Meet the Press’ Summer Intern
Arianna Taylor was awarded the Humanities Center’s Next-Generation Doctoral Internship for SU Press during summer 2025. Originally from the Bronx, they’re going into their third year as an English PhD student at Syracuse University. They also received their bachelor’s from the University of Rochester in Language, Media, and Communications (English). Currently, they’re studying African-American popular culture and how Black kinship moves between Black cultural texts to link/create Black Diasporic kinship. They’re specifically interested Black popular culture, performance studies, critical race studies, and ideas on transnational blackness. What drew you to the press? I’ve always been interested in publishing. When I…