Guide to the Peggy Kamuf papers , 1963-2016


John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Published in 2021

Collection Overview

Title: Peggy Kamuf papers
Date range: 1963-2016
Creator: Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women.
Extent: 4.5 Linear Feet
(4 record center cartons and 1 shoebox)
Abstract: Papers of Peggy Kamuf (b. 1947), Marion Frances Chevalier Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The collection documents Kamuf's professional career and scholarship in comparative literature and literary theory. Items include drafts of published articles, lectures, and books such as The Division of Literature, or the University in Deconstruction (1997), Book of Addresses (2009), and To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida (2010). Kamuf is not only a leading translator of Hélène Cixous, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Derrida's works, but she also studies, and writes and lectures about, Rousseau, Woolf, Baudelaire, and Stendhal.
Language of materials: English
Repository: John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Collection number: Ms.2017.014

Scope & content

This collection documents the professional life and theoretical considerations of Peggy Kamuf, Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, from 1963 to 2016. The collection includes Kamuf's writing at the outset of her academic career, including her PhD dissertation in 1975, and spans her work to the present day, encompassing essays, handwritten edits, book drafts and unpublished works, as well as correspondences with others in her field, and teaching materials with extensive lecture notes and lists of influential works. Topics include literary theory, notably questions of the role of authorship and the university in analyzing written works; French literature and thought; deconstructionism and Derrida; and feminist theory, in part, the concepts of jealousy, écriture féminine ("feminine writing"), sexual difference, and desire. Materials in this collection are in French and English. [Note: Kamuf is also renowned for her close collaboration with Derrida and the translation of his work; however, documentation thereof is housed mainly at the Derrida archives at the UC Irvine Special Collections and Institut Mémoires de l'Édition Contemporaine in France.]

Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, 1988, contains a small set of folders that describe Kamuf's biography and career development. Items include Kamuf's resume and a narrative about her career as well as an interview. Files are arranged alphabetically by record type.

Series II, CORRESPONDENCE, 1974 – 2008, contains communications to and from Kamuf organized by subject or correspondent, as well as miscellaneous letters. Collection includes letters exchanged with Naomi Schor, whose collection established the Feminist Theory Archive at Brown University; Nelly Furman and Nancy K. Miller, mostly regarding plans for the Diacritics journal, as well as extensive theoretical discussion with the latter. Miscellaneous exchanges concern Signature Pieces, which had not yet been published; Fictions of Feminine Desire; Kamuf's essay on Paul de Man's controversial wartime journalism; invitations to lecture and participate in conferences; letters of thanks; and various requests. Files are arranged by date.

Series III, TEACHING FILES, 1977 – 2016, contains lectures, syllabi, and course proposals particularly on the subject of Literary Theory, and with an occasional focus upon the role of the university; other subjects include Derrida and French literature and cinema – regarding, variously, contemporary and 18th-century works. Files are arranged by date.

Series IV, WRITINGS AND RELATED, 1972-2016, series contains both long- and short-form works by Kamuf, ranging from book drafts to book reviews, talks, articles. Both published and unpublished works are included, as well as manuscripts and edits from Kamuf. This series is arranged into 8 subseries.

Articles, 1972 – 2012, contains published and unpublished essays, typescripts, and related notes written by Kamuf. Files are arranged alphabetically by title.

Book drafts, 1993 – 2007, contain complete proofs of Division of Literature (circa 1997) and Book of Addresses (unknown date) with subtle corrections from Kamuf; jacket copy for Fictions of Feminine Desire; and a complete early draft of To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida. Files are arranged alphabetically by title.

Book reviews by Kamuf, 1977 – 2015, contain original drafts in the fields of feminist theory and Rousseau, among others; Kamuf's reviews often serve as responses to the work of close colleagues, including Geoffrey Bennington, Naomi Schor, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Files are arranged alphabetically by title of the book reviewed.

Book reviews of Kamuf, 1985-1999, contain documents saved by Kamuf regarding her own work. Files are arranged alphabetically by title of the book reviewed.

Chapters in edited books, 1992-2000, contain extensive essay drafts, mostly regarding deconstruction, Derrida, and feminist theory. Files are arranged alphabetically by essay title.

Talks, 1985-2016, center upon Kamuf's scholarship during her tenure at the University of Southern California, speaking at a variety of institutions and colloquiums. Records include typed drafts of her lectures in the form of essays, as well as handwritten notes. Files are arranged alphabetically by title of talk.

