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Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs records, 1939-2006, bulk 1956-2003
337.27 Linear FeetWm. Theodore de Bary papers, 1934-2017, bulk 1960-2005
81 Linear FeetCenter for Comparative Literature and Society, 1998-2000 Box 36, Folder 10
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- Center for Comparative Literature and Society, 1998-2000
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Includes newsletter Volume 1, Issue 1-2 & Volume 2, Issue 1, 1999-2000
Quentin Anderson papers, 1935-2003, bulk 1960-2000
19 linear feetBirmingham Conference--On Literature and Society, 1969 Box 21, Folder 15
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- Birmingham Conference--On Literature and Society, 1969
Alan Cameron papers, 1959-2020
6 Linear FeetPapers of Classics professor, Alan Cameron who taught at Columbia University between 1977 and his retirement in 2008. At the time of his death (July 31, 2017) he was the Charles Anthon Professor Emeritus of Latin and Literature at Columbia University. Materials in this collection include extensive correspondence files (including many with distinguished classicists), scholarly lectures, lectures given on cruise ships, course lectures, research files, unfinished and unpublished work, manuscripts for a book about Constantinople, CVs, memoirs and memorial materials.
Literature and Society in the late Roman West Box 6, Folder 10
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- Literature and Society in the late Roman West
Historical subject files, 1810s-2022, bulk 1968-1972
182.23 linear feetCenter for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia, 1990s Box 12, Folder 18
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- Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia, 1990s
Diana Trilling papers, 1921-1996
29.75 linear feetSpeaking of Literature and Society, 1980 February (editor's foreword), 1980 February Box 36, Folder 4
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- Speaking of Literature and Society, 1980 February (editor's foreword), 1980 February
Giacomo Patri collection, 1930-2010
1 Linear FeetThe Giacomo Patri Archive contains a bound manuscript of Patri's "White Collar", books from the Patri School of Art, notes on Patri, and several books on art, wordless books, and other topics. Each item is quantified, adding up to 6 books, 9 items (books and ephemera), and 9 additional items illustrated by Patri.
Siegfried Sassoon papers, 1894-1966
3 linear feetCorrespondence and manuscripts. The collection includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of two volumes of his autobiography: THE OLD CENTURY AND SEVEN MORE YEARS, 1938; and THE WEALD OF YOUTH, 1942. There are also 13 volumes of early notebooks for the period 1894 until 1909 (from age 8 to 22) containing drafts of over 200 poems, 19 short stories and many drawings. There is some correspondence about the autobiography. Also includes 21 letters from Arnold Bennett, 51 letters from Lady Ottoline Morrell, 26 letters from H.M. Tomlinson, 19 letters from Sassoon to his mother-in-law, Lady Gatty, 22 letters from Sassoon to his son, letters from many others, and a typescript of his poem "A love affair" with holograph note
Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Oral History Collection, 2014-2015
35 VolumesGayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 2015 February 18, 2015 May 19 Box 3
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- of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. She received her B.A. in English (First
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In this interview, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak discusses her decision to come teach at Columbia University, drawn by New York City, her friend and colleague Palestinian literary theoretician Edward Said, and IRWGS. Spivak shares the topics she explored at IRWGS—feminism and psychoanalysis, global feminism, feminism and de-colonization—and her role in the foundation of Columbia's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Spivak discusses the nature of the discipline of comparative literature and its relationship to other departments. Spivak goes on to talk about gender studies and the climate for feminism at other institutions, including: the University of Pittsburgh, Emory University, University of Texas Austin, University of Iowa, and Cornell University. Spivak also discusses feminism in her childhood and her unconventional upbringing in India. Spivak addresses tokenism and the challenges of being a female professor of color. She also talks about her Rural Education Project, her activism, her mother's activism, and being inspired by Malcolm X.
Rosalind Morris, 2014 December 17, 2015 February 26 Box 3
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- between 1999 and 2004, and Associate Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at
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Rosalind Morris begins this interview by discussing the status of the Department of Anthropology upon her arrival at Columbia University. She goes on to describe her interest in IRWGS's content and teaching style. Morris also discusses her role in the establishment of the IRWGS Feminist Interventions series. Additionally, Morris discusses the problems faced by IRWGS throughout her directorship including the crises of labor and energy, the institutional vulnerability of IRWGS' faculty, the ongoing debates about activism in the classroom, the relationship between institutional marginality and autonomy, and the Institute's relationship with Barnard College. Morris explains the evolution of IRWGS in its inclusion of queer studies, race studies, and third-wave feminism. She also focuses on the resurgence of misogyny and white supremacy in response to these ideas. Here she discusses 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, and sexual assault on college campuses, citing Emma Sulkowicz's Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight).
Karen Van Dyck, 2015 February 11 Box 3
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- Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) since 2004.
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In this interview, Karen Van Dyck begins by discussing her early life and education. She particularly focuses on her first trip to Greece, which inspired her intellectual pursuit of modern Greek female poets. In 1988, Van Dyck was recruited to begin a Modern Greek program at Columbia University and immediately became involved with IRWGS, both teaching and learning within the institute. She discusses the support network she found at IRWGS, particularly after the birth of her three children. All the while, Van Dyck explains, she was working to open up the Classics department to changes, including its collaboration with IRWGS. This was supported by the department chair Roger Bagnall but, Van Dyck notes, she was the Classics faculty member who was primarily relied upon to do this bridge work. Van Dyck discusses this experience and the nature of this work. Throughout the interview, Van Dyck discusses the differences in studying women and feminism at different institutions, particularly Columbia, Wesleyan, and Oxford. Additionally, Van Dyck ruminates over her generation's place, especially the place of female scholars, within larger institutional history and over the shifts and realignments of IRWGS in recent years. Van Dyck discusses the institute's growing emphasis on the social sciences. She discusses collaboration with the Institute as well as the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.