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Indiana University Department of English records, 1886-1990, bulk 1940-1960

A Guide to the records at the Indiana University Archives


Electronic finding aid encoded by Ryan K. Lee; updated in 2008 by Pam Rickly and in 2014 by Amanda Ferrara.

Summary Information

Repository
Indiana University Archives
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library E460
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
Phone: 812-855-1127
Email: archives@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/archives

Creator
Indiana University. Department of English.

Title
Indiana University Department of English records, 1886-1990,  bulk 1940-1960

Collection No.
C287

Extent
10 cubic feet (12 boxes)

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
The English Department records span more than a century, from 1886 to 2012. The collection consists of correspondence between the acting chairman and English faculty members at IU and other institutions in the United States as well as students. The administrative files contain memos, correspondence with IU English faculty and regional campuses, reports pertaining to department committees, programs, courses, publications, other activities that concerned the development and growth of the Department. The publications files contain journals and other published material relating to Bloomington's English department.

Access Restrictions

Select files are closed to researchers. These are indicated in the finding aid.

Advance notice is required.

Administrative History

While English classes at IU date back to 1829, it was not until the 1840s that the department began to specialize in classical languages and literatures. In 1861, department chair Henry Bascom Hibbens left to join the Union Army, and the department lacked a central figure until 1868 when George Washington Hoss became the new chairman. Hoss made some significant changes, most notably adding English to the catalogue as an elective (it would not be until 1880 that Chairman Orrin Benner Clark listed courses in the catalogue under the heading “Department of English.”) In addition to expanding the curriculum, Clark introduced a written exercise for all IU students and placed an emphasis on literature. Seven years later, in 1887, the department awarded its first M.A. degree.

In the late 1890s and early 1900s, Clark’s successor Martin Wright Sampson expanded the emphasis on literature to include literary history and critical study. Sampson also turned his attention to high schools and raised awareness that incoming freshman needed established writing and literary skills to succeed at IU.

By 1899, the English Department contained eight of the university’s seventy-one faculty members. In 1908, the department offered its first graduate courses, and six years later it granted its first Ph.D. to Lillian B. Brownsfield (ten years later, Sister Gertrude Smith would receive the second Ph.D. awarded by the department). In 1920, following the resignation of numerous faculty and staff members, the English Department took on a new face as a younger generation of teachers entered the department and by 1921 it had expanded to 24 faculty members. For the next twenty-five years, while the department continued to grow, it experienced a period of relative stability while focusing on the teaching of composition and literary history.

Though the English Department experienced a slight reduction of students during World War II, the department reasserted itself after the war, under the chairmanship of James A. Work (1951-1961), by establishing a variety of outreach programs, such as the Writing Laboratory and a Poetry Series sponsored by Indiana University Press. By revising the undergraduate and honors programs in 1953, Work helped gain national recognition for the department. The graduate program was revised in 1961. In the 1960s the department implemented other programs, such as an English language program for undergraduates in 1966 and a guest speaker seminar series in 1968. In the 1970s, the English Department added a Comparative Literature Program.

Currently, the English Department has approximately 60 faculty members, 200 graduate students, and 500 undergraduate majors.

Arrangement

Collection is organized into three series: Correspondence, Administrative files, and Publications.

Scope and Content Note

The English Department records span the period from 1886 and 2012 with the bulk of the material created in the period from 1940 to 1980. The records are organized into three series: Correspondence, Administrative files, and Publications.

The Correspondence series contains two sub-series: General correspondence, and Student correspondence. Since most of the correspondence was written to and from English department chairs, the folders have been organized by the person writing to the chairman or to whom the chairman addressed his letter. The General correspondence sub-series, 1922-1971, consists of correspondence from faculty at IU, faculty members from institutions throughout the United States and other countries, prospective and current students, alumni, and individuals associated with various businesses. The Student correspondence sub-series, 1924-1964, is comprised of letters to and from prospective and current students as well as alumni. In the original accession, these files were kept separate from the general correspondence, so the original order has been maintained. Correspondents who wrote or received more than two letters have been placed in their own folder, while the remaining correspondents have been placed in “General” folders located at the end of the appropriate alphabetical section. All the folders in the sub-series are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the correspondent and then chronologically within the folder. Nicknames have been placed in parenthesis after the correspondent’s name.

While most individual folders contain only a few pieces of correspondence, the acting chairman frequently corresponded with several IU faculty and administrators, such as the Dean of Men, C.E. Edmonson, the Dean of the School of Music, Wilfred C. Bain, Professor Edgar L. Yeager of the Psychology Department, Professor Norman Pratt, Jr. of the Classics Department, and Professor Bert E. Young of the Romance Language Department. The acting chairman also recurrently corresponded with faculty and administrative members at other institutions, such as Professor R.W. Pence of DePauw University and Alfred H. Upham, President of the University of Idaho and Miami University (Oxford, OH).

