Jonathan Goldman

From Atlas Obscura

Ed. Jonathan Goldman and Aaron Jaffe. Ashgate Publications (2010).

In my mind, a companion to the monograph, a collection I co-edited with Aaron Jaffe (U of Louisville), featuring essays about the intersection of celebrity culture and early twentieth-century literature.

[image courtesy The Simpsons]

My essay about the phenomenon of politicians citing Ulysses as a favorite book. Published in Modernism/modernity.

Eva Tanguay's Racial and Gender Iconoclasticism and the Making of “Personality,” published in the Gotham Center Blog, April 2021

[Image: "Joyce Giving out a Sentence" by DJ Schiff]

James Joyce Quarterly 50.4 (Fall 2013). [Published 2015]

I edited and wrote the introduction to this special issue of James Joyce Quarterly devoted to readings of Joyce alongside the law.

This might be (at this moment) my favorite publication, an essay about the post-1922 legacy of Joyce's novel Ulysses  in literary and popular culture, touching down on Jefferson Airplane, Tom Stoppard, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Costello and Flann O'Brien.  "Afterlife." The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses. Ed. Sean Latham. Cambridge UP (2014). 33-48. 

From the Gotham Center website

My essay, “ ‘I’m Gonna Be Somebody’” 1930s Gangsters and Modernist Celebrity” published in Popular Modernism and Its Legacies, edited by Scott Ortolano (Bloomsbury 2017)

I published a fun little piece titled "Celebrity" in Bernard Shaw in Context. Ed. Brad Kent. Cambridge UP (2015). 

"Extraordinary People: The Superhero Genre and Celebrity Culture."  The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature. Ed. Dan Hassler-Forrest and Joyce Goggin. McFarland Press (2010). 142-153.

My most urgent and, interestingly, most-read (I think) piece of writing, a commentary on Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and the killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. 

"Wake Uuuup!: Do the Right Thing After Ferguson." Open Letters Monthly. October 1, 2014. 

A not-exactly-scholarly essay I published when the GoTnet was abuzz with spoiler concerns. The editors at The Millions were great but I mislike their title. The Millions April 9, 2015. 

M/C Journal 7.5 (2004). 

Some thoughts about salsa, boogaloo, and US Latino culture on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Fania Records.

The Paris Review. October 9, 2014. 

Some thoughts about June 16.

The Paris Review. June 13, 2014. 

"James Joyce and Popular Culture." This has only appeared in Portuguese. Wtite me for an English version. Revista Cult 176 (January 2013). 18-23. 

My juvenilia. This article began as a seminar paper written years before I had found my scholarly footing, for my first graduate school mentor, Robert Scholes. He insisted that I submit it to Narrative, who indeed snapped it up.