Library Events
Worming for Truth: Archival Literary Research at Yale with Jeannie Yang In-Person
Archives store secrets – that's why Jeannie Yang spent last summer poring over yellowed paper in the basement of Yale's Beinecke Library. Amongst edited typescripts and 1950s newspaper clippings were philosophy notebooks, reading lists, Christmas cards, and hundreds of poem drafts animating the inner musings of modernist writer Marguerite Young. Yang spent a year deciphering handwriting and unearthing hidden messages in Young’s 1200-page phantasmagorical novel, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.
Come hear Jeannie Yang tell the story of her MacLeish Scholar experience, divulge her discoveries, and discuss the symbolism of worms, the pains of digital cataloging, and the place of big, bold books in Western canon.
The presentation will be followed by a Q&A, and refreshments will be available.
Jeannie Yang is a senior at The Hotchkiss School. Hailing from the Taiwanese tradition of 小確幸 (small but certain fortunes), Jeannie finds joy in dissecting fly brains, making music, learning new languages, and binge-reading chick lit. She has lived in Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Lakeville and is endlessly excited by where life might take her.
- Date:
- Thursday, May 22, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Wardell Room
- Audience:
- Adults Teens Young Adult
- Categories:
- Adult Program