Other Programs & Resources

Library Holdings
The University Library has significant manuscript holdings in nineteenth-century American popular periodicals, ethnic American culture, American folklore and folk art, and Great Plains history and literature, as well as strong research holdings in nineteenth-century British history, military history, and Civil War history.

Events
Nineteenth-Century Studies sponsors faculty seminars, visiting speakers, and an ongoing colloquium series. Recent visitors have included Mary Poovey, Director of the Institute for the History of Production of Knowledge at New York University; Andrew Miller and David Katzman, editors of Victorian Studies and American Studies respectively; Bertram Wyatt-Brown, President of the Southern Historical Association; Patricia Hills, Professor of Art History at Boston University; Allan Pasco, Hall Professor of Nineteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kansas; Vivian Pollak, Professor of English at Washington University at St. Louis; William Cronon, the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor and Vilas Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lilian Furst, Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia; Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University; and Rosemary Lloyd, the Rudy Professor of French and Italian at Indiana University.

Nineteenth-Century Studies also sponsors both a monthly faculty reading group at which members share work-in-progress as well as a biennial May faculty seminar for intensive study of interdisciplinary topics.