Guide to the Barbara Johnson papers, 1971-2009


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 2018

Collection Overview

Title: Barbara Johnson papers
Date range: 1971-2009
Creator: Johnson, Barbara, 1947-2009
Extent: 13.25 Linear feet
Abstract: This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Barbara Johnson, American literary critic and scholar of deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. The collection documents Johnson’s personal life, academic career, research, and writing, and is composed of biographical materials, correspondence, syllabi, handwritten notes, research articles, and writing drafts, dating from 1971-2009.
Language of materials: English
Repository: John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Collection number: Ms.2017.025

Scope & content

This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Barbara Johnson, American literary critic and scholar of deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. The collection documents Johnson’s personal life, academic career, research, and writing, and is composed of biographical materials, correspondence, syllabi, handwritten notes, research articles, and writing drafts, dating from 1971-2009 and is arranged into 11 series.

Series 1, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT, 1984 – 2006, includes an autobiographical essay, housing files regarding improvement of her home in Nantucket, Massachusetts, medical files regarding her weakening health in the 2000s, and a handwritten note about her declining penmanship due to her illness. This series is arranged alphabetically by record type then by topic.

Series 2, CORRESPONDENCE, 1973-2009, contains personal and professional correspondence from various senders including Judith Butler, Alice Jardine, and Marjorie Garber. Topics include writing and research, travel, and job postings. Correspondence can also be found in series 3, Professional and Administrative, series 4, Conferences, and in series 6, Writings. This series is arranged alphabetically by provenance – by sender, recipient, or subject.

Series 3, PROFESSIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE, 1983-2006, is arranged into two subseries: General Files and Recommendations.

Series 3, Subseries 1, General Files, 1986-2005, contains materials related to Johnson’s academic career including search committee files, reading materials for a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar attended by Johnson, School of Criticism and Theory membership materials, and a handwritten to-do list. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by institution then by topic.

Series 3, Subseries 2, Recommendations, 1983-2006, includes correspondence, curriculum vitae, and tenure dossiers, for Johnson’s colleagues and students requesting recommendations from Johnson. Notable names include Elizabeth Abel, Juan Pablo Lupi, and D. A. Miller. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by person’s last name.

Series 4, CONFERENCES, 1987-2002, consists of conference schedules, flyers, and related material, for conferences attended by Johnson. Conference topics include feminism, gender studies, poetry, psychoanalysis, and Johnson’s own book projects. Drafts of conference lectures are often adaptations of Johnson’s published works or course material. These lectures have been removed from the series and relocated to the restricted series until January 1, 2023 after which date they will open without restrictions. Researchers can request access to these files during the closure period by contacting the donor via the Pembroke Center Archives: Bill Johnson González, pembroke_archives@brown.edu. This series is arranged alphabetically by name of institution at which the conference was held.

Series 5, TEACHING, 1973-2008, includes course readings and reading packets, syllabi, and handwritten and typed notes. Course topics include “African American Women Writers,” “Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis,” “Persons and Things,” and “The Sexual Politics of Poetry.” Writing drafts related to Johnson’s teaching are often adaptations of her published works. These files have been removed from the series and relocated to the restricted series until January 1, 2023 after which date they will open without restrictions. Researchers can request access to these files during the closure period by contacting the donor via the Pembroke Center Archives: Bill Johnson González, pembroke_archives@brown.edu. This series is arranged alphabetically by course title then by record type. When available, Johnson’s original folder titles have been maintained and are written in quotations. All other folder titles were created by the processor.

Series 6, WRITINGS BY BARBARA JOHNSON, circa 1970-2009, is arranged into 5 subseries: Articles, Books, Chapters, Talks, and Unidentified Projects.

Series 6, subseries 1, Articles, circa 1970-2003, contains proofs, photocopies, and drafts of articles including “From Melville's First: The Execution of Billy Budd” and “Bringing Out D. A. Miller.” This subseries is arranged chronologically according to the article’s publication date.

Series 6, subseries 2, Books, circa 1970-2009, includes handwritten notes, research materials, and drafts of books including Défiguration du langage poétique: la seconde révolution baudelairienne, The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender, and Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation. Some materials are in French. This subseries is arranged chronologically according to the book’s publication date then by record type.

Series 6, subseries 3, Chapters, circa 1990-2001, contains proofs and drafts of “Gender and Poetry: Charles Baudelaire and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore,” a chapter Johnson wrote for Understanding French Poetry: Essays for a New Millennium by Stamos Metzidakis. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by record type.

Series 6, subseries 4, Talks, circa 1970-1996, contains typed drafts of an introduction for Azizah Y. al-Hibri, philosopher and scholar of Islam and Law, and a talk regarding the opening of Boylston Hall at Harvard University. This series is arranged by the date the talk was given, then by title.

Series 6, subseries 5, Unidentified Projects, n.d., contains one folder of drafts and readings regarding “transferential bigamy.”

Series 6, subseries 6, Previously restricted writings, 1975-2001, contains drafts of unpublished talks, lectures, or other projects by Johnson. These writings are often adaptations of Johnson’s published works or course material. These writings were previously restricted by the donor. As of January 1, 2023, they are open for use. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by title.

Series 7, WRITINGS BY OTHERS, 1979-2004, contains drafts and correspondence by Johnson’s students and colleagues. Notable scholars include Judith Butler, Teresa di Lauretis, Paul de Man, Shoshana Felman, Marjorie Garber, Elaine Scarry, and Naomi Schor. This series is arranged alphabetically by author’s last name.

Series 8, SUBJECT FILES, 1971-2005, contains research articles, clippings, and handwritten notes. Topics include “Black Women Writers, Race, and Psychoanalysis,” “Fanon and Lacan,” and “Persons and Things.” More general subjects include Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Sigmund Freud, Charles Baudelaire, Nella Larsen, and Nora Zeale Hurston. Johnson’s original folder titles are written in quotations. All other folder titles were created by the processor. Writing drafts found in Johnson’s subject files are often adaptations of Johnson’s published works or course material. These have been removed from the series and relocated to the restricted series until January 1, 2023 after which date they will open without restrictions. Researchers can request access to these files during the closure period by contacting the donor via the Pembroke Center Archives: Bill Johnson González, pembroke_archives@brown.edu. This series is arranged alphabetically by subject then by record type.

Series 9, PRINT MATERIAL, 1975-1997, contains books, journals, and magazines including Johnson’s copy of Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd, Sailor” and newsletters on black women writers and from feminist organizations. This series is arranged alphabetically by record type then by title.

Series 10, ELECTRONIC RECORDS, circa 1989-2009, includes cassettes, DVDs, and floppy discs containing audio of Johnson’s lectures and digital research material on Mary Shelley, “The Feminist Difference,” and “Persons and Things.” This series is arranged alphabetically by record type then title on carrier.

Series 11, RESTRICTED, 1975-2006, includes student files, student work, student work and grades, and Johnson’s writing drafts. Student files may include any combination of course work, correspondence, or grades. Student work contains only graded or ungraded course work. Student work and grades includes graded or ungraded course work and final grades. Materials in this series are closed until January 1, 2056 after which date they will open without restrictions. This series is arranged alphabetically by record type then alphabetically by student name, course title, or writing title.

Access Points

Subject Names Subject Organizations Subject Topics Subject Topics

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into 11 series.

  • Series 1, Biographical and Career Development, 1984 – 2006, is arranged alphabetically by record type then by topic.
  • Series 2, Correspondence, 1973-2009, arranged alphabetically by provenance then by first name
  • Series 3, Professional and Administrative, 1983-2006, is arranged into two subseries: General Files and Recommendations.
  • Series 3, Subseries 1, General Files, 1986-2005, is arranged alphabetically by institution then by topic.
  • Series 3, Subseries 2, Recommendations, 1983-2006, is arranged alphabetically by person’s last name.
  • Series 4, Conferences, 1987-2002, is arranged alphabetically by name of host institution.
  • Series 5, Teaching, 1973-2008, is arranged alphabetically by course title then by record type.
  • Series 6, Writings by Barbara Johnson, 1970-2009, is arranged into five subseries: Books, Chapters, Talks, and Unidentified Projects.
  • Series 6, subseries 1, Articles, circa 1970-2003, is arranged chronologically according to the article’s publication date.
  • Series 6, subseries 2, Books, circa 1970-2009, is arranged chronologically according to the book’s publication date then by record type.
  • Series 6, subseries 3, Chapters, circa 1990-2001, is arranged alphabetically by record type.
  • Series 6, subseries 4, Talks, circa 1970-1996, is arranged by the date the talk was given, then by title.
  • Series 6, subseries 5, Unidentified Projects, n.d., contains one folder.
  • Series 6, subseries 6, Previously restricted writings, 1975-2001, is arranged alphabetically by title.
  • Series 7, Writings by Others, 1979-2004, is arranged alphabetically by author’s last name.
  • Series 8, Subject Files, 1971-2005, arranged alphabetically by subject then by record type.
  • Series 9, Print Material, 1975-1997, arranged alphabetically by record type then by title.
  • Series 10, Electronic Records, circa 1989-2009, is arranged alphabetically by record type then title on carrier.
  • Series 11, Restricted, 1975-2006, is arranged alphabetically by record type then alphabetically by student name, course title, or writing title.

