This September, the Sheridan Libraries will open Gertrude Stein in Circles: Spheres of Life and Writing, a major exhibition exploring the literary labors and social networks of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). Rare books, unpublished letters, manuscripts, magazines, photographs, and other archival materials—many of them collected and donated by the late bookseller and Stein bibliographer Robert A. Wilson, a class of 1943 Johns Hopkins alumnus—provide remarkable insights into her work and legacy. From Stein's early childhood to her studies at Johns Hopkins' medical school, influential years as an expatriate in Paris, and posthumous reception worldwide, Gertrude Stein in Circles: Spheres of Life and Writing demonstrates how the pioneering American writer fostered avant-garde communities in her own time and continues to be a beacon for artists, writers, and LGBTQ+ communities today.
Join us for this virtual tour of the Gertrude Stein in Circles: Spheres of Life and Writing from the Robert A. Wilson Collection led by the exhibition's curator, Gabrielle Dean. This is the perfect event for those that cannot travel to Baltimore to see the exhibit in person.
An in-person tour of the exhibition will be offered on Wednesday, October 16 at the George Peabody Library; for more information and to register (space is limited), please click here.
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.
Paul Espinosa holds master’s degrees in Classics and Library Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. As curator of the George Peabody Library since 2016, he helps researchers access and use the collections, conducts classes using primary sources, leads tours, and organizes special exhibitions with his library colleagues. When not at work, he enjoys reading!
Event DateWednesday, October 9, 2024Start Time: 12:00pm EDTEnd Time: 1:00pm EDT
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