Joe Carotta for the New York Times

About me:

As full professor in the Humanities Department at New York Institute of Technology, I teach courses about literature and culture (US, Latinx, British, and Irish). While my new book looks closely at 1920s New York City, my scholarship in general has mostly addressed literature and its relationship to mass, technological society during what is sometimes called "the long 20th Century" (roughly 1850 to the present)—in transatlantic and diasporic contexts. My sub-specialties include modernism, literature/law studies, New York City cultural history, James Joyce, the history of the novel, visual culture, celebrity, popular music, and comics.

In September 2021, I was honored to become President of the James Joyce Society (founded in New York City in 1947). My team and I work hard to program events that serve emerging Joyce scholarship, connect Joyce’s works to general audiences, and promote an inclusive Joyce readerly community.

Looking for Jonathan Goldman-sound healer, or Jonathan Goldman-scholar of modernist music, or Jonathan Goldman, corporate capital investor/manager/consultant?

You’ve come to the wrong place–though I feel some refracted, doppleganger-ish identification with the first two of those, not the third.

That’s all my day job, so to speak. In addition, I’m a musician: trumpet player, songwriter, and bandleader, and radio DJ as well. My main current band is a Latin soul/boogaloo outfit called Spanglish Fly.

I’ve also spent many hours of my life playing music in the service of social justice and progressive causes as member of the RMO (which see, if you know what I'm talking about).