Joel Brattin

Professor
EDUCATION
AB University of Michigan 1978
PhD Stanford University 1985
Expert Bio

Professor Brattin's work focuses on Charles Dickens’s notes, manuscripts, and early printed editions, which afford a unique view of his creative process. He also studies Jimi Hendrix, who Prof. Brattain calls an "electric guitar genius, who left an extraordinary legacy: an archive of music, live and in the recording studio, of remarkable breadth and depth."

Telegram.com
Woodstock Memories, 50 Years Later

In this front-page article, the Telegram & Gazette interviewed and photographed English Professor and internationally renowned Hendrix expert Joel Brattin. “When Hendrix’s guitar sings ‘bombs bursting in air,’ you hear not only the bombs, but you hear the cries of agony of the people on the ground who are experiencing those bombs,” Brattin told the T&G. “There’s a strong amount of political content, even if it’s nonverbal.”

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