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Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century; American Studies; photography and visual culture; modernism and modernity

African American literature, Jewish American literature

Books:
Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA , co-authored with Eric Rosenberg (University of California Press, 2012); Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, 2007); Jewish in America, co-edited with Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan Press, 2004); Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation (Cambridge University Press, 1996; paperback 2009).

Selected essays:

“The Photograph's Last Word: Visual Culture Studies Now,” American Literary History 22:3 (Fall 2010); “Visions of the Tenement: Photography and Modernity on the Lower East Side,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art 4:3 (Fall 2010); “Nation Time: Richard Wright, Black Power, and Photographic Modernism,” The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms, ed. Mark Wollaeger. Oxford University Press (forthcoming, 2011) ; “About Time: Photographs and the Reading of History.” PMLA, Theories and Methodologies Forum 125:1 (January 2010); “The Photograph as History,” ELN 44:2 (Fall 2006); “Whose Modernism Is It? Abraham Cahan, Fictions of Yiddish, and the Contest of Modernity,” Modern Fiction Studies, special issue , “Modernism’s Jews/Jewish Modernisms 51:2 (Summer 2005), 258-84; “Ralph Ellison, Photographer,” Raritan 24:4 (Spring 2005), 21-44; “Ellison, Photography, and the Origins of Invisibility.” The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison, ed. Ross Posnock (NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 56-81; “Local Modernity, Global Modernism: Bloomsbury and the Places of the Literary,” ELH 71:3 (Fall 2004), 813-38; “Jewish America through the Lens: On Fictions of Photography,” reprinted in Jewish in America (University of Michigan Press, 2004), 113-34; “Bringing Modernism Home: Gertrude Stein, 27 Rue de Fleurus, and Geographies of the Avant-Garde.” American Literary History 12:3 (Fall 2000); "The Politics of Modernism." In The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ed. Michael Levenson. Pp. 157-73.  Cambridge University Press, 2011; "Cultural Geography and the Place of Literary Studies." American Literary History 10:3 (Fall 1998), 544-67.