Rebecca Sutton Koeser is the Lead Research Software Engineer at the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University and has served as Technical Lead on Shakespeare and Company Project, as well as Princeton Geniza Project, Princeton Prosody Archive, and others. She has a PhD in English Literature from Emory University and her research interests include data physicalization, critical perspectives on software development for humanities research, and speculative and computational approaches to missing data. On Twitter as @suttonkoeser.
Rebecca Sutton Koeser
Contributions
The World of Shakespeare and Company
What’s left to learn about Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach’s bookshop and lending library in interwar Paris? The story of Shakespeare and Company has been told and retold—by Beach herself in Shakespeare and Company (1959) and The Letters of Sylvia Beach (2010), by Noël Riley Fitch in Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation (1984), and by Laure Murat in Passage de l’Odéon (2003). Ernest Hemingway mythologized the bookshop and lending library in A Moveable Feast (1964), and Woody Allen satirized that mythology in Midnight in Paris (2011). Countless writers have described Beach’s publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922): Richard Ellmann in James Joyce (1959), Kevin Birmingham in The Most Dangerous Book (2014), Keri Maher in The Paris Bookseller (2022)—to name just three. In the aftermath of the Ulysses centennial, we might assume we know all there is to know about Beach’s “famous bookshop and lending library on the Le