Dr. Gabrielle Dean

Biography

Gabrielle Dean is the William Kurrelmeyer Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries. She has a significant role in curating 19th, 20th, and 21st-century collections that focus on rare archival materials. Her responsibilities include special attention to women's, LGBTQ+, and African American history and culture through various initiatives, including the Africana Archives Initiative and the Billie Holiday Project. Dean teaches classes on 19th- and early 20th-century American literary culture, emphasizing rare and archival materials. She has co-curated several exhibitions and her scholarly work includes topics on authorship, photography, race, and gender within the archival record. Dean's publications have appeared in various journals and edited collections, focusing on the interplay between textual and visual cultures during the industrial era. She has a forthcoming essay on queer authorship that examines figures like Henry James and Gertrude Stein, contributing to the ongoing discourse in literary studies.

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