Contributors
Anna Akasoy received her doctorate in 2005 at the University of Frankfurt. She specializes in Islamic intellectual history and is especially interested in the history of philosophy and literature. She is a Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center with appointments in Liberal Studies (MALS), Comparative Literature, History, Medieval Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Global Early Modern Studies.
Sam Bromer is an M.A. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in MALS, with a concentration in American Studies, and a J.D. candidate at Cardozo School of Law. His research interests include transatlantic popular music, race, and performance, as well as the history of the American labor movement.
Todd Craig is Associate Professor of African American Studies at New York City College of Technology and English at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of “K for the Way”: DJ Rhetoric and Literacy for 21st Century Writing Studies (Utah State University Press, 2023), winner of the 2024 NCTE David H. Russell Award. He recently proclaimed that he’s “on a different wave that I came in the game on – when I levitate, grab my sneakers and hang on!” (NxWorries)
Pune Dracker is a writer, researcher and activist in New York City. She is in her first year of the Ph.D. program in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interests include scratch-off lottery ticket play as an alternative moral community and the dressed performing body. She teaches yoga and dance, and nominates “U Can’t Touch This” as one of the best-songs-to-dance-to-ever.
Anjelica M. Enaje (she/they) is a first-generation Filipino American, born, raised, and still residing in New York. She holds a master's degree in Biography & Memoir from CUNY Graduate Center (2024) and a bachelor's degree from Hunter College (2015). Her current research involves creative narrative construction of autoethnography, personal memoir, and family history, in connection to culture, race/ethnicity, gender, and migration.
DeVaughn (Dev) Harris is a Black man living in NYC and a Ph.D. student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, specializing in Composition and Rhetoric Studies. When not studying, Dev is usually writing, conversing, and wondering about how to draw connections between writing and community, as well as how to encourage people to step into one another’s humanity -- whether that be through books, conversation, writing, or general empathy.
David T. Humphries is a Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, and in MALS at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he teaches in the American Studies concentration.
Tomo Imamichi, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at LaGuardia Community College and at the Graduate Center teaching courses in Environmental Psychology. His interests include everyday experiences and technologies, as well as running and music. His original music can be found in the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU6jeWzcQRiAbv4qQ-KGLuNRtLrr_jsTG
Max Kaplan is a graduate of the MALS program and a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Communication Arts Department. His favorite Dylan track will always be "One Headlight."
Addy Malinowski is a poet, musician, and educator from Southeast Michigan currently living in Brooklyn, NY. They are a PhD student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and hold an MA in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University. Addy teaches writing at Brooklyn College.
Katherine Marin is a CUNY Graduate Center student in MALS with concentrations in Africana Studies and Urban Education.
Jaïra Placide is currently a Ph.D. student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interests are children’s literature, youth culture, visual literacy, Afro-futurism, religion, and African-based spirituality, hip hop, and Haiti/U.S. relations. She works on special projects at the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute at Brooklyn College, and as a Curatorial Fellow for the arts organization Amant.
Janelle Poe is Ph.D. student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center with a focus on Black Studies, Film and Media. A multidisciplinary artist and educator, she loves making stuff by hand and following the music.
Joel A. Rogers is a writer, entrepreneur, perennial student, and suburban Dad. His professional career has been in government and corporate compliance & ethics, and for most of the last decade he was CEO of Compliance Wave LLC. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and English from Brooklyn College in 1995, and his M.A. in Liberal Studies (MALS) from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2023. You can reach him at jrogers987@gmail.com
Justin Rogers-Cooper is a Professor at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, and a faculty member in MALS at the CUNY Graduate Center. His scholarship focuses on American cultural and literary studies. He is a frequent guest on the podcast Nostalgia Trap.
Lacy Telles is an avid reader and writer and has written many a word to the sounds of Garbage. She lives in Bushwick and can be seen biking the streets of Brooklyn year round.
Nicole Walker is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, specializing in Composition and Rhetoric Studies. Her research interests include writing pedagogy, critical university studies, children’s literature, and antiracist curriculum design.