April 1924 update: Over the last few years I have been leading/teaching/facilitating courses devoted to reading Joyce's *Ulysses*–especially, but not exclusively, for first-time readers. I am thrilled to be offering the course online through the Irish Arts Center, meeting weekly, April through June.
More information here: https://irishartscenter.org/event/literature-u-for-you-spring-2024-online
Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions.
Welcome to the (mostly) professional website of Jonathan Goldman, literature professor by day, musician by night. I created this site as a one-stop portal for the various projects I've had going on over the past few years, some completed, some in progress.
(By the way, if you’re looking for Jonathan Goldman, sound healer, or Jonathan Goldman, scholar of classical music, or Jonathan Goldman, multi-millionaire, you’ve come to the wrong place–though I feel some refracted, house-of-mirrors identification with the first two of those namesakes.)
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As full professor at New York Institute of Technology, I teach writing and courses about literature and culture (US, Latinx, British and Irish). My scholarship focuses on literature and its relationship to mass, technological society during what is sometimes called "the long 20th Century" (roughly 1850 to the present). My sub-specialties include the history of the novel, modernism, visual culture (especially early cinema), celebrity, popular music, comics, literature/law studies, and New York City cultural history.
I am currently writing a book, New York in the Age of Gatsby: Hidden Stories and Marginalized Figures of 1920s NYC, due out from SUNY Press in 2025. This is the culmination of the research I have been conducting on NYC, some of which you can find on my website New York 1920s: One Hundred Years Ago Today, When We Became Moderns
In September 2021, I was honored to become President of the James Joyce Society (founded in New York City in 1947).
