Brandon Truett is an interdisciplinary scholar, educator, and curator based in Brooklyn. He is currently the Mellon Head of Learning and Community Engagement at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, where he also holds an appointment in the English Department as Visiting Assistant Professor of the Practice of the Humanities. At the Zimmerli, he oversees the full range of educational, academic, and interpretative initiatives that engage visitors of all ages and forges meaningful partnerships that bridge campus and community audiences. Previously, he worked at the Barnes Foundation, the David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University. He received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago, where he also held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. A specialist in twentieth- and twenty-first century visual culture, literature, and popular media, Truett’s peer-reviewed research has appeared in American Literature, Modernism/modernity, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Grey Room, and he often writes criticism and short-form essays for more public venues. He is finishing a book on the visual culture of antifascism from the 1930s to the present.

Board member since: 2025

Current position: Editorial team member