Other writings, 1963-2004, range from some of Kamuf's earliest work, including undergraduate papers and her dissertation at Cornell, to assorted drafts (many untitled), proposals, and correspondence. Files are arranged alphabetically by title.

Series V, NOTES, 1988-2005, contains an assortment of extensive handwritten notes (many undated), including recorded remarks, ideas, lists of references. Files are arranged by approximate date.

Series VI, ELECTRONIC RECORDS ON REMOVABLE CARRIERS, consists of one archival shoebox of 3.5 inch disks and 5.25 floppy disks. Items are arranged by the type of carrier and then by title contained on the face of each carrier. Materials include drafts of articles and books, professional correspondence, course material, and research. Electronic records will be reformatted upon request. Researchers wishing to use electronic records should notify the research services staff of the John Hay Library to begin the reformatting process: hay@brown.edu.

Access Points

Subject Names Subject Organizations Subject Topics

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in 6 series.

  • Series 1. Biographical- arranged alphabetically by record type
  • Series 2. Correspondence - arranged alphabetically by record type, then by correspondent's name or topic
  • Series 3. Teaching files - arranged chronologically, then alphabetically by course title
  • Series 4. Writings and related - arranged alphabetically by title in 8 subseries
  • Series 5. Notes - arranged alphabetically by topic
  • Series 6. Electronic records on removable carriers- arranged alphabetically by carrier type, then by title on carrier

Biographical / Historical

Peggy Kamuf (b. 1947) is the Marion Frances Chevalier Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She attended Bucknell University (class of 1969) for her undergraduate education in French and English, and then received her PhD in Romance Studies from Cornell University in 1975. Since then, Kamuf has been a professor or visiting lecturer at universities such as Miami University, UC San Diego, University of Nottingham, Université de Paris 8, and Kingston University, as well as held a directorship position at the Collège International de Philosophie. Along with receiving several honors and awards for her work in literature, history, and literary theory, Kamuf has published numerous articles, lectures, and books such as Fictions of Feminine Desire: Disclosures of Heloise (1982), Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship (1988), The Division of Literature, or the University in Deconstruction (1997), Book of Addresses (2009), and To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida (2010). Kamuf is not only a leading translator of Hélène Cixous, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Derrida's works, but she also studies, and writes and lectures about, Rousseau, Woolf, Baudelaire, and Stendhal.

Access & Use

Access to the collection: There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested.
Use of the materials: All researchers seeking to publish materials from the collections of the John Hay Library are requested to complete a Notice of Intent to Publish, available on the John Hay Library website or by request, prior to reproducing, quoting, or otherwise publishing any portion or extract from this collection. Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Preferred citation: Peggy Kamuf papers, MS.2017.014, Feminist Theory Archive, Brown University Library.
Contact information: John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
Acquisition: Gift of Peggy Kamuf in 2017.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Anna Steinberg, Shuyan Wang, Ava Zeichner, and Mary Murphy on behalf of the Pembroke Center for the Teaching and Research on Women and the Brown University Library.
Encoding: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2021-05-25.
Descriptive rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Sponsor: Curatorial work and processing provided by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women on behalf of the Feminist Theory Archive, Brown University Library.

Additional Information

Related material: The Critical Theory Archive at the University of California, Irvine, holds the papers of Jacques Derrida. Peggy Kamuf donated materials by Derrida found within her papers to that collection: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3q2nb26c/.

Inventory

Series 1. Biographical, 1988

Container Description Date
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 1 "Career narrative" and resume
 n.d.
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 2 Interview, Belgrade
 n.d.
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 3 Newspaper announcement
 1988
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 4 Statement by Hélène Cixous
 n.d.