The Administrative files series contains four sub-series: Committees; General subject; Programs; and Regional campuses. These sub-series have been arranged alphabetically by subject and then chronologically within the folder. The Committees sub-series, 1953-1999, primarily contains memos and interdepartmental correspondence that discuss appointments for faculty and staff, as well as curriculum issues. Several of the folders contain committee meeting minutes and agendas that address curriculum matters, such as potential new courses as well as changes to current courses. The sub-series also includes some correspondence between the English department and various IU administrative offices. The General subject sub-series, 1943-2012, contain records on a wide variety of issues that pertain to the growth and development of the English Department, mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. The sub-series contains interdepartmental correspondence along with memoranda with select IU administrative offices regarding curriculum matters and course offerings. Some folders contain reports pertaining to curriculum matters, such as course proposals and alterations, while other folders relate to more administrative affairs, such as problems with graduate examinations and teaching load requirements. Also found here are files on the history of the department, gathered as part of project in the late 1960s. Included in the files are memoirs and reminiscences of faculty and alumni from acros the years. The series also includes some funding requests for various projects the department sought to develop. The Programs sub-series, 1956-1976, mainly consists of interdepartmental correspondence on the various programs that the English department pursued and developed. Most of the folders contain memos that discuss proposals and funding requests for the programs. Unlike the other folders in this series, the comparative literature program file consists mostly of course and curriculum information documenting the debates among faculty and administrative officials on how best to develop the program. The sub-series, Regional campuses, 1964-1972, is comprised of correspondence between the English department at IU and the English departments at other IU campuses. Since Bloomington’s English department served as a guide for the development and growth of other the other departments, the correspondence primarily pertains to faculty issues, such as faculty openings and potential candidates to fill the new positions. Also, various memoranda discuss the types of courses the branch campuses offered and the recommendations for making changes in curriculums.

The final series, the Publications series, 1943-2012, consists primarily of departmental newsletters and its working papers but also includes other departmental publications such as The Ballantinian, The Folio, Pegasus, Quarry, and departmental manuals.

Separated Material

Records containing social security numbers have been removed and placed in restricted folders. Duplicate records have been removed.

Two photographs have been pulled and transferred to the University Archives Photograph Collection.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Accessions 5118-5120, 2008/012, 2013/027
Usage Restrictions
Copyrights for records originating with Indiana University administrative units, departments, and other offices are held by the Trustees of Indiana University. For more information, please contact the Indiana University Archives staff.

The Indiana University Archives respects the intellectual property rights of others and does not claim any copyrights for non-university records, materials in the public domain, or materials for which we do not hold a Deed of Gift. Responsibility for the determination of the copyright status of these materials rests with those persons wishing to reuse the materials. Researchers are responsible for securing permission from copyright owners and any other rights holders for any reuse of these materials that extends beyond fair use or other statutory limitations.

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Preferred Citation
[Item], Indiana University Department of English records, Collection C287, Indiana University Archives, Bloomington.
Provenance
Transferred from the English Department to the University Archives, 29 July 1987.

Additional records transferred in 2008 by former department chair Donald J. Gray.

Issues of Pegasus (volumes 1-5, 1962-1967) were transferred from the Herman B Wells Library Research Collection to the University Archives in July 2019.

Appraisal
Duplicate records have been removed. Several newspaper clippings have been photocopied and the original articles discarded.
Processing Information
Processed by Donald C. Force.

Completed in 2005.

Accession 2008/012 processed into this collection in March 2008 by Pam Rickly.

Accession 2013/027 added in May 2014 by Amanda Ferrara.

