CMCS is proud to feature Matthew Rinkevich’s online learning resource, built with his material culture colloquium. Students engaged in independent research to catalog objects they found in plays they read in class. Check out the… Read More
The series publishes innovative studies on material culture in literary, visual, and historical studies. The series seeks titles that engage with physical objects— broadly defined and including their formal attributes, ascribed functions, contribution to larger processes… 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
By Sandy Isenstadt, Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies The Architecture of Electric Light reconceives modernism in architecture to include not just the aesthetic exploitation of new materials and methods of construction, but… Read More
ThingStor: An American Material Culture Database for Finding Objects in Literature and Visual Art ThingStor is an interactive database that will enable students and scholars to recognize and better understand the form and function of… Read More