Series 2. Correspondence, 1976-2008

Container Description Date
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 5 Correspondence
 1976-1978
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 6 Correspondence
 1979-1980
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 7 Correspondence
 1982-1985
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 8 Correspondence
 1986-1988
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 9 Correspondence
 1989-1993
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 10 Correspondence
 1994-1999
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 11 Correspondence
 2000-2002
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 12 Correspondence
 2003-2008
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 13 Correspondence from Brown University
 1982-1989
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 14 Correspondence from Carson Becker [graduate student]; includes "Re-membering Heloise" thesis
 n.d.
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 15 Correspondence from Lynn Huffer re: Yale French Studies contribution
 1993-1994
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 16 Correspondence from Madolyn Kamuf Hayne re: Kamuf family tree
 1994
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 17 Correspondence from Naomi Schor
 1982, 1992
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 18 Correspondence from University of California-Irvine re: the International Center for Writing and Translation
 2001-2002
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 19 Correspondence re: Alabama symposium and publishing
 1987-1988
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 20 Correspondence re: Collège International de Philosophie conference; includes program and conference papers
 circa 1991
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 21 Correspondence re: Conflicts in Feminism contribution and publishing
 1989-1990
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 22 Correspondence re: the Harvard History of French Literature contribution and publishing
 1986-1987
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 23 Correspondence re: Jacques Derrida publication and event
 2000-2001
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 24 Correspondence re: Michael Foucault conference
 1980-1981
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 25 Correspondence re: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature Advisory and Editoral Boards
 1983-2007
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 26 Correspondence with Coppelia Kahn and Gayle Greene re: contribution to Feminist Theory and Criticism publication
 1982-1984
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 27 Correspondence with Diane Knight
 1984-1986
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 28 Correspondence with Gregory Jay and David Miller re: Ninth Alabama Symposium in English and American Literature
 1982-1984
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 29 Correspondence with Hélène Cixous; includes related petition
 1995-1998
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 30 Correspondence with Mary Jacobus re: feminist literary criticism colloqium
 1981
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 31 Correspondence with Mireille Calle-Gruber [French]
 1997-1998
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 32 Correspondence with Nancy J. Holland re: Feminist Interpretations of Derrida contribution and publishing
 1992-1996
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 33 Correspondence with Nancy K. Miller
 1977-1989
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 34 Correspondence with Nelly Furman
 1977-1981
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 35 Correspondence with Ronald C. Rosbottom
 1976-1980
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 36 Correspondence with Shari Benstock
 1986-1987
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 37 Correspondence Willis G. Regier
 1980-1984

