Korey Garibaldi

Korey Garibaldi is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. In July 2024, he was appointed as an associate editor of American Quarterly, the foremost journal in the field of American Studies. In addition, he also serves on American Quarterly’s board of managing editors.

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. His courses focus on histories of citizenship, imperialism, cultural and economic thought, and the African diaspora.

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 United States between the early 1910s and the late 1960s. Impermanent Blackness shows how innumerable professional and technological challenges to the 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.