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Zoe Goldstein
Amro Lecturer in Postcolonial and Environmental Literature
PhD, English, CUNY Graduate Center (2024)
MFA., Creative Writing (Poetry), New York University (2016)
BA, English (Creative Writing), UCLA, (2014)
Zoe Goldstein writes on the intersections of waste, queerness and post-45 anti-colonial literature and practice. Her dissertation, “Void Ecologies: Resistance, Commoning and Pleasure in the Discard Space” (2024) looks at re-imaginings and reclamations of waste that challenge capitalist hierarchies of matter. Her writing has appeared in Vice, The Radical History Review, and Milk Press among other places, and has been supported by the Futures Initiative and the Jane Marcus Award. In addition to criticism, she is at work on a poetry manuscript and a collection of short stories. She holds a B.A. In English from UCLA, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from NYU, and a Ph.D. in English from the CUNY Graduate Center.