Series 3. Teaching files, 1977-2016

Container Description Date
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 38 1977(Spring): FRE352
 1977
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 39 1977: FRE600 course notes
 1977
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 40 1987(Fall): Contemporary French Thought in Translation
 1987
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 41 1987(Winter): On Translation
 1987
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 42 1989(Spring): French Feminist Theory
 1989
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 43 1989(Spring): Introduction to Literary Theory
 1989
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 44 1990(Spring): French 461
 1990
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 45 1990(Spring): Seminar on Derrida
 1990
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 46 1990(Fall): FRE383
 1990
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 47 1990(Fall): FRE550
 1990
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 48 1991(Spring): FRE410
 1991
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 49 1991(Spring): Introduction to Literary Theory
 1991
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 50 1991(Fall): FRE660
 1991
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 51 1992(Fall): Theory and Method of Comparative Literature
 1992
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 52 1993(Spring): The Value of Fiction
 1993
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 53 1993(Fall): French 550
 1993
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 54 1994(Spring): Introduction to Literary Theory
 1994
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 55 1995 (Spring): Introduction to Literary Theory
 1995
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 56 1995, 1997 (Spring): 20th-Century France
 1995-1997
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 57 1995 (Fall): French Cinema and French Society
 1995
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 58 1995 (Fall): The University and the Future of Literature
 1995
Box [31236073966098] 1, Folder 59 1996 (Summer): Interpretation and Evaluation
 1996
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 1 1996 (Fall): Façons de Tuer Une Femme (Ways of Killing a Woman) [French]
 1996
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 2 1997 (Fall): Dream Fiction
 1997
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 3 1997 (Fall): The Secret Names of Texts
 1997
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 4 1998 (Fall): Contemporary French Thought
 1998
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 5 1998 (Fall): Dream Fiction
 1998
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 6 1999 (Spring): French Literature of the 18th Century
 1999
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 7 1999 (Fall): Fiction for Lovers of Wisdom
 1999
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 8 1999 (Fall): Introduction to Literary Theory
 1999
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 9 2000 (Spring): French Literature in Translation
 2000
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 10 2000 (Fall): The Experience of Reading
 2000
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 11 2000(Fall): Pensée et Littérature en France: 1940-1955 (Thought and Literature in France: 1940-1955) [French]
 2000
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 12 2001(Spring): Fictions of the First Person
 2001
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 13 2001(Spring): Law of Punishment
 2001
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 14 2001(Fall): Theories of Reading
 2001
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 15 2002(Spring): Beasts That We Are: Philosophy, Literature, and Animality in the West
 2002
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 16 2002(Spring): Rhétorique des arts II: L'Art de faire du 'je', ou le français dans sa langue [French]
 2002
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 17 2002(Fall): Reading Practices of the University
 2002
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 18 2003(Fall): Introduction to Literary Theory
 2003
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 19 2004(Spring): Raison et déraison III [French]
 2004
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 20 2004(Fall): Introduction to Literary Theory
 2004
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 21 2005(Spring): La France au XXième siècle (20th Century France) [French]
 2005
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 22 2005(Fall): Introduction to Literary Theory
 2005
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 23 2005(Fall): "Révolutions" [French]
 2005
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 24 2006(Spring): Témoignage de la Fiction [French]
 2006
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 25 2006(Fall): Places of Literature
 2006
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 26 2007(Spring): Les Cultures de la France Moderne (Cultures of Modern France) [French]
 2007
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 27 2007(Spring): Derrida's Impossible Events
 2007
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 28 2007(Fall): Introduction to Literary Theory
 2007
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 29 2008(Spring): Rhétoriques des Arts III [French]
 2008
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 30 2008(Fall): Introduction to Literary Theory
 2008
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 31 2010: Mellon Dissertation Seminar in the Humanities; contains proposal
 2010
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 32 2010(Fall): Rhétorique des Arts "Lire écrire de la littérature" [French]
 2010
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 33 2011(Spring): Deconstructive Thought
 2011
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 34 2011(Summer): The Essential Humanities
 2011
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 35 2011(Fall): Introduction to Literary Theory
 2011
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 36 2012(Summer): Lecture notes for Mellon Seminars
 2012
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 37 2014(Spring): Literature and the Death Penalty
 2014
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 38 2015(Spring): Modern French Cultures
 2015
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 39 2016(Fall): What to Think of Translation?
 2016
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 40 Unknown date: 18th-Century French Literature
 n.d.
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 41 Unknown date: Allegory and Contemporary Criticism: Literature, Media, Theater
 n.d.
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 42 Unknown date: Comparative Literature 603
 n.d.
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 43 Unknown date: Écritures de filles (Writers of Daughters) summer course [French]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 44 Unknown date: French Feminism
 n.d.
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 45 Unknown date: Laws of Punishment
 n.d.
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 46 Unknown date: Le nom secret des textes (The Secret Name of Texts) [French]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 47 Unknown date: Notes on structuralism for undergraduate course
 n.d.

Series 4. Writing and related, 1963-2016

Series 4, subseries 1. Articles and essays, 1972-2012

Container Description Date
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 48 "1754? Rousseau's Original Language" article, typescript published in A New History of French Literature
 1989
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 49 "The Author Between Text and Theatre" notes on Cixous
 n.d.
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 50 "Betrayals: An Entertainment" article
 2012
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 51 "Diderot on Women: A Double Perspective" paper
 1972
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 52 "The Division of Literature" article typescript
 1995
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 53 "A Fiction" handwritten notes
 n.d.
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 54 "From Now On"
 2006
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 55 "The Ghosts of Critique and Deconstruction"
 1999
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 56 "In-Habitation: Of Grammatology as Habitography"
 2010
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 57 "The Institution of Literature" article (published as "The Division of Literature")
 1995
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 58 "Introduction to the Derrida Seminars publication and Translation Project"
 n.d.
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 59 "La Duchesse de Langeais, or the Woman in Question" unpublished drafts and notes
 n.d.
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 60 "Lure/Allure: The Technology of Translation" unpublished drafts
 n.d.
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 61 "Meaning of Life in Words and Deeds" notes and draft
 n.d.
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 62 "Perpetual Calendar"
 2001
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 63 "Protocol: Death Penalty Addiction"
 2011
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 64 "Purchasing Power"
 1998
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 65 "Reading Phenomena"
 2001
Box [31236073966106] 2, Folder 66 "The Replay's the Thing" article [French and English]
 1993
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 1 "Self-Begotten Monsters" draft
 n.d.
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 2 "Souris" (Smile) paper version [French]
 2000
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 3 "Tel Quel and History" talk and article, 10th French Studies conference and published in Paragraph
 1993
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 4 "To Be Done Weeping" article draft
 n.d.
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 5 "To Do Justice to 'Rousseau' Irreducibly"
 2007
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 6 "To Follow" proofs for differences 16.3
 2005
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 7 "To Give Place: Semi-Approaches to Hélène Cixous," YFS
 n.d.
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 8 "Undying Literature" essay delivered at Lourain and Cardiff
 circa 1997
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 9 "The University in the World It Is Attempting to Think" article published in Culture Machine 6
 2004
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 10 "Venir aux débuts" (Coming in the Beginning) article [English and French versions]
 2004
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 11 "Women and Modernity," "Baudelaire's Modern Woman" drafts
 n.d.

