Dylan Maloney is a graduate student in the Masters of American Studies Program housed in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. He performed his undergraduate studies in English and Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His research focuses on Marxist theories of alienation, namely those addressing how the material conditions within a capitalist economic society alienate humans from the environment and the body. He is also currently researching how these theories can be applied to the shaping of educational curriculum, instructional practices, and the education system and its policies.