Ms. Milla Ben-Ezra is a recent graduate of Swarthmore College, where she received a B.A. with High Honors in English Literature, Sociology & Anthropology, and French & Francophone Studies. Her interests fall at the intersection of sociological inquiry and literature, particularly 20th-century modernist work that navigates many of the same societal currents and questions we ask ourselves today. Her Honors English Literature thesis, Awkward Sex, studies the narrative power and positionality of awkwardness and sexuality in three modernist texts, and her French & Francophone thesis explores three modes of resistance from the Surrealist movement to the 1931 International Colonial Exhibition in Paris.
Ms. Ben-Ezra was the Editor-in-Chief of Small Craft Warnings, an intern at the Los Angeles Review of Books, and founder of The New Critic. She is an alumna of the Yale Writers’ Workshop, the Oxford Creative Writing Summer School, and a two-time recipient of the Morrell-Potter Stipend in Creative Writing.
Ms. Ben-Ezra joined NYIHSS in July 2026, where she will collaborate on various outreach programs and strengthen the Institute’s current research capacity.
