Leo Braudy

Leo Braudy is a Professor of English and History at the University of Southern California.

“A Dreadful Plague in London Was”
What Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year” can teach us about the COVID-19 pandemic....
Leo BraudyApr 27, 2020
Acting and Impersonation
Leo Braudy on Acting Otherness and the Academy Awards....
Leo BraudyFeb 22, 2015
- Film
The Nature of War: A 10-Best List from Leo Braudy
The Ten Best Books on Warfare...
Leo BraudyMay 26, 2014
Pete Seeger was no Llewyn Davis
Pete, I have heard you play that melody for all of twenty years.” “Fifteen, but who’s counting?” — Lee Hays and Pete Seeger on The Weavers at Carnegie Hall (1955)   ONE OF THE FREQUENTLY dismissive terms for the people who ...
Leo BraudyFeb 2, 2014
The Highbrow Populist: George Plimpton on Film
Plimpton: The Movie...
Leo BraudyMay 26, 2013
Leo Braudy on the Hollywood Sign
Leo Braudy discusses the Hollywood Sign and what it means as an icon, as a historical artifact, as a monument, as a beacon, along with the history of Hollywood as a place and an idea....
Leo BraudyJan 1, 2012
The Time of Our Lives: On Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”
As it ticks away, "The Clock" taps into the enormous storehouse of images bouncing around in our heads....
Leo BraudyJul 14, 2011

“A Dreadful Plague in London Was”