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: James Weldon Johnson Collection

    December 8, 2014

    Ben Glaser recently published an article in PMLA 129 no. 3 (May 2014), “Folk Iambics: Prosody, Vestiges, and Sterling Brown’s Outline for the Study of the Poetry of American Negroes,” making use of materials in the James Weldon Johnson Collection related to Johnson’s Book of American Negro Poetry.

  • New Scholarship: Taming Manhattan

    December 4, 2014

    Streets of Gold? Sure Smelled Like Something Else, ‘Taming Manhattan,’ Catherine McNeur’s Environmental History , from the New York Times TAMING MANHATTAN:...

  • New Scholarship: Barbara Guest Papers

    November 18, 2014

    Ella O’Keefe. 2014, ‘Notes from Another Clime’: Archive Surfing with Barbara Guest in Rabbit Poetry Journal, No 13, pp. 66-77 (ISBN: 978 0 987448385) A...

  • New Research: Jean Toomer, Sojourner

    November 13, 2014

    Carolyn Dekker’s essay, “Jean Toomer, Sojourner: Striking Experience in the South and Southwest,” appears in the current issue of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.

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    Welcome Fellow Linda Leavell

    November 4, 2014

    The Yale Collection of American Literature is delighted to welcome visiting research fellow Linda Leavell to the Beinecke Library to conduct research related...

  • New from the Beinecke Collections

    September 21, 2014

    H.D., Within the Walls and What Do I Love? , edited by Annette Debo, University Press of Florida, 2014 A note from the editor about Within the Walls and What...

  • New Scholarship: Croswell Bowen

    August 12, 2014

    Croswell Bowen: A Writer’s Life, A Daughter’s Portrait recounts the life of journalist and biographer Croswell Bowen (1905-1971, YC ‘29), whose...

  • New Scholarship: The Map Thief

    June 24, 2014

    ‘The Map Thief’ by Michael Blanding, reviewed in The Boston Globe, June 7 2014, by Michael Washburn Extravagant crimes don’t always require extravagant tools...

  • Living Locally by Erica Van Horn

    June 12, 2014

    Living Locally , by Erica Van Horn; Foreword by Susan Howe. Published June 2014 . More information: Uniformbooks . Living Locally selects entries from a daily...