Mission Statement

The Mission of Anamesa is to provide a forum in which NYU graduate students may share their interdisciplinary work and examine that of fellow students. Our intention is to generate and transmit knowledge among disciplines by engaging the broad themes that ground our work, establishing a record of how NYU graduate students have thought about these issues over time.

History

In the summer of 2002, three graduate students from New York University's John W. Draper Program in Humanities and Social Thought and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies entertained the idea of creating a publication by and for the graduate community at NYU. Reflecting on their experiences as interdisciplinary students at NYU, they envisioned an intelligent, literary space in which to converge upon, examine, and debate the broad themes that ground the work of the graduate community. The result of these early efforts was Anamesa, NYU’s provocative biannual interdisciplinary journal. 

Anamesa emerged with a simple ideology: that each issue be tied together by a specific theme, such as democracy, culture, or violence, with the option to periodically publish on other themes relevant to current times. Embracing as many forms of expression as we can print, Anamesa publishes essays, photography, artwork, fiction, criticism, and poetry. We release a call for papers at the start of each semester that details the upcoming theme and invites submissions from all graduate NYU students and recent alumni. The new issues of Anamesa are available to the graduate community in print and online versions by the end of each semester.  

In the spring of 2003, the staff of Anamesa released its debut, "The Democracy Issue," setting the first stone of a new fixture within NYU’s graduate community. We invite you to explore and utilize all that Anamesa has to offer. 

Welcome to NYU interdisciplinarity in print. 

Brian DiFeo & Amy Shaw
Editors, December 2003

Sponsors & Fundraising

Anamesa is a biannual publication funded by the following entities of New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science: the Dean's Office, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Humanities and Social Thought, and the Graduate Student Council.

Website

This site was redesigned in 2006 by William J. Levay. It was updated and maintained by Yael Korat from Spring 2007 to Fall 2007, Kevin Sheldon from Fall 2007 to Fall 2008, and by Anna W. Bardaus since Summer 2009.

Typography

The Anamesa masthead is set in Marigold, a font originally designed by calligrapher Arthur Baker, and released by Agfa Compugraphic in 1989.

Beginning with the spring 2006 Violence Issue, the text of Anamesa is set in the old-style serif typeface Stempel Garamond, trademark of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, first released in 1925 by D. Stempel AG. Stempel Garamond is a revival of the types cut by Claude Garamond (ca. 1480-1561) in Paris during the first part of the sixteenth century.

The sans serif typeface is part of the Univers family of fonts released by Linotype in 1997. Univers was originally designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1957 and was painstakingly reworked by Frutiger and Linotype for the updated 1997 version.

Current Staff

Anna W. Bardaus
Editor in Chief

Adrian Versteegh
Editorial Director

Myong Yee Chin
Art Director

Yvonne Garrett                    Lindsey Schneider
Senior Literary Editor      Senior Academic Editor

La espera
Buenos Aires, Argentina
January 2002

by Silvina Sterin Pensel