Jeff Allred

Associate Prof. of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Hunter College; Associate Prof. of Digital Humanities at the GC.

I am Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, where I have taught since 2005. Since 2018 I have taught in the M.A. Program in Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center. I am author of American Modernism and Depression Documentary (Oxford UP, 2010) and have published articles and reviews on American literature, modernism, digital […]

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Book

American Modernism and Depression Documentary. Oxford University Press, 2010. Paperback edition, 2012.

Book Chapters

“Documentary Work,” American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940, ed. Ichiro Takayoshi (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

“Visual Cultures of Modernism,” Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel, ed. Joshua Miller (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Peer-Reviewed Essays

“Novel Hacks: New Approaches to Teaching the Novel Genre,” Transformations: The Journal for Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 24:1&2 (Winter, 2014).

“Boring from Within: James Agee and Walker Evans at Time Inc.,” Criticism: A Quarterly for the Arts 52:1 (Winter, 2010).

“From Eye to We: Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices, Documentary, and Pedagogy,” American Literature 78:3 (September, 2006).

“The Needle and the Damage Done: John Avery Lomax and the Guises of Collecting,” Arizona Quarterly 58:3 (Autumn, 2002).