Faculty Scholarship

Publications, working papers, performance programs, and other materials that document that scholarly and creative accomplishments of Grinnell College faculty and staff.

Guattari Hero : Subjective Arrangements in the Contemporary Genre Film

Examines the film philosophy of Felix Guattari through his writings and interviews.

Organizing For The Future

Collection illustrating the process used for organizing the Grinnell C ollegeLibraries

Surveying Current Perspectives of Porgy and Bess

George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess celebrated its 75th anniversary with nearly as much controversy as when it premiered in 1935.

A New Story : Unifying Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland U.K.'s Competing Narratives

Can Derry not only to successfully rewrite its past, but redirect its economic and social future?

Girls on Film : The Intersecting Histories of Queer Cinema and Feminist Filmmaking

Explores the history of the feminist movement in the Twentieth Century through the lens of film history.

Making a Good Thing Better: Increasing Demand for 1-on-1 Information Literacy Instruction at Grinnell College

Learn why Grinnell College Libraries enjoyed a 60% increase in the number of Library Labs, our customized research appointments, during fall 2011.

Reduced pollinator service and elevated pollen limitation at the geographic range limit of an annual plant

We examine the contribution of plant pollinator interactions to the geographic range limit of the California endemic plant Clarkia xantiana ssp. xantiana. We show that pollinator availability declined from the center to the margin of the geographic range consistently across four years of study.

Reflexive Curation: Accident, Risk, and Medium in the Collectively Curated Collection

The systems we use to record, communicate, and safeguard knowledge and experience, including our increasingly distributed and coordinated systems of curation, themselves increase complexity and risk, which will not be reduced, overall, by new or additional knowledge or technology. We must be careful not to overestimate what we think we know about the functioning of these complex systems, or to extrapolate too confidently from current trends.

River of Words, Raft of Our Conjoined Neurologies

This essay addresses people's emotional reactions to the word on the page using examples from the author's son's writings. His son is autistic and unable to speak.

Scholarly Communication and Liberal Arts College Libraries

Scholarly communication, in addition to referring to the disciplinary practices that structure the dissemination of scholarly knowledge, has become shorthand for two meanings: on the one hand, it refers to an analytic "author/reader" framework that seeks critical understanding of the entire life cycle of scholarly knowledge and the connected roles of researchers, teachers, students, funders, libraries, publishers, and other kinds of agencies in the creation, dissemination, critique, reuse, and preservation of knowledge.

Trans/Affect, Monstrous Masculinities, and the Sublime Art of Lady Gaga

Examines the trans/affect of Lady Gaga's carefully scripted display of the Jo Calderone persona in both his interview and fashion spread in Vogue Hommes Japan.

"Were You There" - Roland Hayes (1940), essay

Essay about tenor Roland Hayes (1887-1977) and the negro spiritual "Were You There" published in 1940 on Columbia Masterworks.

Engaging Educational Employment Experiences for Students in Special Collections

A poster used at the 2013 ACRL conference in Indianapolis, IN, briefly describing the opportunities and merits of student employment in the Department of Special Collections and Archives at Grinnell College.

Success through Community: Engagement at Grinnell College Libraries

This chapter details several activities undertaken by the Grinnell College Libraries to increase student engagement.

Technical Services Transparency: Using a LibGuide to Expose the Mysteries of Technical Services

This paper describes the process of creating, testing, and implementing LibGuides as a new way of communicating much-needed information between technical services and public services staff at Miami University Libraries.

The Grinnell Beowulf : A Translation with Notes

A translation of Beowulf with notes by Timothy D. Arner, Eva Dawson, Emily Johnson, Jeanette Miller, Logan Shearer, Aniela Wendt, and Kate Whitman. Illustrations by Caleb Neubauer. This is the original posting to Digital Grinnell from October, 2013. A revised edition, posted to Digital Grinnell in April 2014, is available as grinnell:5317.