Biographical/Historical note

Barbara Johnson was born on October 4, 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the eldest of four children. Her father was a school principal, and her mother was a librarian. She attended Oberlin College between the years of 1965 and 1969 where she studied French, and from which she graduated magna cum laude with the highest honors. Johnson completed her Masters of Philosophy at Yale University in 1973, where she also received her Ph.D. in French in 1977 under Paul de Man. During her time at Yale, Johnson was also a part of the “Yale School,” a literary theory group prompted by the deconstruction philosophy of Jacques Derrida. Major members and contributors to the group included Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartmann, Harold Bloom, and J. Hillis Miller, all of whom were instrumental in creating Deconstruction and Criticism, a pivotal anthology in literary theory and deconstruction. Influential works by Derrida and Lacan had not yet been translated from French into English, so early on in her career, Johnson undertook translating these, which became her “theoretical enterprise.”

Johnson was an assistant professor of French at Yale between 1977 and 1981, at which point she became an associate professor. In 1983, Johnson took a position at Harvard University in the Romance Languages and Literature department, and the Comparative Literature department. She took on several visiting professorships throughout her life at various prestigious institutions, as well as many positions in administrations, boards, and committees. In 1997, Johnson became Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University.

During her time at Harvard, Barbara Johnson met her partner Marjorie Garber, a professor of English, famous for her work and research in Shakespeare and sexuality. The two married and shared homes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Nantucket, Massachusetts, until their separation in the early 2000s.

As author, translator, and editor, Johnson contributed greatly to the fields of literary theory, criticism, feminist theory, and comparative literature. She grew to be an expert in the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allen Poe, and Anne Sexton, as well as the literature of Nella Larsen, Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, and the writings of Franz Fanon, Jaques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Jacques Derrida. Her first book, “Défigurations du Langage Poétique: la seconde revolution Baudelairienne,” published in 1979, has a focus on criticism and interpretation regarding Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, and Stéphane Mallarmé and their prose poetry. She then went on to translate several of Derrida’s works, followed by her second book in 1980, “The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading,” an exploration of the relationship and differences between literature and criticism. Johnson subsequently published “A World of Difference” in 1987, “The Wake of Deconstruction” in 1994, “The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender” in 2001, “Mother Tongues” in 2003, and “Persons and Things” in 2008. Her last book, “Moses and Multiculturalism,” was published posthumously in 2010. Johnson’s books, articles, translations, and lectures contributed enormously to the fields of structuralism, post-structuralism, feminist theory, (de)colonialism, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. In addition, in 1980 Johnson was introduced to, and began to work with, the writings of Nora Zeale Hurston, making her an early scholar to link French literary theory with African-American texts.

Around 2003, Johnson was diagnosed with cerebellar ataxia, a fatal neurological disease. She slowly lost motor control and her ability to speak over the course of the following six years, and died on August 27th, 2009. Though Johnson and Garber never had children of their own, Johnson grew close to a number of her students including Bill Johnson González. Towards the end of her life, Gonzalez became a close friend and caretaker and he started collecting her professional files. Upon her death, Johnson bequeathed her papers to González, who subsequently donated them to the Pembroke Center Archives, with the help and support of Johnson’s literary executors Shoshana Felman and Judith Butler.

Access & Use

Access to the collection: There are some restrictions on access, though most of the collection is open for research use. Student files within Series 11, Restricted, are closed until January 1, 2056 after which date the files will be open without restriction. The collection can only be seen by prior appointment because 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: Barbara Johnson, Ms.2017.025, 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 Bill Johnson González beginning in 2017.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Finding aid prepared by Amanda Knox, Mary Murphy, and Anna Steinberg, 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 the Archivists' Toolkit 2018-02-20
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

Inventory


Series 1. Biographical/ Personal, 1984-2006

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Autobiographical essay: "Barbara Johnson;" annotated drafts and handwritten notes
2000
Box 1, Folder 2 "Character sketch" of Barbara Johnson by Carolivia Harron
1988
Box 1, Folder 3 Curriculum vitae
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 4 Handwritten note re: deterioration of handwriting
2001
Box 1, Folder 5 Housing files: elevations and assessors map of Nantucket home
1998, 2003
Box 1, Folder 6 Housing files: home improvement finances
circa 2001
Box 1, Folder 7 Housing files: home insurance with probate
2004
Box 1, Folder 8 Housing files: mortgage paperwork for Nantucket home
2003
Box 1, Folder 9 Housing files: "uniform residential appraisal report" for Nantucket home
2003
Box 1, Folder 10 Medical files: disability claims
2005
Box 1, Folder 11 Medical files: home health aid care plan
2005
Box 1, Folder 12 Medical files: long term disability plan
2003
Box 1, Folder 13 Medical files: referral sheet
2005
Box 1, Folder 14 Travel details re: trip to Montelimar
1984
Box 1, Folder 15 Travel finances
2003
Box 1, Folder 16 Travel visa applications and hotel reservations
1989

