H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus
About
Professor Wald is a past Director of American Culture.
Fields of Study:
20th-century U.S. cultural Left
Professor Wald's latest essay, "Protest, Passion, and Politics," from "Boston Review" (July 2020): http://bostonreview.net/politics/alan-wald-protest-passion-politics
New radio interview, WDET Detroit Radio, "Detroit Today," "Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' and the BLM Protests": https://wdet.org/posts/2020/07/09/89799-wdet-book-club-invisible-man-black-lives-matter-and-the-politics-of-ralph-ellison/
Research Area(s):
- Marxism and cultural studies in the mid-20th-century U.S.
- Communism and socialism in U.S. culture
- 1930s - 1960s
- Politics and culture of the New Left of the 1960s
- Left-wing African American, Asian Pacific Islander/American, Latino, Native American, and gay and lesbian writers from the 1930s - 1960s
- Jewish American literary radicalism
- Film noir and the Left
Affiliations:
Professor Wald holds a joint appointment in the Departments of English Language and Literature and American Cuture (AC)
