With political divisiveness and gaps in access to higher education intensifying, the imperative for universities to interact meaningfully with local and global communities has perhaps never been greater ...
Nicole Gervasio
Nicole Gervasio is the founder of the Kaleidoscope Project at the Heyman Center for the Humanities and a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation discusses the ethics and politics of representing state-sponsored political violence in contemporary literature from the Global South. 
Why Boys Must Cry
In contemporary Nigerian literature, muscular heroes of postcolonial independence have lost their swagger. Today’s patriarchs read like quaint fogies, stomping their feet about government, money, and ...