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Departmental Areas of Study have been established to allow a visitor to quickly find members of our faculty who share a particular area of study. Click on any of the links below to find other faculty members who have noted their interest in the same areas or click on the link above to browse all faculty by area of study.

U.S. Cultural Left in the mid-20th Twentieth-Century; U.S. Marxism and Literary Intellectuals; Left-wing African American and Jewish American writers; the Great Depression; the Cold War era

U.S. Writers of color on the left; history of socialism and communism in the U.S.; realism, naturalism and modernism in mid-20th century U.S.; radical movements in the 1960s; film Noir and the left; women writers on the left; left-wing (Marxist) gay and lesbian writers.

American Night:  The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War (2012);  Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Anti-Fascist Crusade (University of North Carolina Press, 2007); Exiles From a Future Time (University of North Carolina Press, 2002); Writing From the Left (Verso, 1994); The Responsibility of Intellectuals (Humanities Press, 1992); The New York Intellectuals (University of North Carolina Press, 1987); The Revolutionary Imagination: The Poetry and Politics of John Wheelwright and Sherry Mangan (University of North Carolina Press, 1983); James T. Farrell:The Revolutionary Socialist Years (New York University Press, 1978).