Moira A Marquis

Moira Marquis is Clinical Assistant Professor of Writing, Communication and Applied Humanities in the Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies at NYU. She has a Ph.D. in English from UNC Chapel Hill and was a senior management  at PEN America, where she published groundbreaking research on carceral censorship and led national advocacy campaigns. Her popular writing has been featured in major publications including TIME, Slate, Literary Hub, The Hill, NPR and The Guardian. Her academic writing has been published in peer reviewed publications including Science Fiction Studies, Resilience, Green Letters and others. Her most recent article on women's prison writing was published in the Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing. She is currently finishing a book, Thought Threats: Carceral Censorship in America, which is forthcoming with UNC Press.