who are we?
Chenrui Zhang
our thinking buddy
Chenrui founded Erasmus to give the freedom of writing back to writers.
Sophie harrison
our stuvwxyz
Sophie is responsible for our web development, and may one day even write for Erasmus.
Andrei Lambert
our petit philosophe
A thoughtful theologian, Andrei enjoys reading and writing about human nature, art, and philosophy.
David Evans
our chaste libertine
A contemporary Karl Marx with neither beard nor socialism, this radical writer will be found either constructing grand theories of history or trying unsuccessfully to spark revolutions.
Joshua Yen
our wanderer
A wanderer who, in his longing for the infinite, has fallen in love with the finite.
Elaine cheng
our Revolutionary Smurf
A student of philosophy at Yale and Lady Margaret Hall, Elaine writes to find the stargazing moments in the everyday.
Angèle baum
our elpis
A writer and ancient historian who enjoys dabbling in the beautiful, the tragic, and the glad.
Ian Chakravarti
our Braincell
Ian is our ‘dashingly handsome rogue economist’, who is suppressing his desire to be arrogantly incomprehensible in order to teach people about economics. He also may be tempted to write about Politics if wiser voices don’t prevent him.
Nicholas Haque
our resident contrarian
“Carpe diem, baby.”
will robinson
our puddle peerer
Someone uncertain that they’re uncertain: uncertain about being certain that they’re always uncertain, and almost definitely certain of that.
Ben salter
our armchair detective
A history student at Balliol whose love for the Middle Ages is rivalled only by his enthusiasm for crime fiction.
Hannah treece
our Grim Sleeper
A forever student traversing the ancient worlds for new information, with a great soundtrack following her.
NAThan adlam
our monadic musician
Nety at Balliol loves mathematics, music and teaching. Once upon a time he loved writing too, and so here he is.
bingji li
our cosmopolitan
A traitor, an angry person, in any place.
minh anh nguyen
our whimsical devotee
An Education student and ardent admirer of the arts, books and late night streams of consciousness.
Vivek Abensour
our sentient salmagundi
A bag of elementary particles with an emergent mania for logic in all realms.
Rosie Shepherd
our ambivalent platonist
Rosie is a Philosophy graduate at York, but above all a reader and a thinker, happiest outdoors in the sun or in a coffee shop.
Shiyun Tang
our lunar tongue
A Literature student lost in language. Located in an atemporal axis, regaining imagery and sensibility.
Erci Li
our aspiring realist
A cynical, though supposedly critical, deconstructionist by training. A realist, but sometimes sci-fi, artist (wannabe) by heart.
Jolina Bradley
our constructive deconstructivist
An English and French student at Magdalen, Jolina, passionate about editing and writing, joined Erasmus whilst on their year abroad, the journal too uncannily unnamed (pre-Brexit, anyway) to resist!
Sami Jalil
our resident noisemaker
A Music student on paper and a dreamer at heart. Can be found deep in their elaborate inner world, or out in the wilderness making various kinds of noises.
Willow Lock
our Kernewek Latinist
A Classics and English student and journalist, studying the past to examine the present. Willow joined Erasmus because she is tired of traditionalism in journalism.
jasmine boothe-henry
our architect of daydreams
A finalist at St. Anne’s, Jasmine builds stories from the shadowy alcoves of her imagination and seeks to conjure worlds between the lines.
guillermo algarabel
our seeker castellan
“Waiting for the lastest news…”
phoebe ng
our resilient procrastinator
Coffee + croffles (any desserts tbh) + books + travelling + love – capitalism = Phoebe
Flavius covaci
our cocoa baby
Another English student ravished by an all-consuming love for all things storytelling. Other loves include noodles & tiramisu (not together).
joe wald
our dodgy prophet
“Sound sinister? Oh, it’s not all that bad.” Joe finds that writing in ramblings can help to make sense of the weirdest and most wonderful bits of being a person. He hopes to provoke the odd scratch of the head or a faint, knowing smile once in a while – the unmistakeable indicators of a thinker thinking deeper.
alice edwards
our sentimental bookworm
A B.A. English Language and Literature graduate from St, Anne’s College, Oxford, Alice is thoroughly enjoying this more creative role after years of writing academically. Literature is her passion and she loves to reflect analytically and thought-provokingly on the books she reads.
Your Name
our new writer
This could be you!
If you’ve written for us but can’t see yourself here, please email us with your name, epithet, bio, and image; we’ll update this list right away.
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