The Yale Collection of American Literature is pleased to acknowledge the work of scholars and students conducting research in Beinecke Library collections. The following is a partial list of recent publications, presentations, and projects reported to curators and library staff. For additional information about recent research in Beinecke Library collections, visit the Current Fellowships Page and collection blogs.
Susan Barbour on H. D. http://beineckepoetry.library.yale.edu/2012/01/06/barbour-hd/
New Edition of Gertrude Stein’s novel Ida http://beineckepoetry.library.yale.edu/2011/12/21/ida/
New Edition of Stein’s Alphabets and Birthdays http://beineckeroom26.library.yale.edu/2011/06/07/todo/
New Edition of Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300153095
Louise Bernard on “Unpacking the Archive” http://www.yale.edu/yalereview/currentissue.html
Eugene O’Neill’s lost play, Exorcism http://beineckepoetry.library.yale.edu/2011/10/12/exorcism/
Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe Letters Project http://beineckepoetry.library.yale.edu/2011/09/25/stieglitz-okeeffe-letters/
Yale Undergraduate Ava Kofman on “Poetry at Yale” http://beineckepoetry.library.yale.edu/2011/04/15/ydn-poetry/
Emily Bernard, The Van Vechten Paradox: The Harlem Renaissance, A White Man, and His Black Story
Garnette Cadogan, Sounds in the Silences: Jamaican Popular Music as a Response to the “Silence” of History
Taja Cheek Y’11, essay on Jean Toomer’s Cane (English 127)
Richard Deming, “Lost and Found: Kenneth Macpherson’s Monkey’s Moon,” in Art Forum
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), The Sword Went Out to Sea: An Unpublished Novel, edited by Cynthia Hogue and Julie Vandivere
Edgar Garcia, “‘Lest some little thing of the real world should intrude itself’: Ezra Pound’s Dream City in Collision with the Real” announcement; full text
Jonathan Holloway, Richard Wright, Native Son, and the Beinecke: Being Brought to My Senses
Langston Hughes, Previously unpublished poems “You and Your Whole Race,” “I Look at the World, and “Remember”
Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, Boy of the Border, previously unpublished children’s book, Dr. Maceo Dailey and Sōndra Banfield Dailey, editors
Anastasia Jones, Lesbian Pulp Novels
Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Lisa Simon, Museums, Materials and Myths: H.D.’s Anthropoetics
Caleb Smith, The Prison and the American Imagination
David Suwondo Y’13, essay on Jean Toomer’s Cane (English 127)
Cole Swensen and Thomas Nozkowski, Flare a new artists’ book co-published by Yale University Art Gallery & Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Image: [Dalton School Art Department],[190-], Josephine Boardman Crane papers relating to the Dalton School, ca. 1909-1953, Uncat Za MS 408.