Mark Noonan, Director

Professor of English at New York City College of Technology (CUNY).
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He is author of Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893 (2010), co-author of Brooklyn Tides: The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough (2018), co-editor of The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing about New York City (2015), in addition to numerous articles on periodicals and urban history. He is past President of the Research Society of American Periodicals (2017-2019) and Founding Editor of the Columbia Journal of American Studies. He also serves on the editorial board of Studies in Periodical Cultures and the advisory boards of the Research Society of American Periodicals and Circulating American Magazines, a digital resource for U.S. periodical studies.

View his closing remarks at the American Printing History Association (October 2024) on William Bradford.

Kelley KreItz

Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty member in the Latinx Studies program
at Pace University in New York City.
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She is also co-director of the university’s digital humanities center, Babble Lab. Her research on print and digital cultures of the Americas has appeared or is forthcoming in American Literary History, American Periodicals, English Language Notes, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and the digital mapping project C19LatinoNYC.org. She is working on a book that recovers the leading role played by U.S.-based Latin American writers in the media innovation of the 1880s and 1890s. She serves on the board of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston. 

Adam D. McKible

Associate Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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He is the author of The Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York, and he edited and introduced Edward Christopher Williams’s, When Washington Was in Vogue, a previously lost novel of the Harlem Renaissance. He is also co-editor of a special issue of Modernism/ modernity devoted to the Harlem Renaissance and of the collection, Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches. His essays appear in a number of books and journals, including The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms, Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies, The Black Press, African American Review, American Periodicals, Modernism/modernity, and various dictionaries and encyclopedias. His current project is tentatively titled Jim Crow Modernism, George Horace Lorimer, and the Saturday Evening Post.

Jeff Drouin

Associate Professor of English at The University of Tulsa
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He works on British and Irish modernism in the transatlantic context, with a particular focus on the novel, periodicals, and Digital Humanities. His first book, James Joyce, Science, and Modernist Print Culture: "The Einstein of English Fiction," with Routledge was published in 2014. Through teaching and research, he also explores the use of computational models to map and visualize modernist literature and avant-garde magazines in both the anglophone and francophone contexts. Drouin is currently working on The Ecclesiastical Proust Archive, a multimedia resource to support computational analysis and network modeling of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu.

Sandra Roff

Professor Emeritus and Former Head of the Archives & Special Collections Division
Baruch College (CUNY)
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She is author of several articles on American periodicals, published in American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography, as well as numerous articles on a variety of American history topics. She is co-author of From the Free Academy to CUNY and has curated many exhibits including "The Female Touch: The Ladies' Periodical as a Reflection of an Age," at the New-York Historical Society

Janice Simon

Professor of Art History
Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Art History
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She received her MA and Ph.D. (with Great Distinction) in Art History from the University of Michigan. She graduated from SUNY/Buffalo (her home town) summa cum laude with a B.A. in Art History. Her dissertation “The Crayon (1855-1861): The Voice of Nature in Criticism, Poetry and the Fine Arts,” still stands as the most important and comprehensive study of America’s premier art journal of the antebellum period. She has published as well on the 1870s New York art journal, The Aldine, as well as the role of periodicals in art criticism. In 2010 she served as guest editor for an issue of American Periodicals on “American Periodicals and Visual Culture,” One of her current book projects is “The Crayon (1855-1861), The New Path (1864) and The Aldine (1868-1879): Nature as Idea and Image in the American Art Periodical Before and After the Civil War.” A specialist in American art, especially landscape painting and photography and its connections with transcendentalism and environmentalism, she was guest curator and principal author of Images of Contentment: John Frederick Kensett and the Connecticut Shore (Mattatuck Museum 2001), and has written essays on the image of the forest interior in American art. Recipient of many University teaching awards including the Richard Russell Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in its inaugural year of 1992, the National Panhellenic Council’s “Outstanding Professor Award” of 2008, and the University’s highest teaching distinction, the Meigs Professorship in 2006. Her teaching interests span not only American art from the 18thC through mid 20thC, but also European modernism and spirituality, modernist photography in America and Europe, the depiction of modern artists in film, and the filmic art of Alfred Hitchcock.

