Title(s): PhD Candidate
Stefano Morello is a doctoral candidate in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY and a Digital Fellow at City College, CUNY. His academic interests include—within the realm of American Studies—pop culture, urban studies, poetics, and digital humanities. His dissertation, “Let’s Make a Scene! East Bay Punk and Subcultural Worlding,” explores the heterotopic space of the East Bay punk scene, its modes of resistance and (dis-)association, and the clashes between its politics and aesthetics. He is also currently working on a book with architectural historian Kerri Culhane on cultural, architectural, and public health policy responses to immigration, poverty, and disease on the Lower East Side at the turn of the 20th century. The book is based on “The Lung Block: A New York City Slum and Its Forgotten Italian Immigrant Community,” an exhibit they curated at the Municipal Archives of the City of New York in 2019. As a digital humanist, Stefano focuses on archival practices, with a knack for archival pedagogy and public-facing scholarship. He created the East Bay Punk Digital Archive, an open access archive of East Bay punk-zines, and worked as a curator and consultant for Lawrence Livermore’s archive, now housed at Cornell University Library.