ADDRESS
354 State Street 5A
Brooklyn, NY 11217
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EDUCATION
2003 Ph.D., English, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
1996 M.A., American Studies, Columbia University
1990 B.A., Connecticut College
POSITIONS
Professor, English Department, New York City College of Technology (CUNY), 2011-present
Associate Professor, English Department, New York City College of Technology (CUNY), 2008-2010
Assistant Professor, English Department, New York City College of Technology (CUNY), 2003-2007
Visiting Lecturer, University of Gutenberg, Mainz, Germany, Spring 2018
Lecturer, Humanities Department, New York University, 2003-2007.
BOOKS
Revolutionary Ink: New York Printers and the Promise of Democracy, 1693-1804. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Brooklyn Tides: The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018. [Distributed by Columbia University Press]. Co-authored with Benjamin H. Shepard.
Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893. Kent State: Kent State University Press, 2011.
The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing About New York City (Dubuque: Kendall Hunt, 2012).
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era by Arielle Zibrak (review).Modern Fiction Studies. Vol. 71: No. 4 (Winter 2025).
“Financing Fitzginnegan: Joycean Influences and Similarities in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.” F.Scott Fitzgerald Review (Vol. 20, 2023).
“Re-Mapping the Canon: Early American Newspaper Printers and Their Transnational Routes,” In Periodicals in Focus, Oliver Schieding and Jutta Ernst, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2022.
“The Literary Magazine in Gilded Age New York.” In The Routledge Companion to the Literary Magazine. Edited by Tim Lanzendorfer (New York: Routledge, 2021).
“Lessons from the ‘City of Print.” American Literary Realism. Winter 2021 (53:2). Co-authored with Kelley Kreitz and Ayendy Bonafacio.
“From Page to Place: Newsprint and the Making of Nationhood, Cities, and Citizenship.” Journal of Urban History (review). July 2020.
“Printscape.” The Metaphors We Use: A Forum. American Periodicals. Spring 2020 (30:1).
“‘Barbed-wire Entanglements’: A Reappraisal of Stephen Crane’s Active Service in the Context of Yellow Journalism.”Stephen Crane Studies (Spring and Fall 2020).
“The Realism Wars in the New York Periodical Press, 1880-1890s.” The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism. Edited by Keith Newlin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
“Getting the Word Out: Institutions and Forms of Publication.” Cambridge History of American Working-Class Literature. Coles and Lauter, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
“Howling Mad: Allen Ginsberg, MAD Magazine, and the Cultural Politics of the 1950s.” In Seriously Funny: Humor in Journalism. Swick and Keeble, eds. (New York: Peter Lang, 2016).
“Brooklyn Accents and the Paradox of Ambition in Norman Mailer and Arthur Miller,” The Norman Mailer Review. Fall 2013.
“Modern Instances: Vanishing Women Writers and the Rise of Realism.” American Literary Realism. Winter 2010.
“’Jump Back, Honey, Jump Back’: Reading Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Context of Century Magazine.” In We Wear the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Representation of Black Identity (Kent State: Kent State University Press, 2010).
DIGITAL PROJECT
City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press. [CityofPrint.com].
EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY POSITIONS
President, Research Society of American Periodicals, 2017-2019.
Vice President, Research Society of American Periodicals, 2015-2017.
Advisory Board, Brill Studies in Periodical Cultures, 2018-2026.
Advisory Board, Research Society of American Periodicals (RSAP), 2015-2022.
Advisory Board, Circulating Magazines, 2022-2026.
Guest Editor, “War and Periodicals.” American Periodicals. Fall 2016.
Executive Editor, Columbia Journal of American Studies, 1995-2004.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
McLean Fellow, Library Company of Philadelphia, Summer 2024.
Director, “City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press” Summer Institute. National Endowment for the Humanities. New York City College of Technology. June 2015 and June 2020.
Co-Director, Across Borders: Print and Periodical Studies in Motion. New York City College of Technology. June 9-10, 2016.
PSC-CUNY Research Grants (2015, 2016, 2021, 2022, 2024).
PRESENTATIONS
“The Last of the Wild Geese in New York.” Movement and Migrations Conference. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP). Dublin, Ireland. July 23, 2026.
“John Holt’s Movable Types.” New York History Conference. Poughkeepsie, New York. June 11, 2026.
“Financing Fitzginnegan: Joycean Influences and Similarities in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.” International James Joyce Conference. 12 June 2022. Dublin, Ireland.
“In Search of Lost Space in the City of Print.” Keynote Address. City of Print Institute. Brooklyn, New York. June 2020.
“Brooklyn Tides: The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough.” Lecture. Gutenberg University, Mainz, April 2018.
“Patriotic Printers in the City of Print.” Keynote Address. NYU Media and Communications Conference. New York. March 2016.
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