Alan Trachtenberg

Alan Trachtenberg is Neil Gray, Jr., professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University, where he has taught since 1969. His teaching fields include realism and modernism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American Literature. He has taught courses in the history of photography, American fiction and poetry, the relationship between technology and the arts, and major figures in American culture, including both visual and literary artists. His interest in cultural and...See more

Alan Trachtenberg is Neil Gray, Jr., professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University, where he has taught since 1969. His teaching fields include realism and modernism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American Literature. He has taught courses in the history of photography, American fiction and poetry, the relationship between technology and the arts, and major figures in American culture, including both visual and literary artists. His interest in cultural and historical perspectives is evident in his books, which include Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol, Shades of Hiawatha, winner of the 2005 Francis Parkman Prize, Reading American Photographs, and The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. He has written widely on American photography and American culture and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. See less