graduate minor in literacy
& rhetorical studies

research resources

minnesota collections & centers

• Center for Writing Research Library
• Givens Collection
• The American Swedish Institute
• Minnesota Humanities Center
• MN Center for Book Arts
• Special Collections & Rare Books at UMN
• Ames Library of South Asia
• Kerlan Collection: Children’s Literature Research Center
• Immigration History Research Center
• Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
• Minnesota Historical Society
• Charles Babbage Institute: Center for the History of Information Technology
• Book History and Literacies at Minnesota
• Electronic Text Research Center (ETRC) (University of Minnesota)

scholarly resources on the web

• Centre for the History of the Book (The University of Edinburgh)
• Literacy Lab
• SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
• The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
• Bibliographical Society of America
• The Bodleian Library
• HoBo (formerly History of the Book at Oxford)
• The History of the Book in Canada Project
• The University of Iowa Center for the Book
• National Communication Association
• CCCC: Conference on College Composition & Communication
• CompPile (an inventory of publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse studies)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)

additional writing research resources are available on our Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing site.