Yevgeniya Traps
Class Adviser & Associate Faculty
yt21@nyu.edu
(212) 992-9838
1 Wash Pl, Room 733
Office Hours
Tuesday 12:30-2:30
Friday 10-1
B.A. & M.A. English, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
Ph.D. English, CUNY Graduate Center, 2013
Yevgeniya Traps’s teaching and research focus on the ways in which individual psychology and social and cultural factors influence how art and narrative are made and perceived. Although she is technically and by training a Victorianist, she is also interested in the contemporary novel and in contemporary visual culture, and she contributes book reviews to several online and print publications. She was the recipient of the Gallatin Adviser of Distinction Award for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Teaching and Research Interests
19th- and 20th-century literature; literary and cultural theory; aesthetic theories; literature and psychology; trauma and narrative; the contemporary novel
Recent News
Professor Yevgeniya Traps received the Gallatin Adviser of Distinction Award for 2013-2014.
Courses
2020 Fall
Ugly Feelings: Affect Theory in Contemporary Art and Literature
2019 Fall
Reading Pictures, Looking at Words
2018 Fall
Ugly Feelings: Affect Theory in Contemporary Art and Literature
2017 Fall
Self-Representation in Contemporary Art and Literature
2016 Fall
