undocumented Immigration." When not working on her dissertation, she also writes creative nonfiction.
Lucien, Vladimir
4th year
Black Poetry/Poetics/Criticism, Black Metaphysics/Spirituality, Afro-American & Caribbean Literature, Literature of the Americas, American Metaphysics, Black Folklore
McCurry, Margaret
3rd year
Medieval literature, mystical theology, scholastic philosophy, sound studies, musicology, disability studies, psychoanalysis, linguistics, 4EA Cognition
McDougall, Danielle
2nd year
20/21st-century Afrofuturist literature; Black science fiction; African diaspora studies; Black queer theory.
Meyer, Guilherme
5th year
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Revolutionary theater, poetry, and pedagogy; Marxism and anarchism; liberation theology; prophecy and utopia
Courses taught: Recitation for Literatures in English III: American Literatures to 1900 (Fall 2020); will teach the Recitation for Shakespeare in Film (Spring 2021).
Nguyen, Anh
3rd year
Postcolonial studies; post-1945 Asia-Pacific and Asian diasporic literatures; global Cold War intellectual and cultural histories; transoceanic engagements in/of genre
Born and raised in Hanoi, Vietnam, Anh received a B.A in Economics and English Literature from Franklin and Marshall College and a M.A with Distinction in English from Georgetown University. She is the 2020 recipient of the Presidential Master's Prize by the American Comparative Literature Association for her M.A thesis, "The Novel of Unlearning: Education, Development, and Interracial Intimacies in Cold War Africa." At NYU, she is one of the co-organizers of the Postcolonial, Race and Diaspora Studies Colloquium. In another life, she'd love to be a scholar of queer Asia, Wilde, or Blake.
Courses taught: Literatures in English IV
Ozkiral, Alijan
3rd year
My research unites the fields of Book History and Media Studies through the lens of information infrastructure. I study the English Incunabula period (1450-1500), centered on William Caxton, as a pivotal moment of media shift to elucidate born-digital media. Accordingly, I apply my training in Med-Ren information infrastructure to identify and complicate continuities in “new” media. My research questions revolve around format theory and the residual, overlapping social economies of communication as agency shifts within them. I’m also trained in the digital humanities, using the quantitative methodology of DH to further understand media.
6th year
Pantoja, Timothy
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Pierquet, Athena
6th year
Romanticism; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British & Scottish literature and print culture; Book history, Media history, and “old media"; serialization; copyright; chronicles, periodicals, and novels
Ramos, Alexandria
7th year
19th and 20th century American and ethnic American literature. Asian American, Chicana/o and Latina/o literature, Immigrant narratives and travel writing
Reynolds, William
7th year
Seventeenth-century British literature, moral philosophy, history of law, history of medicine, antiquarianism
Riou, Berengere
9th year
Modernist and contemporary poetry, British romanticism, feminist and queer studies, occultism and religion
Risinger, Corey
4th year
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women writers; gender and sexuality studies; embodiment, voyeurism, and the female gaze; feminist geography; (auto)biography and the novel; photography and visual studies.
Robertson, Isaac
4th year
Long-nineteenth-century literature; poetry and poetics; media theory and mediation; materialisms; ecocriticism and the Anthropocene; life sciences and natural history
Romero, Mariana
4th year
literature of the Americas; Indigenous & Latinx Studies; studies of Indigeneity and mestizaje; conceptions of land and space; feminist & queer methodologies; performance & visuality
Saikumar, Rajgopal
7th year
Law-and-Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Global Modernism, Race, Political Theory, Ethics, South Asian Intellectual History.
Silcox, Nicholas
4th year
the nonhuman, ecocriticism, media studies, speculative fictions, technology, digital studies, posthumanism, materialisms, affect, phenomenology and/of reading, theory.
Sridharan, Vignesh
10th year
Victorian literature, 19th-century periodicals, book reviews, British Raj writing, utopian fiction
Vanderburg, Colin
5th year
20th-century poetry and poetics, history and theory of literary criticism, modernism, lyric studies, parody and satire
Courses taught: The System (Recitation leader, Fall 2020) Exile and Belonging in Ancient and Modern Literature (Recitation leader, Spring 2021), Reading as a Writer: The Art of Parody (January 2022)
Modern and Contemporary American Poetry ( Summer 2021)
Zuliani, Andrew
7th year
20th and 21st century American and French literature; postwar visual art and sculpture. The poetics of softness, stickiness, and entanglement; obstruction, irritation, and blockage. Affect theory, queer theory, theories of touch and surface-orientation. Glitches, false fronts, and flatness.
Courses taught: ENGL 3650, Contemporary Literature: "In Praise of Idleness: Contemporary Literatures of Inactivity, Lethargy, and Resistance" (University of Lethbridge) ENGL 3620, Modern Drama: "Stuck In A Room With You: Enclosure, Obstruction, and Frustration in Modern Theatre” (University of Lethbridge)