Series 2. Correspondence, 1973-2009

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 17 Correspondence between Philip Fisher and others re: Tom Richards; includes written work by Richards
January-February 1991
Box 1, Folder 18 Correspondence from Al Lingus re: copy of presentation
1984
Box 1, Folder 19 Correspondence from Alexander Nehamas re: "query"
2000
Box 1, Folder 20 Correspondence from Alice Falk re: Lacan headnote
2000
Box 1, Folder 21 Correspondence from Alice Jardine
1984
Box 1, Folder 22 Correspondence from Amy Colin
1996-1997
Box 1, Folder 23 Correspondence from Anita Lauer (?) re: thank you note
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 24 Correspondence from Anne Melberg re: trip to University of Oslo
1996
Box 1, Folder 25 Correspondence from Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation re: hosting a house party for fundraising; includes newsletters and annual reports
1995-1998
Box 1, Folder 26 Correspondence from "B" re: weight, body image, and health
2004
Box 1, Folder 27 Correspondence from Barbara Lewalski re: graduate student grants and fellowships
2001
Box 1, Folder 28 Correspondence from Carole Browne; contains greeting card with photograph
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 29 Correspondence from Catherine Cezaux to the Harvard University English department re: Anne Furbush
1997
Box 1, Folder 30 Correspondence from Catherine Toal re: letter of recommendation
2003
Box 1, Folder 31 Correspondence from Chung Tai-Jin re: article publication
1997
Box 1, Folder 32 Correspondence from Cindy Fallows re: Carmela Sudano extension
1998
Box 1, Folder 33 Correspondence from COOP books re: copyright permission
1997
Box 1, Folder 34 Correspondence from "Daniel;" contains holiday card
2000
Box 1, Folder 35 Correspondence from Deborah Jenson re: library resources and research; includes articles and library search results on various subjects
1994-2001
Box 1, Folder 36 Correspondence from Diana Wilson re: visit to University of Denver
1984
Box 1, Folder 37 Correspondence from E. Bronfen re: "gender and death"
1988
Box 1, Folder 38 Correspondence from E. Nicole Meyer re: lecture at University of Pennsylvania
circa 1984
Box 1, Folder 39 Correspondence from Edward Oser re: tenure track appointments at University of Maryland
1986
Box 1, Folder 40 Correspondence from Elaine AnceKewicz re: Modern Languages Association job list descriptions
1986
Box 1, Folder 41 Correspondence from Elizabeth Witherell re: Thoreau's "Walden"
1984
Box 1, Folder 42 Correspondence from Ellen Langer and Phyllis Keller re: lunch invitation
1986
Box 1, Folder 43 Correspondence from Eric Sundquist re: Madhu Dubey
1997
Box 1, Folder 44 Correspondence from G.R. Bishop re: tenure track appointments at Rutgers University
1986
Box 1, Folder 45 Correspondence from Gavin Moses re: advertisement in Boston Phoenix and notion of black skin, white masks
1998
Box 1, Folder 46 Correspondence from Gayatri Spivak
1980-1984
Box 1, Folder 47 Correspondence from Harold Bloom to Philip Fisler re: scholars in poetry
1991
Box 1, Folder 48 Correspondence from Heather Cole re: library reserves at Radcliffe College
1986
Box 1, Folder 49 Correspondence from Henry Rosovsky to Geoffrey Hartmen re: course taught by Barbara Johnson at Yale University
1984
Box 1, Folder 50 Correspondence from Holly Warren re: paper on Sylvia Plath
1997
Box 1, Folder 51 Correspondence from Houston Baker re: African American Literature syllabus
1984
Box 1, Folder 52 Correspondence from J. Culler re: book review and book project
1980-2001
Box 1, Folder 53 Correspondence from James Wood re: Melville
1997
Box 1, Folder 54 Correspondence from Joan Scott
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 55 Correspondence from Joel Fineman re: issue of "representatives"
1984
Box 1, Folder 56 Correspondence from John Freccero re: enclosed article
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 57 Correspondence from "Joy" [French]
1984
Box 1, Folder 58 Correspondence from Julian Bond re: "Dirty Laundry Behind A Fence"
circa 1991
Box 1, Folder 59 Correspondence from Kimberly I. Steere, Harvard University Press, re: unidentified manuscript
1997
Box 1, Folder 60 Correspondence from Larry Buell to the English department re: Joshua Kysiak
1998
Box 1, Folder 61 Correspondence from Lindsay Waters, Harvard University Press, re: Assman's "Moses the Egyptian"
1998
Box 1, Folder 62 Correspondence from "Margaret" re: thank you
1997
Box 1, Folder 63 Correspondence from "Maria" re: paper reflection
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 64 Correspondence from Marjorie Garber
1984, 2005
Box 1, Folder 65 Correspondence from Michael Riffaterre re: lecture at Columbia University
1984
Box 1, Folder 66 Correspondence from Michaela Irimia
1997
Box 1, Folder 67 Correspondence from Nancy Gish re: visiting position at University of South Maine
1986
Box 1, Folder 68 Correspondence from Nancy Vickers
1988-1989
Box 1, Folder 69 Correspondence from "Patsy" re: "university publishing"
1984
Box 1, Folder 70 Correspondence from Peggy Ackerberg re: 190 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1997
Box 1, Folder 71 Correspondence from "Peter" re: trip to Morocco
1984
Box 1, Folder 72 Correspondence from Robert Scholes re: conference invitation to Brown University
1996
Box 1, Folder 73 Correspondence from Shelley Salamensky re: Emmanuel College research fellowship
1997
Box 1, Folder 74 Correspondence from Shuli Barzilai re: writing about mothers
February 1, 1995
Box 1, Folder 75 Correspondence from Stanley Rabinowitz re: Kevin Clark
June 1984
Box 1, Folder 76 Correspondence from Tarin Lewicki
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 77 Correspondence from University of Denver re: colloquium
1984
Box 1, Folder 78 Correspondence from unknown sender [French]
1980
Box 1, Folder 79 Correspondence from various students re: papers and courses
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 80 Correspondence from William King re: Cambridge Historical Commission
1997
Box 1, Folder 81 Correspondence re: The Center for Literary and Culture Studies
1998
Box 1, Folder 82 Correspondence re: "The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading" from Mary Ann Caws
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 83 Correspondence re: "The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading" pre-publishing comments and post-publishing reviews
1978-1983
Box 1, Folder 84 Correspondence re: "The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading" with William Sisler
1977-1980
Box 1, Folder 85 Correspondence re: "Défiguration du langage poétique: la seconde révolution baudelairienne" from Bernhard Kendler, Cornell University Press
1980
Box 1, Folder 86 Correspondence re: "Défiguration du langage poétique: la seconde révolution baudelairienne" from Rene Girard
1980
Box 1, Folder 87 Correspondence re: "Défiguration du langage poétique: la seconde révolution baudelairienne" from Stanley Fish
1980
Box 1, Folder 88 Correspondence re: "Défiguration du langage poétique: la seconde révolution baudelairienne" with Flammarion Publishing
1978-1980
Box 1, Folder 89 Correspondence re: disability claim
2004
Box 1, Folder 90 Correspondence re: conferences
1991-1999
Box 1, Folder 91 Correspondence re: English Institute move to Northwestern
1999
Box 1, Folder 92 Correspondence re: "The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender" first copies
1998
Box 1, Folder 93 Correspondence re: "The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender" publication information
1996-1997
Box 1, Folder 94 Correspondence re: Harvard University 1998-1999 budget
1998
Box 1, Folder 95 Correspondence re: Harvard University African American Studies celebration
2003
Box 1, Folder 96 Correspondence re: Harvard University Boylston Hall management
1998
Box 1, Folder 97 Correspondence re: Harvard University Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies search to fill tenure track position
2000
Box 1, Folder 98 Correspondence re: Harvard University course evaluations guide
1986
Box 1, Folder 99 Correspondence re: Harvard University "English department senior search"
1998-1999
Box 1, Folder 100 Correspondence re: Harvard University Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society
1996-1998
Box 1, Folder 101 Correspondence re: Harvard University hiring committee logistics
2001
Box 1, Folder 102 Correspondence re: Harvard University literature concentration
1998
Box 1, Folder 103 Correspondence re: Harvard University "Theory Search Committee" from Margorie Garber
1996
Box 1, Folder 104 Correspondence re: Harvard University "undergraduate midterm grade sheets and reports"
2000
Box 1, Folder 105 Correspondence re: Mallarme's Prose
circa 2005
Box 1, Folder 106 Correspondence re: "The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism" edited by Barbara Johnson
1996-2000
Box 1, Folder 107 Correspondence re: Paul de Man
2000
Box 1, Folder 108 Correspondence re: renovations for house in Nantucket; includes bills for services rendered
1991
Box 1, Folder 109 Correspondence re: student's thesis
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 110 Correspondence re: visit to Graduiertenkolleg, Siegen for visiting professorship
1987
Box 1, Folder 111 Correspondence to "Jacques" re: invitation to Harvard [French]
1984
Box 1, Folder 112 Correspondence to Marjorie Garber from colleagues
1989-1999, 2001
Box 1, Folder 113 Correspondence to Paul Marshall re: talk at Harvard University
1984
Box 1, Folder 114 Correspondence with Alice Jardine, Susan Suleiman, and Herve Cren re: libel suit against Le Figaro; includes materials related to the case
1994-1995
Box 1, Folder 115 Correspondence with Barbara Rodriguez re: Rockefeller Center at Bellagio
2001
Box 1, Folder 116 Correspondence with David Wagenkrecht re: "Melville's Fist"
1979
Box 1, Folder 117 Correspondence with Harvard University Press re: "Persons and Things," psychoanalysis, race, and revolution
1996, 2006
Box 1, Folder 118 Correspondence with James Lawler re: visit to University of Chicago
1984
Box 1, Folder 119 Correspondence with Jennifer Ruark re: draft of "Headnotes" by Barbara Johnson
2001
Box 1, Folder 120 Correspondence with Jim Reid re: symposium at University of California at Los Angeles
1983
Box 1, Folder 121 Correspondence with "Jos" (Joseph) Juliet re: Flammarion Publishing
circa 1978
Box 1, Folder 122 Correspondence with Michael Deguy
1980
Box 1, Folder 123 Correspondence with Nelson de Jesus re: "Mules and Men" lecture at Oberlin College
1983-1984
Box 1, Folder 124 Correspondence with Robert Young re: Oxford Literary Review editorship
1984
Box 1, Folder 125 Correspondence with Sean Whitson
1996
Box 1, Folder 126 Correspondence with Sima Kappeler re: personal greetings
1994-1996
Box 1, Folder 127 Correspondence with Suzi Naiburg re: enclosed articles
circa 1995
Box 1, Folder 128 Correspondence with various publishing houses re: book projects
1986, 1997
Box 1, Folder 129 Correspondence with Wendy Deutelbaum and Adalaide Morris re: enclosed article
1983

Series 3. Professional and Administrative, 1983-2006

Series 3, Subseries 1. General Files, 1986-2005

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 1 Harvard University: applications for senior medievalist position (1 of 2)
1998
Box 2, Folder 2 Harvard University: applications for senior medievalist position (2 of 2)
1998
Box 2, Folder 3 Harvard University: correspondence and administrative information re: summer courses
1997-1998
Box 2, Folder 4 Harvard University: list of English Department members
2001-2002
Box 2, Folder 5 Harvard University: list of English Department members
2004-2005
Box 2, Folder 6 Harvard University: list of Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship applicants and interview schedules
1988
Box 2, Folder 7 Harvard University: Literature junior faculty search committee materials; includes correspondence, handwritten notes, and applicant rankings
2000
Box 2, Folder 8 Harvard University: Native American Program materials; includes advisory board meeting minutes and informational booklet
1998
Box 2, Folder 9 Harvard University: to-do list
1986
Box 2, Folder 10 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar: bibliography and readings for course taken by Barbara Johnson
1997
Box 2, Folder 11 School of Criticism and Theory: correspondence and prospectus for summer session attended by Barbara Johnson as a senior fellow
1995-1998

