Yale Collection of American Literature Curators

February 24, 2010

Melissa Barton, Curator of Drama and Prose
Yale Collection of American Literature

Nancy Kuhl, Curator of Poetry
Yale Collection of American Literature

Melissa Barton is Curator of Drama and Prose for the Yale Collection of American Literature at Beinecke Library. She curated the major 2017 exhibition “Gather Out of Star-Dust: The Harlem Renaissance and The Beinecke Library” and wrote the companion volume Gather Out of Star-Dust: A Harlem Renaissance Album, available from Yale University Press. Her exhibit “Richard Wright’s Native Son on Stage and Screen” appears as part of Beinecke’s spring 2018 exhibition “The Art of Collaboration.” Melissa earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago.

Nancy Kuhl is Curator of Poetry  for the Yale Collection of American Literature at Beinecke Library. She is the author of exhibition catalogs, including, Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts, The Book Remembers Everything: The Work of Erica Van Horn, and poetry collections including On Hysteria and Pine to Sound. She is co-editor of Phylum Press, a small poetry publisher (www.phylumpress.com). Additional information and examples of Kuhl’s work can be found online: Nancy Kuhl — Phylum Press.

Read more about the history of the Yale Collection of American Literature and the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection: American Literature: Collection Histories | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library