Esmé Warmuth-Poppiti

Esmé Warmuth-Poppiti holds an honors BA in English and Rhetorical Writing from Stony Brook University in New York, and is currently an MA candidate in Shakespeare Studies at King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe, with an anticipated graduation date of September, 2026. Esmé has previously published non-fiction with The Stony Brook Press where she served as lead copy editor, and fiction with Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things. Esmé presented her 2025 thesis “Aesthetics, Darkness, & Deviance: Modern Campus Fiction & the Tarttian Sublime” at Stony Brook University’s Graduate Conference “Webs of Wonder” in February 2025. When she’s not writing, Esmé enjoys playing guitar, crocheting, and watching films.

Issue 3

Kids on Bikes: A Stranger Things Retrospective (Part II)

By taking the humanity out of the monsters and backdrops of the TV shows and presenting audiences with increasingly computer generated landscapes and monsters, viewers become distracted by spectacle and are less able to relate their…

By Esmé Warmuth-Poppiti · 24 February 2026

Issue 3

Kids on Bikes: A Stranger Things Retrospective (Part I)

The subgenre levels with young viewers and allows them to admit, even if subconsciously, that being bullied or saying goodbye to childhood does feel horrific on the same level as having your life threatened, and it effectively allows these…

By Esmé Warmuth-Poppiti · 21 February 2026