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

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...
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,...
Student Research in Beinecke Collections
May 24, 2012
“Lost in the Zoo: The Art of Charles Sebree”
New Research: Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance
March 26, 2012
Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself.
O'Neill Exorcised ... on NPR
March 25, 2012
Listen to Louise Bernard, former Curator of Prose and Drama for the Yale Collection of American Literature, discussing Eugene O'Neill's lost play, Exorcism, on NPR.
Remembering Shakespeare: What Was His True Identity?
February 26, 2012

By Kathryn James and David Kastan; from The Huffington Post Shakespeare has always seemed too good to be true–or, for some, too good to be Shakespeare...
Student Research in Beinecke Collections
June 22, 2010

Rachel Wilf, Yale Class of 2012 “Social Change through Science: Homosexual Activism Influencing the Kinsey Report” Following the startling success of his first...
Student Research in Beinecke Collections
June 2, 2010
David Suwondo’s essay on Jean Toomer’s novel Cane (written for Professor Jessica Pressman’s Spring 2010 English 127 class) draws on two items in the Jean Toomer Papers (JWJ MSS 1) at the Beinecke Library