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: Anna L. Snelling’s Kabaosa
September 24, 2015

“With Extreme Diffidence”: Anna L. Snelling’s Kabaosa (1842) A Provisional Publishing History and Census by Robert Beasecker From the “With Extreme Diffidence...
New Scholarship: Picture Freedom
April 22, 2015
Scholar Jasmine Nicole Cobb compares William Townsend's sketches of captive Africans from the schooner Amistad, held at the Beinecke, to later images of African Americans.
New Scholarship: James Merrill: Life and Art
April 6, 2015

James Merrill: Life and Art by Langdon Hammer Available: April 14, 2015 Masters Tea with Langdon Hammer hosted by Penelope Laurans at Jonathan Edwards College...
American Literature in the World Conference 2015
March 26, 2015

American Literature in the World Graduate Conference. Yale University. April 10, 2015 For more information: http://amlitintheworld.commons.yale.edu/2015-...
New From our Collections: What About This by Frank Stanford
March 25, 2015

What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford , published by Copper Caynon (978-1-55659-468-7). From the publisher: Largely out of print and unavailable...
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...