Sue Currell Sussex University 'Women in Overalls'

Women in Overalls: Gender, Politics and American Magazine Culture

leading expert on 20th-century mass culture and president of the British Association for American Studies in conversation with Dr. Christopher Phelps (University of Nottingham), leading labour historian

January 29th, 5pm

Trent LG11

Come and hear Dr. Sue Currell discuss the contribution of female editors and writers to American communist magazine culture. She will focus on the New York based left-wing magazine New Masses (1926-1948), which was an arts and culture magazine promoting 'proletarianism'. Until now, the contributions of women to the art, content and style of the magazine, as well as their engagement with editorial practices and conflicts, has been entirely overlooked. Contrary to the association of 1930s 'proletarianism' with masculinity, the list of contributors included groundbreaking female authors and editors. Dr. Currell will explore the magazine's gender politics and the female communist legacy within left-wing politics into the late-1940s. A public conversation with Dr. Christopher Phelps and an audience Q&A will follow her special guest lecture.

Free and open to all, but please register here!