Nicole Grimaldi is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University pursuing a minor in Media, Culture, and Communication. She is a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities (SSHRC) Doctoral fellow with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto, and an M.Phil in Comparative Literature from NYU. She studies critical and political theory, environmental philosophy, and science and technology studies. She has published or has work forthcoming on new materialism and the speculative turn, contemporary necropolitics and COVID-19, and James Joyce’s Ulysses.