Exhibitions at UB English Literature and Linguistics

"This is my letter to the world": ES students respond to Emily Dickinson's manuscripts
       From 28th March 2025
This exhibition showcases ES students' textual art work.
Emily Dickinson wrote more than 1700 poems. Only 10 of these were printed during her lifetime - in all likelihood without her permission. Dickinson wrote and preserved her poetry in manuscripts: In hand-bound books called fascicles, in letters to her family and friends, and in hybrid visual and textual compositions using the folded planes of repurposed envelopes. After studying these envelope-writings over the course of a semester, nine ES students were asked to respond in kind. Their only requirement: that their texts reimagine Dickinson’s defiance of 19th-century print technology for today’s digital culture.

The Life and Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
       12th December 2024 - 27th March 2025
This exhibition was curated by Ren Schnüriger, who did the first special module "library internship" with us. Ren also designed the website accompanying the exhibition.

H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos
      17th October - 11th December 2024

Edna O'Brien

Women and Crime Fiction

Witches

Graphic Novels and Graphic Adaptations

Banned Books in the US