Series: Correspondence, 1922-1971 
Subseries: General correspondence, 1922-1971 
Box 1 Abel, Mary E., 1941-1943,  undated  
Adams, Raymond, 1940-1958 
Albrecht, W.P., 1957-1961 
Alexander, Laura, 1932-1940 
Allen, David C., 1940-1959 
Alger, Morris E., 1938 
Ancker, Sidney, 1953 
Andres, L.O., 1943-1947 
Ambler, Donald, 1957-1958,  undated 
Appleman, John, 1952 
Applicant Letters,
1968-1969 
1970-1971 
1971-1972 
Ardashiere, Ruth, 1936,  1946 
Armstrong, William S., 1959-1961 
“A” (General), 1931-1967 
Bain, Wilfred C., 1931,  1949-1967  
Bangs, Grace A., 1944 
Barker, C.W., 1937-1939 
Bartley, E. Ross, 1944-1963 
Bate, W.J., 1959-1963 
Baugh, Albert, 1943-1944,  1955 
Bergmann, Frederick (Fred), 1956-1961 
Berndt, A.H., 1945 
Berry, Lillian G., 1934-1942,  undated  [image]View item(s)
Black, Claude J., 1939-1952 
Blair, Walter, 1953-1958 
Blanchard, Harold H., 1949-1955 
Bond, Richard P., 1926-1927 
Booth, Wayne, 1959-1960 
Boughner, Dan, 1959-1960 
Bouslog, Charles, 1933,   1943-1947,  undated 
Bowers, Fredson, 1957 
Bracher, Frederick, 1960 
Bredvold, Louis I., 1940 
Brogan, Howard O., 1954-1963 
Brooke, Tucker, 1926-1932 
Brooks, Lurabel, 1926,  undated 
Brown, Ernie, 1940-1945,  undated 
Brown, Huntington, 1944 
Brown, Rollo Walter, 1937-1948  
Bryan, William L., 1942-1943,  1953 
Bullock, Walter, 1932 
“B” (General), 1928-1967,  undated 
Carmer, Carl, 1941-1942 
Carmichael, Geoffrey, 1940 
Carter, H. H., 1937-1939 
Cavanaugh, M. Pierre (Sister), 1964 
Chair Review, 1993-1997 
Christ, William, 1961-1962 
Clark, Art, 1952-1960 
Cleland, Ralph, 1943-1949 
Conner, Frederick, 1952-1956 
Cooper, Lane, 1939 
Cornog, William, 1959 
Cosper, Russell, 1963-1964 
Craig, E.L., 1947-1948 
Cravens, John W., 1930-1933 
Creek, H.L., 1935-1947 
Crosby, Harry H., 1958-1960 
Cumings, Edgar C., 1948 
Cushing, Frederic, 1956-1959 
“C” (General), 1926-1964 
Davis, Pansie, 1939 
Davis, Wade, 1942-1943 
Day, Cyrus L., 1945-1951 
Dean, Leonard, 1953-1962 
Deighton, Lee, 1949 
Densford, Ruth Bridges, 1936 
Dice, Jess, 1940-1942 
Dickinson, Marcia, 1958 
Diggs, Elder, 1928-1929,  1952 
Douglas, Lucretia, 1930-1932 
Douglas, Theodore, 1931-1937  
Douglas, Wallace (Wally), 1945-1950 
Dowling, Leo R., 1944-1958  
Dunn, Charles W., 1942 
Duvall, Russell W., 1962 
“D” (General), 1927-1971 
Eberenz, James H., 1961 
Edgerton, William B., 1964-1968 
Edmondson, C.E., 1926-1943  
Edmonson, Frank, 1943 
Edward, Edwards, 1939-1942 
Eliason, Norman, 1937,  1950 
Ellison, Jerome, 1956-1957 
Ellman, Richard, 1956-1962 
Emery, George (Red), 1943-1944 
Enley, Lucinda, 1931 
Eyster, Elvin S., 1942-1943 
“E” (General), 1925-1967 
Fairchild, A.H.R., 1937 
Feeler, Thelma V., 1941-1942,  1964 
Feltus, Paul L, 1938 
Fernando, Lloyd, 1964 
Fertich, Mabel, 1936 
Field, Oliver P., 1943-1944 
Fink, Zera, 1955-1958  
Fischer, Karl, 1930-1931 
Flowers, Helen L., 1952 
Flox, Richard, 1948 
Foeller, Elmer E., 1935-1937 
Foerster, Norman, 1938-1941 
Force, Hazel, 1927 
Fortenberry, LaVelle, 1946-1948 
Fosbrink, Lillie E., 1949-1950 
Foster, Adelle, 1929 
Founder's Day, 1985 
Fowler, E.B., 1931 
Franklin, Joseph, 1938 
Franzén, Carl G.F., 1930-1931,  1948 
Fredericus, M. (Sister), 1958 
Freeland, Fern Faith, 1952 
Freese, Esther, 1945 
Freidenrich, John, 1961,  undated 
French, J. Milton, 1950-1955 
Friedrich, Walter G. 1950-1957 
Friend, Joseph, 1933-1944 
Froberg, Lawrence, 1941-1942 
Fuelling, Norbert E., 1951 
Fuerst, Norbert, 1961 
Fullington, James F., 1945-1946 
Funk, Patricia S., 1950 
“F” (General), 1926-1964 
Gal, Martin, 1950,  undated 
Garland, Hamlin, 1929-1930 
Gavit, Bernard C., 1933-1942 
Gephart, Anna R., 1950-1951 
Gerber, John, 1954-1966  
German, Merrill, 1949,  1959 
Glockner, Gertrude, 1925 
Goodwin, George, Jr., 1967 
Gorrell, Robert M., 1949-1959  
Gott, Charles, 1932-1935  
Grant, Walter, 1930-1932  [image]View item(s)
Graves, Juanita, 1946-1947 
Gravit, Francis, 1950-1952,  undated 
Gray, Ernest W., 1948 
Green, Milton K., 1946-1950,  undated 
Greene, Marjory T., 1942 
Greene, Randall S., 1940 
Greenough, Doris D., 1941-1942 
Grommon, Alfred, 1956-1960 
Guha, Dharma R., 1962,  undated 
Gwynn, Frederick L., 1938,  1956 
“G” (General), 1925-1962 
Haas, James G. (foreign admissions), 1969 
Hadley, J. Edwin, 1940-1942 
Hagan, Joan, 1953-1954 
