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Student Research
Below you will find exemplars of research done by Yale University and other students in the Beinecke Library. If you are an undergraduate or graduate student conducting research in our collections, we’d love to publish a description of your work on our website. Please go to the Student Scholars - Tell Us about your Research page for more information on how to submit your research for inclusion here.
November 19, 2025
In early November, liturgical studies professors Melanie Ross and Nina Glibetić took Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) students in the “Foundation of Christian Worship” class to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library where they examined a variety of materials that show how Christian worship has been practiced across time and place. - ## Beinecke project on early Black students continues to grow
September 10, 2025
A new website makes the ongoing research accessible to family members, scholars, and the public. - ## The Mind of the Book (HSAR 620): Student Research Posts
January 2, 2025
Below you will find links to research posts written by Yale graduate students in Professor Marisa Bass’s Fall 2024 History of Art graduate seminar “The Mind of... - ## Through Justice’s Papers, Students See Supreme Court Behind the Scenes
December 19, 2023
In a first-of-its-kind course this fall, Yale Law School students delved into the working papers of a former Supreme Court justice for an intimate view of the making of landmark decisions. Through hands-on use of these archival materials, students gained research skills once used mainly by scholars but now increasingly valuable for legal practitioners. Taught by lecturers in legal research Nicholas Mignanelli and Michael VanderHeijden, Research Methods in Judicial History centered around the papers of Associate Justice Potter Stewart ’41, which are held at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Through Stewart’s papers, the course explored how judges and legal scholars use historical court materials to make sense of judicial decisions. - ## Hark! Collegium Musicum performs Elizabethan music at the Beinecke (Yale Daily News)
October 6, 2023
The sounds of lutes and harpsichords reverberated through the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on Wednesday evening as the Collegium Musicum musical group performed a series of Elizabethan pieces. - ## Reflections from the Beinecke Library by Méabh Ní Choileáin, Graduate Research Fellow
September 29, 2023
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University needs to be seen, whether in person or in picture, for its beauty and marvel to be believed... - ## Teasing apart the meaning of Shakespeare’s First Folio
September 27, 2023
A new exhibit at Sterling Memorial Library explores the changing perceptions — in prestige and value — of the first printed collection of Shakespeare’s plays. - ## Students win prizes for essays on American and Western American history and culture
May 26, 2023
At this year’s graduation ceremonies, three prizes were awarded to Yale College seniors whose essays explored topics in the fields of Americana or Western Americana. Unlike the library’s three other senior essay prizes—for which students submit their own work for consideration—these prizes are awarded based on recommendations from faculty members. Each prize winner received $200 and an award certificate. - ## Archive illuminates New Haven’s Bias Stanley, a 19th-century civil rights advocate
April 18, 2023
Papers at Yale’s Beinecke Library shed new light on the lives of Bias and Margaret Stanley, stalwarts of New Haven’s Black community in the early 1800s. - ## Wright Lab summer undergraduate researchers explore scientific treasures of Yale Beinecke Library
July 14, 2022
Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Beinecke) and the Medical Historical Library together house early editions of many milestones of achievements in physics, including those from Copernicus, du Châtelet, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and other scientists from the 16th-18th centuries, with topics ranging from early materials science, astronomy and cosmology, physics, and mathematics. - ## Student curator Gabrielle Colangelo ’22 brings obscured lesbian histories to light
