Contact the NYU Center for the Humanities
Cristina Vatulescu, Center Director
cv26@nyu.eduCristina Vatulescu is Director of the Center for the Humanities and Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her most recent book is Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Soviet-Era Stories and Their Challenges (Stanford UP, 2024). She has edited or co-edited volumes and special issues including The Svetlana Boym Reader (Bloomsbury, 2018), an online Diacritics dossier on Teaching and Learning in an Archive Gone Digital (2020), and the Comparative Literature Studies special issue Archival Turns, Twists, and New Directions (2025). Her articles have appeared in Comparative Literature, Diacritics, Kritika, Poetics Today, Law and Literature, Literature/Film Quarterly, and The Brooklyn Rail. Her first book, Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film and The Secret Police (Stanford UP, 2010), won the Heldt Prize and the Outstanding Academic Title Award, sponsored by Choice. A new book project, Arts of Attention: A Literary Seedbank, extends her longstanding preoccupation with the ethics, politics, and potential of reading.
Miki Kaneda, Associate Director
mk739@nyu.eduMiki Kaneda has worked as an educator, author, and administrator at a range of arts and education non-profit organizations including the Red Hook Art Project, the Museum of Modern Art, and Boston University. Her most recent book, Transpacific Experimentalisms: Intermedia in 1960s Japan, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2026.
Cam Terwilliger, Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Fellowship and Public Programs
cst241@nyu.eduCam Terwilliger brings a passion for the arts and humanities to his work in education and public programming. Previously a member of the NYU Liberal Studies writing faculty, Cam invites students and community members to explore our interconnected world and how it came to be. As a novelist, journalist, and digital media creator, his own projects draw from archives, interviews, and site visits to craft literary narratives rooted in deep research, his work having been supported by organizations such as the Fulbright Program, Brown University, the New York Public Library, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.