Halgas, Michael, 1944-1945 
Hallstead, Robert N., 1939-1940 
Halstead, William P., 1928-1934,  undated  
Hard, Frederick, 1956-1959 
Harper, Fowler, 1938-1946,  undated  
Harris, Robert, 1927-1928 
Harvery, Millard, 1950 
Hauswald, R.L., 1933-1935,  1946,   undated 
Hayward, Robert R., 1956 
Heffner, Hubert C., 1954-1963,  undated  
Heighway, George, 1937-1943,  1953 
Helt, Jeanne, 1941 
Henderson, Esther D., 1940-1941 
Hester, Edith M., 1938-1939 
Hewitt, Jennie C., 1947 
Higginbotham, Frank, 1942 
Hilberry, Conrad, 1958-1959 
Hill, Charles J., 1955-1956 
Hill, Harold E., 1958-1966 
Hoddle, Helen, 1930-1932 
Hodson, Margery, 1946 
Homma, Kenshiro, 1965 
Hoopes, Robert, 1958-1959 
Hope, Henry, 1943-1944,  1963 
Horack, Frank, 1939-1944 
Hornberger, Theodore, 1954 
Hosford, Chris R., 1946 
Hougland, Helen K., 1937-1939 
Houpt, Victoria, 1927 
Howard, Catharine L., 1959 
Hughes, Otto, 1948-1950 
Humphrey, James W.E., 1947 
Box 2 “H” (General), 1924-1968 
Irwin, Archibald E., 1961 
Isaccs, Mary A., 1927-1930 
Ittner, Robert T., 1940-1942 
“I” (General), 1929-1959 
Jackson, Helene C., 1948 
Jacobs, E.L., 1938-1940 
Javier, Rosa Falcon, 1926-1928 
Jelavich, Charles, 1963 
Jelliffe, R.A., 1931-1937 
Jensen, Arthur E., 1957-1959 
Jewell, J.W., 1954 
Johnson, Edna, 1928 
Johnson, Francis R., 1958 
Johnson, Fred Bates, 1952-1957 
Johnson, Harvey L., 1956-1960 
Johnson, Mary B., 1945-1952 
Jones, Howard Mumford, 1928-1930,  1951 
Judson, Alexander C., 1926-1938  
“J” (General), 1927-1963 
Kabel, Martha Rebecca, 1932-1935 
Kaufman, Marjorie, 1939-1940 
Kek, Evan R., 1944 
Keller, Charles R., 1958-1961  
Kelly, Eve, 1945 
Kelso, Helen C. (Mrs. George), 1948 
Kemp, Gretchen, 1956-1959 
Kendrick, Cecil B., 1943-1944 
Kinne, Wisner, 1937-1938 
Kinser, Opha, 1960 
Kittredge, George L., 1937 
Knecht, Christian, 1927,  1940 
Kohlmeier, A.L., 1927-1945 
Koller, Kathrine, 1952-1956 
Kooken, Dan, 1948-1955  
Kuersteiner, Agnes D., 1927-1929,  1944 
Kussrow, Carl Van, 1955-1956 
“K” (General), 1926-1965 
Labata, John, 1926,  1956-1959 
Lambellini, Dolores C., 1958-1959 
Leach, Wallace, 1948 
Leake, William B., 1946 
Lehman, Hilda F., 1936-1937 
Leible, Arthur B., 1948-1951 
Leininger, Claudia Sue, 1942 
Leisy, E.E., 1927,  1937 
Leser, Elsa, 1929-1930 
Lévêque, Ernest J., 1951-1952 
Lewis, Anne B., 1926-1927 
Lewis, Melvin S., 1939-1943 
Lewis, Pauline M., 1941 
Light, James F., 1962 
Locke, Anna M., 1940-1942 
Lockhart, Charles L., 1932 
Lockridge, Ross F., Jr., 1941 
Loeffler, Don, 1952 
Logan, Floyd B., 1929 
Logan, James V., 1941 
Logan, Vivian Crates, 1932-1934 
Long, Percy W., 1943-1944 
Long, Ralph B., 1957-1959 
Loomis, Marilyn J., 1954 
Lotze, Gertrude, 1936-1937 
Louttit, C.M., 1935-1938 
Love, Donald, 1931-1936  
Lowe, Dorothy, 1954 
Lozano, Rudy, 1957-1958 
Lycan, Eva Hanks, 1928 
Lyons, James W., 1960,  undated 
“L” (General), 1926-1967 
Mackel, Ruth, 1944 
Magdalen, Sister, 1922-1932 
Magill, Frank N., 1957 
Mahan, M.S., 1933-1934 
Marlatt, Ruth M., 1928 
Marquand, John, 1946-1947,  undated 
Martz, Louis L., 1958-1959 
Mason, Harold C., 1937 
Masters, Robert, 1931-1936 
Mathai, T.V., 1965-1966 
Mather, Charles C., 1947-1948 
Mays, Ralph, 1959 
Mee, John F., 1948-1959  
Meessen, H.J., 1948-1951 
Merchant, Sadie, 1939 
Merrill, Winfred, 1931-1932,  undated 
Mersand, Joseph, 1959 
Messenger, John C., 1968-1969 
Miles, Guy S., 1930-1934  
Milisen, Robert, 1938-1939,  undated 
Miller, Alan Curtis, 1939 
Milliner, Golda, 1931-1932 
Mills, Barriss, 1955-1959 
Minton, Ralph C., 1929-1936  
Mitchell, Jim, 1961 
Modder, Montago F., 1938-1939 
Montgomery, Ann G., 1962 
Montgomery, Franz, 1929,  1939,  1959 
Moody, Richard, 1958-1968,  undated 
Mooney, Marie, 1938 
Moore, Earl, 1929-1938 
Moore, Everett R., 1954 
Moran, Mary Elinor, 1927-1929 
Morgan, William T., 1942-1954 
Morrison, Theodore, 1951 
Morton, David (Dave), 1942 
Mouser, Evelyn S., 1939 
Muir, Dennis H., 1954 
Munro, Edna F., 1932 
Muse, Violet, 1929-1937  
“M” (General), 1926-1967 
McBeth, Mary R., 1929-1946  
McClure, Charles Haven, 1929-1939  
McClure, C.R., 1949 
McCrea, Ruth, 1925-1926 
McCurry, Myron, 1925-1930,  1941 
McGaughey, Helen, 1949-1950 
McGee, Alan V., 1942 
McGranahan, Ellen, 1939-1950 
McKeehan, Alice E., 1940-1947 
McKenna, Mildred M., 1940-1941 
