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Biographer Irmscher (Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science) makes a fitfully persuasive case for Eastman’s enduring relevance with this sympathetic reading of him as a “poet-philosopher” and restless individualist influenced early on by Walt Whitman and family friend Mark Twain. Here are our conluding words on Louis Agassiz.
Christoph in a panel discussion with Gail Collins of the New York Times and Brooke Kroeger, NYU Center for the Humanities, November 2017.
John Miller interviews Christoph about Max Eastman's complicated relationship with National Review.
Photograph by Wendi Chitwood, Indiana University.
He also directs the Wells Scholars Program. He was interested in everything, and he was a voracious reader.
Christoph Irmscher has taught at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Harvard University, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Revised paperback edition, 2008.
On November 6, 2014, The Cambridge Roundtable on Science & Religion hosted an evening of dinner and discussion at the Harvard Faculty Club, Wednesday November 6th, 6:00 PM, featuring New York Times Bestselling Author and 2013 Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction winner Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club and The Technologists, and me.
He then moved to the center of early 20th-century revolutionary ferment as editor of the Masses, a radical New York journal famously embroiled in a WWI-era Espionage Act trial, and of its successor the Liberator (coedited with his beloved sister Crystal). While researching this work, Christoph was granted unprecedented access to the Eastman family archive, allowing him to document little-known aspects of the charismatic radical.
What he enjoys most is sharing his excitement about literature and the arts with wider audiences. By foregrounding the "private" Longfellow (the drawings made by and for his children, his journals, and letters written by and to him) alongside the international, multilingual and widely-traveled Longfellow, the exhibition demonstrates how Longfellow re-invented poetry as a public forum for everyone's private feelings and how he consistently challenged the nationalistic distinction between what is typically and purely "American" and all that is not.
Music for the Worms: Darwin at the Lilly Library
A Darwin Bicentennial Exhibit, featuring Darwin's career and major works from The Voyage of the Beagle to The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, with copious illustrations from the Archives of the Lilly Library and a complete chronology of Darwin's life.
Walt Whitman at the Lilly Library
Compiled on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, an event that had a profound influence on Walt Whitman's life and work, this exhibition seeks to highlight the extensive Whitman-related holdings of the Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington.
Stories of the Hoosier State
Hoosier writers, whether or not they were born and raised in Indiana, have always thought of their work in connection with the rest of the nation or the world at large.
. . He is the author of several books, on subjects ranging from natural history writing (The Poetics of Natural History, 1999; 2nd edition, with photographs by Rosamond Purcell, 2019) to the life of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Longfellow Redux, published in paperback in 2008, and Public Poet, Private Man, 2009) to the history of science (Louis Agassiz, 2013) to American political history (Max Eastman, 2017). Among his recent books are Stephen Spender's Poems Written Abroad (2019) and Love and Loss in Hollywood, co-written with Cooper Graham (February 2021).
Widely recognized as a leading authority on Audubon, Christoph is the editor of the Library of America edition of Audubon's Writings and Drawings. How he managed to do all that while traveling and writing and editing for a living (with the exception of a stint as John Dewey's teaching assistant at Columbia when he was still a graduate student, he never held a "proper" job), is anyone's guess.
A polarizing figure—much celebrated, much reviled—he was a true American original, and this clear-eyed biography is equal to the task."—Nicholas Delbanco, author of Lastingness
"It's difficult to be a legend, but Max Eastman has at long last acquired the absorbing and revelatory biography he ought to have.
Letter by John James Audubon to one of his agents, The Lilly Library, Bloomington. Eastman edited two of the most important modernist magazines, The Masses and The Liberator, and campaigned for women's suffrage and world peace. He has been a consultant on the award-winning "American Masters" documentary on John James Audubon and on the recent full-length "Audubon: The Film," and he was interviewed in the Louisiana Public Television documentary "A Summer of Birds," which was nominated for a regional Emmy award.
Since 2006, he has been at Indiana University of Bloomington, where he is Distinguished Professor of English and the George F. Getz Jr. and Class of 1942 Professor in the Wells Scholars Program.