Series 3, Subseries 2. Recommendations, 1983-2006

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 1 Abel, Elizabeth: includes curriculum vitae, writing samples, and correspondence (1 of 2)
circa 2001
Box 3, Folder 2 Abel, Elizabeth: includes curriculum vitae, writing samples, and correspondence (2 of 2)
circa 2001
Box 3, Folder 3 Angiollilo, [first name unknown]: handwritten draft recommendation
n.d.
Box 3, Folder 4 Lamos, Colleen: curriculum vitae, correspondence, and writing samples
circa 2001
Box 3, Folder 5 Lupi, Juan Pablo: recommendation and related correspondence
2004
Box 3, Folder 6 Miller, D. A.: recommendation
2000
Box 3, Folder 7 Spivak, Gayatri: curriculum vitae and letters of recommendation
1983, 1991
Box 3, Folder 8 Taylor, Carole Ann: curriculum vitae, writing samples, and correspondence for fellowship application
circa 1993
Box 3, Folder 9 Tiven, Rachel: curriculum vitae and letter of recommendation
1998
Box 3, Folder 10 Walsh, Mary Roth: recommendation and related correspondence
1991
Box 3, Folder 11 Williams, Patricia: book proposal; includes correspondence, proposal, and writing samples (1 of 2)
1987
Box 3, Folder 12 Williams, Patricia: book proposal; includes manuscript report by Barbara Johnson (2 of 2)
1987

Series 4. Conferences, 1987-2002

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 1 American Comparative Literature Association: annual meeting; includes correspondence, papers, and program
1989
Box 4, Folder 2 Brown University: Pembroke Seminar, roundtable, The Aesthetic Symptom; includes handwritten notes, schedule, and readings
1999
Box 4, Folder 3 Bucknell University: The Wake of Deconstruction, Lectures in Literary Theory; flyer and reservation paperwork
1991
Box 4, Folder 4 Dartmouth College: Culture and Hatred; poster
1995
Box 4, Folder 5 Emory University: Literature on Trial; includes keynote address, handwritten notes, poster, and schedule
2000
Box 4, Folder 6 The English Institute: various sessions; includes correspondence, planning materials, and pamphlets
1996, 1999, 2000-2001
Box 4, Folder 7 Harvard Law School: Conference on New Approaches to International Law; includes invitation, schedule, and list of invitees
1997
Box 4, Folder 8 Harvard Law School: Feminist Legal Analyses of Sexuality and Culture; includes schedule, list of participants, and readings
1997
Box 4, Folder 9 Louisiana State University: Intersexuality and Civilization in the Americas; contains schedule
1992
Box 4, Folder 10 Loyola University: Deconstruction and the Politics of Education; includes correspondence and keynote address
1992
Box 4, Folder 11 Modern Language Association: Feminist Criticism Revisited; includes handwritten notes and readings
circa 1995
Box 4, Folder 12 Modern Language Association: Gwendolyn Brooks panel; includes typed talk drafts and handwritten notes
1987
Box 4, Folder 13 Modern Language Association: "Headnotes talk;" includes flyers and correspondence re: housing and panel
2000
Box 4, Folder 14 New York University: Deconstruction Is/In America; poster
1993
Box 4, Folder 15 Rice University: International Conference on Narrative; includes readings, schedule, correspondence, and lecture draft, "Bringing Out D. A. Miller"
2000-2001
Box 4, Folder 16 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Phyllis Wattis Symposium; includes schedule, correspondence and handwritten notes
1998-1999
Box 4, Folder 17 Sookmyung Women's University: Symposium on New Directions in Literary Studies; includes correspondence, and schedule
1996
Box 4, Folder 18 Unidentified institution: "English Department Talk, Headnotes;" contains handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 19 Unidentified institution: Reading Ethics; contains draft of "Using People"
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 20 Unidentified institution: Theatre of Death; includes correspondence, and handwritten notes
1998
Box 4, Folder 21 Unidentified institution: unidentified conference; contains draft of "No Passing: Sula, Passing, and the Lesbian Continuum"
1990
Box 4, Folder 22 University of California Berkeley: Identifying Identities; includes correspondence
1991
Box 4, Folder 23 University of California Berkeley: Politics of Race and Psychoanalysis; includes draft of "Allegory and Psychoanalysis"
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 24 University of California Irvine: Moses and Multiculturalism; includes posters and African American Studies program information
1999
Box 4, Folder 25 University of Kansas: Langston Hughes Symposium; contains poster
2002
Box 4, Folder 26 University of Southern California: Psychoanalysis and Difference; includes correspondence, handwritten notes, and annotated drafts of others' writings
2001
Box 4, Folder 27 Yale University: Beginning With the Humanities; includes schedule and correspondence
2001
Box 4, Folder 28 Yale University: Changing the Map: The Worlds of Comparative Literature; includes correspondence, schedule, and handwritten notes
1999

