In 2013, he received his PhD in English and American Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center. His interests include radical American literature, periodical studies, Marxian theory, and critical ethnic studies, and his work examines the cultural responses to American radicalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His most recent project examines the coverage of the Russian Revolution in American print culture. In particular, he traces the ways in which mainstream periodicals used the event to naturalize an increasingly muscular American capitalism, while the Black, radical, and ethnic presses invoked Moscow to galvanize opposition and create coalitions across the lines of race and class. email: jwschwartz@gmail.com