Virtual Writer’s Museum

Writer’s House Museum and Digital Collection

Student projects in this collection come from a course taught by Prof. Magdalena J. Zaborowska in American Culture and Afroamerican Studies and each semester represents a new published edition. The digital collection preserves underrepresented national cultural heritage in its focus on Baldwin’s unexamined material possessions, such as books by favorite authors, journals he subscribed to, foreign translations of his works, and sources he researched while writing specific texts.

Student Editions

Fall 2019 Collection

Archives and Black Digital Studies: Student projects in this collection come from a course taught by Prof. Magdalena J. Zaborowska in American Culture and Afroamerican Studies.

Fall 2021 Collection

Reconstructing James Baldwin’s Legacy in the Digital Now: Student projects from AAS 498 – “in-action” seminar in Afroamerican Studies, Fall 2021

Winter 2023 Collection

What’s Love (Sex + Race) Got to DO with It? Reading James Baldwin’s Fiction in the 21st Century.

Online Digital Collection

The collection preserves underrepresented national cultural heritage in its focus on Baldwin’s unexamined material possessions, such as books by favorite authors, journals he subscribed to, foreign translations of his works, and sources he researched while writing specific texts. It is comprised of approximately 4,000 digital photographs that should be of interest to scholars in English, African American literature and studies, and gender and sexuality studies, among other disciplines, and to anyone interested in Baldwin.