Overview
Jeremy Braddock is Associate Professor of Literatures in English. His primary field is modernist literature and culture, particularly its production and reception in the United States. His research and teaching interests include media and sound studies, African American literature, and the history of material texts. He received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from New York University, and a BA from Middlebury College. Before coming to Cornell, Jeremy taught at Haverford College and Princeton University. He has been a faculty fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and at the Cornell Society for the Humanities.
Braddock’s scholarly writing has been interested in collaboration and artistic groups, in literature’s intermedial engagements, and in the social investments of cultural production. His first monograph, Collecting as Modernist Practice (Johns Hopkins 2012), examines a series of private art collections, literary anthologies, and archives, each of which proposed a possible model for modernism’s institutionalization in the U.S. Collecting as Modernist Practice was awarded the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. His most recent book is a study of the late sixties media collective, the Firesign Theatre. With chapters on Firesign’s experiments with LP albums, radio, cinema, television, and artificial intelligence, the book reveals the group’s work as a late modernist, countercultural media archaeology. Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums is published by the University of California Press.
Braddock’s academic essays have appeared in Callaloo, ELH, Modernism/modernity, New Centennial Review and a number of edited volumes; his public humanities work appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sounding Out!, and The Organist podcast. He is co-editor (with Jonathan P. Eburne) of Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic, and (with Stephen Hock) of Directed by Allen Smithee. At Cornell he has co-chaired the University Faculty Library Board and is currently chair of the Media Studies Initiative, and of CIVIC, the Provost’s task force for radical collaboration in the arts and humanities.
Research Focus
- Modernist Literature and Culture
- Media studies
- History of Material Texts
- African American literature
- Libraries, archives, and information
In the news
- Crowdfunding launch supports Ways of Knowing podcast at Cornell
- Firesign Theatre made lowbrow, high-concept media critique
- What is ‘media?’ Klarman Fellow strives to define a capacious concept
- Kim Gallon to deliver lecture on Black pandemic deaths data
- Arts and Sciences welcomes eight new Klarman Fellows
- Conference to explore tactile approaches to media, virtually
- Summer Milstein Program bridges tech and humanities virtually
- New book echoes conference on classics, media theory
- PMA prof named new director of Milstein Program
- Conference showcases Cornell’s broad approach to media
- Four new minors now available to A&S students
- Cornell According to Sound offers sonic look at campus
- Cornell Cinema plans new all-access passes, receives five-year funding
- ‘World According to Sound’ creators to be artists in residence
- Documentarian: Take down paywalls with open access to scholarship
- Milstein students welcomed to campus with BBQ, adventures
- Media studies launches new initiatives
- Kreps, Braddock named inaugural Milstein Faculty Fellows
- NPR’s “The World According to Sound” comes to Klarman Hall
