English Department records
Content Description
The English department records contain material on faculty and department staffing, course syllabi, course schedules by year, course proposals, and major requirement files. There are also records of department meetings and hosted events. The material also includes files of correspondence between department members and the greater college (box 3), records of the Committee on Being and the Committee on the Status of Faculty Women, Wabash National Study summer working group files, and a departmental self-study (box 4). A small amount of the collection consists of flyers for various guest lectures and talks.
Dates
- Creation: 1965 - 2019
Creator
- Connecticut College. Department of English (Organization)
Access
This collections is open to researchers and has no known restrictions.
About the English Department
The Department of English, and English major, began in 1915 with the opening of the College. A minor was established in 1983, the first year minors were added to the curriculum. President Fredrick Sykes, Professor Alice Perry Wood, and Professor/Instructor Nann Clark Barr were the first faculty. Faculty of note during the period covered by the collection include Blanche Boyd, Rob Evans, Janet Gezari, Mackie Jarrell, William Meredith, and George Willauer.
Extent
5.0 Linear Feet (4 boxes and loose material)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection is minimally processed. Department meeting minutes, syllabi, and major and minor descriptions are primarily in boxes 1 and 2. Correspondence records within and outside the department are contained in box 3. Departmental self-study and committee records are in box 4.
Subject
- Connecticut College. Department of English (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Department of English records
- Author
- Grace Mattaliano, Lear Center volunteer
- Date
- December 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives Repository
Connecticut College
270 Mohegan Ave
New London CT 06320 United States
860-439-2654 (Director)
860-439-2686 (College Archivist)
learcenter@conncoll.edu