June 6, 2022
For her exhibition, “We Are Everywhere: Lesbians in the Archive,” now on view in Sterling Memorial Library, student curator Gabrielle “Gabby” Colangelo ’22, began by asking questions. “Why are there so few lesbians represented in Yale’s archives? And who is Silvia Dobson, this unknown woman who appears so prominently in my search results?” - ##
April 18, 2022
Hidden Gems Welcome to Hidden Gems , a series of short articles which highlight items in the Beinecke Library’s collection of rare books and manuscripts and... - ## Takamiya MS 98: An Excised Fragment of the Stafford Gower
March 27, 2022
Beinecke manuscript fragment Takamiya MS 98 once belonged to a 14th-century manuscript known as the Stafford Gower (Huntington Library MS EL 26 A 17), a copy of John Gower's Middle English poem "Confessio Amantis." It was excised and used as binding waste. - ## Students present research detailing Yale’s history with slavery (Yale Daily News)
February 4, 2022
On Monday, three students from the “Slavery, Race and Yale” fall seminar shared historical findings about the University’s ties to slavery. The students spoke virtually at a Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library event entitled “Yale & Slavery Research — Student Perspectives.” Taught by Professors Edward Rugemer and Crystal Feimster with teaching fellow Teanu Reid, the “Slavery, Race and Yale” seminar developed from the Yale and Slavery Research Project and its mission to explore and detail Yale’s history with racial slavery from its inception in 1701 through the late-19th century. Miguel Ceballo-Countryman ’23, Patrick Hayes ’24 and Mackenzie Hawkins ’22 each dis - ## Osborn fa38: An Early Copy of Petrus Comestor’s Historia scholastica
January 18, 2022
Petrus Comestor’s Historia scholastica, composed in Latin and completed in Paris in the 1170s, was one of the key texts for historical and scriptural education among schoolmen throughout the Middle Ages. The Beinecke Library is fortunate to possess an early copy of this important medieval text: Osborn fa38, which was produced in England at the priory of Rochester Cathedral. - ##
October 21, 2021
Persian carries with it a long history of vivid storytelling, of poetic power, and of beautiful books. Today, Persian is the language of Iran, but it has long been in an impressive geographic range and for diverse texts and traditions. During the Middle Ages, a virtuosic tradition of miniature painting was cultivated in Persian manuscript production which endured well into the modern period. Mesmerizing use of pattern, color, and composition marks an illumination practice with many beautiful witnesses still extant in the twenty-first century. - ## Beinecke Coptic MS 13
October 1, 2021
Beinecke Coptic MS 13: The Book of the Coptic Language The Treatise on the Mystery of Letters is a tractate attributed to Apa Seba (supposedly Sabbas the... - ## Beinecke Library Fellowships Built Back Bigger and Better
September 28, 2021
Applications Open Now for 2022 Research Fellowships Yale Library’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library has offered research fellowships since 1987. The... - ## Yale student presents a virtual exhibit on Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (Yale Daily News)
September 20, 2021
rodey conceived of this idea in a seminar she took during her sophomore year, “Art of the Printed Word,” taught by Richard Rose, a printer at the Yale School of Art. In an essay assignment, she compared the 1832 Philadelphia publication of “Pride and Prejudice” with the 2010 Belknap-Harvard annotated edition. Over the next year and a half, Brodey continued to reflect on how publishers treat and present the same text in different ways. Eventually, it became the leading theme of her exhibit. Nancy Kuhl, curator of poetry in the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, advised the project. Kuhl brainstormed with Brodey about how she could use the collection’s objects to illustrate her ideas and arguments in a compelling way. “Working online required changing some of our work processes but the payoff is the opportunity to share [Brodey’s] excellent exhibition with a large online audience that might never visit New Haven to see it in person,” Kuhl said. “Besides, her detailed research and thorough knowledge made our work easy.” - ## Fellowship winners will study next at Oxford and Cambridge
