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Vladimir Nabokov taught Russian literature at Cornell, where he had an office in Goldwin Smith Hall.
A giant of 20th century literature known for such novels as “Lolita” and “Pale Fire,” Russian émigré and former Cornell professor Vladimir Nabokov was also a prodigious lepidopterist who collected and studied butterflies since the age of five.
“It is not improbable that had there been no revolution in Russia, I would have devoted myself entirely to lepidopterology and never written any…
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Thomas Feng, left, a Ph.D. candidate in performance practice, and Hanna Kebbede, the niece of Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru who established the foundation that holds Emahoy’s archive, go through newly discovered cassette recordings by Emahoy at the courtyard of the Debre Genet Ethiopian Orthodox church in Jerusalem. The cassettes, along with manuscripts and recording equipment, were found in Emahoy’s room after her death.
Cornell University Library has launched a new exhibit that celebrates the African American tradition of quilt making as expressions of artistry, history and community.
The exhibit, “Ties that Bind: Quilting at the Clarke Africana Library,” is open through June 12, at the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library.
The first section of the exhibit, “Precious Scraps: Toni…
Throughout the spring semester, the inaugural RAD Public History Fellows have been digging deep into library archives and bringing their discoveries to light in creative ways – from social media posts to displays of artifacts and tours of library exhibits.
Cornell University Library and the Cornell Public History Initiative (PHI) launched the fellowship for undergraduate students in January,…
Cornell Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University Library
Jessica Tanzer's photo of dancers from The Box, an all-genders queer nightclub in San Francisco.
From April 27 to 28, the “Radical Desire” symposium brings pioneering lesbian feminist scholars, publishers, and photographers to speak at Cornell, in celebration of library exhibits that highlight the archives of lesbian erotic magazine “On Our Backs” and to mark the 30th and 50th anniversaries of Cornell’s LGBT Studies and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs.
On April 27, 4 to 6…
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Cropped photo of On Our Backs staff at 19th and Castro Streets, San Francisco (left to right): Susie Bright, Lisa Palac, Greta Christina, Nan Kinney, Robin Simmons, Lulu Belliveau, Debi Sundahl, and Marcy Sheiner, 1990.
From its launch in 1984 to its last issue in 2006, the women-run erotic magazine On Our Backs made good on its tagline of delivering “entertainment for the adventurous lesbian,” ultimately growing a strong international audience and shaping political discourse on sex and sexuality. Now, a library exhibition highlights the magazine’s pivotal first decade and invites Cornell scholars and the…
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An image of a Philippine farm, from Gerow Brill’s papers, one of the collections to be digitized by the library.
Four projects have been selected for Cornell University Library’s annual Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences, which boosts the collaboration of scholars and library specialists to transform physical materials into lasting online resources for teaching and research.
Selected this year:
The Cornell LGBT Coalition Records, with Stephen Vider, assistant…
Stephan Loewentheil Photograph Collection, #8043. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
A photo of a young boy and a woman from the Loewentheil Collection
A doctoral student researching Black life in the U.S. after the abolition of slavery, Victoria Baugh was fascinated by the hundreds of studio portraits in the Loewentheil Collection of African-American Photography at Cornell University Library.
In this collection of images of illustrious but mostly unidentified Black men and women, Baugh saw an opportunity to draw connections among…
Introducing students to Cornell University Library’s wealth of resources for learning and research, librarians have been vital to the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) advising seminars program, which pairs students with faculty advisors in the college and connects them with campus resources essential to their well-being and academic success.
At the start of fall 2021, library staff…