McKillop, Alan D., 1948-1949 
McKissick, Katheryn, 1930-1947 
McNutt, Paul V., 1930-1936 
“Mc” (General), 1926-1961 
Nash, Philip C., 1927,  1938 
Nave, Velma, 1945 
Newby, Richard L., 1958 
Newcomb, ?, 1942-1943 
Nicodemus, Wendell, 1939-1944 
Nicoll, Allardyee, 1934-1937 
Nipp, Francis S., 1938-1940 
Noah, James E., 1959 
Norris, Sara, 1933-1940 
Nye, Susanah (D.D.), 1929-1931 
“N” (General), 1927-1963,  undated 
Oaks, Barbara J., 1948 
O’Brien, Blanche E., 1929-1930 
O’Connell, Mary M., 1945 
Oman, William, 1949-1957 
Orr, Ella Miller, 1932-1936 
Orvis, Mary, 1953 
Osler, Robert, 1934-1936 
Owen, Barbara, 1938 
“O” (General), 1925-1960 
Padelford, Frederick M., 1935-1940 
Palmer, Jerome (Father), 1937 
Palmer, Kate E., 1940-1941 
Parks, George, 1941-1946  
Patton, Edwina, 1934-1937 
Pavey, Mary, 1935-1936 
Peak, Philip, 1960-1964 
Pearson, Henry E., 1941-1953  
Pence, R.W., 1930-1951  
Perkins, Dexter, 1951-1954 
Perrin, Porter G., 1952-1959 
Perry, Virgil L., 1937-1938 
Persinger, Mary M., 1933 
Phillips, Helen K., 1947 
Pierson, Elizabeth A., 1938-1939 
Pitman, James H., 1925-1933  
Pittenger, L.A., 1928-1937  
Pitts, Rebecca E., 1957 
Pollitt, J. Donald, 1946 
Pope, Willard B., 1959 
Potter, Ralph, 1931-1941  
Pounds, Norman, J.G., 1954 
Powers, Eva, 1949-1950 
Pratt, Goldie M., 1927-1931 
Pratt, Jim, 1953-1967  
Pratt, Norman, Jr., 1948-1956,  1967-1968 
Pratt-Lacy, Winifred, 1933 
Price, Henry C., 1945-1946 
Prickett, A.L., 1936-1944 
Prior, Moody E., 1957 
Prout, Pearl V., 1928 
Province, Florence A., 1934-1935 
“P” (General), 1925-1963,  undated 
Railsback, Fern L., 1929-1936 
Rainbolt, Katherine, 1950 
Ramsey, May L., 1928 
Ramsey, William D., 1929-1934  
Randall, David A., 1957-1966 
Ratcliff, Norman, 1948 
Raub, Nellie T., 1927,  1937 
Rea, John D., 1928-1933 
Recruiting,
1983-1984 
1984-1985 
1985-1986 
1986-1987 
1987-1988 
1988-1989 
Reeves, Gladys V., 1930-1933 
Reifel, Dorthy M., 1928-1929 
Reilly, Mary A., 1957 
Remak, Henry H., 1949-1966 
Rhorer, Virginia, 1954 
Rice, Vic A., 1943 
Richardson, Carl, 1930-1931 
Richter, F.J., 1949 
Robinson, D.S., 1935-1940 
Robinson, Elizabeth, 1933-1937 
Robinson, Howard, 1930-1935  
Rollins, Hyder E., 1945 
Romans, Bessie, 1942-1943 
Rothrock, David A., 1923-1937 
Rouse, Irving E. (Sarah), 1958 
Royalty, Paul, 1932-1937,  1959-1960 
Box 3 Royer, Robert (Bob), 1928-1944,  undated 
Rufsvold, Margaret I., 1939 
Russell, Roger, 1962-1965 
Rusk, Ralph, 1924-1940  
Rust, James D., 1941-1942 
Ryder, Frank, 1964-1966 
“R” (General), 1926-1967,  undated 
Sale, William M., Jr., 1955-1958 
Sanders, Robert L., 1939-1944  
Sapir, Edward, 1932-1933 
Secord, A.W., 1937-1938 
Seeber, Edward, 1940,  1951 
Sembower, C.J., 1931-1939 
Smock, George E., 1956-1959 
Soeberg, Victor, 1934-1935 
Spicer, Earle, 1943-1948 
Staebler, Warren, 1951,  1962-1963 
Stallknecht, Newton, 1952-1959  
Stemple, Guido H., 1937-1941 
Stempel, John, 1941-1958,  undated 
Stephenson, Henry Thew, 1931-1941,   undated 
Stoddart, Helene G., 1938-1941 
Stone, George W., Jr., 1956-1960 
Stout, Robert E., 1937,  1957 
Strickland, Ruth G., 1957   [image]View item(s)
Stuart, Edward C., 1956 
Sutherland, Edwin H., 1937-1945  
Sutton, William (Bill) A., 1954-1960 
“S” (General), 1923-1967 
Tannehill, Robert, 1950 
Taylor, Carl N., 1925 
Taylor, Marguerite, 1962-1963 
Taylor, Warmer, 1933,  1956 
Tezla, Albert, 1940 
Therese, Maureen (Sister), 1948 
Thomas, Aeloian E.G., 1954 
Thomas, Frank J., 1948 
Thomas, John B., Jr., 1941-1942 
Tiffany, K.B., 1937-1939 
Tillyard, E.M.W., 1948 
Tinker, Chauncey B., 1927,  1937,  1956 
Tooker, J.L., 1960-1963 
Townsend, P.W., 1933 
Trainor, Margie C., 1965 
Trowbridge, Hoyt, 1931,  1964 
Tucker, Juanita (Roach), 1943 
Tyler, George, 1930-1936 
“T” (General), 1924-1964 
Uebele, Ruth, 1938-1942 
Ulrich, James C., 1950-1951 
Upham, Alfred H., 1925-1939 
Urton, Mary Louise, 1937 
“U” (General), 1947-1953,  undated 
Valdman, Albert, 1963-1967  
Van Cleave, Albert R., 1927-1928 
Van Etten, Leslie J., 1950 
Van Keuren, Ernest, 1939-1944 
Van Liere, Carma P., 1945-1946 
Van Scoy, Lloyd M., 1940-1941 
Vawter, Elizabeth, 1928 
Veatch, Henry, 1939-1958 
Vos, B.J., 1926-1933  
“V” (General), 1928-1967,  undated 
Watts, Bertha, 1949-1950 
Walen, Harry L., 1958-1959 
