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
Winterthur Portfolio invites proposals for a special issue: “Enslavement and Material Culture” Twenty years ago, Winterthur Portfolio published a special issue: “Race and Ethnicity in American Material Life” which has become a standard source for… 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
“Black Bibliographia: Print/Culture/Art” April 26-27, 2019 University of Delaware A symposium hosted by the Center for Material Culture Studies in collaboration with UD Library, Museums & Press and the College of Arts & Sciences’ Paul… Read More
Project lead: Dr. Katherine Grier Participants: undergraduate and graduate students Disposable America (http://www.disposableamerica.org) uses digital artifact biographies to explore the history of disposability and the complex relationship of Americans to their trash. The product of a graduate writing seminar… 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
