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Joseph Entin

Assc Professor   Department: English   Location: 3149 Boylan Hall   Phone: 718-951-5784   Fax: 718-951-4612   Email:

I teach in the English Department and the American Studies program at Brooklyn College, as well as in the Liberal Studies program at the CUNY Graduate Center. My first book, "Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America," was published in 2007. Currently, I'm pursuing two primary research projects: one, on representations of working people in U.S. culture in the second half of the twentieth century; and a second, on post-1930s documentary photography. Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, YALE UNIVERSITY - 2001 (AMERICAN STUDIES) Areas of Expertise: American literature and American studies; modernism; cultural history; visual culture, especially photography; social movements and the arts of protest; urban studies; working-class studies Books and Publications "'A Terribly Incomplete Thing': No-No Boy and the Ugly Feelings of Noir." MELUS (forthcoming). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009 "'Unhuman Humanity,'" excerpt printed in Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives: The Norton Critical Edition (W.W. Norton, 2009). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009 Immigration and Education. Radical Teacher 84 (Spring 2009). Co-edited with James Davis and Susan O'Malley. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2009 Controversies in the Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader. Co-edited with Leonard Vogt and Robert Rosen (Teachers College Press, 2008). (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2008 "Teaching the Experimental Arts of American Protest." Radical Teacher 79 (Fall 2007). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America (University of North Carolina Press, 2007). Cultural Studies of the United States series. (Books and Publications: Book) 2007 "Class, Culture, and the Working Body." A review of Sherry Linkon and John Russo, eds., New Working Class Studies, and Janet Zandy, Hands: Physical Labor, Class and Cultural Work. American Quarterly 57.4 (December 2005). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 "Contingent Teaching, Corporate Universities, and the Academic Labor Movement." Radical Teacher 73 (Spring 2005). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005 "Monstrous Modernism: Disfigured Bodies and Literary Experimentalism in Yonnondio and Christ in Concrete." The Novel and the American Left: New Essays on Depression-Era Fiction. Ed. Janet Casey (University of Iowa Press, 2004). (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2004 "Unhuman Humanity: The Bodies of the Urban Poor and the Collapse of Realist Legibility." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 34, no. 3 (Summer 2001). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001 "A New Deal for Thirties Literature." A review of Michael Szalay, New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State; Sean McCann, Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism; and Erin Smith, Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines. Novel: A Forum on Fiction 34, no. 1 (Spring 2000). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2000 "Graduate Student Organizing and the Corporate University." (With Kimberly Johnson) New Labor Forum 6 (Spring/Summer 2000). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2000 "Modernist Documentary: Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document." The Yale Journal of Criticism 12, no. 2 (Fall 1999). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums "Milton Rogovin's 'Approach': Photography, Class, and the Aesthetics of Making Space." American Studies Association. Archived at: http://www.miltonrogovin.com/pages/entin_essay.pdf (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008