May 11, 2021
Emma Brodey ’21 has been awarded the King’s-Yale Fellowship to pursue an M.Phil. in English at Cambridge University, where she will study 18th-century and Romantic literature and the history of the book. At Yale, she is an English major focusing her studies on 19th-century English literature and creative nonfiction. Her academic thesis explored Jane Austen and George Eliot’s novels through the lens of material texts and the embodiment of the 19th-century woman reader. Her creative thesis was a memoir about the role of Austen in her own family. Brodey has also studied letterpress printing, helps lead the Yale Guild of Bookmakers, and often teaches bookbinding workshops for the Yale community. She works as a research assistant at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Her most recent curated exhibit, “Publication and Prejudice” focuses on copies of “Pride and Prejudice” in the Yale Library collections. - ## New Scholarship: Laurie Roark on Ann Lauterbach
May 5, 2021
Laurie Roark has completed an American Studies Senior Essay titled: "A Habitat of Possibility: Affective Arrangements in Ann Lauterbach’s Archive.” - ## Exhibit on Edith Wharton, fiction and interior design opens online (Yale Daily News)
March 14, 2021
In an online exhibition called “Edith Wharton: Designing the Drawing Room,” Julia Carabatsos ’20 uses drawing rooms as a lens to look at Wharton’s novels and her ideas on interior design. The exhibit explores the connections between Wharton’s fiction — the work she is best known for — and Wharton’s passion for interior design. - ## New Scholarship: Keshav Raghavan on the Birth of Modern Special Operations
November 30, 2020
Keshav Raghavan, "The OSS and the Foundations of Modern Covert Operations: How Wartime Lessons in Burma and North Africa set the Postwar Stage," published in a joint issue of West Point's military history journal The Report and Yale's Historical Review. - ## New Scholarship: Audrey Ruan on William Carlos Williams
October 19, 2020
Audrey Ruan, “William Carlos Williams: Physician Poet Scrawls Theory of Medical Humanities Throughout Prescription Pad” on the Medical Humanities blog . From... - ## Virtual Teaching with Beinecke Library Collections
September 24, 2020
Teaching on-site with the collections is a priority for the Beinecke Library. Direct encounters with materials fulfill a mission of encouraging students to... - ## 2020 Yale College Poets Reading Now Online
April 21, 2020
The annual Yale College Poets Reading sponsored by Yale Collection of American Literature (YCAL) reading series, cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program in... - ## Out of the archives, onto Zoom: Some early notes on teaching online with special collections in a time of quarantine
April 7, 2020
With colleagues throughout the Yale University Library , and across the university, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library staff have been working to assist... - ## Eve Houghton on The Political History of Book History
January 30, 2020
From the Yale Program in the History of the Book : an essay by Eve Houghton (graduate student in English at Yale; graduate organizer of the Yale Program in the... - ## Museums Have Stumbled When It Comes to Curating Indigenous American Art. These Native Students at Yale Are Modeling a New Way Forward (artnet)
January 24, 2020
When Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, decided to reevaluate its North American indigenous art collection, uniting objects from its Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and Yale University Art Gallery for the first time, it looked to the student body to lead the way. - ## In Ottoman Turkish manuscripts, Yale students find delicious mysteries
December 18, 2019
Since last summer, Ozgen Felek has passed many illuminating hours in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s reading room poring over Yale’s collections of Ottoman Turkish manuscripts ... - ## Listening to Will Wilson’s Portraits (Yale Herald)
November 18, 2019
