EphemaWHAT?!? This is the title of Sarah Wasserman’s (Assistant Professor, Dept. of English) podcast on ephemera. In the podcast interview, Wasserman explains what is ephemera and why is it worth studying; Check it out here: https://www.ephemeral.show/episode/ephemawhat
The conference “Black Bibliographia: Print/Culture/Art” took place on April 26 and 27 and hosted around one hundred attendants in order to discuss what is a black book. The first day of the conference started with… Read More
Students and faculty from the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware are proud to announce the launch of the first database prototype connecting objects, literature, and the visual arts! You can… Read More
The Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS) at the University of Delaware is excited to announce the growth of ThingStor: A Material Culture Database for Finding Objects in Literature & Visual Art. Developed by a… Read More
With support provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, fourteen ten-week summer fellowships were awarded to MA and PhD students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences pursuing research in material culture studies, broadly defined… Read More
Hagley Museum and Library Department of Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives 2018 Internship: John Margolies Travel Ephemera and Better Living Photographs The Project The Hagley Library’s Department of Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives (AVD) is… Read More
The Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS) at the University of Delaware is excited to announce the growth of ThingStor: A Material Culture Database for Finding Objects in Literature & Visual Art. Developed by a… Read More
With generous support from the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies (OGPE) and the Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS), the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture is able to offer up to 4 slots… Read More
Recent DELPHI participant and Ph.D candidate in Preservation Studies at the University of Delaware, João Petisca was asked to write for the Phillips Library/Peabody Essex Museum’s blog, Conversant. In her blog post, she writes about her summer in Salem,… Read More
Spencer Wigmore is a doctoral candidate in the department of Art History at the University of Delaware. Studying 19th century American art, he specializes in American and European landscape painting and photography. His dissertation “Albert… Read More
