Student Digital Exhibits

CURI (Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry) at St. Olaf College provides summer undergraduate research and fieldwork opportunities for students in all academic disciplines. Under the mentorship of college faculty, CURI students gain an in-depth understanding of a particular subject. These experiences allow the students to not only gain valuable research skills, but also encourages them to explore their career interests.

During the summer of 2023, the Kierkegaard Library created a CURI project entitled: “Curating the Digital Exhibit: From the Archives of the Hong Kierkegaard Library.” A team of four student researchers worked to curate individual digital exhibits displayed for viewing below. 

As new students of the Danish thinker, their objective in creating these individual yet collaborative exhibitions was to offer a fresh overview of significant areas of Kierkegaard’s enigmatic writings. Part of their purpose was to showcase fragile and historic resources that are found in the Kierkegaard Library’s Rare Book Room at St. Olaf College. Through digital exhibits, they touched on a few remarkable aspects of Kierkegaard’s life, including his personal and vocational journey; the personalities of his major pseudonyms; his explorations of music and immediacy; and his profound contemplations of human existence and Christian living. From the intriguing and controversial broken engagement between Kierkegaard and his ex-fiancée, Regine Olsen, to his use of pseudonymity, the results provide viewers with an introductory glimpse into Kierkegaard’s life both as a person and a founder of Existentialism.