Today wet-plate collodion photography is, unsurprisingly, scarce, enabling the materialization of Wilson’s three figures in PNGB to serve as a bait-and-switch: their initial perceived age soon deteriorates into their present reality. Unlike in Curtis’s images, each subject has chosen their own pose and clothing, has written their own caption, and has been gifted the aluminum plate — the reproductions we see in the YUAG exhibition are archival pigment prints from a high-resolution scan of the original, on loan from the Beinecke. The photographic exchange is literal, as is Wilson’s reinscription of Indigenous culture, both shifting the seat of influence towards equality. - ## An eyeful, Yale exhibit breathes new life into indigenous art (New Haven Register)
November 13, 2019
The moment you enter the new exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery, you realize the experience is going to be so much more than you first expect. Yes, the show is about objects and aesthetics, but more than that it is an invitation to explore aspects of the preservation of a way of life. - ## ‘Shape, contour, and respect’ — 200 years of indigenous art on view at Yale
November 11, 2019
It is the first exhibition to display indigenous works from the Yale Art Gallery, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The show features basketry, beadwork, drawings, photographs, pottery, textiles, and wooden carvings from the early 19th century to the present day, representing more than 40 indigenous nations. It presents the objects as works of art, not historical artifacts. - ## Into the archives! (Yale Daily News)
October 31, 2019
"Last spring, I sat in the Beinecke Library’s Reading Room, poring over a manuscript copy of Hannah Crafts’ “The Bondwoman’s Narrative.” I saw the meandering cursive writings on the page and where she must have pressed her pen harder into the paper, creating blotches of ink. I was writing a paper about the novel for my English seminar and had read the version I’d gotten from the Yale Bookstore for class. But seeing the manuscript version brought the text alive in a way it hadn’t been before; I felt closer to the author, closer to the words." - ## Beinecke Top Ten: Flappers and Fashion
October 28, 2019
An at-a-glance look at some of the Library’s Jazz Age holdings, having to do with the "Flapper" aesthetic. - ## New Scholarship: Anne Taylor on American Revivalism
September 18, 2019
“Performing Revival in Religion and Politics” Project summary: “As a Beinecke Pre-Prospectus Fellow, I explored the library’s collections for items... - ## New Scholarship: Amanda Vernon on George MacDonald
September 3, 2019
New Scholarship: Amanda Vernon's (In)Formed by Theology: A Study of George MacDonald’s Literary Criticism - ## New Scholarship: Seamus Joyce-Johnson on Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington.
May 24, 2019
“Fellow Americans: the Relationship Between Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington” a pop-up exhibition and seminar paper by Seamus Joyce-Johnson in Professor... - ## New Scholarship: Toni Armstrong on Katherine Dreier
May 24, 2019
“’The Nation which Rejects the Home’: Katherine Dreier and a New Museum for the American Home.” Clark University senior honors thesis by Toni Armstrong... - ## New Scholarship: Jennifer Carr on Didier Mutel
May 22, 2019
"Acid Reams: The Corrosive Craft of Didier Mutel" A pop-up exhibition curated by Jennifer Carr in Professor Karin Roffman’s Literary Biography: Archives and Life Stories master class at Beinecke Library, May 2019 - ## New Scholarship: Nicholas Forster on Thornton Wilder
May 21, 2019
Reawakening the Fields of Observation and Reflection: Thornton Wilder’s One-Act Sins -- A pop-up exhibition curated by Nicholas Forster in Professor Karin Roffman’s Literary Biography: Archives and Life Stories master class at Beinecke Library, May 2019 - ## New Scholarship: Deborah Streahle on Larry Kramer
May 21, 2019
Larry Kramer: Crisis and Care -- A pop-up exhibition curated by Deborah Streahle in Professor Karin Roffman's Literary Biography: Archives and Life Stories master class at Beinecke Library, May 201 - ## Undergraduate mines Yale archives for insight into journalist Janet Malcolm
May 15, 2019
Eve Sneider ’19 has curated an exhibit on journalist Janet Malcolm, whose papers are housed in the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library. - ## Fulfilling a dream: Phoenix Alexander ’19 Ph.D. reflects on work with the Beinecke Library
