PeopleGraduate Students

Spies, Emma

Surrealism; Critical Theory; Urban Cultural Studies; Queer Studies

Kaplan 149
Tel: 310.825.4173 / Fax: 310.267.4339 / E-mail

Education

  • B.A., Millsaps College
  • M.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Working Dissertation:
“The novel and the transient”: Queer Turns in Surrealism

Publications

“Navigating Nihilism: Surrealism and Self-Representation in Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays.” Pacific Coast Philology (Special Issue on “Geographies of the Fantastic and the Quotidian”). Forthcoming, 2025.


Interest Areas
• Sexuality & Gender Studies
• Critical Theory