Series 5. Teaching, 1973-2008

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 29 "Aesthetics and Violence:" handwritten notes and reading
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 30 African American Women Writers: "coursepack" bound readings
1997
Box 4, Folder 31 African American Women Writers: handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 32 African American Women Writers: readings
1997
Box 4, Folder 33 African American Women Writers: search returns printouts
1998
Box 4, Folder 34 African American Women Writers: syllabi, handwritten notes, correspondence, and student profiles
1990, 1997
Box 4, Folder 35 Allegory: "coursepack" bound readings
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 36 Allegory: handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 37 Allegory: readings
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 38 Allegory: readings
circa 1994
Box 4, Folder 39 Allegory: syllabus and assignment description
1994
Box 4, Folder 40 Allegory and Its Ambiguities: syllabi and handwritten and typed student notes
circa 1978
Box 4, Folder 41 American Women Poets: "coursepack" bound readings
1998
Box 4, Folder 42 American Women Poets: handwritten notes
1998
Box 4, Folder 43 American Women Poets: readings
1998
Box 4, Folder 44 American Women Poets: syllabus, class lists, and student profiles
1998
Box 4, Folder 45 Approaches to the Lyric: syllabi
1984, 1986
Box 4, Folder 46 Baudelaire and Benjamin: class lists and students' handwritten notes
circa 2001
Box 4, Folder 47 Baudelaire and Benjamin: readings
circa 2001
Box 4, Folder 48 Baudelaire and Benjamin: syllabus
2001
Box 4, Folder 49 Comparative Literature: readings
2002
Box 4, Folder 50 "Criticism on Goodwin:" handwritten notes and readings
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 1 Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis: bibliography
1999
Box 5, Folder 2 Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis: handwritten notes re: "Lacan lecture"
circa 1999
Box 5, Folder 3 Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis: readings (1 of 2)
1999
Box 5, Folder 4 Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis: readings (2 of 2)
1999
Box 5, Folder 5 Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis: visual materials
1999
Box 5, Folder 6 "Feminist Literary Theory Seminar:" readings and correspondence re: schedule
1986
Box 5, Folder 7 "Gender and Poetry:" reading
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 8 Genres of Feminism: student profiles and attendance sheet
1998
Box 5, Folder 9 Genres of Feminism: handwritten notes
1998
Box 5, Folder 10 Genres of Feminism: syllabus and readings
1998
Box 5, Folder 11 Interpretation of Lyric: syllabus and readings
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 12 Introduction to Literary Theory: handwritten notes
circa 1998
Box 5, Folder 13 Introduction to Literary Theory: readings
circa 1998
Box 5, Folder 14 Introduction to Literary Theory: revised syllabus
1998
Box 5, Folder 15 Literary Theory: readings
1992
Box 5, Folder 16 Literary Theory: student profiles
1991-1992
Box 5, Folder 17 Literary Theory: syllabi and handwritten notes
1991-1992
Box 5, Folder 18 Mallarme: handwritten notes
circa 1980
Box 5, Folder 19 Mallarme: readings
circa 1980
Box 5, Folder 20 Mallarme: student information and work
circa 1980
Box 5, Folder 21 Mallarme: syllabus
circa 1980
Box 5, Folder 22 Mary Shelley and Her Circle: syllabus
1995
Box 5, Folder 23 Moses and Multiculturalism: coursepack bound readings
2003
Box 5, Folder 24 Moses and Multiculturalism: handwritten and typed notes
circa 2003
Box 5, Folder 25 Moses and Multiculturalism: readings
circa 2003
Box 5, Folder 26 Moses and Multiculturalism: syllabi
circa 2003
Box 5, Folder 27 Narcissism and Literature: bibliography
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 28 Narcissism and Literature: "coursepack" preparations and permissions
1995
Box 5, Folder 29 Narcissism and Literature: "coursepack" unbound originals
1995
Box 5, Folder 30 Narcissism and Literature: "coursepack" unbound readings
1995
Box 5, Folder 31 Narcissism and Literature: handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 32 Narcissism and Literature: readings (1 of 5)
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 33 Narcissism and Literature: readings (2 of 5)
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 34 Narcissism and Literature: readings (3 of 5)
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 35 Narcissism and Literature: readings (4 of 5)
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 36 Narcissism and Literature: readings (5 of 5)
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 37 Narcissism and Literature: student profiles and class lists
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 38 Narcissism and Literature: syllabi and course description
1987, 1995
Box 5, Folder 39 Persons and Things: assignment and exam descriptions
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 40 Persons and Things: bound reading; "Nantucket's Tried-Out Moby Dick" by Robert A. diCurcio
1995
Box 5, Folder 41 Persons and Things: correspondence re: class screening locations
1999
Box 5, Folder 42 Persons and Things: "coursepack" bound readings
1996
Box 5, Folder 43 Persons and Things: "coursepack" unbound readings
2001
Box 5, Folder 44 Persons and Things: exam questions
circa 1999
Box 5, Folder 45 Persons and Things: handwritten notes re: "Brett Bourbon lecture, artificial intelligence"
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 46 Persons and Things: handwritten and typed notes re: "third lecture, The Personhood of Things"
1999
Box 5, Folder 47 Persons and Things: handwritten and typed notes and readings re: "Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'"
1999
Box 5, Folder 48 Persons and Things: handwritten and typed notes and readings re: "Ovid"
circa 1999
Box 5, Folder 49 Persons and Things: handwritten note and readings re: "first lecture"
1999
Box 6, Folder 1 Persons and Things: readings
n.d.
Box 6, Folder 2 Persons and Things: syllabus
1999
Box 6, Folder 3 Persons and Things: annotated reading re: "fetish"
n.d.
Box 6, Folder 4 Persons and Things: typed lecture re: "Benjamin and Fanon"
n.d.
Box 6, Folder 5 Persons and Things: clippings re: "teddy bears, objects of desire"
1996
Box 6, Folder 6 Persons and Things: handwritten notes re: "April 2"
n.d.
Box 6, Folder 7 Persons and Things: handwritten notes re: "April 4"
n.d.
Box 6, Folder 8 Poesie du 19ime Siecle [Poetry of the 19th Century]: handwritten notes and student information sheet [French]
n.d.
Box 6, Folder 9 Poesie du 19ime Siecle [Poetry of the 19th Century]: readings
n.d.
Box 6, Folder 10 Poetry, Suicide, Biography: course list and student information
1994
Box 6, Folder 11 Poetry, Suicide, Biography: "coursepack" unbound original readings
1994
Box 6, Folder 12 Poetry, Suicide, Biography: handwritten and typed notes
circa 1994
Box 6, Folder 13 Poetry, Suicide, Biography: readings (1 of 2)
circa 1994
Box 6, Folder 14 Poetry, Suicide, Biography: readings (2 of 2)
circa 1994
Box 6, Folder 15 Poetry, Suicide, Biography: syllabi
1994
Box 6, Folder 16 Poets as Critics: "coursepack" bound readings
2003
Box 6, Folder 17 Reading and Rhetorical Structures: handwritten and typed notes
1976-1978
Box 6, Folder 18 Reading and Rhetorical Structures: syllabus, student lists, and assignments
1976-1978
Box 6, Folder 19 Reading and Rhetorical Structures: readings
1976-1978
Box 6, Folder 20 Sexual Politics of Poetry: course list and student profiles
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 21 Sexual Politics of Poetry: handouts re: assignments and related readings
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 22 Sexual Politics of Poetry: handwritten notes; topics include "masochism," "reproductive relations," "dead women," and "rape"
n.d.
Box 6, Folder 23 Sexual Politics of Poetry: library reserves form
1992
Box 6, Folder 24 Sexual Politics of Poetry: readings (1 of 6)
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 25 Sexual Politics of Poetry: readings (2 of 6)
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 26 Sexual Politics of Poetry: readings (3 of 6)
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 27 Sexual Politics of Poetry: readings (4 of 6)
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 28 Sexual Politics of Poetry: readings (5 of 6)
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 29 Sexual Politics of Poetry: readings (6 of 6)
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 30 Sexual Politics of Poetry: readings re: "abortion"
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 31 Sexual Politics of Poetry: readings re: "death"
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 32 Sexual Politics of Poetry: readings re: "guess the gender poetry"
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 33 Sexual Politics of Poetry: readings re: "lesbian poetry"
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 34 Sexual Politics of Poetry: readings re: "masochism"
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 35 Sexual Politics of Poetry: readings re: "rape"
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 36 Sexual Politics of Poetry: readings re: "reproductive relations"
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 37 Sexual Politics of Poetry: readings re: "The Yellow Wallpaper"
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 38 Sexual Politics of Poetry: syllabi
circa 1991
Box 6, Folder 39 Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton: class list and student profiles
1997-2000
Box 6, Folder 40 Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton: "coursepack" original unbound readings
1999-2000
Box 6, Folder 41 Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton: handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 1 Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton: readings
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 2 Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton: syllabi
1996, 1997, 2000
Box 7, Folder 3 Unidentified course: annotated readings
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 4 Unidentified course: handwritten lectures
1977-1978
Box 7, Folder 5 Unidentified course: handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 6 Unidentified course: handwritten notes [French]
1976
Box 7, Folder 7 Unidentified course: handwritten notes re: Wilhelm Jensen's "Gradiva: A Pompeiian Fancy"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 8 Unidentified course: readings; topics include God, desire, masochism, and narcissism
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 9 Various courses: class lists
2003
Box 7, Folder 10 Versions of Moses: syllabi and handwritten notes
1997
Box 7, Folder 11 Versions of Moses: readings
circa 1996
Box 7, Folder 12 Versions of Moses: student profiles
circa 1997

Series 6. Writings by Barbara Johnson, circa 1970-2009

Series 6, Subseries 1. Articles, circa 1970-2003

Container Description Date
Box 7, Folder 13 1979: From Melville's First: The Execution of Billy Budd; annotated proofs
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 14 1998: Muteness Envy; photocopy
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 15 2002: Bringing Out D. A. Miller; drafts
2000-2002
Box 7, Folder 16 2003: Bad Writing; draft
n.d.

Series 6, Subseries 2. Books, circa 1970-2009

Container Description Date
Box 7, Folder 17 1979: Défiguration du langage poétique: la seconde révolution baudelairienne; handwritten notes [French]
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 18 1979: Défiguration du langage poétique: la seconde révolution baudelairienne; photocopied reviews
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 19 1979: Défiguration du langage poétique: la seconde révolution baudelairienne; typed and annotated drafts
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 20 1980: The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading; agreement
1980
Box 7, Folder 21 1980: The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading; handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 22 1980: The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading; photocopied chapter "BartheS/BalZac"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 23 1980: The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading; photocopied chapter "Poetry and Its Double: Two Invitations au Voyage"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 24 1994: The Wake of Deconstruction; publication information
1994
Box 7, Folder 25 1997: Moses and Multiculturalism; typed and annotated drafts
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 26 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; chapter draft "Aesthetic and Rapport in Toni Morrison's 'Sula'"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 27 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; chapter draft "The Alchemy of Style and Law;" includes printouts of pages from published article
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 28 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; chapter draft "Gender and Poetry: Charles Baudelaire and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 29 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; chapter draft "Introduction;" includes handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 30 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; chapter draft "Lesbian Spectacles: Reading 'Sula,' 'Passing,' 'Thelma and Louise,' and 'The Accused'"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 31 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; chapter draft "Muteness Envy"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 32 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; chapter draft "The Postmodern in Feminism"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 33 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; chapter draft "The Quicksands of the Self"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 34 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; chapter draft, untitled
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 35 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; contract and related agreements
1996
Box 7, Folder 36 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 37 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; manuscript draft (1 of 2)
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 38 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; manuscript draft (2 of 2)
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 39 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; printouts of published article "Euphemism, Understatement and the Passive Voice: A Genealogy of Afro-American Poetry
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 40 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; printouts of published article "Is Female to Male As Ground is to Figure"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 41 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; printouts of published article "The Re(a)d and the Black"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 42 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; readers reports and reviews
circa 1998
Box 7, Folder 43 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; review of introduction; handwritten note and partial draft
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 44 2001: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender; table of contents draft
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 45 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; chapter draft "Construction Work"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 46 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; chapter draft "Correctional Facilities"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 47 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; chapter draft "Correctional Facilities;" includes handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 48 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; chapter draft "Doing Time: Rereading Paul de Man's 'Literary History and Literary Modernity"
2000
Box 7, Folder 49 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; chapter draft "Passage Work;" includes correspondence, readings, and handwritten notes
2001
Box 7, Folder 50 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; chapter draft "Passage Work;" includes correspondence and reading
2001
Box 7, Folder 51 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; chapter draft "The Poet's Mother: The Cases of Sylvia Plath and Charles Baudelaire"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 52 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; chapter draft "The Poet's Mother: The Cases of Sylvia Plath and Charles Baudelaire" and related correspondence from Judith Butler
2001
Box 7, Folder 53 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; chapter draft "The Queerness of Sylvia Plath"
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 54 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; chapter draft "The Queerness of Sylvia Plath" outline
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 1 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; chapter draft "The Task of the Translator"
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 2 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 3 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; handwritten notes re: "The Queerness of Sylvia Plath"
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 4 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; manuscript draft (1 of 3)
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 5 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; manuscript draft (2 of 3)
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 6 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; manuscript draft (3 of 3)
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 7 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; readers report
2002
Box 8, Folder 8 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; research
2000
Box 8, Folder 9 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; review
2003
Box 8, Folder 10 2003: Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; synopsis
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 11 2007: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism: chapter draft " Charles Baudelaire"
1999
Box 8, Folder 12 2007: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism: chapter draft "Ferdinand de Saussure"
2000
Box 8, Folder 13 2007: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism: chapter draft "Gerald Vizener"
2000
Box 8, Folder 14 2007: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism: chapter draft "Gilles Deleuze and Pierre-Felix Guattari"
2000
Box 8, Folder 15 2007: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism: chapter draft and related research "Jean-Jacques Rousseau"
1999
Box 8, Folder 16 2007: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism: chapter draft and related research "Theophile Gautier"
1999
Box 8, Folder 17 2007: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism: draft table of contents
1999-2000
Box 8, Folder 18 2007: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism: handwritten research notes re: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1999
Box 8, Folder 19 2007: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism: list of "journals to review"
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 20 2007: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism: research re: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1999
Box 8, Folder 21 2007: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism: responses from editors re: "Pedagogy Roundtable"
2003
Box 8, Folder 22 2007: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism: revised guidelines
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 23 2008: Persons and Things: chapter draft, handwritten notes, and research re: "Romancing the Stone"
2005
Box 8, Folder 24 2010: Moses and Multiculturalism: draft introduction
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 25 2010: Moses and Multiculturalism: drafts of various sections
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 26 2010: Moses and Multiculturalism: handwritten research notes
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 27 2010: Moses and Multiculturalism: research articles (1 of 7)
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 28 2010: Moses and Multiculturalism: research articles (2 of 7)
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 29 2010: Moses and Multiculturalism: research articles (3 of 7)
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 30 2010: Moses and Multiculturalism: research articles (4 of 7)
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 31 2010: Moses and Multiculturalism: research articles (5 of 7)
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 32 2010: Moses and Multiculturalism: research articles (6 of 7)
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 33 2010: Moses and Multiculturalism: research articles (7 of 7)
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 34 2010: Moses and Multiculturalism: research articles and related correspondence
1988-1989