Wallace, A. Dayle, 1946-1959 
Wallace, Robert M., 1954 
Waugh, Albert E., 1945-1946 
Weatherly, Edward H., 1954-1960 
Weinland, David E., 1948 
Wheeler, Lawrence, 1947-1949 
White, Fred S., 1941 
Whitfield, Joyce J., 1963 
Will, Samuel F., 1951,   1962-1964  
Williams, K.P., 1932,   1939 
Williams, Stanley, 1930-1931 
Wilt, Napier, 1955,   1957 
Wimsatt, William K., Jr., 1949-1958 
Wise, Truman S., 1950 
Wolf, Estella, 1927-1944  
Wollermann, Ira D., 1929 
Wood, E.R., 1928 
Wood, Waldo, 1935 
Woods, Charles, 1956-1957 
Work, James A., 1952-1957 
Worth, George J., 1961-1966  
Wright, Louis B., 1952-1960 
Wykoff, George S., 1930,  1941-1954  
“W” (General), 1926-1967 
Yeager, Edgar L., 1928-1938  
Young, Bert E., 1928-1943  
Young, Herrick, 1934-1935 
Youngs, J.W. Ted, 1957-1960 
Young, Karl, 1926-1927,  1940 
Young, Sam H., 1940 
“Y” (General), 1927-1959  
Zeigler, Louise, 1937-1941  
Zucker, A.E., 1938 
“Z” (General), 1929-1936,  1960-1964 
Subseries: Student correspondence, 1924-1964 
Box 3 Bach, Rosemary (Stephen), 1950 
Bailey, Helen, 1943 
Bash, James, 1946-1947 
Bechtel, Lenore A., 1943 
Bente, Paul F., 1930-1935  
Bever, Ruby M., 1947-1950 
Bickel, Robert M., 1949 
Boys, Eleanor, 1936 
Brackwinkle, Hilda L., 1941 
Brown, Donald, 1938-1944  
Bundy, C.G., 1932-1942 
Burk, W.E.R., 1947 
Burns, Verna C., 1935-1939 
Bussell, John C., 1936-1938  
Butler, Nannye V., 1946-1952 
Butz, Hazel, 1945-1950 
Byers, Mary Elizabeth, 1944 
“B” (General), 1925-1960 
Cage, Haze, 1925-1928,  1942-1943 
Campbell, Ruth, 1951-1952 
Carnahan, Mary, 1946 
Chadwick, W. Marie, 1942-1944 
Chenoweth, Blanche, 1928-1930 
Chester, Edna Smith, 1948-1949 
Chunn, Ellsworth, 1940 
Clarke, Mitchell, 1941-1948,  undated 
Coleman, Melba, 1940-1941 
Collins, Boyd, 1950 
Cudenet, Christine, 1948 
“C” (General), 1927-1961 
Salzman, Ann, 1951 
Sams, Henry W., 1959 
Sayles, Nathaniel, 1948-1949 
Schmedel, Scott R., 1954 
Schumacher, George A., 1930-1931 
Schumaker, Julia, 1937-1939 
Scott, Lillian, 1943 
Sheehan, Thomas M., 1958 
Shelby, H.L., 1929 
Shephed, Lois, 1949 
Shorb, Rowena, 1948 
Simison, Frank M., 1925-1930 
Slaker, Joan, 1951 
Smith, Ware R., 1959 
“S” (General), 1925-1961,  undated 
Waite, Margaret, 1926-1930 
Walker, Stella, 1947 
Webb, Gladys M., 1929-1932 
Weill, M.F., 1937,  1956 
Weintraub, Pauline, 1947-1948 
Whelen, Mary Sebastian (Sister), 1948 
White, Clara, 1940 
Whillhardt, Gary D., 1959 
Wilson, Helen, 1930-1938,  1951-1957 
Wilson, Mary Lou, 1951-1952 
Winger, Bjorn, 1929-1930 
Winn, Esther, 1940-1941 
Wood, Letha F., 1958 
Wood, Willson E., 1934-1935 
“W” (General), 1924-1964 
Series: Box 3 Administrative files, 1943-2002 
Subseries: Committees, 1953-1972 
Advisory Committee,
1970-1982 
1986-1987 
American Literature Committee, 1956-1957,  undated 
BCRTF, 1991 
Correspondence Study Committee, 1966-1970 
Creative Writing Committee, 1951-1972 
Children’s Literature Committee, 1967-1968 
Box 4 Committee Lists,1969-1970 
Curriculum Committee (Correspondence and Materials),
1943-1945  [image]View item(s)
1946-1948   [image]View item(s)
1953-1968  [image]View item(s)
1969-1972  [image]View item(s)
Commission on English Conference, Boston, Summer, 1965 
Graduate Advising Committee, 1966-1967 
Graduate Study Committee,
1964-1969 
1970-1971 
1972,  undated 
Lectures, Readings, Occasions, and Publicity Committee, 1953-1971,  undated 
MA Committee, 1969 
Prizes and Contests Committee, 1968-1972,  undated 
Standing Committee, 1944-1952 
Teacher Education/Preparation Committee, 1966-1970 
Final Report of the Committee on Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts, 1978 
Teacher Preparation Committee, 1969-1973 
Committee on TA Constitution, 1971 
TA and Fellowships Committee, 1970-1971 
Undergraduate Advising Committee, 1966-1972,  undated 
Undergraduate Honors Committee, 1966-1972  
Undergraduate Study Committee,
1956-1967 
1968-1969 
1970-1972,  undated 
Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1979 
University Faculty Council Standing Committees, 1975 
Subseries: General subject, 1943-2002 
Academy of American Poets Contests, 1968-1972 
Burgan, Mary Alice, 1969-1973 
Bureau of Educational Placement, 1967-1969 
Clements, Susan, 1992 
College of Arts and Sciences, College Incentive Plan, English, Copy, 1997 