May 15, 2019
Phoenix Alexander came to Yale for graduate studies in the 2013 from the United Kingdom., where he had earned an M.A. in English from Queen Mary University of... - ## New Scholarship: Eve Sneider on Janet Malcolm
May 8, 2019
"The Courtroom, The Couce, and teh Archive: Janet Malcolm's Journalism" by Eve Sneider Y'19 - ## The Book Art of Harlem Renaissance Artist Aaron Douglas: A Bibliography
April 29, 2019
The first complete bibliography of illustrations and jacket art of Aaron Douglas, who created the visual vocabulary of the Harlem Renaissance - ## Many to Remember by Rachel Kaufman
April 25, 2019
Many to Remember, a collection of archival poetry by Rachel Kaufman - ## Students read original poetry at the Beinecke (Yale Daily News)
April 25, 2019 - ## “Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous North American Art” (Yale Daily News)
April 23, 2019 - ## New Student Scholarship: Victoria Baena on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
April 22, 2019
Recent Graduate Student Research Fellow Victoria Baena on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights - ## Female American Poets: Archival Connections
April 16, 2019
The next poet in our series, Female American Poets: Archival Connections, is Maya Angelou. A poet, autobiographer, activist, and director, Angelou explores sound, memory, and sexuality in her poetry and prose. Her work investigates and colors the history of Black oppression, activism, and power in America. - ## Painted Renaissance volumes on view at Yale’s Beinecke Library
March 14, 2019 - ## Female American Poets: Archival Connections
March 7, 2019
Our next female American poet is Margaret Walker, an educator, writer, and scholar. - ## Female American Poets: Archival Connections
February 27, 2019
An exploration of twentieth-century female American poets, tied to one another through the movements of the archive. - ## Female American Poets: Archival Connections
February 27, 2019
The third in our series, Female American Poets: Archival Connections, this post focuses on the life and language of Elizabeth Bishop. - ## Nathan Brown’s “Elevations”
February 25, 2019
Nathan Brown Y’19 has explored Beinecke Library collection materials in "Elevations," his Creative Writing Concentration Senior Project - ## Female American Poets: Archival Connections
December 6, 2018
The second in our series, Female American Poets: Archival Connections, this post focuses on the poems and legacies of Gwendolyn Brooks. - ## Display placards promoting fashions and hairstyles for African American women
November 26, 2018
Display placards promoting fashions and hairstyles for African American women, 1939, Greater New York Coordinating Committee for Employment - ## Female American Poets: Archival Connections
November 12, 2018
The series begins with poet Muriel Rukeyser and will weave through various poets of the twentieth century, using Beinecke’s collections as a means of connecting disparate figures to one another. - ## Playwright Leslie Lee
November 1, 2018
Playwright Leslie Lee in the Matthew Jennett Papers - ## New Acquisition: Orson Welles Scripts
October 26, 2018
The Beinecke has recently acquired new Orson Welles materials, including an unproduced screenplay, the original script of a 1943 film, and a second draft of Welles’ famous film Citizen Kane with accompanying notes. - ## New Scholarship: Teanu Reid on Money, Slavery, Manumission in the Early Modern British Atlantic
September 17, 2018
Teanu Reid on Money, Slavery, Manumission in the Early Modern British Atlantic - ## New Scholarship: Sophia Maxine Farmer on Futurist Art and Literature
August 29, 2018
Of Flesh and Metal: The Artificial Yet Living Being in Futurist Art and Literature, Sophia Maxine Farmer, Visiting Graduate Student Fellow at the Beinecke Library, August 2018 - ##
August 2, 2018
Well known on campus and around the world as a site of important historical documents of all kinds, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript is also a regional and national center of the living art of American Poetry. - ## Revisiting the Lipstick, 50 years later (Yale Alumni Magazine)
July 1, 2018 - ## NEW SCHOLARSHIP: Amanda Mehsima Licato on Toomer and O'Keeffe
May 16, 2018
