Jeremy Braddock

Associate Professor

250 Goldwin Smith Hall
braddock@cornell.edu
607/255-2648

Departments and programs

American Studies Program
Literatures in English
Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Academic interests

20th and 21st Century American
African American
Cultural Studies
Media Studies

Overview

Jeremy Braddock specializes in the production and reception of literary modernism in the United States, with further interests in media studies and African American literature. His scholarly writing has focused on the collective and institutional forms of twentieth-century authorship that are obscured by the figure of the individual artist. His book Collecting as Modernist Practice (Johns Hopkins 2012) studies the way anthologists, art collectors, and archivists broadly competed over the form of modernism's anticipated institutionalization in American museums and in the academy. Collecting as Modernist Practice was awarded the 2013 Modernist Studies Association book prize and was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He is also co-editor, with Jonathan P. Eburne, of Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic (Johns Hopkins 2013), and with Stephen Hock co-edited Directed by Allen Smithee (Minnesota 2001). He was a faculty fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2007-8) and will be a faculty fellow at the Cornell University Society for the Humanities in 2017-18. He is working on two projects: a book-length project on The Firesign Theatre; and a study of libraries, archives, and information during the Second World War.

Research Focus

Modernist Literature and Culture
Media studies
History of Material Texts
African American literature
Libraries, archives, and information