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English 796: Survey of English: Histories, Theories, Methods

This research guide supports the required Survey of English seminar for the English Ph.D. It is organized into various tabs highlighting useful databases, professional organizations, and library resources. This tab will continue to be updated as additiona

Stuart A. Rose Library

Stuart A. Rose Library Reading Room

Located on the tenth floor of the Woodruff Library. Access the papers of such writers as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Salman Rushdie, and Alice Walker through the Rose Library's Raymond Danowski Poetry Library containing over 75,000 volumes of English-language poetry. The Rose Library's African American History collections will allow you to access the papers of the Southern Rights Leadership Conference, Langston Hughes, Josephine Baker, and the African American Sports Collection among many, many other materials. You can browse these items and other collections on their Collections page.

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Reference Sources

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Using the Rose Library

The Rose Library is located on the 10th floor of the Robert W. Woodruff Library. Their stacks are closed, which means that all of their holdings are accessible only in their on-site reading room. You can use the information on their website to plan your visit or contact them with your reference question.