Exhibitions
An Art of Authority: Self-Censorship and the Comics Code 1954-2011
The Comics Code Authority enforced a set of guidelines in a period of censorship and regulation for over fifty years,...
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The Assembled Playwright: Harley Hammerman’s Eugene O’Neill Collection
Alumni Harley Hammerman has made the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections an important center for O’Neill studies.
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Wicked Women: White Women as Perpetrators of Mass Violence
Wicked Women explores the connection between whiteness, gender, and violence in women carrying out acts of mass violence and discrimination.
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Wherein I Am: Highlights from the Aaron Coleman Papers
In 2021 the Washington University Libraries acquired the literary papers of Aaron Coleman, a poet and translator who received his...
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Stanley Elkin’s “Pieces of Soap”
In 1990 novelist Stanley Elkin published an essay about his “accumulation” of travel soaps. Published in Art & Antiques magazine,...
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Upcoming Exhibitions
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Exhibition An Art of Authority: Self-Censorship and the Comics Code 1954-2011
The Comics Code Authority enforced a set of guidelines in a period of censorship and regulation for over fifty years,...View Exhibition about An Art of Authority: Self-Censorship and the Comics Code 1954-2011 -
Exhibition The Assembled Playwright: Harley Hammerman’s Eugene O’Neill Collection
Alumni Harley Hammerman has made the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections an important center for O’Neill studies.View Exhibition about The Assembled Playwright: Harley Hammerman’s Eugene O’Neill Collection