American literary studies

Specialists

Rebecca Wingfield

Curator for American and British Literature

(650) 787-5283

wingfiel@stanford.edu

British and Commonwealth literary studies

American literary studies

Theater and drama

Blogs

New poetry collections open for research | May 2, 2022

Books of folk rhymes by early Chinese immigrants acquired and digitized | November 11, 2021

Dime novels digitization collaboration launches | November 16, 2020

2000+ audio cassettes from Allen Ginsberg collection now streaming from SearchWorks | July 18, 2017

Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” goes online | June 5, 2017

Notable collections

20th Century American Paperback Humor Collection

The collection contains 2500 individual paperback humor and joke books in a variety of subject areas.