Series 6, Subseries 3. Chapters, circa 1990-2001

Container Description Date
Box 8, Folder 35 2001: Gender and Poetry: Charles Baudelaire and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore; annotated proof pages
1993
Box 8, Folder 36 2001: Gender and Poetry: Charles Baudelaire and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore; draft (1 of 2)
n.d.
Box 8, Folder 37 2001: Gender and Poetry: Charles Baudelaire and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore; draft (2 of 2)
n.d.

Series 6, Subseries 4. Talks, circa 1970-1996

Container Description Date
Box 8, Folder 38 1996: introduction for Azizah Y. al-Hibri; typed draft
1996
Box 8, Folder 39 n.d.: Boylston Hall at Harvard University; typed draft
n.d.

Series 6, Subseries 5. Unidentified Projects

Container Description Date
Box 8, Folder 40 n.d.: "transferential bigamy:" two typed pages and reading
n.d.

Series 6, Subseries 6. Previously restricted writings, 1975-2001

Container Description Date
Box 14, Folder 33 Writing: "Art for Something's Sake;" typed draft
2001
Box 14, Folder 34 Writing: "Beloved;" typed, handwritten, and annotated drafts
n.d.
Box 14, Folder 35 Writing: "Derrida 'To Speculate--on Freud;'" typed annotated draft
1999
Box 14, Folder 36 Writing: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Allegory;" typed draft
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 1 Writing: "English Department Talk, Headnotes;" typed, handwritten, and annotated drafts
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 2 Writing: "The Ethics of Close Reading;" typed draft
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 3 Writing: "Feminism and Race;" typed draft
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 4 Writing: "Home;" typed, handwritten, and annotated drafts
1991
Box 15, Folder 5 Writing: "Lacan's Passing," "The Nature of Hatred," and "Passing and Impassing;" typed, handwritten, and annotated drafts
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 6 Writing: "Literary Studies: Living in Interesting Times;" typed draft
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 7 Writing: "Modernizing the Statue: Psychoanalysis and Telecommunications;" typed annotated draft
1998-1999
Box 15, Folder 8 Writing: "The Primal Scenes of Jacques Lacan and Frantz Fanon;" typed and annotated draft for symposium at Sookmyung Women's University
1996
Box 15, Folder 9 Writing: "The Primal Scenes of Jacques Lacan and Frantz Fanon;" typed draft for talk at "Berkeley"
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 10 Writing: "Psychoanalysis, Race, and Revolution: Paradigms and Paradoxes in Freud, Hurston, Lacan, and Fanon;" typed draft
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 11 Writing: "Session with Jacques Lacan;" typed draft
1975
Box 15, Folder 12 Writing: "A Terrible Taste for It;" typed and annotated draft
1998
Box 15, Folder 13 Writing: "The Well of Loneliness;" typed draft
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 14 Writing: untitled draft re: "Fanon;" typed, handwritten, and annotated
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 15 Writing: untitled lecture for Allegory and Its Ambiguities course; handwritten [French and English]
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 16 Writing: untitled lecture for Baudelaire and Benjamin course; handwritten
circa 2001
Box 15, Folder 17 Writing: untitled lecture for Introduction to Literary Theory course; handwritten
circa 1998
Box 15, Folder 18 Writing: untitled lecture for Moses and Multiculturalism course; typed
circa 2003
Box 15, Folder 19 Writing: untitled lecture for Persons and Things course; handwritten
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 20 Writing: untitled lecture for Persons and Things course re: "April 2;" typed
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 21 Writing: untitled lecture for Persons and Things course re: "April 4;" typed and annotated
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 22 Writing: untitled lecture for Persons and Things course re: "artificial life;" typed
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 23 Writing: untitled lecture for Persons and Things course re: "Brett Bourbon lecture, artificial intelligence;" handwritten
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 24 Writing: untitled lecture for Persons and Things course re: "fetish" [incomplete]; typed and annotated
n.d.
Box 15, Folder 25 Writing: untitled lecture for Persons and Things course re: "Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn;'" typed and annotated
1999
Box 15, Folder 26 Writing: untitled lecture for Persons and Things course re: "Ovid" [incomplete]; typed and annotated
circa 1999
Box 15, Folder 27 Writing: untitled lecture for Persons and Things course re: "slavery;" typed
1999
Box 15, Folder 28 Writing: untitled lecture for Persons and Things course re: "teddy bears, objects of desire" [incomplete]; typed and annotated
1996
Box 15, Folder 29 Writing: untitled lecture for Persons and Things course re: "third lecture, The Personhood of Things;" typed and annotated
1999
Box 15, Folder 30 Writing: untitled lecture for Reading and Rhetorical Structures course; typed, handwritten, and annotated
1976-1978

