+ Sunday, June 21

At John Holt’s Tomb: In Search of Lost Space in the City of Print

Suggested Viewings:

The Periwig-Maker. Directed by Steffen Schäffler (1999), based on Daniel Dafoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)

World Trade Center Elevator Timelapse

+ Monday, June 22

Morning Session

Institute Overview

Readings: Sean Latham and Robert Scholes, “The Rise of Periodical Studies” PMLA 121:1 (2006); Kelley Kreitz, “Toward a Latinx Digital Humanities Pedagogy” (Routledge 24 Oct 2017)

Suggested Additional Readings: Benjamin Fagan, The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation (University of Georgia Press, 2016); Ted Hamm, Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn (Akashic Books 2017); Eric Gardner, Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture (Oxford UP 2015); Derrick Spires, The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States (Univ. of Penn. Press, 2019).

Afternoon Session

Paper Gotham: New York City as Pulp Mecca

Readings: David M. Earle. “Pulp Magazines and the Popular Press An American Art” in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines Volume II: North America 1894-1960, eds. Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker (Oxford UP, 2012)

+ Tuesday, June 23

Morning Session

Crying the News: A History of New York’s Newsboys

Suggested Readings: David M. Henkin, City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York (Columbia UP, 1998); Edward L. Widmer. Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City (Oxford UP, 1999).

Afternoon Session

Mapping the Print Communities of Latina/o New York

Reading: Kelley Kreitz, “American Alternatives: Participatory Futures of Print from New York City’s Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Language Press.” American Literary History (30:4 November 2018).

Suggested Additional Readings: Susan L. Mizruchi, Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915 (Univ. NC Press, 2009); Aurora Wallace, Media Capital: Architecture and Communications in New York City (Univ. Illinois Press, 2012).

+ Wednesday, June 24

Morning Session

Digital Methods Workshop

Readings: Ed Timke, “Digitally Compressing the Magazine Archive: What Might Be Won and Lost When Forgoing a Visit to the Stacks.” Media Fields Journal (August 2013); Denbo, Seth. “Data Storytelling and Historical Knowledge.” Perspectives on History (April 2015); Heuser, Ryan, and Long Le-Khac. “Learning to Read Data: Bringing Out the Humanistic in the Digital Humanities.” Victorian Studies 54, no. 1 (2011); Jason W. Ellis, “Engineering a Cosmopolitan Future: Race, Nation, and World of Warcraft” in The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction (McFarland, 2011).

+ Thursday, June 25

Morning Session

Melville Among the Magazines

Reading: Graham Thompson, Melville Among the Magazines (Amherst: Univ. of Mass. Press, 2018)

Suggested Additional Readings: Thomas Augst “Melville, at Sea in the City” in The Cambridge Companion to New York Literature (NY: Oxford, 2010); Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Putnam’s Monthly, Nov. and Dec. 1853), “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tarturus of Maids” (Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, April 1855), “The Two Temples” (unpublished).

Afternoon Session

Virtual Tour of New York Seaport

Readings: Cindy R. Lobel “Out to Eat’ The Emergence and Evolution of the Restaurants in Nineteenth‐Century New York City.” Winterthur Portfolio (2010 44:2); Joseph Mitchell, “Up in the Old Hotel”; Presswork: A Documentary (video).

Suggested Additional Readings: Ezra Greenspan, George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher (University Park: Penn State UP, 2000); Jared Gardner, The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture (Illinois UP, 2012). Steven Carl Smith, An Empire of Print: The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic (Penn State UP, 2017). Bryan Waterman, Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature (Johns Hopkins UP, 2007)

+ Friday, June 26

Morning Session

The Evolution of Nineteenth-Century New York Newspapers

Reading: Karen Roggenkamp, Sympathy, Madness, and Crime How Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women’s Business (Kent State: Kent State UP, 2016)

Suggested Additional Readings: Jennifer A. Greenhill, Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age (Univ. of California Press, 2012) Julia Guarneri, Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans. (University of Chicago Press 2017); Bonnie M. Miller. From Liberation to Conquest: The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War of 1898 (Amherst: UMass Press, 2011).

Afternoon Session

Virtual Tour of Printing House Square

Suggested Additional Readings: Kirsten Doyle Highland “In the Bookstore: The Houses of Appleton and Book Cultures in Antebellum New York City” Book History (Volume 19, 2016); David S. Reynolds, “Walt Whitman’s Journalism: The Foreground of Leaves of Grass” (2013); Justin Martin, Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians (NY: De Capo Press, 2015); Stephen Crane, “Experiment in Misery” New York Press (April 22, 1894); Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.”

+ Monday, June 29

Morning Session

New York Modernism in the Magazines

Readings: Suzanne W. Churchill and Adam McKible, “Introduction,” Little Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches (Intro) : 3-14; Churchill and McKible, "Modernism in Magazines” (Oxford Handbook of Modernisms, 335-351); McKible, “Young Black Joes and Old Negroes: Containing Black Modernity in The Saturday Evening Post”; Irvin S. Cobb, J. Poindexter, Colored (Chs. 2, 9, and 21); Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde (Manifesto, Project Overview, Susan Rosenbaum, “Topsy-Turvy Aesthetics: Mina Loy, Jazz, Surrealism, & Race”, DH ToolBox); Others (July 1916).

