Gertrude Stein's America: A Conversation with Phoebe Stein

Phoebe Stein is president of the Federation of State Humanities Councils. Prior to joining the Federation, Phoebe served as the executive director for Maryland Humanities beginning in 2008 and has been an advocate for the humanities at local, state, and federal levels for more than 20 years. She served on the Federation Board of Directors from 2013 to 2017 as both vice chair and as a member of the Legislative Committee. In 2016, she was recognized as one of “Maryland’s Top 100 Women” by The Daily Record. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in English from Loyola University of Chicago and her B.A. in English from the University of Michigan and serves on the board of the National Humanities Alliance and on the advisory council of Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Gabrielle Dean, PhD, is the William Kurrelmeyer Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts in the Sheridan Libraries, and an adjunct professor for the Department of English and the Program in Museums & Society. Her research focuses on the exchanges between textual and visual culture during the industrial era of print, and on the history of the archival imagination. She has published in the journals Digital Humanities Quarterly, Modernism/modernity, The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, and Textual Cultures, among others, and in the collections Primary Stein, Emily Dickinson in Context, and Past or Portal?: Teaching Undergraduates Using Special Collections and Archives. She has curated exhibitions about H. L. Mencken, Stephen Crane, John Barth, and Edgar Allan Poe. Her forthcoming exhibition on Gertrude Stein will open September 2024.