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

  • Solar: New Work by Kevin Holden

    April 20, 2014

    Comparative Literature graduate student Kevin Holden has been awarded the prestigious Fence Modern Poets Prize for work completed while conducting research in...

  • Welcome Michèle Mendelssohn

    March 26, 2014

    The Beinecke Library is pleased to welcome visiting fellow Michèle Mendelssohn for the month April. Donald C. Gallup Fellow Michèle Mendelssohn Oxford...

  • Origins of the Color Forecasting Industry

    March 10, 2014

    Ambrotypes, Entomology, and Ostrich Feathers: Tracing the Origins of the Color Forecasting Industry Jae Jennifer Rossman , Assistant Director for Special...

  • Welcome Kimberly Lamm

    March 4, 2014

    The Beinecke Library is pleased to welcome visiting fellow Kimberly Lamm for the month March. Edith and Richard French Fellow Kimberly Lamm Duke University A...

  • The Passions of Carl Van Vechten

    February 16, 2014

    An excerpt from the New Yorker: White Mischief: The Passions of Carl Van Vechten, by Kelefa Sanneh February 17, 2014

  • Richard Wright’s African Photographs

    February 16, 2014

    Maren Stange, “Richard Wright’s African Photographs.” In Geography of Photography: American Photography, Vol. 2. Ed. Bettina Gockel. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2013.

  • Happy New Year

    January 2, 2014

    We’re delighted to welcome 2014 by celebrating some of the exciting research and new publications generated by the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters and the Yale Collection of American Literature in 2013.