AGENDA
For two weeks, this institute will provide an excellent combination of discussions and lectures, led by cultural historians, archivists and experts in the field of American literature, art and urban history, and periodical studies.
Day 11
Teaching Periodicals in the Digital Age
Seminar Scholar: Christopher La Casse, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Review of Institute and Wrap-up Discussion
Day 10
Virtual Tour of the East Village
Tour Leader: Mark Noonan, New York City College of Technology
Cool Realism: The New Journalism and New York Literary Culture
Seminar scholar: Daniel Worden, Rochester Institute of Technology
Day 9
Dorothy Parker, Smart Magazines, and the Susceptible Body
Seminar Scholar: Catherine Keyser, University of South Carolina
Independent Work or Zoom Break-Out Sessions
Day 8
Virtual Tour of Literary Harlem
Tour Leader: Lavelle Porter, New York City College of Technology
Other Cities, Other Print: Genre Fiction in Twentieth-Century African American Newspapers
Seminar Scholar: Brooks Hefner, James Madison University
Day 7
New York Modernism in the Magazines
Seminar scholars: Adam McKible, John Jay College, and Suzanne Churchill, Davidson College
Virtual Tour of Union Square and Madison Square Park and Virtual Tour of The West Village
Tour Leader: Mark Noonan, New York City College of Technology
Day 6
Virtual Tour of Printing House Square
Tour Leader: Mark Noonan, New York City College of Technology
The Evolution of Nineteenth-Century New York Newspapers
Seminar Leader: Karen Roggenkamp, Texas A&M University
Day 5
Melville Among the Magazines
Seminar scholar: Graham Thompson, University of Nottingham
Virtual Tour of New York’s Seaport District
Tour Leader: Mark Noonan, New York City College of Technology
Day 4
Digital Methods Workshop
Seminar Scholars: Jason Ellis, NYCCT-CUNY and Edward Timke, Duke University
Opportunity to Consult on Digital Project ideas with Professors Ellis, Timke, and Kreitz
Day 3
Crying the News: A History of New York’s Newsboys
Seminar scholar: Vincent Di Girolamo, Baruch College, CUNY
Mapping the Hispanophone Print Communities of Nineteenth-Century New York City
Seminar scholars: Ayendy Bonifacio, BMCC-CUNY and Kelley Kreitz, Pace University
Day 2
Institute Program Overview; Digital Tools Demonstration
Seminar leaders: Matthew Joseph, Adam McKible, Mark Noonan, and Kelley Kreitz
The Black Press in Antebellum New York
Seminar Scholar: Jim Casey, Princeton Center for Digital Humanities
Paper Gotham: New York City as Pulp Mecca
Seminar scholar: David M. Earle, University of West Florida
Opening Lecture
At John Holt’s Tomb: In Search of Lost Space in the City of Print
Keynote Speaker: Mark Noonan, Institute Director
Dorothy Parker, Smart Magazines, and the Susceptible Body
Catherine Keyser, University of South Carolina