In February 2019, Sean DiLeonardi conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short-Term Fellowship Program. Mr. DiLeonardi is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Thanks to a research fellowship from the Stuart A. Rose Library at Emory University, Read More …
In December 2018, Scott McKendry conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short Term Fellowship Program. Mr. McKendry is a PhD candidate at Queen’s University Belfast. Poets love gossip. In fact, one might argue that poetry itself is a form of highly-tuned gossip. Poets tells the not quite truth about the Read More …
In July 2018, Dr. Anna Ioanes conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short Term Fellowship program. Dr. Ioanes is Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Francis. Archival research can be a suspenseful experience. The researcher turns pages and opens boxes, hoping to find something that is yet Read More …
Author William S. Burroughs said, “In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.” Burroughs was certainly the former. He was a lifelong heroin addict, who wrote explicitly and affectionately of his drug use. He was openly queer at a time in American history when you could be arrested simply for Read More …
Marlo Starr (PhD Candidate, English Department) is the 2017-2018 Alice Walker Research Scholar in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Her project centers on the archives and scholarship of poet and children’s book writer Lucille Clifton who was contemporary of Alice Walker. Marlo will be contributing towards a blog series based on Read More …
In perhaps her best recognized poem, “won’t you celebrate with me” Lucille Clifton invites readers to celebrate her life. Though “born in babylon / both nonwhite and woman,” the poem’s speaker explains that she has managed to forge a kind of life, and at the poem’s conclusion, she again asks us to celebrate: “that everyday Read More …
