Korey Garibaldi

Associate Director, Initiative on Race and Resilience
Associate Professor
American Studies

Research Interests

Twentieth-century United States History; Modern Transnational History, Especially Between the U.S. and Europe; History of the Book and Twentieth-century American Literary History

Biography

Korey Garibaldi is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and the Associate Director of IRR. Garibaldi is also an associate editor of American Quarterly, the foremost journal in the field of American Studies.

Garibaldi studies the social and intellectual history of the United States and Europe (18th - 20th centuries), with particular interests ranging from the Victorian novelist Henry James to Russia’s national poet, Aleksandr Pushkin. Garibaldi’s first book, Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2023), examines and reinterprets the intermittent flourishing of cross-racial industrial print production in the U.S. between the early 1910s and the late 1960s. Impermanent Blackness shows how innumerable professional and technological challenges to the American publishing industry’s color line, now taken for granted, were once central to the promotion of cosmopolitan habits and mentalities during the first seven decades of the twentieth century.