I have decades of experience in developing private collections. I enjoy working with clients to design an acquisition plan, and to help build a collection through relationships with dealers, auction houses, and others. 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 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 literally 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 acquisitions. I’ve worked with developers on the website with an integrated inventory database, worked with storage and insurance professionals, and I oversee scholar access and exhibition loans. My work with Two American Poets included exhibition and catalogue support as well as web oversight.