Addis, Katharine
6th 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
5th 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
2nd year
Twentieth-century British and American literature; Irish Studies; international modernism; transatlanticism; genre theory; comedy
Courses taught: Literatures in English IV; Literatures in English III
Anderson, Tim
8th year
20th Century American Poetry and Poetics, 17th Century North America, Historiography, Geography, Minimalism
Armoza, Jonathan
6th year
Digital Humanities, Computational Text Modeling, and Analysis, Operationalized, Literary Theory, Data Visualization, Nineteenth Century American Literature, Poetics, Stylistics, Linguistics, Rhetoric
Arnone, Anthony
4th year
Eighteenth-century British studies; the history of rhetoric; the history of education; the sociology of literary study; media theory.
Asher, EG
3rd 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
6th year
Eighteenth-century British literature, historiography, media studies, Romanticism
Bosu, Saronik
5th year
Economic Thought and Literature, Anthropocene in the Global South, Medical Humanities, Public Humanities, Pedagogical Studies
Bradley, RaNelle
4th 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.
Cheng, Julia
6th year
Transatlantic modernism, food studies, narrative theory, 19th and 20th century literatures
Courses taught: LIE II, LIE III, LIE IV, Text and Ideas
Clark, Katharine
2nd year
High and late medieval literature; spatial theory; premodern and contemporary technologies; material culture; migration and movement; digital design; critical theory; visionary literature
Culver, Jeremy
6th year
Dagman, Alliya
3rd year
20th Century Literatures in English; Poetics; Critical Race Theory; Queer Studies
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
Darisse, Adam
2nd year
Early Medieval Literature, Medievalisms, Digital Humanities, and theories of Space and Place
Dayal, Smaran
5th 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
7th year
Medieval British literature; Chaucer; Malory; critical theory; aesthetics; affect; T.W. Adorno; film; horror and discomfort; Gaspar Noé; Lars Von Trier; Jörg Buttgereit
Duron, Nicholas
7th 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
Edwards, Al-Majid
3rd year
Early 20th century American literature, African American literature, Afrofuturism, Utopia, Creative Writing
Foister, Emily
4th 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
Gorin, Andrew
7th year
Twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature, cultural studies, poetry and poetics, multi-ethnic literatures, queer theory, critical race theory, affect, media studies, theories of the public sphere, creative writing
Healey, Ryan
3rd 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
Jahama, Heba
4th year
Critical ethnic and critical race studies; postcolonial literature and theory; literature of US empire; multi-ethnic US literature; women of color feminisms; queer of color critique; visual culture.
Juarez, Miriam
2nd year
21st-century Latinx/Chicanx fiction; aesthetic and affect theory; race and phenomenology; gender and sexuality studies
Johnson, Gabriella
3rd year
Black women's narratives, African American women's literary and intellectual histories, Black feminist thought, policy studies, memory studies, prison abolitionist thought
Courses taught: Literatures in English II
Koss, Zane
6th year
Hemispheric Poetics / Poetry of the Americas; Modern and Contemporary Literature; Canadian Literature; U.S. Literature; Mexican Literature; Poetry and Poetics
Kruchten, Joshua
2nd year
Book History, Material Culture, History of Science, Pedagogy
Lastarria, Wynter
4th 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
Linstrom, John
7th year
Land and labor in Progressive-Era U.S. literatures, ecospheric cosmologies, critical agrarianism, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Black Studies, environmental and public humanities, museum studies
Courses taught: Primary instructor for Environmental Literature; TA for American Literature I, British Literature II, and Texts and Contexts
Bio: I am an NYU Public Humanities Fellow at the Museum of the City of New York, where I work in museum education and curation, and series editor of The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library (Comstock-Cornell UP). My editorial work includes The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener’s Companion: Essential Writings (coedited with John Stempien, Comstock-Cornell UP 2019) and The Holy Earth by L. H. Bailey (Counterpoint 2015). My article cowritten with Daniel Wayne Rinn, “Agrarian ‘Naturism’: Liberty Hyde Bailey and the Michigan Frontier,” is forthcoming as a chapter in The Sower and the Seer: Perspectives on the Intellectual History of the American Midwest (Wisconsin Historical Society 2021), and my poems and creative nonfiction have recently appeared in The Antioch Review, Cold Mountain Review, Vallum, Commonweal Magazine, and elsewhere. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University. I will defend my dissertation in Spring 2021.
Lopez, Estefany
3rd year
Lopez, Yollotl
6th 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.
