Remi Seamon is an undergraduate student at Columbia University, where she studies Comparative Literature. Her recent academic work examines how the poetry of Papusza—often mythologized as the “mother of Romani literature”—has been mediated through translation and institutional containment, particularly in the Polish and French contexts. Centering theories of nationalism, diaspora, and the technologies of print-capitalism, her work interrogates how literary systems both enable and constrain the articulation of minoritized histories and identities. This research has been supported by the Humanities Scholars Program, the Catherine Medalia Johannet Summer Internship, and the Harriman Institute Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
She has held several research positions, including most recently her role at the Central European University’s Romani Studies Program, working on a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies centered on reproductive health and justice among Romani women. She has also written for Continents, Columbia’s human rights magazine, covering topics ranging from the attack on trans rights in the UK, the erosion of the asylum system, and an interview with Magda Matache from Harvard’s FXB Center for Health & Human Rights concerning the forced sterilization of Roma women.