Current Research

We are always eager to help spread the word about new scholarship from our collections and we frequently post notices about books, articles, and conference presentations that have benefited from research in our reading room or using our online resources.

Students, scholars, and fellows are invited and encouraged to let us know about new work drawn from the Beinecke Library’s collections. Please send a citation, summary, and information about Beinecke collections consulted by following this link: New Scholarship from Beinecke: Submissions.

New Scholarship

New Scholarship: Moore and Hartley
March 24, 2015

Recent BeineckeLlibrary Research Fellow Emily Setina’s new essay, ““Mountains Being a Language with Me” Marianne Moore, Marsden Hartley, and Modernist...
New Scholarship: The Gay Cookbook
March 3, 2015

Stephen Vider’s essay “’Oh Hell, May, Why Don’t You People Have a Cookbook?’: Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity,” appeared in American Quarterly , Volume 65...
New Scholarship: Johnson's "Autobiography"
March 2, 2015
Known only as the “Ex-Colored Man,” the protagonist in Johnson’s novel is forced to choose between celebrating his African American heritage or “passing” as an average white man in a post-Reconstruction America that is rapidly changing.
New Scholarship: Langston Hughes Letters
February 26, 2015
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes, Edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, Knopf, 442 pages, $35
Welcome Fellow Rochelle Johnson
February 18, 2015

While at The Beinecke, Johnson will focus on the James Fenimore Cooper papers, which hold many materials relevant to the life of his eldest surviving daughter...
New Scholarship: Tim Young on Laura Bailey
February 12, 2015

Beinecke Library’s curator of Modern Books and Manuscript interviews groundbreaking collector of transgender books, images, and archives, Laura Bailey,...
New Scholarship: Tim Young on Why Books Matter
February 5, 2015

In a recent article on the Design Observer blog, Beinecke Modern Books and Manuscripts Curator Tim Young offers ten important reasons books matter. “I recently...
New Scholarship: Diana Saverin on Annie Dillard
February 5, 2015

In the current Atlantic Monthly , recent Yale graduate Diana Saverin explores the Annie Dillard Archive. “When Annie Dillard wrote Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,”...
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...
Welcome Fellow Logan Esdale
January 23, 2015

The Yale Collection of American Literature is delighted to welcome Edith and Richard French Research Fellow Logan Esdale to the Beinecke Library to conduct...