Series 7. Writings by Others, 1979-2004

Container Description Date
Box 8, Folder 41 Barzilai, Shuli: "Lacan on Hamlet: The Man Who Lost the Way of His Desire;" draft
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 1 Bennett, Paula: "Critical Clitoridectomy: Female Sexual Imagery and Feminist Theory;" draft
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 2 Berman, Nathaniel: "Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism? Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia and 'Peaceful Change;'" reprint and correspondence
1997
Box 9, Folder 3 Boym, Svetlana: "Conspiracy Theories and Literary Ethics: Fictional Frames of The Protocols of Zion;" draft
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 4 Burt, Ellen: "Decapitating Figure: The Politics of Andre Chenier in 'The Young Captive Girl;'" annotated draft
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 5 Butler, Judith: "After Loss, What Then?;" annotated draft
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 6 Caroll, Barbara and Dean Whitla: "A Preliminary Exploration of Gender Bian in CUE Ratings;" draft
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 7 Chodorow, Nancy and Susan Contratto: "The Fantasy of the Perfect Mother;" annotated photocopy
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 8 Collier, Peter: "The Unconscious Image;" draft and curriculum vitae
circa 1989
Box 9, Folder 9 Culler, Jonathan: "Writing Criticism;" annotated proof
2001
Box 9, Folder 10 Dalton, Clare: "Experience as a Source of Health(y);" draft
1988
Box 9, Folder 11 DeJean, Joan: "Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937;" excerpt and related correspondence
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 12 de Lauretis, Teresa: "The Violence of Rhetoric: Considerations on Representation and Gender;" annotated photocopy
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 13 de Man, Paul: untitled Ph.D. dissertation; draft
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 14 Fales, Susan Maraya: "Elysium Forsworn: The Subversion of Exotic Conventions in Mallarme and Cesaire;" bachelor's thesis draft
1985
Box 9, Folder 15 Farley, Anthony: various writings and related correspondence
2001
Box 9, Folder 16 Felman, Shoshana: "Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight;" annotated photocopy
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 17 Felman, Shoshana: untitled book introduction draft
2000
Box 9, Folder 18 Ferguson, Moira: "The First 100 Years: Six Black Women Writers;" draft
1993
Box 9, Folder 19 Fried, Debra: "Andromeda Unbound: Gender and Genre in Millay's Sonnets;" annotated photocopy
1986
Box 9, Folder 20 Gallop, Jane: "The Institutionalization of Feminist Criticism;" draft
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 21 Gallop, Jane: "Knot A Love Story;" draft
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 22 Gallop, Jane: "Irigaray;" draft and related correspondence
1979
Box 9, Folder 23 Garber, Marjorie: "Vise Versa: Bisexuality, Eroticism and the Abivalence of Culture;" publishing agreement and related correspondence
1993
Box 9, Folder 24 Gubar, Susan: "Feminist Misogyny: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Paradox of 'It Takes One to Know One;'" draft and related correspondence
1993
Box 9, Folder 25 Jenson, Deborah: curriculum vitae and various writings
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 26 Jones, Ann: "City Freedoms, Literary Cross Dressing and the Defense of Women in 'Louise Labe;'" draft and related correspondence
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 27 Kaplan, Edward: "Baudelaire's Modern Fables: The Esthetic, The Ethical, and the Religious in 'Les Petits Poems en Prose;'" draft (1 of 3)
1989
Box 9, Folder 28 Kaplan, Edward: "Baudelaire's Modern Fables: The Esthetic, The Ethical, and the Religious in 'Les Petits Poems en Prose;'" draft (2 of 3)
1989
Box 9, Folder 29 Kaplan, Edward: "Baudelaire's Modern Fables: The Esthetic, The Ethical, and the Religious in 'Les Petits Poems en Prose;'" draft (3 of 3)
1989
Box 9, Folder 30 Kim, Christina: "Thomas Mann, Slayer of Moses: Ironic Allegory as Historiographical Critique;" draft
2004
Box 9, Folder 31 McDowell, Deborah: "The Changing Same: Generational Connections and Black Women Novelists;" draft and related correspondence
1984
Box 9, Folder 32 Miche, Helena: "Sisterhood as (Sexual) Difference: The Repression of the Other Woman
1988
Box 9, Folder 33 Moran, Richard: various writings for philosophy ad hoc committee meeting
1995
Box 9, Folder 34 Ngai, Sianne: "'A Foul Lump Started Making Promises in My Voice:' Race, Affect, and the Animated Subject;" proof
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 35 Ngai, Sianne: "Jealous Schoolgirls, Single White Females, and Other Bad Examples: Rethinking Gender and Envy;" proof
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 36 Ngai, Sianne: "'The Slave's Dime:' Difference, Consumption, and the Universal Subject;" draft
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 37 Perry, Ruth: "Post Colonial Imports: Teaching 'Crick Crack Monkey' in a Bahamian High School in 1989;" draft
2001
Box 9, Folder 38 Pineda, Cecile: "Face;" annotated photocopy
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 39 Rikoun, Polina: "The Returning Beginning: Nationality and the Trickster in Ukrainian, Russian, African-American and European-American Literatures;" dissertation prospectus
1999
Box 9, Folder 40 Rose, Jacqueline: "Why War?;" draft
1991
Box 9, Folder 41 Scarry, Elaine: "The Body in Pain;" annotated photocopy and postcard from Scarry
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 42 Schor, Naomi: "Pensive Texts and Thinking Statues: Balzac with Rodin;" draft
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 43 Schuyler, Sarah: "Disfigurations of Gender in Dorothy Richardson's 'Pointed Roofs' and H.D.'s 'HERmione;'" draft
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 44 Sedgwick, Eve: "Epistemology of the Closet" and "'Billy Budd:' After the Homosexual;" drafts and related correspondence
1988-1990
Box 9, Folder 45 Segal, Charles: "Philomena's Web and the Pleasures of the Text: Ovid's Myth of Tereus in the 'Metamorphoses;'" draft and related correspondence
n.d.
Box 9, Folder 46 Sharon-Zisser, Shirley: "The Poetics and Politics of Simile;" doctoral proposal and evaluation
1992
Box 9, Folder 47 Sheehan, Katherine: "Toward a Jurisprudence of Doubt;" draft
1996
Box 10, Folder 1 Smith, Barbara Herrnstein: "Living That Way: Quietism and the Active Relativist;" draft
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 2 Suleiman, Susan Rubin: "The 'Other Mother:' On Maternal Splitting;" draft
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 3 Terdiman, Richard: "'Le Cygne:' The Poetics of Exile and the Politics of the Sign;" draft
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 4 Unidentified author: "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Lady Bird;" draft
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 5 Unidentified author: "Joy Kogawa's Writings on Japanese Canadian Internment;" draft and related correspondence
2004
Box 10, Folder 6 Unidentified author: "The World and the Page;" proof and untitled chapter draft
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 7 Unidentified author: "A Rare Bird;" draft
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 8 Vatulescu, Cristina: "'Police Aesthetics:' Literature, Film, and the Secret Police Archives in Eastern Europe and Beyond," and "The Politics of Estrangement;" chapter drafts and request for recommendation
2004
Box 10, Folder 9 Waters, Lindsay: "Come Softly, Darling, Hear What I Say;" draft and photocopies of other writings
1994, 1995, 2001, 2002
Box 10, Folder 10 Williamson, Janice: "Citing Resistance: Vision, Speech, Authority, and Transgression in Canadian Women's Poetry;" draft chapter from dissertation
1987
Box 10, Folder 11 Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim: "Response to Tsvetan Todorov: 'Facing Evil;'" draft and related correspondence
1991

