English Faculty Joel Dinerstein

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Ahearn,Barry Albrecht,Thomas Burke,Molly Codr,Dwight Cooley,Peter Desai,Gaurav Dinerstein,Joel Edmonds,Dale Elmwood,Victoria Foster,Ken Foy,Roslyn Gelley,Ora Goldman,Jonathan Johnson,T.R. Kaufmann,David Koritz,Amy Kuczynski,Michael Leland,Jacob Letter,Joe Lewis,Nghana Livingston,Judith Mark,Rebecca Morris,Paula Munkhoff,Richelle Nair,Supriya Oldman,Elizabeth Pizer,Donald Rothenberg,Molly Smith,Felipe Snare,Gerald Toulouse,Teresa Travis,Molly	Joel Dinerstein Assistant Professor of English Norman Mayer Room 216 Telephone: (504) 862-8168 Fax: (504) 862-8958 E-mail: jdinerst@tulane.edu Joel Dinerstein is an Assistant Professor of English at Tulane University. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of an award-winning cultural study theorizing the relationship of technology and African-American expressive culture, Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African-American Culture Between the World Wars (University of Massachusetts Press, 2003). Dinerstein was a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University and has received the Tulane University Student Body Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. His major research interests are twentieth-century American literature, African-American literature and expressive culture, technology studies, popular culture (music and film). Dinerstein is currently working on a theory of the concept of "cool" in postwar American culture. Born and raised in Brooklyn--where being cool was as much about survival as style--his work remains informed by his early stints as a teacher, rock critic, public relations writer, and free-lance journalist. He teaches courses on nineteenth-and twentieth-century American literature, popular culture, and race and ethnicity.