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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

Astronomy
Computer Based Education
Creative Writing
Faculty Papers
Fulbright Awards
National Endowment for the Humanities
Poetry
Women's Studies

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Biographical],
[Series 2: Coursework completed],
[Series 3: Courses Taught],
[Series 4: Works, Creative],
[Series 5: Works, Scholarly],
[Series 6: Projects and Grants],
[Series 7: Correspondence],
[Series 8: Committee Work],
[Series 9: News Clippings, articles, and publications],
[All]

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