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By Swarnikaa Kiran
Collection Overview
Title: University of Illinois Department Serials, 1915-1996
ID: 38/1/819
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Press
Other Creators: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Press Board
Extent: 5.0 cubic feet
Arrangement:
Organized in series based on university department and/or journal series:
Series 1) Illinois Biological Monographs. Arranged chronologically by date and serial volume.
Series 2) University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature. Arranged chronologically by date and serial volume.
Series 3) American Bottom Archaeology. Arranged chronologically by date and serial volume.
Date Acquired: 07/23/2025
Subjects: Biological Monographs, Botany, Cytology, Entomology, Illinois Archaeological Survey, Language and Literature Studies, Latin, Ornithology, Press, University Press, Zoology
Languages: English, Spanish;Castilian, Latin, Norse,Old
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Consists of serial journals for the University of Illinois Language and Literature studies, Illinois Biological Monographs, American Bottom Achaeology between 1915-1996, documenting research in linguistics, Spanish studies, Latin studies, literature analysis, botany, zoology, entomology, ornithology, cytology, archaelogy, etc. Some of these journals are reprints of the original serials which predate the establishment of the Unversity of Illinois Press in 1918.
Biographical Note
The University of Illinois Press was organized in 1918 to have charge of the work of editing, printing, and distributing the publications of the University. Prior to this, several books were published bearing the imprint University Studies. The Press is a general university division whose chief administrative officer is the Director of the University Press. The Director is appointed annually by the Board of Trustees, and is responsible to the University President through the office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. The operations and policies of the Press are maintained under advisement of a University Press Board composed of the Director, the Deans of the Graduate Colleges or their representatives, and six appointed faculty members.
The first director of the Press was Harrison E. Cunningham, who also served on the university's Board of Trustees. Under Cunningham's leadership, the Press published works of interest primarily to the scholarly reader, specifically monographs by faculty members and doctoral students. Cunningham gained a reputation for printing books in social science, language and literature, biological science, and medical science. In 1949 Wilbur Schramm became the director of the Press, founding the Institute for Communications Research and publishing several strong books in the field of communications. Following Schramm, Miodrag Muntyan and Richard L. Wentworth served as directors. During the 1960s and 70s the Press became a leading publisher of American social history, particularly for labor and working-class history. Developed by editor Judith McCulloh, the series Music in American Life continues to produce influential books. In 1999, Willis G. Regier became director, broadening its series and scope.
The Press has printed several academic journals since its inception. Some of these journals include: The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, the American Journal of Psychology, the Journal of American Folklore, Ethnomusicology, the Journal of Appalachian Studies, and the Journal of Sport History.
The Press continues to publish scholarly works. Priority is given to local manuscripts, but works produced at other institutions without presses are not excluded from consideration. Although the Press attempts to show a modest profit, it is not primarily a profit-making institution and receives subsidies from the Graduate College as well as from some foundations. The University of Illinois Press has sales representatives in Canada, the British Isles and Continental Europe, Latin America, and Japan.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Acquisition Source:
University Archives
Acquisition Method:
Gift
Separated Materials:
These records were initially acquired as part of the Judith McCulloh's University Press production records. Apart from being recived together, this collection of departmental serials did not have anything in relation to Judith McCulloh, or Press Book Catalogs which was another collection record series that emerged from the acquired material as a body of content of its own. The Judith McCulloh University of Illinois Press Production Records are arranged in 38/1/22, while the Press Book Catalogs are arranged in 38/1/801.
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- Series 2: University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature
- Consists of serial journals documenting research in literature analysis, lingusitics, Spanish studies, Latin studies, etc. Arranged chronologically.
- Box 3
- Folder 14: "De Fragmenti Suetoniami de Grammaticis et Rhetoribus Codicum Nexu et Fide", November, 1920
- By Rodney Potter Robinson. Volume. VI, No. 4.
- Folder 15: "Sir Robert Howard's Comedy 'The Committee'", February, 1921
- By Carryle Nelson Thurber, A. M. Volume VII, No. 1.
- Folder 16: "The Sepulchre of Christ in Art and Liturgy", May, 1921
- By Neil C. Brooks. Volume VII, No. 2.
- Folder 17: "The Language of the Konungs Skuggsjá (Speculum Regale) - Part I", August, 1921
- By George T. Flom. Volume VII, No. 3.
- Folder 18: "The Significant Name in Terence", November, 1921
- By James Curtiss Austin. Volume VII, No. 4.
- Folder 19: "Emerson's Theories of Literary Expressions", February, 1923
- By Emerson Grant Sutcliffe. Volume VIII, No. 1.
- Folder 20: "M. Tuilli Ciceronis de Divinatione Liber Secvndvs", May, 1923
- By Arthur Stanley Pease. Volume VIII, No. 2.
- Folder 21: "M. Tuilli Ciceronis de Divinatione Liber Secvndvs (Part II)", August, 1923
- By Arthur Stanley Pease. Volume VIII, No. 3.