Series 4, subseries 2. Book drafts

Container Description Date
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 12 "Book of Addresses" proofs with corrections
 n.d.
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 13 "Division of Literature" proofs (1 of 2)
 1997
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 14 "Division of Literature" proofs (2 of 2)
 1997
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 15 Fictions of Feminine Desire; contains "Jacket Copy" only
 n.d.
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 16 "To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida" early draft (1 of 2)
 n.d.
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 17 "To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida" early draft (2 of 2)
 n.d.

Series 4, subseries 3. Book proposals

Container Description Date
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 18 "Book of Addresses"
 n.d.
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 19 "What Lies in America" (published as "Without Alibi")
 n.d.

Series 4, subseries 4. Book Reviews by Kamuf, 1980-2015

Container Description Date
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 20 "Breaking the Chain: Women, Theory, and French Realist Fiction" by Naomi Schor
 1985
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 21 "Diderot, ou le matérialisme enchanté" by Elisabeth de Fontenay [French}
 circa 1981
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 22 "Drinking the Witch's Brew" by Rainer Nägele
 1983
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 23 "The Fictional Father: Lacanian Readings of the Text" edited by Robert Con Davis
 1981
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 24 "The Impossible Science of the Unique Being" review of "Screen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory" by Peter Brunette and David Willis
 1991
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 25 "Of Being-In-Common" by Jean-Luc Nancy
 circa 1985
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 26 "The Politics of Politics" by Bennington
 2015
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 27 "Renaissance Self-Fashioning" by Stephen Greenblatt
 circa 1997
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 28 "Rousseau on the Education of Women" by Helen Misenheimer
 circa 1981
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 29 "Rousseau's Socratic Aemillian Myths: A Literary Collation of 'Emile' and the 'Social Contract'" by Madeleine Ellis
 circa 1977
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 30 "The Scandal at the Speaking Tree" by Sylvia Lavin
 1994
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 31 "Sentiousness and the Novel: Laying Down the Law in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction" by Geoffrey Bennington
 1985
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 32 "The Unintended Reader: Feminism and Manon Lescaut" by Naomi Segal
 1986

Series 4, subseries 5. Book Reviews of Kamuf, 1980-1999

Container Description Date
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 33 "Between the Blinds: A Derrida Reader" reviews
 1991-1992
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 34 "The Division of Literature" review
 1999
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 35 "Fictions of Feminine Desire" reviews
 circa 1982-1985
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 36 "Men in Feminism" review
 1987
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 37 Mentions in miscellaneous reviews
 1985-1986
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 38 "Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship" miscellaneous reviews
 1988-1992

Series 4, subseries 6. Chapters in edited books, 1980-2016

Container Description Date
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 39 "American Express ou Visa: De La Littérature à L'Age des Cartes de Credit" (Literature in the Age of Credit Cards) [French]
 1994
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 40 "Deconstruction and Feminism" drafts
 1992-1993
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 41 "Deconstruction and Love" typescript
 circa 1999
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 42 "Derrida on Television"
 1995
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 43 "Going public: The University in Deconstruction"
 1992
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 44 "L'Autre Fiction" (The Other Fiction)
 1994
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 45 "The Other Sexual Difference" drafts
 2000-2001

