Smith College Special Collections

just a little under a month until applications close for Smith College Special Collections Travel Fellowships!

Save the date! 🌠This Halloween, visit us in Neilson 304 from 3-5pm for the first-ever Special Collections Séance.🔮This year’s open house takes a look at collection materials around the themes of divination, Spiritualism, magic, and witchcraft. You won’t want to miss this.🦇

Congratulations, @colin_hoag on an amazing exhibition!!!! @archivalagents @smithcollege

To all the #Plath people out there ❤️❤️❤️: you gotta come visit this exhibit at the @smithcollege Botanic Garden focused on Plath's botanical education. With critical assistance from Karen Kukil, Amanda Golden @plathpoem @archivalagents and many others! Opens today! Link below...

Applications are now open for our 2024-2025 travel fellowships! For more information and directions on how to apply, visit bit.ly/SCFellowships #archivetwt #archives #researchers

I am officially starting a research project on queer pulp. I don’t know what form it will take or how many decades I’ll be working on it, but it’s time to start something. I have a recurring appointment at the Kinsey to go through 108 boxes of smut and that’s only the beginning!

First of two research days Smith College Special Collections! #NERFCfellow @archivalagents

@acadialogue @TLRHub @MEWomenWriters this is so great! would love to see/read the project when it's ready. Keep us updated!!🤓

Thinking of this transnational lesbian couple (all day) on #InternationalLesbianDay! ...Because ME Chase & ES Duckett's love is the subject of my @TLRHub #postdoc project, using materials from @MEWomenWriters & @archivalagents. #AcademicTwitter #PostdocLife #QueerHistories

You can learn more about Hernandez and her papers at this link: findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2… (9/9)

G & V: It’s interesting to see how Hernandez navigated her intersectionality and pushed organizations to broaden their focus. And then she formed her own activist organizations when they didn’t listen!" (8/9)

Processing The Aileen C. Hernandez Papers (a thread)

Join Smith College for a Five College job fair on June 14 at the Red Barn at Hampshire College. Stop by to find out about more opportunities to work at Smith! #5collegejobs fivecolleges.edu/jobfair