Susan Stanford Friedman papers (MS.2024.023)

This collection consists of the professional papers of Susan Stanford Friedman (1943-2023), Virginia Woolf Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Friedman was a scholar of literary studies, gender studies, modernism, cultural theory, migration/diaspora studies, planetary literatures, and postcolonial studies. The collection includes correspondence, research and lecture notes, syllabi, conference materials, and draft writings. Materials date from 1974 to 2022 and are arranged into 6 series.

Note that all folder titles in quotations were created by Friedman. All other folder titles were created by the processor.

Series 1, ADMINISTRATIVE MATERIALS, 1975 - 2020, includes correspondence, fellowship applications, and planning materials related to Friedman's work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Also included are reports from various committees related to the Women's Studies program, co-founded by Friedman in 1975. This series is arranged alphabetically by record type.

Series 2, CORRESPONDENCE, 1971 - 2020, includes correspondence from Rachel DuPlessis, Caren Kaplan, Elaine Marks, and Patricia Yaeger. Topics include talks and writings by Friedman and conferences. This series is arranged by correspondent's last name then by topic.

Series 3, CONFERENCE MATERIALS, 1979 - 2020, includes correspondence, typed and handwritten notes, and papers by Friedman. Conference topics include "Contemporary Issues in Feminist Theory and Methodology," "EDGES Conference on the Politics of Gendered Difference, Civil Rights, and the Workplace," "European Women's Studies from Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives," "GlobalGRACE," and "When the Professional is Political: Feminism, Activism, and the Academy." This series is arranged alphabetically by conference title.

Series 4, TEACHING MATERIALS, 1974 - 2015, includes syllabi, typed and handwritten lecture notes, and annotated readings. Course titles include "Muslim Feminisms and Women's Diasporic Writing," "Feminist Literary Theory," "Global/Local, Nation, Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, Diaspora/Migration," "Virginia Woolf," and "Women's Studies 101." Note that not all materials included a course number or a course title. The same course numbers occasionally had different course titles over time so the processor only provided the information they could confirm. This series is arranged alphabetically by course number then course title.

Series 5, WRITINGS, 1974 - 2022, includes writings by Friedman and writings by others. This series is arranged into 2 sub-series.

Series 5, sub-series 1, WRITINGS BY FRIEDMAN, 1974 - 2022, includes typed and handwritten drafts of articles, books, chapters, and talks. This series also includes related correspondence and notes. Titles include ""Beyond Gynocriticism and Gynesis: The New Geography of Identity and Narrative Studies in the 1990s," ""Beyond Difference: Migratory Feminism in the Borderlands," ""World Literature and Anglophone Arab Writers in the Diaspora," Androgyny as Living Myth: Feminist Theory and Research, and Sisters of Scheherazade: Religion, Diaspora, and Contemporary Muslim Women's Writing which is being posthumously published by Columbia University Press and edited by B. Venkat Mani and Rebecca L. Walkowitz. This sub-series is arranged alphabetically by writing format then by title.

Series 5, sub-series 2, WRITINGS BY OTHERS, 1995 - 2017, includes typed drafts, offprints, and correspondence from other scholars including Giovanna Covi, Cyrena Pondrom, and R. Radhakrishnan. This sub-series is arranged alphabetically by scholar's last name.

Series 6, RESEARCH, includes handwritten notes, photocopied archival materials, and annotated readings. This series is arranged into 2 sub-series.

Series 6, sub-series 1, RESEARCH BY SUBJECT, 1974 - 2020, includes typed and handwritten notes, photocopied archival materials, annotated readings, and clippings, related to Friedman's research. Topics include Bryher, feminism, Sigmund Freud, Hilda Doolittle, narrative, and psychoanalysis. This sub-series is arranged alphabetically by topic.

Series 6, sub-series 2, RESEARCH BY SCHOLAR'S LAST NAME, 1979 - 2021, includes annotated readings and handwritten notes regarding published works and research areas of specific scholars and authors. This sub-series is arranged alphabetically by scholar's last name.