Past Issues

What new knowledge and forms of agency can we gain when, as human beings shaped physically and intellectually by our “terrestrial habits of movement” we agree to perform what Melody Jue terms a conceptual displacement (Thinking through Seawater) in order to think from, within and through the water? How can we dive “offshore” to develop […]

Esferas 13: espacios, instituciones, gente celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC, or the center) here at New York University. A partner institution to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Creative Writing in Spanish Program, as well as the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies […]

This multidisciplinary and multilingual exploration of migration and asylum, compiled in collaboration with the Asylum H-Lab at NYU’s Center for the Humanities, works to establish an interconnected perspective on the opportunities and tensions created when people move across territories divided by state-enforced borders. The H-Lab focuses on “information/evidence/data regarding asylum seekers and the asylum process […]

The coronavirus pandemic has propelled the reevaluation, at the global level, of the spaces we inhabit together and the forms in which we relate to one another. Issue 11 of Esferas takes the very concepts of discontinuity and interruption as a potential for making sense, for the power with which they can make visible that […]

Identity/Identities-Identidad/Identidades  took words and images as dimensions through which bodies and identities are constructed, formed and shaped, made visible, defended, restored, negated. Our writers and photographers, all in different measure, believe that texts and frames, their languages and configurations, are surfaces that allow identities to become freely or subject identities to belong to or be […]

Trazar el archivo/Trace the archive: to draw and undo its limits, to search its presences and unveil its absences, to define its movement and potential. To trace the archive is to trace the necessary history of the fluctuations of society and its institutions, to reflect on ideologies of power and resistance, and to understand the […]

A title that speaks for itself. Precariedad, Precarity/Precariousness is the most pertinent issue for the dystopic times we live in today. Central to questions of precarity are mechanisms of power, value, voice. This issue is dedicated to that new voice that maps common demands and establishes new alliances.

Our seventh issue of Esferas comes at a time when the practice of seeing has reached a state of emergency. Now, it is more urgent than ever before to consider, carefully, the images with which we are confronted, both through the media and through the lens of the everyday. It is in this atmosphere, and […]

Dancers and critics turn to word and image to discuss movement in dance and literature. Plus: creative writing, interview with Sylvia Molloy and Spring 2016 senior honors theses. Read the introduction here.

Critics and creative writers contemplate queer subjects/bodies and the relationship between queer culture & democracy. Includes critical works from undergraduates, poetry and translations.