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2007-2008 Fellows

Jeremy Braddock

Cornell University
English Department

Jeremy Braddock (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 2002) is Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University. He specializes in twentieth-century American literature, with particular interests in transatlantic modernism, African American literature, forms of authorship, and visual culture. He has co-edited two collections of essays: Directed by Allen Smithee (U Minnesota P, 2002), a study of directorial pseudonyms in Hollywood; and "Paris, Modern Fiction, and the Black Atlantic," a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies (winter 2005).

Project Summary

The Modernist Collector and Black Modernity, 1914-1934 is a study of four figures who participated in the struggle to determine the ways in which modernism would, or would not, transform cultural institutions. The project foregrounds collections of texts and objects that represented black culture together with what would become known as "high modernism," and considers these Anglo-American and African American practices in relation to the contemporary theories of Walter Benjamin for whom collecting was both a private mode of self-expression and a potentially revolutionary form of historical knowledge.