About me
Benjamin Balthaser's (he/him) critical and creative work explores the connections among radical U.S. social movements, racial and class formation, internationalism, and culture. He is the author of Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left (Verso, 2025), Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Radical Transnational Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War (University of Michigan Press, 2016) and Dedication (Partisan Press, 2011). Benjamin’s work has appeared in journals such as American Quarterly, Historical Materialism, Boston Review, Jacobin, and Shofar. He is professor of multi-ethnic U.S. literature at Indiana University, South Bend, and associate editor of American Quarterly.
