This website is a project of Curating Gertrude Stein: Queer/Modernist/Celebrity, a class at Johns Hopkins University, cross-listed in the Program in Museums & Society and the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Our examination of Gertrude Stein’s writing and biography focuses especially on her marriage to Alice B. Toklas, her friendships, networks, publication travails, and reputation, during and after her life, and makes extensive use of local collections of rare books and archival materials–in particular, the Robert A. Wilson Collection of Gertrude Stein Materials at the Sheridan Libraries.

Working directly with rare books, archival materials, and digital primary sources, students are also thinking through the complexities of literary history as it is narrated through its material remains, what gets left out of the archive and why, and the value of archives in the digital era.

This site is managed by Gabrielle Dean, PhD, William Kurrelmeyer Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts at the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. If you are interested in learning more about the class or our projects, please write me at gnodean at jhu dot edu.