Assistant Professor of English at Emory University Dan Sinykin recently visited the RBML to delve into the library’s massive publishing archives. Making sense of appropriately supersized collections will contribute to his book project, Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed Book Publishing and American Literature. Below, Dan recounts some of his finds and how unexpected discoveries in the archive […]
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Columbia Neighbors features activist and former West Harlem resident Yuri Kochiyama
From Columbia Neighbors weekly newsletter, which describes people, places, and things of interest on the Columbia campus accessible to the community: 5 Things to Know About the Life and Times of Uptown Trailblazer Yuri Kochiyama. Listen to an oral history interview with Kochiyama from the Japanese American Citizens League oral history collection, 1996-1997. […]
Research at the RBML | Gary Ley on Albert Maltz
RBML researcher and Swansea University PhD candidate, Gary Ley writes a guest essay about delving into the Albert Maltz collection at Columbia. Maltz, a screenwriter, novelist, and playwright, was jailed after his refusal to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee regarding his membership in the Communist Party. (Columbia also has a collection of Maltz’ […]
Research at the RBML | Laurence Cossu-Beaumont on transatlantic literary agents
Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, Professor at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, recently visited the RBML for his project, Two Literary Agents in the American Century: William and Jenny Bradley, Transatlantic Cultural Passeurs (Deux agents littéraires dans le siècle américain: William et Jenny Bradley, passeurs culturels transatlantiques, Lyon, ENS Editions, 2023). Professor Cossu-Beaumont’s work draws on previously unexplored archival […]
Description and digitization of the George Hunt Kwak’wala ethnographic manuscripts
Starting in 1913 and over the course of his life, anthropologist Franz Boas gifted stacks of handwritten manuscripts to Columbia University. Boas founded the Department of Anthropology at Columbia in 1902, and is hailed as the father of the ‘four-field’ approach of anthropology in North America (i.e. socio-cultural, linguistic, physical, and archaeological anthropology). His work […]