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H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Faculty: Department of English Language & Literature
  • Facutly: Department of American Culture (AC), African American Studies

• Fields of Study

  • 20th-century U.S. cultural Left

• About

  Professor Wald is a past Director of American Culture.

• Education

  • Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 1974

• Research Areas of Interest

  • - Marxism and cultural studies in the mid-20th-century U.S.
    - Communism and socialism in U.S. culture
    - 1930s - 1960s
    - Politics and culture of the New Left of the 1960s
    - Left-wing African American, Asian Pacific Islander/American, Latino, Native American, and gay and lesbian writers from the 1930s - 1960s
    - Jewish American literary radicalism
    - Film noir and the Left