Americanist Dinner Forum "Doc Du Jour" with Marc Blanc

"Document Du Jour" Dinner Forum is an opportunity for an AMCS graduate student to present an intriguing or puzzling document or artifact from their dissertation research - one that will be of wide interest to Americanists across disciplinary lines - and to puzzle through it with colleagues.

This semester's presenter is Marc Blanc.

Marc Blanc’s research and teaching interests consider the intersection of race, print culture, and political economy in nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature. His dissertation, Bleeding Heartland: Black Literature and Leftist Publishing in the Midwest, argues that networks of small, radical publishers arose throughout the Midwestern U.S. in response to the consolidation of literary capital in the urban northeast. Combining literary analysis with archival research, the project shows that independent publishing provided the means for Black and white literary dissidents to develop a racially integrated print culture in the heartland. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in College Literature, Belt Magazine, and The New Territory.

Prior to the event we will circulate the document along with a brief cover note from the presenter stating the questions he is posing, the rationale for posing them, and the relevant interpretive contexts.

Dinner will be provided. RSVP deadline has passed.