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Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Walt Whitman has been the subject of rigorous study for more than 100 years. Is there anything left to discover? Three former Kluge fellows and scholars of Whitman help to answer the enduring appeal of “America’s poet” and discuss their research at the Library’s Kluge Center. No one’s work seems to get “discovered” as much …
Posted in: Literature
Posted by: Dan Turello
A 2016 distinguished visiting scholar at the Library of Congress, comparative literature scholar Peter Brooks is writing and researching a new book on how novels relate to history and societal self-understanding, drawing in particular on Flaubert’s novel, “Sentimental Education.” At the Library of Congress, he has been using the collections of the European Reading Room …
Posted in: Literature
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
As part of the European Month of Culture in May 2016, we focus on scholars from European Union member states who have conducted research at The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Wish to apply for a fellowship at the Library? Applications are now being accepted for Kluge Fellowships. Scholars worldwide who …
Posted in: Literature
Posted by: Dan Turello
Dante’s Commedia is celebrated for its beautiful verse about love, friendship, theology, and philosophy. It captures the early 14th century world, and celebrates a characteristic rationality of the Middle Ages—a world in which everything had its proper place and right ordering. One of the strands found throughout the text is an ongoing reflection on the …
Posted in: Literature
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
German Fellow Sibylle Machat has spent the past seven months at the Kluge Center researching images of planet Earth in American children’s books. How Earth looks from space is well-known today; satellite imagery of the planet is now a part of our collective consciousness. But before public access to photographic representations of Earth, how the …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Education, History, Literature
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by David McLaughlin, Ph.D. candidate at University of Cambridge and a British Research Council Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center. On a recent fieldwork visit to New York City I called in at the Mysterious Bookshop in Tribeca. The shop is a regular attraction for Sherlockians, as devotees …
Posted in: Literature
Posted by: Travis Hensley
In 2012 and 2013, Dr. Peter Kalliney was a Visiting Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center. Currently the William J. Tuggle Chair in English at the University of Kentucky, during his tenure at the Kluge Center, Kalliney used the Library of Congress collections to research a project entitled, “Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture …
Posted in: Government, History, Literature, Politics
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Poet and biographer Muriel Rukeyser documented and commented on the seismic events of the 20th century. In her five decades of writing, she captured her experiences as witness to racial inequality in America, the Civil War in Spain, and protests against the Vietnam War. Sarah Chadfield, Ph.D. candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London, conducted research in …
Posted in: Literature, Politics
Posted by: Dan Turello
The city of Manaus, Brazil, was in the news this past summer as the site of a USA-Portugal World Cup match. Depicted on television and in print as a “jungle city” and “heart of the Amazon,” its intense heat and remote location have captured popular imagination. Charlotte Rogers, a Kluge Fellow at The John W. …
Posted in: Latin America, Literature