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Collection Overview
Title: Carol Kyle Papers, 1957-1995
ID: 15/7/46
Primary Creator: Kyle, Carol (1939-1995)
Extent: 12.3 cubic feet
Arrangement: By Subject, Alphabetically Thereunder Unless Noted
Subjects: Astronomy, Computer Based Education, Creative Writing, Faculty Papers, Fulbright Awards, National Endowment for the Humanities, Poetry, Women's Studies
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Papers of Carol Kyle (1939-1995), professor of English (1968-1995), contain professional and personal correspondence, literary and scholarly publications, manuscripts and drafts of poetry, photographs, sound recordings, and teaching and research materials related to classes taken as a student at Duquesne University (1957-1961) and the University of Pennsylvania (1962-1968); courses taught while a professor at UIUC, including pilot classes on poetry and astronomy, the literature of AIDS, contemporary American poetry, women writers, and computer use in humanities instruction; creative works, include poetry collections and individual poems, novels and novellas, and short stories; scholarly and research works, including book- and article-length works on contemporary poetry, domestic imagery, Robert Frost (dissertation topic), and numerous poets and writers, including W.S. Merwin, Adrienne Rich, James Wright and Charles Olson; materials relating to research grants received for the completion or implementation of projects, including a Fulbright to conduct research in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1972), an NEH grant to develop a poetry and astronomy curriculum (1978-1979), her work at the National Humanities Institute with Maynard Mack (1971), her tenure as De Witt-Wallace visitor at the MacDowell artists' colony(1989), and awards presented to Kyle, including the Chancellor's Award for Distiguished Teaching (1987) and the LAS Award for Distinguished Teaching; and correspondence with publishers, students, colleagues, and writers, including Adrienne Rich, Sarah Getty, Carol Burns, Raymond Carver, Maxine Kumin, Archibald MacLeish, W.S. Merwin, Sarah Schulman, and James Wright.
Subject/Index Terms
Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: Biographical],
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Series 2: Coursework completed],
[Series 3: Courses Taught],
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Series 4: Works, Creative],
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Series 5: Works, Scholarly],
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Series 6: Projects and Grants],
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Series 7: Correspondence],
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Series 8: Committee Work],
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Series 9: News Clippings, articles, and publications],
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- Series 3: Courses Taught

- Box 2

- Folder 1: UIUC

- Box 2

- Folder 1: American and British Poetry After 1940 (ENGL 242),, ca. 1972- 1989

- Box 2

- Folder 1: Course materials [syllabi, assignments and exams] (2 folders), 1972-1989

- Folder 2: Notes (3 folders), 1972-1986

- Folder 3: Student evaluations, 1980

- Folder 4: Audio tape, "Arizona Movies"

- Folder 5: Student final exams (eight audio tapes), 1982

- Folder 2: American and British Poetry Before 1940 (ENGL 241), ca. 1985-1990

- Box 2

- Folder 1: Course materials, 1985

- Folder 2: "The Beginning of Modernity" course materials, 1990

- Folder 3: Student evaluations, 1985

- Folder 3: American Literature from WWII to the Present (ENGL 351), ca. 1973-1982

- Box 2

- Folder 1: Course materials, 1973-1982

- Folder 2: Notes (2 folders)

- Folder 3: Student evaluations, 1982

- Folder 4: The American Novel (ENGL 249; formerly ENGL 288), ca. 1970-90

- Box 2

- Folder 1: Course materials, 1972-1990

- Folder 2: Computer instruction materials, 1984

- Folder 3: Notes (5 folders)

- Folder 4: Student Evaluations, 1971, 1978, 1983, 1992

- Folder 5: Student Papers, 1986, 1990

- Folder 6: ENGL 288

- Box 2

- Folder 1: Course materials, 1968-1971

- Folder 2: Notes, Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald

- Folder 3: Notes, other

- Folder 4: Student evaluations, 1968-72

- Folder 5: Astronomy and Poetry (HUMN 295--see also Projects and Grants/Astronomy and Poetry), 1979

- Box 2

- Folder 1: Copy of booklet and test poems

- Folder 2: Course packet materials and syllabus

- Folder 3: Lecture notes and overheads

- Folder 4: Notes and reprints

- Folder 5: Official correspondence

- Folder 6: Student evaluations

- Folder 7: Student final papers

- Box 3

- Folder 1: The Beginnings of Modern Poetry (ENGL 272), ca. 1971

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials

- Folder 2: Notes, 1971

- Folder 2: British and American Poetry After 1920 (ENGL 273), ca. 1970-1971

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials, 1970-1971

- Folder 2: Notes, 1971

- Folder 3: Computer Rhetoric (ENGL 108--see also "projects, CMU conference"), 1984-1985

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Materials (4 folders; notes, lessons, original proposal), 1984

- Folder 2: Student evaluations, 1984

- Folder 3: Student themes, 1984

- Folder 4: Student work, ca. 1984-85

- Folder 4: Contemporary American Women Novelists (ENGL 281), ca. 1978-1989

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials, 1978-1989

- Folder 2: Notes

- Folder 3: Student evaluations, 1978, 1989

- Folder 5: Contemporary American Women's Poetry/Fiction (ENGL 362), 1975

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials

- Folder 2: Notes

- Folder 3: Student Evaluations, 1974-75

- Folder 6: Contemporary American Women's Poetry (ENGL 280), 1988

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials

- Folder 7: Contemporary American Women Writers (ENGL 280), 1993

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials

- Folder 2: Student evaluations, 1983, 1988

- Folder 8: Honors Seminars

- Box 3

- Folder 1: 1971

- Folder 2: ENGL 298, 1980

- Folder 3: ENGL 291, honors orals

- Folder 9: Images of Science in Contemporary American Literature (LAS 295), 1989

