Alison Fraser

Publications

Books

• Nice: Collected Poems by David Melnick. Co-edited with Benjamin Friedlander, Jeffrey Jullich, and Ron Silliman. Brooklyn, NY: Nightboat Books, 2023.
• The Collages of Helen Adam. Ed. Fort Collins, CO and Victoria, TX: Further Other Book Works/Cuneiform Press, 2017.

Articles

• "Graduate Student-Curated Exhibits: A Study." Society of American Archivists' Case Studies on Teaching with Primary Sources, Case #31 (Oct. 2025): np
• "Creating the Twentieth-Century Literary Archives: A Short History of the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo." Information & Culture 55.3 (Fall 2020): 252-270.
  
• "Mass Print, Clipping Bureaus, and the Pre-Digital Database: Reexamining Marianne Moore's Collage Poetics through the Archives." Journal of Modern Literature 43.1 (Fall 2019): 19-33.
• "Teaching Creative Writing in Special Collections." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 20.2 (Fall 2019): 70-82.
• "Diasporic Object Lessons: Material Identity and the Korean Diaspora in the Work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha." Asian Diasporas. Spec. issue of WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly 47.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2019): 31-47. 

Exhibition Catalogs

• "That all books might published be": Sylvia Beach's Ulysses. University at Buffalo Libraries, 2023.

Research

My research interests include twentieth-century Anglophone poetics, historical bibliography, material culture, print ephemera, feminist theory, critical archival studies, and special collections pedagogy.

Professional Memberships

• Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of ACRL
  • Co-chair, RBMS 2024
  • Editorial Board Member, RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, 2024-present
• Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee, Modern Language Association
  • Secretary, 2024-2025
  • Chair, 2025-2026

Presentations

Selected presentations from 2021 to present:

• "'Something of a Witch': Queer Women of the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance," Lesbian Lives Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, Oct. 2025
• Roundtable participant for an event celebrating the exhibit After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960-2025, Grolier Club, New York, May 2025
• "The Book, Evolving," a2ru (Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities) conference, Rochester Institute of Technology, Nov. 2024
• "Beyond Manuscripts: Teaching with Special Formats in Special Collections,' lightning talk panel, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Annual Conference, June 2021
• "Public Readership and the Private Press: An Archival Recovery of Erica Marx’s The Hand & Flower Press," 20th- and 21st-Century British and Anglophone Forum roundtable, Annual Convention of the Modern Language Assocation, Jan. 2021