Series 4, subseries 7. Talks, 1980-2016

Container Description Date
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 46 "AAA Beauty: Automatic Animal Attraction" unpublished talk
 n.d
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 47 "Accounterability" talk
 2006
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 48 "Aller à la Ligne" talk
 2005
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 49 "Aller à la Ligne" talk and conference notes
 2005
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 50 "Ashes to Ashes" talk, University of Michigan Humanities center
 1985
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 51 "At the Heart of the Death Penalty" talk, Chicago
 2013
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 52 "Bartleby, ou la décision" talk (Bartleby, or the decision) [French]
 2003
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 53 "Béance" lecture
 2002
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 54 "Beaumarchais' Barbier de Séville" talk
 1997
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 55 "Beginning to Read" drafts
 n.d.
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 56 "Bowing to Necessity in Your Idiom" talk and article
 2008
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 57 "Comp Lit lecture"
 n.d.
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 58 "Competent Fictions" talk
 2009
Box [31236073966114] 3, Folder 59 "Composition Deplacement" talk
 2006
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 1 "De la Piqûre Singulaire, Ou Les Pointes Aiguës du Herisson" talk [French]
 circa 1995
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 2 "Deconstruction and Feminism" lecture; contains correspondence with Hannelore Pfeil and Hans-Peter Jack
 35065
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 3 "The Deconstitution of Psychoanalysis" talk, American Comparative Literature Association
 2008
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 4 "Derrida's America" talk
 2005
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 5 "Derrida's Salut"
 2005
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 6 "The Ear, Who?" talk
 2007
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 7 "The End of Reading"
 2000
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 8 "Everything, Anything, and Nothing At All" talk for "Deconstruction Reading Politics"
 1999
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 9 "The Experience of Deconstruction" talk (with Spanish translation)
 1999
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 10 "Experienced Theory" notes
 2004
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 11 "Fiction and the Experience of the Other" talk and article
 1999
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 12 "The Haunts of Scholarship" talk
 2001
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 13 "Illustrating Julie: The Art of the Voyeur" talk and notes
 n.d.
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 14 "Incroyable" (Incredible) talk [French]
 2008
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 15 "The Institution of Literature I, II, III" lectures, University of Iowa
 1991
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 16 "Introduction to Phil Lewis" lecture at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
 2002
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 17 "Jardins d'écriture" (Gardens of Writing) talk [French]
 2012
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 18 "La Morsure" talk, University of California-Irvine
 2004
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 19 "Le philosophe, en tant que tel, et la peine de mort" talk (The Philosopher, as such, and the Death Penalty) [French]
 2008
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 20 "Le Veilleur" talk, Madrid [French]
 2010
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 21 "Literary Studies in the Ruins of the University" talk draft
 1997
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 22 "Literature on Location at the University" talk for University of Southern California's Faculty Research Forum
 2000
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 23 "Literature without Comparison"
 1999
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 24 "New Humanities," "Effective Death Penalty Acts," "The Malentendu of Translation" talks for roundtable
 2002
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 25 "Outside in Analysis"
 2007
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 26 "Passing Strange: The Laws of Translation" talk, Nottingham and Modern Language Association conference
 2009
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 27 "Philosophers and the Death Penalty" talk, Death Penalty Project, Los Angeles
 2016
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 28 "Reading Flaubert's Surface" talk (unpublished)
 n.d.
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 29 "Rhetoric and Ruin" talk, University of Southern California
 1990
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 30 "Sacrifice of Sarah" draft
 n.d.
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 31 "The Sentence is the Story" talk from Death Penalty Project, University of Southern California
 2016
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 32 "Si je commence" (If I begin) talk [French]
 2012
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 33 "Signature Rhetoric, or I, the Undersigned" "Forgetting Armance" lectures for Pembroke Center
 circa 1983
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 34 "Singular Sense, Second Hand" talk (published in 2001)
 1996
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 35 "So Closed" keynote for conference "Hélène Cixous: Writing at a Distance" Cornell University
 2010
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 36 "Some (Further) Thoughts Concerning Literary Education" talk, University College London
 1990
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 37 "Stunned: Derrida on Film" talk
 2005
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 38 "Tape-Recorded Surprise" University of Nottingham talk
 2002
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 39 "Teleiopoetic World" talk, Milan
 2012
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 40 "Thinking With Literature" unpublished talk
 2007
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 41 "Time Given on Credit" talk, University of California-Irvine
 1992
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 42 "To Follow" talk, University of Alberta
 2004
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 43 "The University Founders: A Complete Revolution" talk, University of Alabama
 1987
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 44 Untitled, Humanities in research university talk, University of Southern California
 n.d.
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 45 Untitled, lecture to University of Southern California Honors Program students
 circa 2000
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 46 Untitled, talks at Paris 8 [French]
 2006
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 47 "The Violence of Indetermination" talk for colloquium on violence, identity, and self-determination
 1995
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 48 "Which New Humanities" keynote lecture, Emory University
 2009
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 49 "Witness to the Day" talk and article
 1998
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 50 "Your Worm" talk
 2008

