Lecture - Sue Currell on the New Masses Marxist Magazine

Video recording from 29 January 2014. A public lecture at the University of Nottingham given by Sue Currell from the University of Sussex in conversation with Christopher Phelps from the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmCanNotts And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmCanNotts Dr. Sue Currell discusses the contribution of female editors and writers to American communist magazine culture. She focuses 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 explores the magazine's gender politics and the female communist legacy within left-wing politics into the late-1940s.