(2 folders)

Consortium on International Affairs, 1964-1966,  undated 
Continuing Education Division, 1972 
Courses and Required Courses, 1970-1972 
Courses, New - Program Proprosals, 1974 
Course -
Individualized Major Program (IMP Course), undated 
Box 5 L504 Nature and History of English Studies, 1966-1967 
Structuralism Seminar, 1971 
L707:II Symposium/Seminar, 1970-1971 
L101x-L102x, 1969-1970 
Seminars, 1969 
Seminar Spring, 1970 
Victorian Studies, Winter/Spring Book List, 1999 
W131, undated 
W131, 2004 
Center for the Study of Writing Proposal, 1983 

(2 folders)

Creative Writing - People who were asked to join, 1946-1950  [image]View item(s)
Curriculum Study Center,
1962-1964 
1965-1968 
Degree and Enrollment Data, 1894-1972 
Department Annual Report, 1980s 
Department History,
1880-1968 
(Folder 1) [image]View item(s)
(Folder 2) [image]View item(s)
1967-1968 
(Folder 1) [image]View item(s)
(Folder 2) [image]View item(s)
Department Retreat, 1989 
Department Reviews, 1980 
English Department Guide, 1990 

(3 folders)

Faculty Bibliographies, 1991-1993,  1997-2002,  undated 

(11 folders)

undated 
1991 
1992 
1993 
1997 
1998 
1999 
2000 
2000-2002 
Box 6 Faculty Lists, 1967-1969 
Faculty Teaching Review, undated 
Fee and Professional Activity Survey of Graduate Students with Financial Assistance at I.U., 1969-1970 
Freshman Composition,
1950-1959  [image]View item(s)
1962-1971  [image]View item(s)
Freshman Literature,
1950-1968  
1969-1972,  undated 
Governing Policies and Procedures, 1999 
Graduate Brochures, 1967-1968 
Graduate Examinations, 1966-1971 
Graduate Fellowship and Teaching Associateship Selections, 1953,  1967-1971,  undated 
Graduate School, 1914-1970 
List of Graduates and Thesis/Dissertation Topics, 1886-1940 
Great Lakes Colleges Association (GCLA), 1969 
Guest Speaker Seminar, 1967-1968 
History of Graduate Study of English, undated 
Library of William Riley Parker Shelf-List, undated 
Lilly Library, 1966-1967 
Markman, Barbara, 1991 
Media, CCTV, 1974-1977 
MFA Handbook,
2001-2002 
2004-2005 
New Student Meeting, 1962-1967 
Parker, W.R. Newsletter, 1966-1970 
Placement: PhD, 1963-1969 
Reduction of Teaching Loads, 1953-1958,  undated 
Research on Indiana University Campus Programs, undated 

