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Elizabeth Wiet is a writer, editor, and independent curator based in New York City. Interdisciplinary in both method and scope, her research focuses on feminist and queer art, time-based media, and art from the Middle East and its diasporas. Taking inspiration from writers such as José Esteban Muñoz and Saidiya Hartman, much of her scholarly and curatorial work concerns the category of the “minor,” centering artists who either inhabit minoritarian subject positions, have contributed to canonically minor movements such as Pattern & Decoration, or practice within minor mediums like performance, textile, video, graffiti, mail art, and xerography. She also maintains an ongoing interest in intermediality and the historical relationship between different mediums, particularly art and music, as well as performance and print. 

She currently serves as Deputy Editor at Topical Cream and Contributing Editor at Bidoun. Her writing has been published by frieze, The Quietus, Momus, Elephant, The Brooklyn Rail, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Topical Cream, IMPULSE, Public Books, TDR: The Drama Review, Bidoun, The Kitchen Magazine, and Liste Expedition. She has given invited talks at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, and delivered papers at academic conferences throughout the United States. She holds a Ph.D, M.Phil, and MA in English from Yale University and a BA (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in English and Women’s & Gender Studies from Dartmouth College. She is currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled Maximalism: An Art of the Minor, based on her doctoral dissertation, and with Bidoun, is editing the first monograph on Lebanese-Egyptian artist Nicolas Moufarrege. She has also begun research for a new book project charting the cultural history of the Xerox machine. 

Degrees Held

Ph.D., Yale University

M.Phil, M.A., Yale University

B.A., Dartmouth College