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.