Series 4, subseries 8. Other writings, 1963-2004

Container Description Date
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 51 "The Cast of Helen: Metaphorical Woman in the Text of Rousseau) draft and outline; contains Kamuf's PhD dissertation
 1975
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 52 Feminism Criticism: Beyond Positivism; contains conference proposal
 n.d.
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 53 "Jealousy Wants Proof" drafts
 n.d.
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 54 "The Phallocentric Hierarchy Is A Feminism" drafts (unpublished)
 n.d.
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 55 "The Third World of Wallace Stevens," "Untitled" undergraduate papers
 circa 1968
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 56 Untitled abstracts
 n.d.
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 57 Untitled, unpublished manuscript of an exchange with Ryan Bishop on the University
 2004

Series 5. Notes, 1988-2005

Container Description Date
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 58 "La Pharmacie de Platon" notes [French]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 59 Notes regarding Fisch
 n.d.
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 60 "Qui On Quoi" notes [French]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 61 Seminar notes, Leeds
 2002
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 62 Untitled miscellaneous notes
 n.d.
Box [31236073966122] 4, Folder 63 Untitled, talk at Tate Modern (notes)
 2005

Series 6. Electronic records, 1988-1995

Container Description Date
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 1 3.5 inch disk: "Articles" [1]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 2 3.5 inch disk: "Articles (1)" [2]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 3 3.5 inch disk: "Articles (2) and courses (1)" [3]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 4 3.5 inch disk: "Articles folder" [4]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 5 3.5 inch disk: "Articles in press" [5]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 6 3.5 inch disk: "Book 2" [6]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 7 3.5 inch disk: "Book, To the Point" [7]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 8 3.5 inch disk: "Cambridge 4" [8]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 9 3.5 inch disk: "Columbia Book Reader" [9]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 10 3.5 inch disk: "Correspondence" [10]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 11 3.5 inch disk: "Correspondence, professional" [11]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 12 3.5 inch disk: "Correspondence, professional" [12]
 1988
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 13 3.5 inch disk: "Courses" [13]
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 14 3.5 inch disk: "Courses folder (1)" [14]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 15 3.5 inch disk: "Courses folder (2)" [15]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 16 3.5 inch disk: "Division of a Lifetime, final draft" [16]
 1994
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 17 3.5 inch disk: "Division -- Revised" [17]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 18 3.5 inch disk: "Freud, Lacan" [18]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 19 3.5 inch disk: "Grueder, Lubbock, Butler" [19]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 20 3.5 inch disk: "Grueder, Lubbock, Butler" [20]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 21 3.5 inch disk: "Memphis" [21]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 22 3.5 inch disk: "Summer" [22]
 1995
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 23 3.5 inch disk: "Translations, correspondence, professional" [23]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 24 3.5 inch disk: "Vita, job related" [24]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 25 3.5 inch disk: "Work in progress" [25]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 26 5.25 inch disk: "Ashes" [26]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 27 5.25 inch disk: "Columbia book" [27]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 28 5.25 inch disk: "Columbia book" [28]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 29 5.25 inch disk: "Comp Lit Seminar and French Feminist Theory" [29]
 1989
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 30 5.25 inch disk: "Courses" [30]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 31 5.25 inch disk: "IBM practice, ghost, PhD" [31]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 32 5.25 inch disk: "Intro to Lit Theory" [32]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 33 5.25 inch disk: "Jealousy" [33]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 34 5.25 inch disk: "MISC publications: origins, University, Fiction" [34]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 35 5.25 inch disk: "Pedogogical" [35]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 36 5.25 inch disk: "Pedogogical" [36]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 37 5.25 inch disk: "Professional correspondence" [37]
 1988
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 38 5.25 inch disk: "Professional correspondence" [38]
 1988
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 39 5.25 inch disk: "Reading de man reading" [39]
 n.d.
Box [31236073966130] 5, Item 40 5.25 inch disk: "Seeing art" [40]
 n.d.