Wagner, Sydnee

Title(s):

PhD Student

Email:

swagner@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Institutional Affiliations: CUNY Graduate Center

Research Interests: Affect Studies, Critical Animal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Cultural Studies, Early Modern Literature, Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Queer Studies, Visual Culture

Sydnee Wagner is an English PhD student at The Graduate Center, CUNY, focusing on early modern literature. Her research interests include critical race theory, gender and sexuality studies, affect theory, and biopolitics, all of which influence her dissertation project on the figure of the Gypsy and the recovery of Romani lives in early modern English literature and culture. In addition to her scholarship, Sydnee is also a published poet, with work featured in literary magazines such as Drunken Boat and Quail Bell.