Ayendy Bonifacio

Assistant Professor of US ethnic literary studies at the University of Toledo.
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His areas of scholarship are American literature and culture, including Latino/a/x studies, periodical studies, reprint culture, and digital humanities. He is currently at work on a book that sits at the intersection of nineteenth-century Latinidad and reprint culture. Drawing examples from over 200 English- and Spanish-language popular dailies and weeklies, his book argues that Hispanophone reprint culture constitutes a vital but still understudied form of public discourse that shaped Latinx literary and intellectual life in the US. Follow him on Twitter: @ayendybonifacio

Link to my latest publication: https://truthout.org/articles/what-new-york-citys-cholera-epidemics-can-teach-us-in-the-age-covid-19/

Joshua Brown

Professor of History Emeritus at The CUNY Graduate Center
Executive Director of the American Social History Project (1998-2019)
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He is author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America (2002), co-author of Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (2005), co-producer of award-winning digital and documentary projects, and an illustrator/cartoonist. He is the recipient of grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Jim Casey 

Assistant Professor of African American Studies, History, and English and Managing Director, Center for Black Digital Research, Pennsylvania State University.
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He earned his PhD in English at the University of Delaware, and was a Perkins Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University. His research interests begin with nineteenth-century African American studies, periodicals, and print culture, extending into the public and digital humanities. He is currently completing a book project on The Invention of Editors. With P. Gabrielle Foreman, he is co-editor of the forthcoming collection, The Colored Convention Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (UNC Press). Among others, his digital scholarly projects include co-directing the Colored Conventions Project and Douglass Day. He serves as vice president of the Research Society for American Periodicals. For more, see jim-casey.com.

Peter Connolly-Smith

Associate Professor of History at Queens College, CUNY
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Born to British ex-pat parents, Peter was raised in Cold War West Berlin where he triple-majored in English, Comparative Literature and American Studies. He spent 1988-89 at Yale University on a fellowship, returned home in time to witness the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall, then returned to Yale to complete his Ph.D. in American Studies (1996). His graduate work and dissertation focused on the German immigrant community in New York during World War I, which is also the subject of his book, Translating America: an Immigrant Press Visualizes American Popular Culture, 1890-1920 (Smithsonian Press, 2004). Aside from his expertise on German immigration in particular, and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century immigration in general, Peter has also published on topics as diverse as war, film, visual culture, theater, and literature. Additionally, Peter for several years worked in documentary and fiction film and television as a writer and award-winning producer on both sides of the Atlantic. He is the author of many refereed articles and book chapters and is a multiple award-winning college instructor.

Suzanne Churchill

Professor of English at Davidson College.
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She is the author of The Little Magazine Others & the Renovation of Modern American Poetry (Ashgate 2006); co-editor, with Adam McKible, of Little Magazines & Modernism: new approaches (Ashgate 2007); and author and illustrator of Dinosaurs Drive Firetrucks (Britt Stadig Studio 2018). She has published on modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, and on periodicals, poetry, and pedagogy in various journals and collections. Founder and editor of the website, Index of Modernist Magazines (modernistmagazines.org), she is currently co-creating a collaborative scholarly website, Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde (mina-loy.com), which won a 2017 NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant.

Vincent DiGirolamo

Prize-winning historian, journalist, and documentary filmmaker who has taught at Baruch College, CUNY since 2003.
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An associate professor in the Department of History, he specializes in American social history in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on workers, children, immigrants, city life, and print culture.

His book, Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys (Oxford University Press, 2019), won the 2020 Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians, the Philip Taft Labor History Prize from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Labor and Working-Class History Association, the Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Award for best book in journalism and mass communication based on original research, the 2020 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the History of Journalism from the American Historical Association, and the 2021 Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.​ DiGirolamo is also Baruch chapter chair of the Professional Staff Congress, the union representing CUNY faculty and staff.

David M. Earle

Professor of Transatlantic Modernism and Print Culture.
Interim Chair of the Department of Art and Design at the University of West Florida.
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He is author of Re-Covering Modernism: Pulps, Paperbacks, and the Prejudice of Form (2009) and All Man!: Hemingway, 1950s Men’s Magazines, and the Masculine Persona (2009). More recently, he has published on pulp magazines and modernism for The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Volume 2; the influence of pulps on William Faulkner for Fifty Years after Faulkner (U Miss Press, 2016); pulps and the modernist genre novel for The Cambridge History of the Modernist Novel (2016); and on popular reprints of James Joyce for The New Joyce Studies (forthcoming, Cambridge UP, 2020).

Jason W. Ellis 

Assistant Professor of English at the New York City College of Technology, CUNY.
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He is also a Co-Director of OpenLab (openlab.citytech.cuny.edu), an open source, online platform for learning, working, and sharing. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Kent State University, M.A. in Science Fiction Studies from the University of Liverpool, and B.S. in Science, Technology, and Culture from Georgia Tech. He blogs about his research and teaching at dynamicsubspace.net. Recently, he talked about the relationship between Science Fiction and society with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on StarTalk Radio (30 May 2019).

Brooks Hefner

Professor of English at James Madison University.
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He is the author of The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism (2017), Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow (2021) as well as a number of articles and book chapters on genre, race, and popular media. He also serves as co-director of Circulating American Magazines, a digital resource for U.S. periodical studies, and he is currently working on an edition of George S. Schuyler’s Afrofuturist serials Black Empire and a collection of the letters of Claude McKay (co-edited with Gary Holcomb).

Daniel Kane

Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Sussex
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Kane’s research focuses on New York City's postwar avant-gardes. His publications include All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s and We Saw the Light: Conversations between the New American Cinema and Poetry and Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City.

Catherine Keyser

Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.
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She is the author of Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture (Rutgers UP 2010) and Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions (Oxford UP 2019). She has published essays on U.S. periodical culture in Modernist Cultures, American Periodicals, and The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies and currently serves as the book review editor for the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies.

Christopher La Casse

Assistant Professor and Director of the Hewitt Writing and Reading Center at the US Coast Guard Academy.
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His primary research interest focuses on how the economic, political, and cultural pressures of the First World War shaped the development and dissemination of modernism(s) in literary magazines and modern periodicals. His publications have appeared in Criticism (2016), American Periodicals (2016), The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts (2017), Women’s Space: Essays on Female Characters in the Twenty-First Century Science Fiction Western (2019), Recovering and Transforming the Pedagogy of Robert Scholes (2019), and The Routledge Companion to the Literary Magazine (forthcoming). He serves as Secretary of the Research Society for American Periodicals and is Project Coordinator of the NEH Summer Institute, City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press (2015 and 2020).

Lavelle Porter

Assistant Professor of English at New York City College of Technology, CUNY.
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He holds a BA in history from Morehouse College and a PhD in English from The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual (Northwestern University Press, 2019). His writing has appeared in various publications, including The New Inquiry, Poetry Foundation, and JSTOR Daily, and he is a blogger for Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). He serves on the Board of Directors of the CLAGS Center for LGBTQ Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is also a licensed New York City walking tour guide and teaches courses on New York City literature and history at City Tech.

Karen Roggenkamp

Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Commerce, where she teaches classes in American literature
and the history of children’s and adolescent literature.
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Dr. Roggenkamp's research focuses on nineteenth-century American periodical culture, and she is the author of Sympathy, Madness, and Crime: How Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women's Work (Kent State University Press, 2016), Narrating the News: New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Fiction (Kent State UP, 2005), as well as several articles about the intersections between the newspaper and literary marketplaces. She was also co-editor of American Periodicals, the journal of the Research Society for American Periodicals, from 2010-2015.

Graham Thompson

Professor of American Literature at the University of Nottingham.
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His most recent book is Herman Melville: Among the Magazines (2018) and he is also the author of Male Sexuality under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature (University of Iowa Press, 2003), The Business of America: The Literary and Critical Production of a Post-War Nation (Pluto Press, 2004), and American Culture in the 1980s (Columbia University Press & Edinburgh University Press, 2007). He has published essays in American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, the Journal of American Studies, American Periodicals, Leviathan, American Literary Realism, and Arizona Quarterly. He is currently working on a new book project titled Making American Literature, which will be the first media history of nineteenth-century literature.

Ed Timke

Instructor of advertising, media, and intercultural communication courses at Duke University for the Department of Cultural Anthropology and the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative.
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He is also Associate Editor of Advertising & Society Quarterly and a contributor to ADTextOnline.org. Timke's specialties include media and advertising history, international media and advertising, and media theory and research methods. His work focuses on the role of media and advertising in shaping how different cultures understand and imagine each other. With Brooks Hefner, Timke is a 2017 recipient of a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also received numerous awards and nominations recognizing his excellence in teaching and mentoring of student research.

Daniel Worden 

Associate Professor in the College of Art & Design, Rochester Institute of Technology. 
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He is the author of Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z and Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, the editor of The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World, and the co-editor of Oil Culture and Postmodern/Postwar & After: Rethinking American Literature.