Joey Mauro

M.A. Candidate

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Joey Mauro (Him+) is a writer and editor currently living in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, New York). Joey's academic interests include settler-colonial history, Diaspora and Indigenous literatures, the post-human, pedagogy, critical theory and social change. He holds a Bachelor of Arts form the University of Victoria, where he majored in literature and history. His undergraduate thesis looked at the anti-colonial capacity of autopoietic art forms. He’s won some awards and published some papers. He would be happy to email with you for more information.

 

Why PS @ NYU? 

Performance Studies seemed like a place to make connections between otherwise disparate topics.

Education

New York University

Master of Arts Candidate - Performance Studies

New York, New York

University of Victoria

Bachelor of Arts - Literature and History

British Colombia, Canada

Awards

• University of Victoria Undergraduate Entrance Scholarship

• University of Victoria English Department Undergraduate Scholar - 2014

• Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Award - 2020

• NYU Tisch School of the Arts Scholarship - 2023 

• NYU Lew Wasserman Scholarship - 2023

•  “In Normal Times.” On the Verge: Solidarity Matters,  University of Victoria Libraries  (2nd place in the category of fiction) - 2022

 

Publications

• “Black Historiography Versus the 'Nostalgia Mode': Exploring the Limits of Fredric Jameson’s Postmodern Critique Through Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” The Albatross - 2022

• “Mapping the Conversation: solidarity in theories of Indigenous and Diasporic liberation.” The Ascendant Historian - 2022