Amanda Mehsima Licato, “The Shared Journeys of Jean Toomer and Georgia O’Keeffe,” in The Census,Yale Program in the History of the Book - ## NEW SCHOLARSHIP: Andrew S. Brown on the Almanac of John Chesshyre
May 9, 2018
Andrew S. Brown, “Accounting for the Law in the Almanac of John Chesshyre,” in The Census , Yale Program in the History of the Book . FROM “Accounting for the... - ## NEW SCHOLARSHIP: Luke Chang on Moby Dick
May 8, 2018
Luke Chang, Y’18, wrote his senior thesis about Herman Melville’s Moby Dick , consulting 19th century editions of the novel and related works in the Yale... - ## NEW SCHOLARSHIP: Honglan Huang on Mary Serjant’s Copy Book
May 4, 2018
Honglan Huang, “ Pen’s Labyrinth: Knots, Flourishes and Figurative Drawings in Mary Serjant’s Copy Book ,” in The Census, Yale Program in the History of the... - ## New Student Research
March 19, 2018
“The Cave that Consecrates History” by Jordan Cutler-Tietjen Y’20, was written in the spring or 2017 for Professor Dixa Ramírez’s course Travel Literature of... - ## New Acquisition: Steichen Family Papers
March 8, 2018
The Beinecke Library is delighted to announce that the recently-acquired Steichen Family Papers [YCAL MSS 1080] are now open for research. - ## Grad Student Research and Fellowship Workshop
February 1, 2018
Archival Research and Fellowships Application Workshop Are you interested in primary-source research but are not sure where to begin? Have you thought about... - ##
December 29, 2017
Student curators in Melissa Barton’s African American Literature in the Archive (ENG 221/AFAM 212) class organized miny “Pop-Up” exhibitions from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection as a class assignment in November. - ##
November 21, 2017
Fascimile editions of New York Dada Magazines from Ugly Duckling Presse edited by Beinecke Library Research Fellow Sophie Seita FROM THE PUBLISHER: The Blind... - ## African American Women Writers: A Top Ten List
November 11, 2017
Ten fascinating books, photos, collections, archives, documents and topics…related to wriiting African American Women Writers - ## New Student Research
November 1, 2017
Strong Cards: Thornton Wilder and Mia Farrow research in the Thornton Wilder Papers By Raffi Donatich, Y’2019 After the release of Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s... - ## New Scholarship: Travis Scholl on "Essay and Archive"
October 16, 2017
Writer and scholar Travis Scholl’s “Reading Lyric: Essay and Archive” has been published in Fourth Genre 19:2 (Fall 2017), 165-170. - ## New Student Research by Kelsea Jeon
August 30, 2017
During the Antebellum Era, abolitionists largely appealed to individuals’ morals when advocating for the anti-slavery cause. - ## Student Scholars - Tell Us about your Research
July 29, 2017
If you are an undergraduate or graduate student conducting research in our collections, we’d love to publish a description of your work on our website. - ## Centennial of the 1917 Negro Silent Protest Parade
July 26, 2017
On July 28, 1917, near the site where Trump Tower now sits, at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, 10,000 plus men, women and children marched in strong, silent formation. - ## The Passover Question, a new play by Erica Wachs
February 9, 2017
Announcing a staged reading of The Passover Question a new play written by Erica Wachs (JE ‘18) based on research in the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas... - ## From the Archive: New Poems by George Oppen
January 9, 2017
New Poems by George Oppen David B. Hobbs, “A Brief Introduction to 21 Poems by George Oppen,” in Journal of Modern Literature, Volume 40, Number 1, Fall 2016,... - ## New Scholarship: “Bright” Oscar Moore
October 5, 2016
In a new exhibition at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale African American Studies graduate student Camille Owens pieces together the biography of “Bright” Oscar Moore, a black child prodigy who toured and performed in the United States during the late 19th century. - ## Exhibition: New Work by YCAL Fellow Martha Tuttle
February 3, 2015
New work by recent graduate student fellow Martha Tuttle is currently on view in the 2015 Yale MFA Painting/Printmaking Thesis Exhibition. Regarding her... - ## New Student Research
December 22, 2014
