Voices From the Other Side is a student-curated exhibition of artists’ books and writings from Rose Library’s Phillips State Prison Book Project Records on view now on Level 1 of the Robert W. Woodruff Library. Many of these artists’ books were created by students in Bill Taft’s creative non-fiction classes, taught under the auspices of…
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The Art of Bookbinding
Theatre, Maurice Maeterlinck, 1901-1902,modern morocco binding with delicate color detailing Share Related Entries: Rare Books in MARBL's Blog Join the discussion Today we take for granted that if we purchase a book it will come with a protective paper or cloth binding but this has not always been the case. The concept of the…
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- The Letters in Japan: Michael Longley’s Archive September 19, 2022Michael Glenfield received a Short-Term Fellowship to visit Michael Longley’s Archive in the Stuart A. Rose Library. The visit was also supported by the University of Bristol in England, where Michael has recently finished his PhD. In order to complete the trip Michael was afforded study leave from his lectureship at Bishop Grosseteste University. His...Erin Glogowski
- “Smash the Klan”: Fighting the White Power Movement in the Late Twentieth Century September 1, 2022Benjamin Holzman is an Assistant Professor of History at Lehman College. His first first book, The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism, is out from Oxford University Press., and his research has also appeared in Modern American History, the Journal of Social History, the Journal of Urban History, and several edited collections. ...Erin Glogowski
- Performing Diasporic Time: Enactments of African American History August 24, 2022Julie Burrell is an Associate Professor of English, Black Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Cleveland State University, where she teaches courses in African American literature and drama. Her monograph, The Civil Rights Theatre Movement in New York, 1939-1966: Staging Freedom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), examines the intersections of political theatre and the black freedom...Erin Glogowski
- Spirit Writing, Body Problems: Lucille Clifton’s Faith July 13, 2022Marina Magloire is an Assistant Professor of English at University of Miami. She was awarded a Rose fellowship in support of her research on the spirit writing of Lucille Clifton. She conducted her research in spring 2022. Lucille Clifton is best known as a poet of Black embodiment, as evidenced by her oft-quoted birthday poems...Erin Glogowski
- Wars not Fought: Neutrality and European Navies in American Waters during the US Civil War June 29, 2022Mark Markov is a PhD candidate from Durham University in the United Kingdom. He was awarded a Rose fellowship in support of his research on Wars not Fought: Neutrality and European Navies in American Waters during the US Civil War. He conducted his research the spring of 2022. David Anderson, a Confederate prisoner of war...Erin Glogowski