Literature and Cultural Studies

The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/index.cfm

An excellent resource emphasizing poetry and creative writing. Offerings include: brief biographies of poets, a listening booth which features recordings of poet's reading, events, online and site exhibits, online poems from contemporary poets, and excellent organizational and literary links.

American Authors on the Web
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html

The site provides a huge collection of links to prominent and minor American writers, cultural history, and documents. (Nagoya University, Japan)

The Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html

Furnishes resources for storytellers and teachers, discussion boards, resource lists on publishers, organizations, and awards, as well as reviews and web stories.

Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/misc/postov.html

Includes information about writers, history, politics, and religion. (Brown University)

The eserver
http://eserver.org/

An encyclopedic collection, without annotations, of electronic documents and links in the arts and humanities. (Geoffrey Sauer, Iowa State University)

Early Modern Literary Studies
http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlsweb.html

A superb, interdisciplinary collection of scholarly sites concerning 16th and 17th century literary, art, architectural, and cultural studies. The history and science links are excellent, as well as the listing of general academic resources and catalogs. (Matthew Steggle, Sheffield Hallam University, England)

English Literature on the Web
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html

This is a large resource for links, conferences, journals, professional organizations, and primary e-texts. It has wonderful resources for cultural historians - maps and primary documents. In a table, it also highlights prominent author websites (Gaskell, Dickens, Victorian Web). (Nagoya University, Japan)

The G. Robert Vincent Voice Library
http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent

Contains "taped utterances (speeches, performances, lectures, interviews, broadcasts) by over 50,000 persons…recorded over 100 years." (Michigan State University)

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet: Renaissance Studies
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/renaissance.htm

A list of scholarly websites reflecting interdisciplinary approaches to the Renaissance period and studies of Shakespeare. Also features a generous list of links to primary resources, a Shakespeare timeline and biographical information. (Terry A. Gray)

Society for the Study of American Women Writers
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/ssaww/index.html

The organization's links page offers a number of links to e-texts and archives. The Archives link offers numerous texts. Also featured on the Affiliates link is a good listing of organizations and societies devoted to particular writers. (Web home: Leigh University)

Perseus Project: an Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu

Renascence Editions: Links to Early Modern English Studies
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm

"Renascence Editions proffers The Bess Award to select sites in Early Modern literature and history. Sites are chosen based on depth, relevance, scholarly excellence, design, and longevity." Sites include those related to Shakespeare, Spenser, and Elizabethan Studies. (University of Oregon)

Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center
http://www.popcultures.com

A major resource for the study of contemporary and modern culture. Outstanding quality and well organized: Bibliographies, journals, professional organizations and conferences, Mass Media, Criticism and Theory, Cyberculture, Film, and Television.

Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3

A major gateway to links arranged by genre. Includes minority literatures, literature by English-speaking writers, creative writing, theory, teaching resources, a list of English departments, and text-analysis.

Voice of the Shuttle: Literature Other than English
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2719

A large list of links to international literature, general sites for comparative literature, text-analysis, and bibliographic software.