“Desire to Capture, Desire to Expose: The Scrapbook of H.D.,” by Caroline Sydney, Y2016 , written for Professor Laura Wexler’s Photography and Memory... - ## New Scholarship: Julie Botnick on Dorothy Porter's Life and Work
May 23, 2014
In July 1968, as Howard University’s James M. Nabrit, Jr. stepped down from his role as president amid student protests, Dorothy Porter wrote to friends and colleagues to invite them to her workshop on the topic of “Bibliographic Resources for a Study of the American Negro.” - ## New Scholarship: Charley Locke on Gender in Contemporary Nature Writing
May 15, 2014
“’The Only Girl in the Woods’: Gender in Contemporary Nature Writing,” a Senior Essay in Humanities by Charley Locke, Y’14, Advised by Professor Amy Hungerford... - ## New Scholarship: Katherine Fein on Mary Welsh Hemingway
May 9, 2014
The Boundaries of Her World: Mary Welsh Hemingway at the Finca Vigía , Senior Essay in History by Katherine Fein, Y’14. Winner of the Theron Rockwell Field... - ## WALDEN by Ana Maria Gomez Lopez
May 1, 2014
New work by Yale School of Art graduate student Ana Maria Gomez Lopez will be featured in Walden , an upcoming exhibition at the deCordova Museum exploring the... - ## New Student Research
April 29, 2014
“Landscapes of Violence in One Big Self,” by Sylvia McNamara, Yale College Class of 2015 written for Dr. Dolores Hayden’s class: Poets’ Landscapes (AMST 381a/... - ## Solar: New Work by Kevin Holden
April 20, 2014
Comparative Literature graduate student Kevin Holden has been awarded the prestigious Fence Modern Poets Prize for work completed while conducting research in... - ##
January 2, 2014
We’re delighted to welcome 2014 by celebrating some of the exciting research and new publications generated by the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters and the Yale Collection of American Literature in 2013. - ## New Student Research
October 3, 2013
Racialized Blindness in Native Son - ## New Scholarship: Electric Affinities
October 1, 2013
Electric Affinities: Close Up and Queer Modernism by Mal Ahern Between 1927 and 1933, the poet H.D. assisted with the publication of the avant-garde film... - ## New Student Research
June 3, 2013
Eliana Kwartler, Yale College Class of 2017 written for Professor Richard Deming’s Spring 2013 English 127 Readings in American Literature “ ‘I... - ## Black Acts Creativity and Celebrity in Twentieth-Century Theater
May 14, 2013
Created by the students of “African American Theater” in the spring of 2013, this web exhibition was borne of a desire to explore different modes of writing, to make use of the amazing resources in black theater held by the Beinecke Library at Yale University, and to share those resources as a work of public scholarship. - ## New Student Research
January 2, 2013
Liana Epstein, Yale College Class of 2014 “The Great American Writers’ Cookbook” written for Professor Stuart’s Fall 2012 English 121 class: Writing... - ## Student Research in Beinecke Collections
June 1, 2012
Zara Kessler, Yale College Class of 2012 John Hersey’s Yale Education written for Professor John Gaddis, The Art of Biography, HIST215J An excerpt: On... - ## Student Research in Beinecke Collections
May 29, 2012
The Negotiation of Authority in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Visual Art and Writing - ## Student Research in Beinecke Collections
May 25, 2012
Katherine Fein, Yale College Class of 2014 Quite a Story to Tell: The Laughs and Loves of Mary Welsh written for Professor John Gaddis, The Art of Biography,... - ## Student Research in Beinecke Collections
May 24, 2012
“Lost in the Zoo: The Art of Charles Sebree” - ## Student Research in Beinecke Collections
June 22, 2010
Rachel Wilf, Yale Class of 2012 “Social Change through Science: Homosexual Activism Influencing the Kinsey Report” Following the startling success of his first... - ## Student Research in Beinecke Collections
June 2, 2010
David Suwondo’s essay on Jean Toomer’s novel Cane (written for Professor Jessica Pressman’s Spring 2010 English 127 class) draws on two items in the Jean Toomer Papers (JWJ MSS 1) at the Beinecke Library - ## African Americans Write for Young Readers
February 1, 2006
“Of course, we are and must be interested in our children above all else, if we love our race and humanity.” –W.E.B Du Bois, 1919