In search of Mademoiselle O: remembering Nabokov's Swiss governess through translation, migration, and imagination
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The genealogy of repetition: reading Becket reading Proust
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Kabbalah is not rocket science: Jewish mystical symbolism in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
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Psychic splitting and the rupture of self: a Freudian analysis of the double in literary theory and Frankenstein
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Lo straniero eterno: riprendendo le scritture giovanili di Giorgio Bassani
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An un-bridged divide: the disconnect of an elevated urban experience at the Walkway Over the Hudson
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Primo Levi il chimico interlocutore: la scienza come un paradigma onnicomprensivo nel sistema periodico
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With Obāchan, transnationally and transgenerationally: folding gender and modulating race from soviet-occupied Manchuria to Japanese America
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Reaching toward whiteness won't save you: an intersectional approach to racial formation
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Here you will find digitized archival collections, oral histories, and more. We are continually expanding the collections and improving access. You may find additional digital resources that reside outside the digital library here, and a selection of Online Exhibitions here.
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Finding Aids
The Archives & Special Collections Library is part of the Vassar College Libraries system. It holds the rare book, manuscript, and archival collections of the college. It collects, preserves, and makes available rare and unique collections, and also engages in teaching and outreach activities. This collection of finding aids describe items in both the Virginia B. Smith Memorial Manuscript Collection and the College Archives.
Herbarium
The Vassar College herbarium holds over 8,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, and algae. Holdings are primarily from northeastern North America, and include collections made by several notable 19th century botanists. To learn more about this project visit the website here.
Vassar Scholarship
Vassar College's institutional repository reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community. It provides access to senior theses, peer reviewed open access articles, and projects from a wide range of disciplines.