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: A Conjoining of Ancient Song

    April 19, 2013

    The half-hour Yale documentary retracing the trajectory of a rapidly eroding form of congregational singing out of Scotland and into both African American and Native American religious song traditions will be premiered.

  • Gallery Talk with Susan Howe

    April 12, 2013

    Join us for a gallery talk and tea with poet Susan Howe on Monday, April 15 at 4pm. Howe will speak breifly about the fragment of Sarah Pierpont Edwards’...

  • New Scholarship from Beinecke Collections

    April 10, 2013

    From Harvard University Press: The Oracle and the Curse, A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War by Caleb Smith Condemned to hang after his...

  • YCAL Welcomes Fellow Rod Rosenquist

    March 15, 2013

    Donald C. Gallup Fellowship in American Literature Rod Rosenquist University of Portsmouth A Popular Modernism: Gertrude Stein’s Autobiographies Rod...

  • New Student Research

    January 2, 2013

    Liana Epstein, Yale College Class of 2014 “The Great American Writers’ Cookbook” written for Professor Stuart’s Fall 2012 English 121 class: Writing...

  • Celebrating 2012

    December 24, 2012

    Congratulations to the many scholars conducting new research in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters and the Yale...

  • Student Research in Beinecke Collections

    June 1, 2012

    Zara Kessler, Yale College Class of 2012 John Hersey’s Yale Education written for Professor John Gaddis, The Art of Biography, HIST215J An excerpt: On...
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    Student Research in Beinecke Collections

    May 25, 2012

    Katherine Fein, Yale College Class of 2014 Quite a Story to Tell: The Laughs and Loves of Mary Welsh written for Professor John Gaddis, The Art of Biography,...