Caitlin O’Keefe

Caitlin O’Keefe is a PhD Candidate in History at the Institute of French Studies at New York University.  Her research on Shakespeare and Company has previously appeared in the New York Review of Books. Caitlin is currently a visiting scholar at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where she is researching her dissertation on Shakespeare and Company, La Maison des Amis des Livres, and the transnational social networks that transformed interwar France.

Contributions

Black Internationalism and Shakespeare and Company

The library cards and logbooks preserved in Sylvia Beach’s papers confirm the conventional image of Shakespeare and Company: the bookshop and lending library sat at the very heart of interwar modernism. The shop conjures images of Ernest Hemingway perusing the bookshelves and Gertrude Stein stopping by from her home a few streets away.