Interests

I primarily study the literary archive placement choices of Anglophone writers utilizing mixed methods. As I work in Open Education for Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), my more recent publications focus on that topic. As a proponent of open data, all my data sets are freely available. If you have questions, email me at amyhildrethchen [at] gmail.com.

Publications

Books

1. 1,000+ Tips for Life Inside and Outside the Academy. Springer, 2022

2. Placing Papers: The American Literary Archive Market. University of Massachusetts Press, 2020

   Book Talks: American Antiquarian Society, Bibliographical Society of America, University of Southern California Kenneth Karmiole Lecture in Archival Studies

3. Miracle and Mystery: A Guide to the Wade Hall Library. University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections, 2015

Articles

1. Placing Papers Update: The Black and Latino Experience in the Literary Archives Market. Rare Books and Manuscripts 24.1 (2023): 52-70 [Data set]

2. Possessing an “Inner History”: Curators, Donors, and Affective Stewardship, Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 12.3 (2016): 243-267

3. The Perils of Literary Celebrity: The Archival Stories of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes Society Journal 2.1 (2011): 30-31

Book Chapters

1. “Curators at the Top 25 ARL Institutions: Titles, Fields, and Educational Backgrounds,” Radical Visions: New Perspectives on Special Collections Curatorship, Society of American Archivists (Forthcoming 2025) [Data set]

2. “The Collections Cycle of the Modernist Archive Market,” Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive: Objects, Institutions, and Practices Between the Analog and the Digital, Routledge (2024)

3. With Kathryn Ross. “Mentoring a Peer: A Feminist Ethic for Directing Undergraduate Humanities Research, “ Undergraduate Research and the Academic Librarian, Ed. Kaye Hensley Merinda and Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Association of College and Research Libraries (2017): 209-217

4. With Melanie Meyers, Charlotte Priddle, and Abby Saunders, “K-12 Outreach Methods,” New Directions for Special Collections: An Anthology of Practice (2016): 39-54

5. With Brooke Champagne. “‘A Certain Kind of Seduction’: Integrating Archival Research into a First-Year Writing Curriculum,” Educational Programs: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections, Ed. Kate Theimer, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2015): 117-129

6. With Sarah Pickle and Heather Waldroup. “Changing and Expanding Libraries: Exhibitions, Institutional Repositories, and the Future of Academia,” The Process of Discovery: The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the Future of the Academy Ed. John Maclachlan, Elizabeth Waraksa, Christa Williford, Council on Library and Information Resources (2015): 62-81

GAMES

1. Codex Conquest: A Game of Book History, CC BY-SA (2017)

OTHER

1. TCUs Utilize Open Educational Resources. Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education 36.1 (2024): n.pag

2. With Shannon K. Supple and Michelle Chesner. “Roundtable Discussion: Teaching Printed History with Codex Conquest,” Printing History 23 (2018)

3. Natural Life Archive: A Q&A with Tirtza Even, Archive Journal (2016)

Reviews

1. Book Review of The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers, Rare Books and Manuscripts 19.2 (2018): 154-156

2. Game Review of The Publishing Trap, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 6.1 (2018): 2267

3. Book Review of Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series, and the Avant-Garde, Archives and Manuscripts 45.3 (2017): 258-259

4. Book Review of Trends in Rare Books and Documents Special Collections Management, 2013 Edition, RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 15.1 (2014): 78-81

5. Book Review of The Art and Life of Clarence Major, Callaloo 37.2 (2014): 454-456

6. Book Review of The Tower, The Traveler, and The Worm, Textual Cultures 8.1 (2013): 121-123