PhD Student Directory
2nd year
Research Interests: Black feminisms, mobility , urbanity, the novel, performance and performativity studies, desire and uses of the erotic, liminality, the nation
8th year
Research Interests: Critical digital pedagogies; information experience design; contemporary multi-ethnic U.S. lit; women of color feminisms; design & data justice; digital & public humanities
5th Year
Research Interests: Twentieth-century literatures; international modernism; Irish Studies; genre; comedy, the comic, and humor; cynicism; declensions of the commons
Courses Taught: Literatures in English IV: Anglophone Literatures of the 20th century; Literatures in English III: American Literatures to 1900; Texts and Ideas: Unbelief
9th year
Research Interests: Digital Humanities, Computational Text Modeling, and Analysis, Operationalized, Literary Theory, Data Visualization, Nineteenth Century American Literature, Poetics, Stylistics, Linguistics, Rhetoric
7th Year
Research Interests: Eighteenth-century British studies; the history of rhetoric; the history of education; the sociology of literary study; media theory.
6th Year
Research Interests: medieval literature, 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)
7th 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.
5th Year
Research Interests: High and late medieval literature; spatial theory; premodern and contemporary technologies; material culture; migration and movement; digital design; critical theory; visionary literature
2nd Year
Research Interests: Speculative fiction; international law and literature; international law of the commons; Cold War literature; travel literature; utopian studies; history of science; history of astronomy; history of the United Nations; postcolonial studies
A former Arizona denizen, Nicholas Cohn is a Ph.D. student who began his studies at NYU in 2022. He is fascinated by representations of the global commons (outer space, the oceans, Antarctica, and the atmosphere) fashioned and propagated throughout various quarters of law and literature. He welcomes any correspondence from prospective peers in the field or individuals who are curious about the department.
9th Year
6th Year
Research Interests: Poetry & Poetics, Materialism(s), Theories of Space/Place
Courses Taught: Literatures in English II: Literatures of the British Isles and British Empire 1660-1900 Literatures in English III: American Literatures to 1900 Literatures in English IV: Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literatures Texts and Ideas: Unbelief in Western Thought
5th Year
Research Interests: Early Medieval Literature, Medievalisms, Digital Humanities, and theories of Space and Place
2nd Year
My research interests are in Indigenous Literatures of Latin America, Ecopoetics, Queer Theory, and Marxist Thought.
10th Year
Research Interests: 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
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7th Year
Research Interests: The novel and film, music as literature, fandom, Fluxus and participatory art performance, fourth-wave feminisms and the legacies of the Women’s Liberation Movement, pulp and popular fictions, weird Britain, freak pastoralism.
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
2nd Year
Research Interests: Early medieval literature; queer and feminist theories; medicine; Old English pedagogy
Courses taught: College Writing I and II at Rockland Community College
6th Year
Research Interests: 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
5th Year
Research Interests: Mexican New York; Chicanx and Latinx literature and film; transnational feminisms; borderlands theories and methodologies
6th Year
Research Interests: 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
5th Year
Research Interests: Book History, Media, Pre- and Early Modern English and French, Science Studies, Pedagogy
7th Year
Research Interests: 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
9th Year
Research Interests: 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.
5th Year
Research Interests: Black Poetry/Poetics/Criticism, Black Metaphysics/Spirituality, Afro-American & Caribbean Literature, Literature of the Americas, American Metaphysics, Black Folklore
4th Year
Research Interests: Medieval literature, mystical theology, scholastic philosophy, sound studies, musicology, disability studies, psychoanalysis, linguistics, 4EA Cognition
5th Year
Research Interests: 20/21st-century Afrofuturist literature; Black science fiction; African diaspora studies; Black queer theory.
4th Year
Research Interests: Postcolonial studies; global Cold War; literatures of the global South; genre; transpacific studies; intellectual history.
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
4th 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.
7th Year
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7th Year
Research Interests: Romanticism; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British & Scottish literature and print culture; Book history, Media history, and “old media"; serialization; copyright; chronicles, periodicals, and novels
9th Year
Research Interests: Seventeenth-century British literature, moral philosophy, history of law, history of medicine, antiquarianism
5th Year
Research Interests: 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.
5th Year
Research Interests: Long-nineteenth-century literature; poetry and poetics; media theory and mediation; materialisms; ecocriticism and the Anthropocene; life sciences and natural history
5th Year
Research Interests: Comparative Race & Racialization Studies, Latinx Literatures, Hemispheric Americas, Women of Color Feminist Theories
5th Year
Research Interests: Media Studies, Environmental Humanities, Digital Media, Materialisms, Science & Technology Studies.
11th Year
Research Interests: Victorian literature, 19th-century periodicals, book reviews, British Raj writing, utopian fiction
6th Year
Research Interests: 20th-century poetry and poetics, history and theory of literary criticism, modernism, lyric studies, parody and satire
Instructor of Record: Reading as a Writer: The Art of Parody (January 2022); Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Summer 2021)
Teaching Assistant: Objectivity (Fall 2023); Shakespeare (Spring 2023); American Literatures to 1900 (Fall 2022); Exile and Belonging in Ancient and Modern Literature (Fall 2021)
8th Year
Research Interests: 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.
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)
