This collection is located onsite.
Materials related to students or containing student information are restricted for 75 years from date of creation.
The department records include graduate student information cards (1910s-1960s) and Master's essays on microfilm (1960s-1990s), along with two indexes to identify essays found on microfilm.
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located onsite.
Materials related to students or containing student information are restricted for 75 years from date of creation.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Department of English and Comparative Literature records; Box and Folder; University Archives, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
Columbia University English Department correspondence, 1896-1961
Additions are expected.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
This collection was processed by Joanna Rios. Finding aid written by Joanna Rios in August 2024.
2024-08-22 Finding aid published (JR)
Although literary study has been part of Columbia's curriculum since its founding as King's College in 1754, the recognition of English as a distinct academic discipline at Columbia began with the appointment of Thomas Randolph Price as Professor of the English Language and Literature in 1882. In 1899 Columbia President Seth Low formed two separate departments: the Department of English Language and Literature, devoted to rhetoric, philology, and composition, and the Department of Comparative Literature, intended to represent newly emergent historical, cultural, and psychological approaches to literary expression. In 1910 these departments were merged as the Department of English and Comparative Literature. The intellectual breadth enshrined by this merger has marked the study of literature at Columbia to the present day.
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.
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| Masters theses | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |