Recent Publications
Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War, University of Michigan Press, Class/Culture Series, December 2015. https://www.press.umich.edu/7381040/anti_imperialist_modernism
Dedication, a collection of poetry based on the lives of Jewish labor activists, from Partisan Press, fall 2011, http://bluecollarholler.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-from-partisan-press.html
"Ghazal for Foley," What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump, Martín Espada, ed.
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/what-saves-us-0
"When Anti-Zionism Was Jewish: Jewish Racial Subjectivity and the Anti-Imperialist Literary Left from the Great Depression to the Cold War"
American Quarterly Volume 72, Number 2, June 2020
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/758945
"Horror Cities: Contesting the Ruins of Capitalism in Contemporary Genre Cinema"
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 139–159.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/camera-obscura/article-abstract/35/1(103)/139/164221/Horror-CitiesContesting-the-Ruins-of-Capitalism-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext
"Travels of an American Indian into the Hinterlands of Soviet Russia: Re-thinking Indigenous Modernity and the Popular Front in the Work of Archie Phinney and D'Arcy McNickle," American Quarterly, Volume 66, Number 1 (March 2014).
"Death and Life of the Jewish Century", Boston Review, March 2019, http://bostonreview.net/politics/benjamin-balthaser-death-and-life-jewish-century
"Killing the Documentarian: Richard Wright and Documentary Modernity," Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, 55.3 (Fall 2013).
Mass Shooting and the Spectacle of Whiteness, Public Seminar, April 13, 2018: http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/04/mass-shooting-and-the-spectacle-of-whiteness/
"Racial Violence in Black in White: Lynching Photography and the Documentation of Police Violence," Boston Review, (July 2016), reprinted and translated into French for Contreligne - Rédaction.
"The Fatal Machine: The Post-War Imperial State and the Radical Novel, 1941-1949," American Literature in Transition, 1940-1950, edited by Chris Vials, Cambridge University Press.
"The Race of Class: The Role of Racial Identity Production in the Long History of U.S. Working Class Writing," Working-Class Literature(s): Global and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Magnus Nilsson and John Lennon, Stockholm University Press.
"Modernism or Barbarism: Marshall Berman and Modernism in the Streets" Jacobin Magazine, May25, 2017.
"Colonies and Capital: Archie Phinney and Indigenous Marxism," Jacobin Magazine, November 16, 2016.
"For Jim Foley, October 18, 1973 -- August 19, 2014," Massachusetts Review, September 2015, 56 (4)
"Epitaph for a Bronx Accent," Tablet, November 2016 http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/215862/epitaph-for-a-bronx-accent