Jolie Braun
I’m the curator of modern literature and manuscripts at The Ohio State University’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Library (RBML), where I manage and build the unit’s modern holdings, collaborate with instructors to provide special collections-based instruction, and promote the collections by curating displays and exhibitions and organizing events. My research interests include teaching and outreach in special collections, self-publishing, and zines.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Links to open access versions, when available, are included below.
“From the Margins to the Center: Introducing Self-Published American Literature to Undergraduates.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 21.3(2021):533-548.
“‘Your Zine Changed My Life’: The Impact and Legacy of Zines in Sassy Magazine.” American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography 30.2(2020):149-163.
“‘Printing books shall eventually be my trade’: Piecing Together the History of Diane di Prima’s Poets Press.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 38.2(2019):425-433.
“A History of Diane di Prima’s Poets Press.” The Journal of Beat Studies 6.1(2018):3-22.
“Now on Display: Lessons Learned from Building a Small Exhibits Program.” Archival Issues 38.2(2017):6-19.
Editor-Reviewed Articles
“Collecting Sarah Piatt at The Ohio State University’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Library.” American Literary Realism 5.3(2023): 240-247.
“Unconventional Collecting in Extraordinary Times: Documenting the Pandemic through a COVID-19 Zine Collection.” College & Research Libraries News 82.8(2021):354-356; 361.
“The Recovery of Sarah Piatt and Community Scholarship.” Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 46(2021):299-306. Coauthored with Elizabeth Renker, Sean E. Andres, and Larry Michaels.
“‘There is no respectable woman…that sells books!’ The Memoirs of Nineteenth-Century Woman Book Canvassers.” Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation 14.1(2021):124-139.
“‘Vote for Woman Suffrage!’ A Closer Look at The Ohio State University Libraries’ Suffrage Scrapbooks.” Ohio Archivist (Fall 2020):10-11.
Public Writing
“Designed to Sell: American Canvassing Books at The Ohio State University’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Library.” The Ephemerist 197(Summer 2022):10-13.
“The Zine Scene.” Fine Books & Collections (Winter 2022):51-53.
“Record.” Women’s Review of Books 38(Nov/Dec 2021):8-9.
“Exploring James Thurber’s Columbus with The Ohio State University’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Library.” Ohioana Quarterly 62(Summer 2019):8-10.
“Rebel Publishing.” Women’s Review of Books 36(Nov/Dec 2019):16-18.
“Building the Feminist Shelf.” Women’s Review of Books 35(Nov/Dec 2018):18-20.
Teaching
During Fall 2022 I taught “More than Just Recipes: Exploring American Cookbooks,” a first-year seminar based in the Rare Books & Manuscripts Library’s cookbook collections.
Press
“Bright Young Librarians: Jolie Braun.” January 18, 2023.
“Skeletor, Poetry, Hand-Made Art: Quaranzines Tell COVID Stories.” November 5, 2021.
“Meet the Curator: Jolie Braun.” The Ohio State University Libraries. March 23, 2021.
“The Lost Poetry of Sarah Piatt with Professor Elizabeth Renker and Curator Jolie Braun.” Bonnets at Dawn. December 2020.
Contact
Email: braun.338@osu.edu
Twitter: @joliebraun