The Process, So Far
Andrew Kingston is the 2018-2019 Robert W. Woodruff Fellow at the Rose Library. Throughout the year, he will be blogging…
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It’s a Small Auld World: Gossip, ‘Slabber’ and Irish Poetry
In December 2018, Scott McKendry conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short Term Fellowship Program….
Join us on January 31 for Emory’s Evening with Educators!
This free event, open to Atlanta area K-12 educators and administrators, begins at the Carlos Museum and ends at the…
Frederick Law Olmsted in Atlanta
The Library of Congress recently announced a completed digitization project focusing on the collection of Frederick Olmsted. As a manuscript…
Protest, Freedom, and Change from the South African Literature at the Rose Library
John Wamwara (SJD Candidate, School of Law) is 2017 –2018 Newton Teaching Scholar at the Rose Library. He is supporting…
A Memory of Biafra: Flashback into the Life and the Politics of Secession from John ...
John Wamwara (SJD Candidate, School of Law) is 2017 –2018 Newton Teaching Scholar at the Rose Library. He is supporting…
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Exploring Race Relations from the South African Collection at the Rose Library.
John Wamwara (SJD Candidate, School of Law) is 2017 – 2018 Newton Teaching Scholar at the Rose Library. He is supporting the Rose Library Faculty Fellowship program and is reviewing the Rose Library’s collections on Africa. His doctoral research is...
Talking back: bringing Beat counterculture into the modern era through dance
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...
Anthology, Archive, and Authority: Teaching with Lucille Clifton’s Papers
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...
“So be it”: Celebrating Lucille Clifton’s Life and Work
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...
Photographer Hugo Fernandes speaks about “Intimate Strangers”
Last night photographer Hugo Fernandes spoke in Emory’s Woodruff Library about his portrait series Intimate Strangers. To create the series of striking portraits, Fernandes recruited his subjects using websites and apps primarily designed to arrange hook ups (brief sexual encounters)....
Alciato’s Emblems
Emory University has an incredible collection of emblem books, largely thanks to the efforts of Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History, Dr. Walter Melion. The contents of this collection are divided between the Pitts Theology Library in the Candler...