Staff & Faculty Directory
Jonathan Goldman
Professor; Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences
Education Credentials: Ph.D.
Joined New York Tech: 2008
Jonathan Ezra Goldman researches and teaches literature and its relationship to mass, technological society, specializing in twentieth-century US/British/Irish novels, modernism, popular culture, literature/law studies, and the cultural history of New York City. He is the author of Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange (SUNY P, 2026) and Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity (U of Texas P, 2011), editor of James Joyce and the Law (U of Florida P, 2018), and co-editor of Modernist Star Maps: Celebrity, Modernity, Culture (Ashgate, 2010). He has published over 50 articles about nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture; directs the digital project, NY1920s: 100 Years Ago Today, When We Became Modern; and is president of the James Joyce Society, founded in 1947.
Goldman received his Ph.D. from Brown and bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
- Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange (SUNY P, 2026)
- James Joyce and the Law (University of Florida Press, 2017)
- Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity (University of Texas Press, 2011)
- Modernist Star Maps (Ashgate, 2010)
A book about New York’s role in the reception, publication, and legal history of James Joyce’s works
- “The Opening of the Savoy, the Most Inclusive Club in Harlem, 100 Years Ago.” The Syncopated Times April 2026. 7-8.
- “Including Frances Steloff.” Centripetal Joyce/Joyce Centrifugal: Essays from the 2022 International James Joyce Symposium. Brill (2025).
- “Trademark,” In The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, ed. by Robert Spoo and Simon Stern, 2025.
- “The Great Gatsby at – almost – 100: Staging a Troubled Legacy ” Village Voice. December 17, 2024
- “Flying Off the Page, ‘Ulysses’ Lands on Its Feet,” Village Voice. July 3, 2024
- “Chapter Five,” In “Death from a Thousand Cuts: A Roundtable on the 1937 Gatsby Condensation.” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, vol. 21, 2023.
- “Introduction: Making Joyce Studies Safe for All” (with Cathryn Piwinski). The Modernist Review 51.
- “Why Student Protests Are ‘Good for the Jews’ and a Congressional Crackdown on Israel Criticism Is Not” (with Jacob Leland). The Indypendent, May 16, 2024.
- “The Difficult Odyssey of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses.’” Village Voice, January 28, 2022.
- “The Many Giants of Black Baseball.” Village Voice, October 28, 2021.
- “Revisiting Dyckman Oval, A Lost Landmark From the Heyday of Black Baseball.” Atlas Obscura, October 1, 2021.
- “Eva’s Tanguay’s Racial and Gender Iconoclasticism.” Gotham Center for New York City History, April 15, 2021.
- “Smoking with John: John Bishop (1948-2020), Guide, Philosopher, and Friend.” James Joyce Quarterly 57.3-4, (Summer 2020). 2-6.
- “The New York City Overalls Parade.” Gotham Center for New York City History, May 26, 2020.
- “Babe Ruth’s New York @100.” Public Books, March 26, 2020
- “When Dorothy Parker Got Fired from Vanity Fair.” Public Domain Review. February 6, 2020.
- “How New Yorkers Celebrated New Year’s Eve 100 Years Ago.” Gothamist. December 31, 2019.
- “Joyce and the Dems: Ulysses, Politics and Cultural Capital.” Modernism/modernity (online). April 29, 2019.
- “‘I’m Gonna Be Somebody,’ 1930: Gangsters and Modernist Celebrity,” in Popular Modernisms. Ed. Scott Ortolano. Bloomsbury, 2017.
- “Ulysses, the Fiction of Trademark,” James Joyce Quarterly, Fall 2013 (published 2016).
- “Celebrity.” In Bernard Shaw in Context. Ed. Brad Kent. Cambridge UP, 2015.
- “Winter is Coming: How HBO’s Game of Thrones Is Going Off-Book and Breaking All the Rules.” The Millions. April 9, 2015.
- “Introduction: The Legal Fictions of James Joyce.” James Joyce Quarterly, Summer 2013 (Published 2015).
- Guest Editor, “Legal Joyce” issue of James Joyce Quarterly, Summer 2013 (Published 2015).
- “Afterlife.” In The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses. Ed. Sean Latham. Cambridge UP, 2014.
- “Fania at Fifty.” The Paris Review. October 9, 2014.
- “Wake Uuuup! Do The Right Thing After Ferguson.” Open Letters Monthly. October 1, 2014.
- Irish Literature
- Literary Adaptation in Visual Media
- Basic Reading And Writing For International Students
- Focus on Writing II for International Students
- Latinx/Latino/Latina Culture of New York
- What Was Modernism
- Shakespeare
- Fantasy Literature