Marc Blanc

Marc Blanc is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis specializing in 19th and early 20th-century social movement writing practices. His research argues for an early emergence of racially integrated public spheres through partisan print cultures in peripheral Midwestern locations.

His work focuses on American Literature, African American Print Culture, and Radicalism, examining texts by figures like Lucy E. Parsons, Langston Hughes, and Margaret Walker. He teaches courses including 'What We Might Have Been: Utopianism in American Literature' and 'Black Riders: 19th-Century African American Print Culture,' while co-organizing community initiatives like the St. Louis Symposium for Radicalism in US Arts to bridge academic and public scholarship.