Reconstruction 8.1 (2008)
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Editors
Graham Barnfield is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of East London. [introduction] [article]
Joseph Ramsey is Assistant Professor of English at Fisher College in Boston, Massachusetts, having finished his Ph.D. at Tufts University in 2007. Work adapted from his dissertation, "RED PULP: Radicalism and Repression in Mid-20th Century U.S. 'Genre' Fiction," is fothcoming in Scribners' American Writers Series, in Mediations, the Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, and in Reconstruction 8.4. His film criticism has appeared in journals such as Cultural Logic and Socialism and Democracy. He can be reached at jgramsey_at_gmail.com. [introduction] [Foley interview] [Wald interview] [Martin interview]
Victor Cohen is an independent scholar. He received his PhD in cultural studies from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005, where he studied representations of mass politics in 1930s and 40s U.S. popular culture. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is working on an oral history of the New American Movement, a nationwide socalist-feminist organization of the 1970s. Selections from this research, as well as new essays by the movement's members, will be published in the Fall 2008 issue of the journal Works and Days (http://www.english.iup.edu/publications/works&days/). [introduction] [Schrecker interview] [Denning interview]
Contributors
Matthew Abraham is an assistant professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse at DePaul University in Chicago. His work has appeared in Cultural Critique, the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, the Journal of Advanced Composition, College Composition and Communication, Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, and Postmodern Culture. He is currently completing a book entitled Controversial Academic Scholarship and the Question of Palestine. He was the 2005 Rachel Corrie Courage in the Teaching of Writing award winner. [article]
Alice Béja is currently pursuing a PhD in American Literature at the Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her dissertation is entitled «Fiction and Politics in the works of John Dos Passos (1920-1939)». A former student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, she contributes regularly to French magazines such as Esprit and La quinzaine littéraire. Her research centres on the debates of the 1920s and 1930s about the relationship between artists and politics in America, on John Dos Passos's fiction and non-fiction and on the French theory of littérature engagée. [article]
James Patrick Brown is a PhD student in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. His research explores anarchist and anti-authoritarian impulses in American literature and culture, especially the links between 19th-century anti-statism in the Transcendentalist and abolition movements, the European anarchists in America who culled from these movements to naturalize their radicalism, and anti-statist writers among the mid-to-late 20th-century left and libertarian right in the United States. [article]Paul Buhle is a Senior Lecturer at Brown University and author or editor of many volumes on US radical history, the most recent of which is Students for a Democratic Society: a Graphic History (Hill and Wang). [review]
Andrew Calcutt is Programme Leader of M.A. Magazines and M.A. Journalism and Society at the University of East London. A journalist turned academic, Andrew has written and researched widely on cybercultures, creative industries, youth and other aspects of contemporary popular culture. He is currently investigating the changing relations between media, politics and the public, with particular emphasis on 'social media' and user-generated content. Andrew is editor of Rising East, the online inquiry into the reconstruction of East London (www.risingeast.org). [article]
George Ciccariello-Maher is a student of political theory, with interests in revolutionary - especially autonomist and anarcho-communist - theory, social movements (especially variants of squatting), black nationalism, existentialism, feminism, hip-hop and rap music, and Latin American political praxis. He has a healthy skepticism of the canon, but nevertheless maintains an interest in the theoretical lineage that runs from German Idealism through Marx, and on to the various sorts of neo and post-Marxisms. He is currently on the editorial board of the interdisciplinary journal Critical Sense. [review essay]
Christopher D. Craig is an Assistant Professor of English at Emmanuel College in Boston. His academic interests include American postwar literature, the American short story, working class literature, literary theory, and American periodical cultural. Currently, he is working on a book on the postwar New Yorker titled "Goods and Goodness: The Expression of Socially Conscious Consumerism in the Postwar New Yorker." [article]
Charles D. Cunningham teaches US literature and culture as an Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University. He is currently working on a book about race, individualism, and the iconic poverty of the Great Depression. He serves as department steward and Bargaining Council representative in the EMU chapter of the AAUP. [reconsideration]
Anthony Dawahare is a professor of English at California State University, Northridge. He has published articles on the depression-era writings of Langston Hughes, Tillie Olsen, and Meridel Le Sueur. He is the author of Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box. Currently, he is writing a book on Tillie Olsen, U.S. proletarian literature, and dialectical materialism. [reconisideration]
Grover Furr teaches at Montclair State University in Montclair NJ. [article]
Brett Gary is Associate Professor of Culture and Communucation and Director of Graduate Studies at New York University, Steinhardt School of Education.After he received his Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Pennsylvania, Gary wrote his first book, The Nervous Liberals. His new book centers on the work of Morris Ernst, the country's foremost First Amendment authority during the middle decades of the 20th century. [article]
Gail Gelburd, PhD is Associate Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department, Eastern Connecticut State University. Her research focusses on the interaction between art and politics and she is working on a book on Contemporary Cuban art. Her exhibition and catalogue, Ajiaco: Spirituality in Contemporary Cuba will open in 2009 at the Lyman Allyn Museum in CT, USA. She has curated numerous exhibitions in the US, UK, Africa and Asia. Her recent article for JGAPE was entitled John Sloan's Veiled Art and Politics. [review]Amy Gentry is a graduate student in the Department of English, University of Chicago. [reconsideration]
