Fall, 2022: Teaching Leave in the Archives


Thanks to the generosity of Oxford College’s Academic Affairs, I have leave from teaching this fall. I miss the classroom but am grateful for the extra time and mental space to write and study in the archives, especially with my daughter, Kathryn.


University of Virginia Special Collections

Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Today my daughter Kathryn taught me how to collate, or how to compare two editions of the same book for textual changes. Here she is working on her MA thesis:


Princeton University Special Collections

Firestone Library