With decades of experience in developing private collections, I enjoy working with clients to design an acquisition plan that will help realize their vision. I believe the highest and best use of a private collection is to share it, and I find it rewarding to facilitate exhibition loans, scholarly use, and website and social media interactions. I have written or overseen over a dozen catalogues related to 20th-century US and UK literature with a special emphasis on Woolf and her circle; Joyce, Pound, and their Modernist friends; Williams and Stevens; Nabokov, Faulkner, Pynchon; and feminism, about which I’ve written thousands of pages.

Examples of my collection management work include the Dobkin Family Collection of Feminism and Two American Poets: Wallace Stevens & William Carlos Williams from the Collection of Alan M. Klein (both linked below). I entered the Dobkin Family Collection in 1996 as a cataloguer and over time became increasingly responsible for curation and management (inventory database, website, storage, insurance, scholar access, exhibition loans). My work with Two American Poets included exhibition, catalogue, event, and website support.