- Folder 22: "The Language of the Konungs Skuggsjá (Speculum Regale) - Part II", November, 1923
- By George T. Flom. Volume VIII, No. 4.
- Folder 23: "Studies in the Narrative Method of Defoe", February, 1924
- By Arthur Wellesley Secord. Volume IX, No. 1.
- Folder 24: "The Manuscript-Tradition of Plutarch's Aetia Graeca and Aetia Romana", May, 1924
- By John Bradford Titchener. Volume IX, No. 2.
- Folder 25: "Girolamo Fracastoro Navgervis Sive de Poetica Dialogvs", August, 1924
- With an English translation by Ruth Kelso, and an Introduction by Murray W. Bundy. Volume XI, No. 3.
- Folder 26: "The Manuscript-Tradition of Pseudo-Plutarch's Vitae Decum Oratorum", November, 1924
- By Clarence George Lowe. Volume IX, No. 4.
- Folder 27: "Rhetorical Elements in the Tragedies of Seneca", February, 1925
- By Howard Vernon Canter. Volume X, No. 1.
- Folder 28: "Oriental Affinities of the Lengend of the Hairy Anchorite", May, 1925
- By Charles Allyn Williams. Volume X, No. 2.
- Folder 29: "Fragment AM 315 E of the Older Gulathing Law", February, 1928
- By George Tobias Flom. Volume XIII, No. 1.
- Folder 30: "The History, from 1700 to 1800, of English Criticism of Prose Fiction", May, 1928
- By Joseph Bunn Heidler. Volume XIII, No. 2.
- Folder 31: "Philogical Studies in Ancient Glass", August, November, 1928
- By Mary Luella Trowbridge. Volume XIII, Nos. 3-4.
- Box 4
- Folder 1: "The Use of the Bible in Milton", August, 1929
- By Harris Francis Fletcher. Volume XIV, No. 3.
- Folder 2: "Codex AM 619 Quarto (Old Norweigen Book of Homilies Containing the Miracles of Saint Olaf, and Alcuin's de Virtutibus et Vitiis)", November, 1929
- By George T. Flom. Volume XIV, No. 4.
- Folder 3: "Francis Meres's Treatise 'Poetrie' (A Critical Edition)", November 28, 1933
- By Don Cameron Allen. Volume XVI, Nos. 3-4.
- Folder 4: "Sir Philip Sidney and The Arcadia", December 18, 1934
- By Marcus Selden Goldman. Volume XVII, Nos. 1-2.
- Folder 5: "John Gibson Lockhart (A Critical Study)", February 26, 1935
- By Gilbert Macbeth. Volume XVII, Nos. 3-4.
- Folder 6: "Elizabethan Poetry in the Eighteenth Century" [Hardcover], 1947
- By Earl R. Wasserman. Volume XXXII, Nos. 2-3.
- Folder 7: "Ruskin and the Landscape Feeling (A Critical Analysis of His Thought During the Crucial Years of His Life, 1843-56)", 1951
- By Francis G. Townsend. Volume XXXV, No. 3.
- Folder 8: "Descriptive Studies in Spanish Grammar" [Hardcover], 1954
- By Spencer L. Murphy, Jr., Elbert Winfred Ringo, Ralph Dale McWilliams, Harriett S. Hutter, Evelyn Esther Uhrhan. Volume 38.
- Folder 9: "The Major Satires of Alexander Pope", 1955
- By Robert W. Rogers. Volume 40.
- Folder 10: "John Heywood's Works and Miscellaneous Short Poems", 1956
- Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Burton A. Mulligan. Volume 41.
- Folder 11: "Samuel Johnson, Editor of Shakespeare With an Essay on the Adventurer", 1956
- By Arthur Sherbo. Volume 42.
- Folder 12: "The Byzantine Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Euripides", 1957
- By Alexander Turyn. Volume 43.
- Folder 13: "Introduction and Notes to Milton's History of Britain", 1957
- By Constance Nicholas. Volume 44.
- Folder 14: "Marcel Provst and His Literary Friends", 1958
- By Laurent Lesage. Volume 45.
- Folder 15: Schiller 1759/1959 - Commemorative American Studies, 1959
- Edited by John R. Frey. Volume 46.
- Folder 16: "Middlemarch from Notebook to Novel - A Study of George Eliot's Creative Method", 1960
- By Jerome Beaty. Volume 47.
- Folder 17: "'A Library for Younger Schollers' Compiled by an English Scholar-Preist about 1655", 1961
- Edited, with Bibliographical Index by Alma DeJordy and Harris Francis Fletcher. Volume 48.
- Folder 18: "Two Spanish Masterpieces - The Book of Good Love and The Celestina", 1961
- By María Rosa Lida de Malkiel. Volume 49.
- Folder 19: "The Club of Hercules - Studies in the Classical Background of Paradise Lost", 1962
- By Davis P. Harding. Volume 50.
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