Zoe Goldstein

Zoe Goldstein is an Amro Lecturer in Postcolonial and Environmental Literature at Stanford University. She holds a PhD in English from CUNY Graduate Center (2024), an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU (2016), and a BA in English from UCLA (2014). Her research focuses on intersections of waste, queerness, and post-1945 anti-colonial literature and practice, particularly in challenging capitalist hierarchies of matter through reclamation of discarded spaces.

Her work spans academic criticism and creative projects including a poetry manuscript and short story collection. Key publications include Void Ecologies: Resistance, Commoning and Pleasure in the Discard Space (2024 dissertation) and articles in The Radical History Review and Digital China. Supported by the Futures Initiative and recipient of the Jane Marcus Award, her interdisciplinary research bridges environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, and queer theory.

Goldstein's academic contributions emphasize activist interventions in marginalized geographies and the transformative potential of creative writing to confront ecological crises.