AllRED, Jeffrey

Assistant Professor
Office: 1237 HW/Office Hours:
Ph. 212 772-5170            
jallre@hunter.cuny.edu

Professor Allred has been at Hunter since 2005.  He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, modernism, and literary theory, in addition to more specialized topics, such as “Documentary in Literature and Film,” “Word and Image in Modernism,” and “Literature and the Prison.”  His proudest achievement in the classroom came recently in the form of an anonymous student comment (you know who you are): “Prof. Allred makes bad books seem good.” 

 He is currently at work on two scholarly projects.  The first is an article that looks at the institutional relationships that link modernist art with mass culture in the 1930s and 40s, using James Agee’s and Walker Evans’s work at Time Inc. as a case study.  The second is a book, American Modernism and Depression Documentary (currently under review), which surveys the uneven terrain of American modernity through the lens of photo-documentary books, including work by Agee/Evans, Richard Wright, and Erskine Caldwell/Margaret Bourke-White.  His next project will examine the relationships between propaganda and literary modernism in the inter-war United States.

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