Literature & Area Studies Collections

Literature and area studies collections from ProQuest and Alexander Street fuel exploration beyond the Western literary canon to reveal traditions, influences and compelling voices in poetry, stories, essays, and plays from around the world. Literary texts are not only essential for studies in literature. They provide cultural and historical context for research and learning across subject areas and can help promote critical thinking skills.

Support students and researchers with unprecedented digital access to rare and hard-to-find texts from historically marginalized authors and ensure literary collections reflect a spectrum of ethnicities, experiences, beliefs and orientations.

These texts and supplementary materials are not only essential for studies in literature – they provide cultural and historical context for research and learning across subject areas including history, diversity studies, politics, transatlantic studies, anthropology, geography, postcolonialism and more.