We are pleased to announce the appointment of Heather Cole as the Librarian for Literary and Popular Culture Collections at Brown University Library. Heather will have curatorial responsibility for the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, the H. Adrian Smith Magic Collection, the Miller Collection of Wit and Humor, the Sheet Music Collection, the Katzoff Collection of Gay and Lesbian Literature, the Comics Collection, and other Library holdings in the areas of American and British literature and popular culture. She brings to this position a wealth of experience in collection development, academic research, and community engagement.
Heather currently serves as the Assistant Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts and the Curator of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard’s Houghton Library, where she has worked since 2007. At Houghton, Heather teaches classes, curates exhibitions, manages digitization projects, assists researchers, and helps to develop Houghton’s collections. She co-administers the Houghton Library Undergraduate Fellowship Program, for which she was awarded the Carol Ishimoto Award for Distinguished Service earlier this year. She is a co-chair of Houghton Library’s 75th anniversary celebration this year, and co-edited the recently-published Houghton Library at 75: A Celebration of its Collections. She is currently at work on a bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt’s books and articles, to be published in 2019. Heather earned her BA from Miami University and an MLS and MA in English literature from Indiana University.
Heather will join the staff of the Brown University Library before the start of the academic year. We are delighted to welcome Heather to Brown.