Jonathan 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 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). His work appears in such venues as The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses, Cambridge Contexts: Bernard Shaw, Cambridge Contexts: Tom Stoppard, Public Domain Review, Public Books, Gothamist, The Village Voice, Atlas Obscura, Modernism/modernity Print+, James Joyce Quarterly, Narrative, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, The Paris Review, The Millions, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The James Joyce Literary Supplement. Much of his recent research forms the basis of the website New York 1920s: 100 Years Ago Today (When We Became Modern). He 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.

Published Volumes

• 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)

In-Progress Book

• New York in the Age of Gatsby: Hidden Stories and Marginalized Figures of 1920s NYC (SUNY Press, 2025)

Digital Project

• New York, 1920: When We Became Modern (and Why It Matters Now)

Recent Publications

• "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.

Courses Taught at New York Tech

• 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

Contact Info

• Jonathan.Goldman@nyit.edu
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