Series 8. Subject Files, 1971-2005

Container Description Date
Box 10, Folder 12 Abortion: clippings
1998
Box 10, Folder 13 "Aesthetics and politics:" reading
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 14 "L'Affaire Aragon:" reading and handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 15 "Bad writing:" annotated reading
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 16 Baudelaire: annotated readings re: "Les Fleurs du Mal" [French}
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 17 "Baudelaire and whiteness:" handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 18 "Baudelaire and whiteness:" readings
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 19 "Benjamin and Derrida:" readings and handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 20 Black history and education: clippings
1990
Box 10, Folder 21 "Black women writers, racism, and psychoanalysis:" readings (1 of 8)
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 22 "Black women writers, racism, and psychoanalysis:" readings (2 of 8)
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 23 "Black women writers, racism, and psychoanalysis:" readings (3 of 8)
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 24 "Black women writers, racism, and psychoanalysis:" readings (4 of 8)
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 25 "Black women writers, racism, and psychoanalysis:" readings (5 of 8)
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 26 "Black women writers, racism, and psychoanalysis:" readings (6 of 8)
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 27 "Black women writers, racism, and psychoanalysis:" readings (7 of 8)
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 28 "Black women writers, racism, and psychoanalysis:" readings (8 of 8)
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 29 "Black women writers, racism, and psychoanalysis:" readings and handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 30 "Body parts tourism:" article and photocopies of spliced images
circa 1999
Box 10, Folder 31 Center for Literary and Cultural Studies: clipping
circa 1988
Box 10, Folder 32 "Cleopatra, Mary Hammer:" handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 33 "Decolonization:" readings (1 of 2)
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 34 "Decolonization:" readings (2 of 2)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 1 "Deconstruction and political correctness:" clippings and handwritten notes
circa 1991
Box 11, Folder 2 "Divagations:" photocopies of excerpts [French]
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 3 The DuBois Institute: clippings
1989
Box 11, Folder 4 Edward Said: typed introduction and research
2000
Box 11, Folder 5 Eve Sedgwick: clipping
1998
Box 11, Folder 6 "Fanon: bibliography:" list of works by Frantz Fanon
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 7 "Fanon:" clippings
1994
Box 11, Folder 8 "Fanon:" clippings re: Islam and Algeria
1995
Box 11, Folder 9 "Fanon:" readings (1 of 7)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 10 "Fanon:" readings (2 of 7)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 11 "Fanon:" readings (3 of 7)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 12 "Fanon:" readings (4 of 7)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 13 "Fanon:" readings (5 of 7)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 14 "Fanon:" readings (6 of 7)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 15 "Fanon:" readings (7 of 7)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 16 "Fanon and Lacan:" clippings
1992, 1994, 1995
Box 11, Folder 17 "Fanon and Lacan:" handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 18 "Fanon and Lacan:" handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 19 "Fanon and Lacan:" handwritten notes and annotated reading re: Homi Bhabha's "The Location of Culture"
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 20 "Fanon and Lacan:" handwritten notes and correspondence re: race, ethics, and passing
circa 1998
Box 11, Folder 21 "Fanon and Lacan:" handwritten notes and first page of annotated draft re: "The Primal Scenes of Jacques Lacan and Frantz Fanon"
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 22 "Fanon and Lacan:" paper by Diana Fuss; "Chapter 5, Interior Colonies: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of Identification"
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 23 "Fanon and Lacan:" paper by Henry Louis Gates, Jr; "Fanon and Colonial Discourse Theory"
circa 1989
Box 11, Folder 24 "Fanon and Lacan:" paper by Richard King; "Transformations: Psychoanalytical and Political"
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 25 "Fanon and Lacan:" "Isaac Julien;" includes handwritten notes and printouts
circa 1997
Box 11, Folder 26 "Fanon and Lacan:" readings (1 of 7)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 27 "Fanon and Lacan:" readings (2 of 7)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 28 "Fanon and Lacan:" readings (3 of 7)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 29 "Fanon and Lacan:" readings (4 of 7)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 30 "Fanon and Lacan:" readings (5 of 7)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 31 "Fanon and Lacan:" readings (6 of 7)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 32 "Fanon and Lacan:" readings (7 of 7)
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 33 "Fanon and Lacan:" readings with annotations (1 of 2)
circa 1995
Box 11, Folder 34 "Fanon and Lacan:" readings with annotations (2 of 2)
circa 1995
Box 11, Folder 35 Freud: readings
n.d.
Box 11, Folder 36 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: readings
circa 2000
Box 11, Folder 37 Henry Louis Gates, Jr: clippings
1992
Box 12, Folder 1 Henry Louis Gates, Jr: photocopied writings and Society for African Philosophy in North America newsletter
circa 1991
Box 12, Folder 2 "Homophobia at Harvard University:" Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies at Harvard University flyers, pamphlets, newsletters, and related correspondence
1991
Box 12, Folder 3 "Irony:" handwritten notes and annotated readings
circa 1976
Box 12, Folder 4 Karl Marx and Frederick Engles: annotated readings
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 5 "Kristeva:" handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 6 Lacan: annotated readings
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 7 Lacan, family, and psychoanalysis: readings
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 8 Leonard Jeffries Jr: clippings re: anti-white and anti-Semitic remarks
1991
Box 12, Folder 9 Lesbianism: reading; "Lisa's Closet" by Gaye Chan
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 10 "Lost and found:" handwritten notes and readings; topics include Du Bois, allegory, and John Newton
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 11 "Marceline Desbordes-Valmore:" handwritten notes
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 12 "Marceline Desbordes-Valmore:" readings (1 of 4)
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 13 "Marceline Desbordes-Valmore:" readings (2 of 4)
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 14 "Marceline Desbordes-Valmore:" readings (3 of 4)
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 15 "Marceline Desbordes-Valmore:" readings (4 of 4)
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 16 "Marceline Desbordes-Valmore:" readings with annotations
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 17 Moses: readings
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 18 Narcissism: annotated reading
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 19 "Osama bin Laden caves:" clippings re: cave hunting
2001
Box 12, Folder 20 Paul de Man: reading
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 21 Persons and things: clippings
1996
Box 12, Folder 22 Persons and things: clippings re: "The Big Blue"
2002
Box 12, Folder 23 Persons and things: handwritten notes and clippings re: "Rasparov, Big Blue, and artificial intelligence"
1996
Box 12, Folder 24 Persons and things: handwritten notes and clippings re: robots, artificial life"
1999, 2001
Box 12, Folder 25 Persons and things: handwritten notes and readings
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 26 Persons and things: handwritten notes and readings re: "allegory"
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 27 Persons and things: handwritten note and readings re: metaphor
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 28 Persons and things: handwritten and typed notes re: "Frankenstein"
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 29 Persons and things: handwritten and typed notes re: "Marble Faun"
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 30 Persons and things: handwritten and typed notes and readings re: "Blade Runner"
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 31 Persons and things: printouts re: robots
2005
Box 12, Folder 32 Persons and things: printouts re: Tamagotchi
2005
Box 12, Folder 33 Persons and things: readings (1 of 4)
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 34 Persons and things: readings (2 of 4)
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 35 Persons and things: readings (3 of 4)
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 36 Persons and things: readings (4 of 4)
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 37 Persons and things: readings re: artificial intelligence
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 38 Persons and things: readings re: "fetishism"
n.d.
Box 12, Folder 39 Persons and things: readings re: Melville
circa 1991
Box 12, Folder 40 Persons and things: typed notes and clippings re: "slavery"
1992, 2001
Box 12, Folder 41 Persons and things: typed notes and printouts re: "the personhood of things"
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 1 Political correctness: clippings and readings
circa 1982
Box 13, Folder 2 Psychoanalysis: readings
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 3 Racism, misogyny, and black feminism: clippings
1991
Box 13, Folder 4 Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Harvard University and Colin Powell: clippings and report
1992
Box 13, Folder 5 Roe versus Wade: "The Supreme Court 1988 Term Comment: Unraveling Compromise" by Frances Olsen
1989
Box 13, Folder 6 "Scilicet:" readings [French]
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 7 Seamus Heaney: photocopied poems with photocopied annotations presumed to be Barbara Johnson's
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 8 Sexual harassment: clippings re: Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill case
1991
Box 13, Folder 9 Sylvia Plath: readings
circa 1998
Box 13, Folder 10 "Translator:" readings
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 11 Various topics: handwritten notes; topics include identify, teaching, Paul de Man, and Henry Louis Gates Jr [French and English]
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 12 Writing and suicide: clippings and pamphlet
1994

Series 9. Print Material, 1975-1997

Container Description Date
Box 13, Folder 13 Book: "Billy Budd, Sailor" by Herman Melville; annotated
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 14 Journal: "Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life"
1997
Box 13, Folder 15 Journal: "Litterature" number 18
1975
Box 13, Folder 16 Journal: "Romantic Review" volume 69 number 1-2
1968
Box 13, Folder 17 Magazine: "1-800 Magazine" number 2
1991
Box 13, Folder 18 Magazine: "Time" re: Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas sexual harrassment case
1991
Box 13, Folder 19 Newsletter: "Afro Scholar"
1992
Box 13, Folder 20 Newsletter: "Boston National Organization for Women"
1991-1992
Box 13, Folder 21 Newsletter: "History of Black Writing News" volume 1 number 1
Spring 1992
Box 13, Folder 22 Newspaper: "Heterodoxy"
February and March 1993

Series 10. Electronic Records, circa 1989-2009

Container Description Date
Box 13, Folder 23 Cassette: "Johnson's lecture, 'Law of Humanities,' Felman's response, Yale Law School"
1997
Box 13, Folder 24 Cassette: "seminar at Berkeley;" includes handwritten note
1990
Box 13, Folder 25 Cassette: "teaching independence discussion"
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 26 Cassette: untitled
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 27 DVD: "Barbara Johnson--Moses and Intertextuality"
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 28 DVD: "Celebrating the life of Barbara Johnson"
2010
Box 13, Folder 29 Floppy disc: "The Feminist Difference"
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 30 Floppy disc: "Mary Shelley"
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 31 Floppy disc: "Moses and pinaroe ?"
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 32 Floppy disc (3): "persons and things"
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 33 Floppy disc: "Rousseau revised"
n.d.
Box 13, Folder 34 Floppy disc (6): untitled
n.d.

Series 11. Restricted, 1979-2006

Container Description Date
Box 14, Folder 1 Student course evaluations for Literature Film and Justice course taught by Shoshana Felman
2003
Box 14, Folder 2 Student file: Bachner, Andrea
n.d.
Box 14, Folder 3 Student file: Gonzalez, Bill Johnson
1999, 2004
Box 14, Folder 4 Student file: Hamer, Mary
1996
Box 14, Folder 5 Student file: Jeon, Seung-Hee
1998
Box 14, Folder 6 Student file: Lupi, Juan Pablo
2000-2001
Box 14, Folder 7 Student file: Marler, Eric
1993
Box 14, Folder 8 Student file: Tenerelli, Polyxeni
circa 2001
Box 14, Folder 9 Student file: Tsu, Jing
2001
Box 14, Folder 10 Student file: Vatulescu, Cristina
2000
Box 14, Folder 11 Student file: Valens, Keja (1 of 3)
1998
Box 14, Folder 12 Student file: Valens, Keja (2 of 3)
1998
Box 14, Folder 13 Student file: Valens, Keja (3 of 3)
1998
Box 14, Folder 14 Student file: Ward, Katherine
1999
Box 14, Folder 15 Student work: American Women Poets
1998
Box 14, Folder 16 Student work: Facetious Reading of an Allegory
1979
Box 14, Folder 17 Student work: Moses and Multiculturalism
circa 2003
Box 14, Folder 18 Student work: Sexual Politics of Poetry
1985
Box 14, Folder 19 Student work: Sexual Politics of Poetry
circa 1991
Box 14, Folder 20 Student work: Sexual Politics of Poetry
circa 1991
Box 14, Folder 21 Student work: Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton
2000
Box 14, Folder 22 Student work and grades: African American Women Writers
1997
Box 14, Folder 23 Student work and grades: African American Women Writers and Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton summer school
1997
Box 14, Folder 24 Student work and grades: Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis
1999
Box 14, Folder 25 Student work and grades: Genres of Feminism
1998
Box 14, Folder 26 Student work and grades: Literary Theory Proseminar
2004
Box 14, Folder 27 Student work and grades: Narcissism and Literature
1987
Box 14, Folder 28 Student work and grades: Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton
2000
Box 14, Folder 29 Student work and grades: unknown course (1 of 2)
n.d.
Box 14, Folder 30 Student work and grades: unknown course (2 of 2)
n.d.
Box 14, Folder 31 Tenure dossier: Rowland, Ann Wierda
circa 1995
Box 14, Folder 32 Tenure dossier: Wallace, Michele
1990