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Joseph Entin

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

Joseph Entin teaches 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. He is the author of Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America, (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) and co-editor of Controversies in the Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader (Teachers College Press, 2008). Currently, he is pursuing two primary research projects: one, on representations of working people in U.S. culture in the second half of the 20th century; and a second, on post-1930s documentary photography. Education: Ph.D., 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 35.3. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010 "2 by 2 by Milton Rogovin." Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. Online at http://www.vsw.org/ai/. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010 "'Unhuman Humanity,'" excerpt printed in Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives: The Norton Critical Edition. W.W. Norton. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009 Entin, Joseph, James Davis and Susan O'Malley. "Immigration and Education." Radical Teacher 84, Spring. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2009 Entin, Joseph, Leonard Vogt and Robert Rosen. Controversies in the Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader. Teachers College Press. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2008 "Teaching the Experimental Arts of American Protest." Radical Teacher 79, Fall. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America. University of North Carolina Press. Cultural Studies of the United States series. (Books and Publications: Book) 2007 "Class, Culture, and the Working Body." A review of New Working Class Studies, eds. Sherry Linkon and John Russo, and Hands: Physical Labor, Class and Cultural Work, by Janet Zandy. American Quarterly 57.4, December. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 "Contingent Teaching, Corporate Universities and the Academic Labor Movement." Radical Teacher 73, Spring. (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. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2004 "Unhuman Humanity: The Bodies of the Urban Poor and the Collapse of Realist Legibility." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 34.3, Summer. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001 "A New Deal for Thirties Literature." A review of New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State, by Michael Szalay; Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism, by Sean McCann; and Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines, by Erin Smith. Novel: A Forum on Fiction 34.1, Spring. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2000 Entin, Joseph and Kimberly Johnson. "Graduate Student Organizing and the Corporate University." New Labor Forum 6, Spring/Summer. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2000 "Modernist Documentary: Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document." The Yale Journal of Criticism 12.2, Fall. (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