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Benjamin Balthaser is Associate Professor of Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature at Indiana University, South Bend. His book Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War was published by University of Michigan Press in 2015. His critical and creative writing has also appeared in American Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, In These Times, Criticism, among other publications.
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