Katy McAlary

Associate Instructor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: MA University of Montana; MA Harvard University; MA University of Chicago; PhD in progress - University of Amsterdam

Research Areas: Transcultural Feminist Movements; Cultural Aesthetic of Techno-corporeal Promise


Katy McAlary is an Associate Instructor with the Academic Enrichment Program. She has her B.A. in Education and English with a minor in Spanish, with graduate degrees in English: Literature, World Religions, and Anthropology with emphases in Gender Studies and Political Science. Her current research interests focus on the transculturation (and transversive reclamation/reverberation) of feminist art forms through techno-corporeal aesthetic representations. She has worked previously on trauma theory through multimodal literary devices and religious to socio-political representation for the eunuch and transgender populations. She is currently working on obtaining her doctorate.