Marvin Taylor:  

Life Marvin J. Taylor is the Director of the Fales Library and Special Collections at NYU. He holds a BA in Comparative Literature and an MLS from Indiana University, where he also studied music at the IU School of Music. Taylor continued his education at NYU, receiving an MA in English, specializing in late-Victorian and Transition period fiction, queer theory, and postmodern literature. His thesis on Victorian Hellenism and male-male desire won the Gordon Ray Victorian Studies Award in 1997. Marvin has held positions at the Indiana University School of Music Library, the Lilly Library at Indiana University, the Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Health Sciences Library at Columbia University. He has been at the Fales Library since 1993. In 1994 Taylor founded the Downtown Collection at the Fales Library. The Downtown Collection, which contains over 12,000 printed books and 10,000 linear feet of manuscripts and archive...Expand for more