Marc Blanc

Marc Blanc

Postdoctoral fellow, English, American Culture Studies

Marc Blanc’s research and teaching are focused on the literary and print cultures of radical social movements. His book project, Bleeding Heartland: Race, Region, and Radicalism in Midwest Print Culture, 1877–1945, argues that socialist, anarchist, and populist publications offered opportunities for Black and white radicals to exchange writing across the color line during a period otherwise marked by segregation and racial nationalism. While far from a straightforward narrative of interracial progress, the book uncovers an insurgent literary history that extends farther back, and farther west, than scholars have previously assumed.