Suggested Additional Readings: Bulson, Eric. "The Little Magazine, Remediated." The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, vol. 8 no. 2, 2017, p. 200-225; Churchill, Suzanne W., et al. “Mammy of the South / Silence Your Mouth”: The Silencing of Race Radicalism in Contempo Magazine. Modernism/Modernity Print Plus. Volume 1, Cycle 1; Churchill, Suzanne W., et al. "Youth Culture in The Crisis and Fire!!." The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, vol. 1 no. 1, 2010, p. 64-99; Collier, Patrick. "What Is Modern Periodical Studies?" The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, vol. 6 no. 2, 2015, p. 92-111. Kappeler, Erin. "Editing America: Nationalism and the New Poetry." Modernism/modernity, vol. 21 no. 4, 2014, p. 899-918; McKible, Adam. "“We Return Fighting”: Black Doughboys and the Battle of Representation." American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism 26.2 (2016): 167-182.; Miller, Cristanne. “Tongues ‘loosened inthe melting pot’: The Poets of Others and the Lower East Side.” Modernism/Modernity 14: 3(Sept. 2007): 455-76; Morrisson, Mark S. The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception, 1905-1920 (University of Wisconsin UP, 2001); Scholes, Robert, and Clifford Wulfman, Modernism in the Magazines: An Introduction (Yale UP, 2010); Whalan, Mark. "Freeloading in Hobohemia: The Politics of Free Verse in American World War I Periodical Culture." Modernism/modernity, vol. 21 no. 3, 2014, p. 665-688.

Afternoon Session

Virtual Tour of Union Square and Madison Square Park

Readings: David M. Earle. “Pulp Magazines and the Popular Press An American Art” in **The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines Volume II: North America 1894-1960***, eds. Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker (Oxford UP, 2012)

+ Tuesday, June 30

Morning Session

Virtual Tour of Literary Harlem

Reading: Fire!!! Devoted to Younger Negro Artists (Reprint of Vol. 1:1 1926)

Suggested Additional Reading: James Baldwin, “Letter from a Region in my Mind: Coming of Age in Harlem” (17 November 1962 New Yorker)

Afternoon Session

Signifying Genre: George S. Schuyler and the Vagaries of Black Pulp

Seminar Scholar: Brooks Hefner

Reading: Brooks Hefner, The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2017).

Suggested Additional Readings: Carla Kaplan “A New Literary Journal Announces Its Mission: ‘Burning Wooden Opposition’” in A New Literary History of America, eds. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2009) 593-598; “Harlem Renaissance Studies Now,” Modernism/modernity (Spring 2014), edited by Adam McKible and Suzanne Churchill.

+ Wednesday, July 1

Morning Session

New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture

Readings: Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture (Rutgers UP, 2010); Dorothy Parker “The Garter” (New Yorker 31 August 1928)

Video Clip: "Anne Hathaway reads a selection from Dorothy Parker's short story, "The Garter," first published in The New Yorker in 1928. Recorded at the Lapham's Quarterly Decades Ball, May 14, 2012".

Suggested Additional Readings: Sharon M. Harris (ed.), Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 1830-1910 (Northeastern UP, 2004); Michael Lesy “Life Begins” in A New Literary History of America, eds. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2009); Kirsten MacLeod, American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle: Art, Protest, and Cultural Transformation (University of Toronto Press, 2018); Ben Yagoda, About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made (Duckworth, 2000)

+ Thursday, July 2

Morning Session

Virtual Tour of the East and West Villages

Audio Walking Tour: “Passing Stranger” by Daniel Kane

Suggested Readings: Hannah Arendt “Remembering W.H. Auden” (20 January 1975 New Yorker); Kevin Birmingham, The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses (Penguin 2015); Daniel Kane, “Community Through Poetry” from The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s (Berkeley: Univ. Berkeley Press, 2003); Rick Beard and Leslie Cohen Berlowitz. Greenwich Village: Culture and Counterculture (Museum of the City of New York. 1993); Isaac Metzker, A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward (Schocken 1990); Christine Stansell, American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century (Henry Holt, 2000). Frank O’Hara “The Day Lady Died”; First installment of 13th episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses (as it appeared in The Little Review).

Afternoon Session

Cool Realism: The New Journalism and New York Literary Culture

Reading: Daniel Worden “Neoliberal Nonfictions”; Joan Didion “Insider Baseball” New York Review of Books (October 27, 1988); Norman Mailer “Superman Comes to the Supermarket” Esquire (Nov. 1960)

Suggested Additional Readings: Louis Menand, “It Took a Village: How The Voice Changed Journalism” New Yorker (Jan. 5, 2009); Norman Sims, True Stories: A Century of Literary Journalism. Northwestern UP, 2007. Selections from The Village Voice Reader, ed. Daniel Wolf (Grove Press, 1963).

+ Friday, July 3

Morning Session

Teaching Periodicals in the Digital Age

Reading: Christopher J. La Casse, 'Scrappy and Unselective': Rising Wartime Paper Costs and The Little Review (American Periodicals 26.2)