Jeffrey Allred

Jeff Allred is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY and Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, where he has taught since 2005. He also serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Hunter English department and is past Director of ACERT, Hunter's center for teaching and learning. He is author of American Modernism and Depression Documentary (Oxford UP, 2010) and has published articles and reviews on American literature, modernism, digital humanities, and new media studies in journals such as American Literature, American Literary History, Criticism, Arizona Quarterly, and Transformations.

Publications

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).
• “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).