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials

- Folder 2: Student evaluations, 1989

- Folder 10: Introduction to Poetry (ENGL 101), ca. 1985-1992

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials, 1985, 1990, 1992

- Folder 11: Major Authors (ENGL 355)

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials and notes (2 folders), 1979

- Folder 2: Notes: Frost

- Folder 3: Student work, 1979

- Folder 12: Masterpieces of American Literature (ENGL 116), ca. 1983-1985

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials, 1983-1984

- Folder 2: Final and review, 1985

- Folder 3: Notes

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Hawthorne

- Folder 2: Emerson, nature, Thoreau, Cooper

- Folder 4: Student Evaluations, 1983-84

- Folder 5: TA-taught portion course materials, 1983-1985

- Folder 6: Transparencies, 1985

- Folder 7: T.S. Eliot

- Folder 13: Masterpieces of English Literature (ENGL 115), 1981

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials, 1981

- Folder 14: Poetry, Prose and Drama (ENGL 201--team taught), ca. 1973

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials

- Folder 2: Notes, 1973

- Folder 3: Student evaluations, 1973

- Folder 15: The Renaissance of Contemporary American Poetry (ENGL 362), 1974

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials, 1974

- Folder 2: Notes, 1974

- Folder 16: Rhetoric: Writing on the Computer (ENGL 302), 1985

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Computer materials

- Folder 2: Course materials

- Folder 17: The Rise of Realism in Modern American Literature (ENGL 256)

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials, 1985-1990

- Folder 2: Notes

- Folder 18: Short Course: The Writer and the Computer, 1982-1983

- Folder 19: Short Story (ENGL 246), ca. 1978-1987

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials and notes, 1978-1987

- Folder 20: Survey of American Literature I (ENGL 255), ca. 1985-1987

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Benjamin Franklin materials

- Folder 2: Columbus materials

- Folder 3: Course materials, 1985-1987

- Folder 4: Course materials and student work (2 folders), 1985-1986

- Folder 21: Survey of American Literature (ENGL 256), ca. 1969-1993

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials

- Box 3

- Folder 1: 1969

- Folder 2: 1993

- Folder 2: Course materials and student work, 1990

- Folder 3: Student evaluations, ca. 1989-90

- Folder 22: Topics Courses (ENGL 361)

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Contemporary American Women Poets, ca. 1981-1986

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials (2 folders), 1981-1983, 1986

- Folder 2: Student evaluations, 1983

- Folder 2: Extramural class in Hinsdale, IL: The Search for Self in Contemporary American Fiction, 1985

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials

- Folder 3: The Literature of AIDS, 1992

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials

- Folder 2: Notes

- Folder 3: Reprint materials

- Folder 4: Student evaluations

- Folder 5: Student work

- Folder 4: Male and Female in Contemporary American Women's Literature, 1988

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials

- Folder 5: Surrealism and Contemporary American Poetry, 1987

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course materials, 1987

- Folder 2: Student evaluations, 1987

- Folder 6: W.S. Merwyn and His Contemporaries, 1988

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Course Materials

- Folder 2: Notes

- Folder 3: Student evaluations

- Folder 7: Women in the Literary Imagination (ENGL 280), ca. 1983

- Folder 8: Course materials, 1983

- Folder 9: Student evaluations, 1983

- Box 4

- Folder 1: Lecture materials (lecture notes on given authors and/or topics not associated with clearly identifiable classes)

- Box 4

- Folder 1: Richard Brautigan

- Folder 2: "The Breaking of the Circle" (main events in the history of poetry)

- Folder 3: Stephen Crane

- Folder 4: William Faulkner (2 folders)

- Folder 5: Nathaniel Hawthorne

- Folder 6: Ernest Hemingway

- Folder 7: "In Dubious Battle" (John Steinbeck)

- Folder 8: Henry James

- Folder 9: Mothers/fathers notes

- Folder 10: Joyce Carol Oates

- Folder 11: Sylvia Plath

- Folder 12: Richard Powers

- Folder 13: Thomas Pynchon

- Folder 14: Kurt Vonnegut

- Folder 15: Walt Whitman

- Folder 16: "The Yellow Wallpaper" (Sarah Gilman)

- Folder 2: Other and unidentified courses

- Box 4

- Folder 1: Confessional Novel

- Folder 2: Eng. 248, student evaluations

- Folder 3: Introduction to the Contemporary Novel

- Folder 4: Novel Archaeology (Anthro 150), 1990

- Folder 5: Poetry notes

- Folder 6: Unidentified Women's Studies course, student evaluations

- Folder 7: Syllabi

- Box 4

- Folder 1: Courses taught elsewhere

- Box 4

- Folder 1: English Composition (University of Pennsylvania), 1966-1968

- Folder 2: American Literature (University of Penn. or Duquesne), 1965

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Series 6: Projects and Grants],
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Series 7: Correspondence],
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Series 8: Committee Work],
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Series 9: News Clippings, articles, and publications],
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