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.

Publications

2025 “Void” Key Words in Waste Studies (forthcoming)

2023 “If It’s Vacant Take It: Activist Interventions in Geographies of Exclusion in Oakland, CA” The Radical History Review, Duke University Press.

2023 “Cyborg Resistance: Chen Qiufan’s The Waste Tide, Dirty Computers and the Afterlives of Digital Things” Digital China, University of Zurich Press.

Contact

zrgold [at] stanford.edu

Office

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Research Interests

Research Area(s)

Environmental Humanities

Postcolonial Literature

Women's Studies/Gender and Sexuality

Specialization(s)

20th c. and Contemporary American and Global Literatures of Resistance

Environmental Literature, Film, Media, Art and Activism

20th c. and Contemporary Postcolonial Literature

20th c. and Contemporary African American Literature and Film

Queer Literature and Film

Feminist Literature and Performance Art