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The Coquette

(posted Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 11:19 pm)

and The Boarding School, two early American novels by Hannah Webster Foster, are now available in a Norton Critical Edition, edited by Jennifer Harris and Bryan Waterman.


Shipping out

(posted Monday, July 16, 2012 at 7:02 am)

I’ll be teaching at NYU Abu Dhabi during the 2012-13 academic year.


Downtown Scenes

(posted Friday, May 18, 2012 at 2:05 pm)

Students in my summer courses (Downtown Scenes & Age of Warhol) should be checking their NYU email for information about our first meeting. Follow these courses on Twitter using #dwntwn12.


Elizabeth Whitman’s Letters

(posted Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 4:15 am)

Find them in Early American Literature 46:3, along with my long introductory essay. I’ve also included the full run of the letters in the Norton Critical Edition of The Coquette, co-edited with Jennifer Harris, which comes out this fall.


Modernist Manhattan

(posted Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 5:13 am)

I’ll be delivering the introductory remarks for the Modernist Manhattan conference at New York Institute of Technology, Friday 2 March.


I was hearing, hearing something else

(posted Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 7:34 pm)

Television’s Marquee Moon is 35 years old this month. I posted a 35-track celebratory mix and spent some time chatting about the album with the WUGA Athens radio show Just Off the Radar.


Atlantic studies

(posted Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 6:02 am)

As part of NYU’s Faculty Resource Network I’m teaching a faculty seminar, “Literatures of the Atlantic,” 9-13 January at the University of the Sacred Heart and the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras in San Juan. More here.


WNYU New Afternoon Show

(posted Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 9:31 pm)

I spent a couple hours on WNYU talking to Jenn Pelly, one of my former students, & playing music that informed Television’s Marquee Moon. Stream the show here. (Here are some earlier sets on WNYC and WFMU.)


Marquee Moon

(posted Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 6:57 pm)

is in stores now. Support your local indies! Buy it from a real person. And don’t miss Cyrus Patell’s Some Girls: we really did conceive of them as companion volumes.


Save some dates

(posted Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 10:50 pm)

Cyrus Patell and I will be reading from our new 33 1/3 vols in Manhattan at McNally Jackson on June 20, and in BK at Word Brooklyn on June 28. Official party details still TK.