Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University

This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools, the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins communications offices.

JHU Opens Major Exhibition Celebrating Author John Barth

The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries’ new exhibition on John Barth offers visitors a kind of funhouse experience devoted to exploring the author’s life and legacy.

October 16, 2015 Tags: george Peabody Library, John Barth, Johns Hopkins University, The Sheridan Libraries at The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News

Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries Acquire the John Barth Collection

John Barth, a National Book Award winner, was a leading figure in the university’s Writing Seminars department, and his work is central to twentieth-century literary history, especially the development of the contemporary novel, the articulation of international postmodernism, and the identity of Maryland’s Eastern Shore in American literature.

January 6, 2014 Tags: Homewood campus, John Barth, Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries
| Category: Homewood Campus News