• Campus Resources
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Campus Resources

• University of Chicago Libraries
• Department of Special Collections

In the Regenstein Library, a major repository of archival and rare published materials. Manuscript and book collections include the Grant Collection of English Bibles; the life records of Geoffrey Chaucer; the Celia and Delia Austrian Collection of English Drama to 1800; the Helen and Ruth Regenstein Collection of Rare Books, including first and important editions of the works of Fielding, Smollett, Johnson, Thackeray, Dickens, Melville, Hawthorne, Gissing, and Joyce; the Atkinson, Morton, and Wilt Collections of American Drama, comprising tens of thousands of plays, acting editions, prompt copies, playbills, and reviews; the office files of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, containing thousands of letters and manuscripts of modern poets; and the personal papers and manuscripts of, among others, William Vaughn Moody, Robert Herrick, and Saul Bellow.

• Chicago School of Media Theory

• Film Studies Center

• Seminary Co-op Bookstore

• Court Theatre

The professional theater-in-residence at the University of Chicago has been producing critically acclaimed classic works for more than forty years. Recent productions garnering critical and audience praise include: Director JoAnne Akalaitis' The Iphigenia Cycle and Charles Newell's rotating repertory productions of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband.

• University of Chicago Press

Chicago Resources

• Newberry Library

A major independent research library with some 1,000,000 titles and 5,000,000 manuscripts in the humanities, chiefly in history, literature, music, and philosophy, with special strengths in European, American, and Latin American history and literature.

• Chicago Historical Society

Over 20 million manuscripts from Chicago history, particularly strong in the earliest period through the Civil War era, and in subject areas such as neighborhood life, African American history, women's history, politics, labor unions, teachers, and educational reformers.

• Art Institute Library

Internet Resources

• Voice of the Shuttle English Literature Page (UC Santa Barbara)
• Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory Page
• The EServer (Iowa State University)
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown)
• The Victorian Web (Brown & University of Singapore)
• The Postcolonial Web (Brown & University of Singapore)
• Literary Resources on the Net (Rutgers)

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