Martha Jane Nadell
Associate Professor & Chair, English Department, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Contact
[email protected] // 718-951-5195
Education
- Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- Ph.D., History of American Civilization, November 2000
- Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
- A.B., magna cum laude, Afro-American Studies, June 1989
Publications
- “Teaching Post-9/11 Novels: Lessons from Abroad” in Teaching 9/11 and its Aftermaths (New York: MLA, TBD)
- Alternative Histories, Alternative Homes, Alternative Nations: Contemporary Literature and Genre in the Age of Trump in American Literature in the Era of Trump: Alternative Realities (London: Palgrave, 2022)
- Contributor to “Reckoning by Cyphers, Laughing with Robots: New Technologies in Research and Teaching,” 2019 Amerikastudien/American Studies (Volume 64, Issue 1, 2019)
- Review of Daniel Hack, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature & Shawn Anthony Christian, The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader in American Periodicals
- “A Tree Grows in Bajan Brooklyn: Writing Caribbean New York,” Surveying the American Tropics: Literary Geographies from New York to Rio (Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2013)
- “Fire and Harlem,” The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (New York, Oxford University Press, 2012)
- “Writing Brooklyn” in The Cambridge Companion to New York Writing (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
- “New York City,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of African American History (New York: Oxford, 2008)
- “Teaching the Visual Arts of the Harlem Renaissance” in Teaching the Harlem Renaissance (New York: Peter Lang, 2008)
- Alain Locke” in Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2007)
- “Modernism and Race” in A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006)
- “From Harlem to Hurston: Miguel Covarrubias’s Images of African Americans” in Miguel Covarrubias: Caricaturista Exhibit Guide(Austin: Humanities Texas, 2005)
- “Reading for Pleasure” in “The Short List,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 6, 2005)
- Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004)
- Review of Robert E. Washington, The Ideologies of African American Literature: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Nationalist Revolt in Ethnic and Racial Studies (Vol. 26 No. 3 May 2003)
- “’Nor Can I Reduce This Experience to a Medium’: Race and the Visual Arts in the Work of Jean Toomer,” in Dream-Fluted Cane: Essays on Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance, edited by Geneviève Fabre and Michel Feith (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001)
- “Poetry in Motion,” in Polygraph 8/9: An International Journal of Culture and Politics, 1996
Positions
Associate Professor and Chair, English, Brooklyn College