Marvin E. Gettleman is Emeritus Professor of history, Brooklyn Polytechnic University; member of the editorial board of Science & Society and the steering committee of Historians Against the War (www.historiansagainstwar.org). [article]
Professor Mark J. Goodman is Associate Director and Co-Investigator in MCRI Project, Diaspora, Islam and Gender. Undergraduate Program Director in School of Social Sciences, he has served on Executive Committees of York University's Centre for Refugee Studies and Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean. His research includes work in political and historical sociology. [reconsideration]
Rich Hancuffis an adjunct instructor in the English Department at the George Washington University. Issues of identity formation – national, ethnic, and otherwise – are central to his analysis of cultural products. He has also published work on James Fenimore Cooper and Luce Irigaray. [article]
Paul M. Heideman is a graduate student in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin. He is currently working on his master's thesis, which examines the relationships between the New Negro movement, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Russian Revolution. [article]
John Marsh is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Coordinator of The Odyssey Project, a year-long, college-accredited course in the humanities offered at no cost to adults living below or slightly above the federal poverty level. He is the editor of You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941 (University of Michigan Press, 2007). His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in American Literature, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Pedagogy, Workplace, and Inside Higher Ed, and he is currently at work on a book entitled Red Scare: The Anti-Marxist Origins of Modern American Poetry, which examines the role workers and the poor played in the development of early twentieth-century American poetry. [article]
Carl Grey Martin teaches English at Emerson College. His scholarship focuses on ideology and militarism in late-medieval and Renaisance literature. He has published in The Chaucer Review and is currently writing a book on chivalry and ideology in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. [review essay]
William J. Maxwell is an associate professor of English and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches modern American and African-American literature. He is the author of New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars (Columbia UP, 1999) and the editor of Claude McKay's Complete Poems (U of Illinois P, 2004), which will be reprinted in paperback in the fall of 2008. He is now at work on a book for Princeton University Press entitled "FB Eyes: How Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African-American Literature". [article]
Bill V. Mullen is professor of English and director of American studies at. Purdue University. He is the author of Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935–46 and Afro-Orientalism, and co-editor of Radical Revisions: Rereading 1930s Culture. [reconsideration]
Robert Niemi, Ph.D. is based at St. Michael's College, Colchester, VT. He is the author of History in the Media: Film and Television. [reconsideration]
Marc Ouellette See Editorial Board biography. [review essay]
James Panton is tutor in politics at St John's College, Oxford, and co-founder of the pro-humanist campaign network, The Manifesto Club. James's main academic work is an investigation into recent historical and cultural ideas of politics, rights and democracy. His doctoral research investigates the transformation of the meaning of politics in relation to public and private life in post World War II British and American politics. He co-edited, with Oliver Hartwich, Science vs Superstition: the case for a new scientific enlightenment (Policy Exchange, 2006). [article]
Paula Rabinowitz is professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Labor and Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America, They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary and Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism. [article]
James Smethurst is an Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 (Oxford University Press, 1999) and The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (University of North Carolina Press, 2005). He is also the co-editor of Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2003) and Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). [article]
Brian Thill recently completed his Ph.D. in the Department of English at the University of California, Irvine, where he currently teaches interdisciplinary core courses in literature, history, and cultural studies. He has published on Thomas Pynchon, and has several articles forthcoming on Herbert Marcuse and the Black Power movement, Cold War anti-communism, and the fiction of John Oliver Killens. He is also a contributor to Inside Higher Ed. At present, he is working on a book-length project on the efforts of 20th-century American artists and intellectuals to construct alternative conceptions of left collectivism in the spaces between neoliberal capitalism and utopian socialism. [introduction]
Robert Vanderlan is a Visiting Assistant Professor in United States history at Cornell University. His forthcoming book, Intellectuals Incorporated: The Life of the Mind at Time and Fortune, will be published in 2008 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, as part of its "Politics and Culture in Modern America" series. His scholarly interests center upon modern intellectual history, the social role of the intellectual, and the links between intellectuals and publics. [article]
Manuel Yang is an adjunct faculty in the Humanities/Social Sciences Division at Monroe County Community College. He is currently working on a comparative intellectual history of trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific radicalism, focusing particularly on the works of E.P. Thompson and Yoshimoto Taka'aki. He also has an abiding interest in the history of the commons, autonomist Marxism, theological-political questions, and the cinema. His writings have appeared in various publications, among them Forum, NeoAmericanist, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, CounterPunch, and UE News. [article]
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