Lowe, Ruby
8th year
Renaissance literature; critical theory; history of rhetoric; print cultures and public opinion, orality and opacity; Humanist reforms of rhetoric and logic and their influence on 17th century poetry and politics; John Milton, George Wither; Andrew Marvell.
Lucien, Vladimir
2nd year
Black Poetry/Poetics/Criticism, Black Metaphysics/Spirituality, Afro-American & Caribbean Literature, Literature of the Americas, American Metaphysics, Black Folklore
McCurry, Margaret
1st year
Medieval literature, mystical theology, scholastic philosophy, sound studies, musicology, disability studies, psychoanalysis, linguistics, 4EA Cognition
McDougall, Danielle
1st year
20/21st-century Afrofuturist literature; Black science fiction; African diaspora studies; Black queer theory.
McMullan, Luke
6th year
The history of knowledge, especially the history of philology, from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Poetry and especially the reception of older poetry in collections and anthologies. Linguistics and the relationship between literature and the philosophy of language.
Meyer, Guilherme
3rd 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
1st year
Postcolonial studies; world literature; global Cold War; gender and sexuality
Bio: I am primarily interested in postcolonial studies, world literature after 1945, "weird" novels, development, and issues of race, decolonization, and diaspora. Secondary interests include global modernisms and diasporic poetry & poetics. My work focuses on how literature reveals the perspectives of the marginalized. Born and raised in Hanoi, Vietnam, I received my B.A in Economics and English Literature from Franklin & Marshall College in 2016, and my M.A (Distinction) in English from Georgetown University in 2019. In 2020, my M.A thesis, "The Novel of Unlearning: Education, Development, and Interracial Intimacies in Cold War Africa" was awarded the Presidential Master's Prize by the American Comparative Literature Association.
4th year
Pantoja, Timothy
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Pierquet, Athena
4th 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
Porteous, Richard
6th year
Modernism and late modernism; technology; post-humanism; history of science; aesthetic theory; the Frankfurt School; literature & philosophy
Courses taught: Major Texts in Critical Theory (lecturer); Literatures in English II 1660-1900 (TA); Shakespeare (TA)
Preus, Nate
7th year
20th-century American literature, African American literature, the cultures of the New Deal, poetry and poetics, critical race theory, historical geography and ecology
Ramos, Alexandria
5th 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
5th year
Seventeenth-century British literature, moral philosophy, history of law, history of medicine, antiquarianism
Riou, Berengere
7th year
Modernist and contemporary poetry, British romanticism, feminist and queer studies, occultism and religion
Risinger, Corey
2nd 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
2nd year
Long-nineteenth-century literature; poetry and poetics; media theory and mediation; materialisms; ecocriticism and the Anthropocene; life sciences and natural history
Romero, Mariana
2nd 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
5th year
Law-and-Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Global Modernism, Race, Political Theory, Ethics, South Asian Intellectual History.
Schmidt, Tanya
5th year
Early modern literature; romance; epic; classical reception; women's writing
Coures taught: Shakespeare; Austen; Literatures in English 1
Silcox, Nicholas
2nd year
the nonhuman, ecocriticism, media studies, speculative fictions, technology, digital studies, posthumanism, materialisms, theory.
Sircar, Sushmita
7th year
Postcolonial literatures with a focus on South Asian and francophone Caribbean literatures, global Marxisms, gender and sexuality, histories of the family, theories of friendship
Sridharan, Vignesh
8th year
Victorian literature, 19th-century periodicals, book reviews, British Raj writing, utopian fiction
Trigos, Mercedes
6th year
Twentieth-century literatures and cultures of the Americas, Chicanx and Latinx studies, racialization, gender and sexuality, border studies, death and necropolitics
Courses taught: Instructor of record: Race and Sex(uality) Through 20th-C U.S. Film and Fiction; Teaching assistant: Shakespeare, Texts and Ideas: On Identity, Literatures in English III, Literatures in English IV
Vanderburg, Colin
3rd year
20th-century poetry and poetics, modernism, Marxism, lyric theory, history of literary criticism
Courses taught: The System (Recitation leader, Fall 2020) Exile and Belonging in Ancient and Modern Literature (Recitation leader, Spring 2021)
Yoder, Laura
8th year
17th century British literature. Death, resurrection, and posthumaeity; remembrance and memorialization. History of dimension and early modern volumetries; cartography (especially globes). Collecting/collections, history of museums, the (imagined) material foundations of fiction, and speculative archiving.
Zuliani, Andrew
5th 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)
