Education:
PhD, Yale University - 2001 (American Studies)
BA, Wesleyan University - 1991 (American Studies)
Areas of Expertise:
American literature and American studies; modernism; cultural history; visual culture, especially photography; social movements and the arts of protest; working-class studies.
Books and Publications
"Russell Banks Was a Working-Class Writer for Our Global Age," Jacobin, January 26, 2023:
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/russell-banks-working-class-writer-global-age-novelist-literature-obituary (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2023
"The Labors of Contemporary American Literature." The University of Michigan Press blog, March 7, 2023: https://blog.press.umich.edu/2023/03/the-labors-of-contemporary-american-literature/ (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2023
Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work (Class: Culture series, University of Michigan Press, 2023) (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2023
"Precarious Forms: Reading Labor in and beyond the Neoliberal Novel," in Leslie Bow and Russ Castronovo, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature (Oxford University Press, 2022). (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2022
"Teaching Afrofuturism: Race, Erasure, and COVID," Radical Teacher 122 (Spring 2022). Co-edited with Belinda Wallace and Jesse Schwartz. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2022
"Tribute to Richard Ohmann," Radical Teacher 123 (Summer 2022), 59-60. (Books and Publications: Other) 2022
How American Literature Understand Poverty: A special issue of American Literature. Co-edited with Clare Callahan, Irvin Hunt, and Kinohi Nishikawa. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2022
"Labor's City," in The City in American Literature, edited by Kevin McNamara (Cambridge University Press, 2021). (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2021
Teaching American Studies: State of the Classroom as the State of the Field, co-edited with Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello and Rebecca Hill (University of Kansas Press, 2021). (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2021
"Re-Conceiving Class in Contemporary Working-Class Studies." The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies, edited by Michele Fazio, Christie Launius, and Tim Strangleman (Routledge, 2020). (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2020
"Teaching about War, Capitalism, and Empire," Radical Teacher 117 (Summer 2020). Co-edited with Richard Ohmann and Jocelyn Wills. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2020
With Jeanne Theoharis and Alan Aja, "Spare CUNY, and Save the Education our Heroes Deserve," City Limits, May 13, 2020.
https://citylimits.org/2020/05/13/opinion-spare-cuny-and-save-the-education-our-heroes-deserve/ (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2020
With Alan Aja and Jeanne Theoharis, "The True Scandal of Higher Education: How We've Abandoned Public Universities Like CUNY," New York Daily News, April 2, 2019.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-the-true-crime-in-higher-education-20190402-xqdv2v22irao7c7pvatutyelke-story.html (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2019
"Teaching and Resistance in the Time of Trumpism." Radical Teacher 111 (Summer 2018). Co-edited with Sarah Chinn.
https://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/radicalteacher (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2018
"The Working Class." American Literature in Transition: The 1930s, edited by Ichiro Takayoshi (Cambridge U Press, 2018). (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2018
"Working Photography: Labor Documentary and Documentary Labor in the Neoliberal Age." Remaking Reality: U.S. Documentary Culture after 1945, Franny Nudelman, Sara Blair and Joseph Entin, eds. (UNC Press, 2018). (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2018
Remaking Reality: U.S. Documentary Culture after 1945. Co-edited with Sara Blair and Franny Nudelman (UNC Press, 2018). (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2018
"Globalization, Migration, and Contemporary Working-Class Literature." Cambridge History of American Working-Class Literature, Nicholas Coles and Paul Lauter, eds. (Cambridge U Press, 2017).
(Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
"Archives and Radical Education." Radical Teacher 105 (Spring 2016). Co-edited with Linda Dittmar. Available at: https://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/radicalteacher/issue/view/10/showToc (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2016
"Culture on the Move: Depression-era Documentary and Migrant California." Criticism 56.3, Summer. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014
"Filming Faulkner's Modernism: James Franco's 'As I Lay Dying.'" Los Angeles Review of Books. Available at: http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/filming-faulkners-modernism-on-james-francos-as-i-lay-dying. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2013
"Occupy and Education." Radical Teacher 96 (Spring 2013). Co-edited with Susan O'Malley and Richard Ohmann. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2013
Review of Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America's Working Class, by Carol Quirke. caa.reviews, April. Online at: http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/2013. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2013
"'We are the Planet': Incipient Solidarities in Russell Banks's Continental Drift." Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, 15.1. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
"'A Terribly Incomplete Thing': No-No Boy and the Ugly Feelings of Noir." MELUS 35.3. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
"2 by 2 by Milton Rogovin." Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. Online at http://www.vsw.org/ai/. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2010
"'Unhuman Humanity,'" excerpt printed in Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives: The Norton Critical Edition. W.W. Norton. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009
"Immigration and Education." Radical Teacher 84 (Spring 2009). Co-edited with James Davis and Susan O'Malley. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009
Entin, Joseph, Robert Rosen and Leonard Vogt. Controversies in the Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader. Teachers College Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2008
"Teaching the Experimental Arts of American Protest." Radical Teacher 79, Fall. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2007
Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America. University of North Carolina Press. Cultural Studies of the United States series. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2007
"Class, Culture, and the Working Body." A review of New Working Class Studies, eds. Sherry Linkon and John Russo, and Hands: Physical Labor, Class and Cultural Work, by Janet Zandy. American Quarterly 57.4. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2005
"Contingent Teaching, Corporate Universities and the Academic Labor Movement." Radical Teacher 73, Spring. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2005
"Monstrous Modernism: Disfigured Bodies and Literary Experimentalism in Yonnondio and Christ in Concrete." The Novel and the American Left: New Essays on Depression-Era Fiction. Ed. Janet Casey. University of Iowa Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2004
"Unhuman Humanity: The Bodies of the Urban Poor and the Collapse of Realist Legibility." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 34.3, Summer. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2001
"A New Deal for Thirties Literature." A review of New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State, by Michael Szalay; Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism, by Sean McCann; and Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines, by Erin Smith. Novel: A Forum on Fiction 34.1, Spring. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2000
Entin, Joseph and Kimberly Johnson. "Graduate Student Organizing and the Corporate University." New Labor Forum 6, Spring/Summer. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2000
"Modernist Documentary: Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document." The Yale Journal of Criticism 12.2, Fall. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 1999
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Milton Rogovin's 'Approach': Photography, Class, and the Aesthetics of Making Space." American Studies Association. Archived at: http://www.miltonrogovin.com/pages/entin_essay.pdf. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
