Category: Manuscripts/Modern Literature Collection

On October 3, 2024, WashU Libraries hosted a centenary celebration of William H. Gass (1924–2017), an esteemed writer, distinguished professor...

In the summer of 2022, Special Collections acquired a substantial amount of books, papers, artwork, and more that belonged to...

On Friday, October 6, 2023 University Libraries hosted a one-day symposium to officially open the Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene...

The Washington University Libraries were awarded a two-year grant by the Mellon Foundation to support an exploration of essential questions...

On April 3 and 4, Washington University Libraries hosted poet, translator, and Washington University alumnus (MFA ’15, PhD ’21) Aaron...

For three days in October, scholars, writers, artists, musicians, publishers, curators, and fans gathered in person and online to celebrate...

The William Gaddis Centenary Conference titled Beyond the “Very Small Audience”: Centenary, Archive, and Futures, will take place at Washington...

Last December we lost poet David Wagoner, whose literary papers were among the Modern Literature Collection’s earliest and most recent...

Alex Mouw is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and a Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in the Program...

On October 20-22, 2022, Washington University Libraries will host Beyond the ‘Very Small Audience’: Centenary, Archive, and Futures, a conference...

We are thrilled to be adding the Charles Johnson Papers to the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections and to...

In celebration of the new editions of William Gaddis’s first two novels, The Recognitions and J R, both published by NYRB Classics, we...