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Rachel Adams, 2015 January 14
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- (Blackwell Press, 2001) and (with Sarah Casteel) a special issue of Comparative American Literature on
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Adams begins this interview with a recollection of her arrival at Columbia in 1997. She describes the interviewing and vetting process, the completion of her dissertation, and her experience settling into New York City. Adams characterizes IRWGS at that time as a center of leaders. She discusses the feminist pedagogy course she co-taught with Julie Crawford. Adams reflects on the students of IRWGS, the institute's hierarchy, and Columbia's institutional environment. She gives examples of academic support within IRWGS, including her first presentation in the Feminist Interventions Series and the formation of a faculty writing group which included Kristina Milnor, Sandhya Shukla, and Julie Crawford. Adams chronicles her interest in Masculinity Studies, her co-authorship of theMasculine Studies Readerwith David Safran, and the limitations of the field.
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David Langston papers, 1968 -- 1971 1.5 linear feet (1.5 linear feet; 3 boxes)
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- Dr. David Langston is a scholar of American literature and theology whose time as a graduate
. in English and American Literature from Stanford University in 1977, and has been teaching and
David J. Langston; M.Div, UTS 1971; Ph.D. English-American Literature, Stanford 1977; student - Creator
- Langston, David J.
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David J. Langston; M.Div, UTS 1971; Ph.D. English-American Literature, Stanford 1977; student member of Union's Core Experimental Program 1968-1970. The collection includes primary drafts, proposals, memoranda, ephemera, photographs, and published matter concerning Core programming at Union during the late 1960s-early 1970s as well as student activities in and around Union on issues such as anti-war activism, racial justice, and anti-apartheid organizing.
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TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, Fort Worth, Texas, May 6 - Dec. 6, 1960 26 items (57 pieces)
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- of English and American Literature, Located at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas (11
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At the invitation of Charles S. Davis, Chairman of the visiting Committee, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Inc., the librarian became a member of a team to Texas Christian University, Nov. 6-10, 1960. The purpose of the visit was to evaluate the Self-Study Program carried on by the university and the quality of the institution's programs. The team's evaluation will be used in considering the university for accreditation by the Southern Association. The librarian was to evaluate the university library program. His report is included.
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Ann Douglas papers, 9999 2.5 linear feet (2 record cartons)
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- Reader. Prof. Douglas teaches twentieth-century American literature, film, music, and politics, with an
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- Douglas, Ann, 1942-
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Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents.
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Farah Griffin, 2015 June 9
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- Griffin's major fields of interest are American and African American literature, music, history and politics
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In this interview, Farah Griffin begins by discussing her early life in South Philadelphia, her love of reading, her relationship with her father and how he was impacted by racial prejudice, the demographics of her neighborhood, and her personal study of women's history and black history. She talks about her early education at an integrated Philadelphia magnet school and the Baldwin School. She goes on to address the origins of her admiration for Toni Morrison, her decision to attend Harvard University as an undergraduate, and her mentors at Harvard: Nathan Huggins and Werner Sollors. Griffin talks about her intellectual interests, including Black feminism, Black feminist literary studies, jazz studies, gender and sexuality, and literature. Griffin discusses her PhD program in American Studies at Yale and cites the classes and professors that influenced her. She briefly addresses her time at the University of Pennsylvania and her own activist work. She characterizes the climate of the English department when she arrived at Columbia and how she was immediately embraced by IRWGS and by the Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS). Griffin talks about her mentorship with Jean Howard and her involvement in diversity initiatives. She discusses her bookHarlem Nocturne, novelist Ann Petry, and her work spreading black women's intellectual history. Griffin concludes the interview by reflecting on how the student body has changed during her time at Columbia. She specifically addresses generational differences between herself and her students, especially regarding the election of President Barack Obama, the backlash after his election, the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, the Black Lives Matter movement, and anti-sexual violence activism on campus.
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Marcellus Blount, 2015 April 2, 2015 April 16
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- discuss his exposure to African American literature at Williams, citing Melvin Dixon as a mentor. Blount
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In this interview, Blount describes his cultural upbringing in New York City, detailing his experience with segregation in high school and his decision to attend Williams College. Blount goes on to discuss his exposure to African American literature at Williams, citing Melvin Dixon as a mentor. Blount provides an account of his graduate work in American Studies at Yale University, and his addition to the faculty of Columbia University in 1985, serving as one of Columbia's five African-American professors at the time. Blount discusses his experiences of marginalization and the strategies he has used to overcome structural obstacles, including his development of alliances with feminist scholars within the English department. Blount names colleagues Susan Winnett and Carolyn Heilbrun as early allies. Blount discusses his longstanding advocacy for a more inclusive Columbia Core Curriculum, including his 30 year petition in favor of adding Ralph Ellison'sInvisible Manto the syllabus. Blount talks about his 1987 arrest during a campus protest demanding resources for African-American students. He recalls his emotions at the time, how it affected his work, and the University's response to the incident. Following this incident, Columbia established lines in African-American Studies and created the Intercultural Resource Center.
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Sarah Chinn, 2015 April 14
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- teaches American Literatures and Cultures and is the Chair of the English Department at Hunter College
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In the first session of this interview, Chinn discusses her adolescence after moving to New York City from London at age 15. Chinn describes the political campaigns she was involved with in London, as well as the youth culture of downtown New York City in the 1980s. Chinn attended Yale University for her undergraduate studies, and discusses impacts of the AIDs epidemic and student organizing on the New Haven campus. Chinn talks about the challenges she faced as a graduate student at Columbia University and her subsequent creation of the Queer Studies Group. Chinn names Patrick Horrigan, Mario DiGangi, and Liz Wiesen as core organizers of the Queer Studies Group, and Judith Butler and Eve Sedgwick as attendees. Chinn describes the interest in work being done around gender and queer studies even without a formal curriculum.
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William Evarts Benjamin papers, 1817-1940 14 linear feet (26 boxes 4 volumes)
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- LITERATURE FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME; new ed. (New York, W.E. Benjamin, 1894). There
printing, binding, and extensive promotion through a network of agents of Stedman's A LIBRARY OF AMERICAN - Creator
- Benjamin, William Evarts, 1859-1940
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Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, financial records, photographs, drawings, engravings, and printed materials of Benjamin. The personal and business papers concern Benjamin's publishing and bookselling company, his numerous benefactions, the disposal of his collections, and many printed catalogs for his company, 1883-1940. The two major correspondents are the business and financial records for the printing, binding, and extensive promotion through a network of agents of Stedman's A LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME; new ed. (New York, W.E. Benjamin, 1894). There are also letters, manuscripts, documents, and drawings of English literary figures collected by Benjamin. Among these are six letters of George Eliot, 47 letters and six manuscripts of John Ruskin, and three letters and one manuscript of Joseph Mallord Turner, with four letters relating to the artist. In addition there ten drawings and watercolors by Ruskin.
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Philip Butcher papers, 1864-2005, bulk 1940-1990 6.75 linear feet (15 document boxes 1 flat box)
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- Philip Butcher, who specialized in American Literature, received an AB (1942) and an MA (1947) from
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- Butcher, Philip, 1918-2011
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The Philip Butcher Papers contain correspondence, journals, subject files, research files, printed material, and photographs related to the life and work of Philip Butcher, primarily, but also related to James Butcher. Philip and James Butcher, brothers, were professors at Morgan State University and Howard University, respectively.
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