(2 folders)

Rules and Policies, 1962-1967 
School of Letters,
General file, 1951-1955,  undated  [image]View item(s)
Summer Roster, 1951-1968  [image]View item(s)
Staff Additions, 1953-1958 
Staff Meetings Minutes, 1946-1970 
1946-1951 
1951-1966 

(2 folders)

1966-1970 

(2 folders)

The Study of English at I.U., undated 
Study Group-Feminist Theory and Writing, 1975 
Student Notebook-English II B, John W. Lewis, 1915-1916  [image]View item(s)
Box 7 Teaching (Peer Assessments),
1967-1968 
1968,  undated 
Teaching Associates,
1963-1967 
Form Letters, 1966-1967 
New Appointments, 1967-1968 
Lists,
1964-1967 
1968-1970 
1969-1971 
University Affairs, 1969-1972 
Two-course “Load,” 1966-1968 
University Division, 1943-1973  
Veteran’s Office, 1948-1954,  1968,  undated 
War Service Draft, 1967-1970 
West European Studies, 1966-1968,  undated 
Writing Laboratory, 1954-1960  [image]View item(s)
Women's Studies, 1971 
Subseries: Programs, 1956-1976 
Brochures - Readings and lectures, 1962-1967 
Comparative Literature Program, 1971-1976  
Eighteenth-Century Conference of the Department of English, 1967-1970 
English Language Program, 1966-1967 
Experienced Teacher Fellowship Program, 1966-1968 
Title III Program,
1966-1967,  undated 
1974-1977 
1981 
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program, 1956-1967 
Edwards Fellowships, 1968 
Fellowship Holder, 1967-1969 
Fellowship Proposals, 1967 
Fellowships: University and Other: Lists and Correspondence, 1965-1968 
Graduate Fellowships, 1966-1968 
Grant-in-Aid, 1967-1970 
NDEA Title IV Fellowships Department Applications, 1963-1969 
Experienced Teacher Fellowship Program: Title V Proposal, 1965-1967 
Nominations for Dissertation Year Fellowships, 1967-1969 
Teaching Associate Summer Fellowships, 1969 
Wilson Dissertation Year Fellowships, 1968-1972 
Subseries: Regional campuses, 1964-1972 
Courses,
1964-1965 
1965-1966,  undated 
Faculty, 1964-1968 
Fort Wayne, 1965-1972 
General (Multiple Campuses),
1965-1966 
1967-1970,  undated 
Box 8 Indianapolis, 1966-1968 
Kokomo, 1966-1972 
Northwest, 1966-1970 
South Bend, 1966-1972  
Southeastern, 1966-1968 
Series: Publications, 1920-2012 
Arts and Sciences, 1977-1981 
Ballantinian, 1984 
Canvas, 2012 
Concise Handbook of English Literature, Part I, 1920 
English at UCLA 2001 
English Major's Handbook, 1948-1949 
Evolution of a World Literature Course, 1950 
The Folio, 1936-1956 
The Folio, 1956-1960 
Folklorist's Progress, Stith Thompson, 1956 
(Folder 1) [image]View item(s)
(Folder 2) [image]View item(s)
Box 9 Imprint, 1983-1984 
Indiana English Leaflet, 1960 
Joint Statement of Freshman English in College and High School Preparation, 1959  [image]View item(s)
Literary History at Indiana   by Donald J. Gray and Paul Strohm in New Literary History, 1971-1972 
Manual for Elementary Composition,
Newsletter Data, 1968 
Newsletters,
1966-1967 

(2 folders)

1967-1968 

(2 folders)

1968-1969 

(2 folders)

1970-1972 

(2 folders)

1973/1977 

(2 folders)

1982-1985 
1985-1986 
1986 
1987-1988 
1988-1990 
Box 10 Newspaper Clippings,
1941-1950 

(2 folders)

1953-1954 
1955-1957 

(2 folders)

1958-1965 

(3 folders)

1959 
1966-1974 

(2 folders)

1966-1974 

(2 folders)

Pegasus,
Volume 1, numbers 1-2, Fall 1962-Spring 1963

(bound volume)

Volume 2, numbers 1-2, Winter 1963-Summer 1964

(bound volume)

Volume 3, numbers 1-2, Winter-Spring 1965

(bound volume)

Box 11 Volume 4, numbers 1-2, and Volume 5, 1965, 1967

(bound volume)

Quarry,
1972-1974,  1987 
1990-1993 
1994 
1995-1998 
undated 
Reminiscences of an Octogenarian Folklorist, Hari S. Upadhyaya, 1968 
Box 12 Second Wind: A Sequel after Ten Years to Folklorist's Progress, Stith Thompson, 1966 
Southern Literary Culture lecture series, 1973-1974 
Teaching Walt Whitman, Lewis H. Miller, 1886-1990 
Williams, Mentor L. "They Want to be College English Teachers," Journal of Higher Education," Vol. XXI, No. 3, March 1950 
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