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NEW YORK and THE PERIODICAL PRESS

This institute will offer a comprehensive view of the shifting cultural politics of the city during the 19th and 20th centuries as told through disparate voices of New York's periodical press. For two weeks, this Institute will offer discussions and lectures led by cultural historians, archivists and experts in the fields of American literature, art and urban history, and periodical studies.

Project Director
Mark J. Noonan

Lead Faculty
Kelley Kreitz, Adam D. McKible

Lecturers and Visiting Faculty
Ayendy Bonifacio, Jim Casey, Suzanne Churchill, Vincent Di Girolamo, David M. Earle, Jason W. Ellis, Brooks Hefner, Catherine Keyser, Matthew A. Knutzen, Christopher La Casse, Lavelle Porter, Karen Roggenkamp, Graham Thompson, Ed Timke, Daniel Worden

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Dorothy Parker, Smart Magazines, and the Susceptible Body
Catherine Keyser, University of South Carolina

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