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We see them every day, handing them a key as they walk in each morning, and receiving it back toward the end of the day. Most often they are hunkered down over a particular archive, getting to understand a portion of one of our archives better than anybody here. We await the longer scholarly projects […]

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Research at the RBML | Laura Kaiser finds Elizabeth Dejeans in the Paul Reynolds papers

Laura Fisher Kaiser, author and independent researcher, recently visited the RBML as part of her work on a new biography of novelist Frances Elizabeth Budgett, pen name Elizabeth Dejeans. Kaiser discusses some of her finds for The Fabulous Invention of Jazz-Age Novelist Elizabeth Dejeans in the Paul Reynolds literary agency collection below:   What brings you to […]

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Research at the RBML | Robert P. Jackson explores connections between Edward Said, Antonio Gramsci and Italian thought

Dr. Robert P. Jackson visited the RBML last year as part of his Edward W. Said Research Study Award. Editor of a recent volume on Gramsci’s Notebooks, Jackson brings his expertise on the Italian theorist to bear on the papers of late scholar and public intellectual Edward Said. Below, Jackson discusses some of the archival finds […]

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Oral History Events | OHMA announces fall series on ReMemory: Experiments in Listening, Authorship and Knowledge-Keeping

From our colleagues in the Oral History Master’s Program… “Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.” – Toni Morrison “What the colonial process does, or any process of domination, is [enact] the erasure of the memory of the subjugated. You erase the memory of who they are, the memories […]

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