Elaine Marks papers, 1893-2001

(bulk 1949-2001)


John Hay Library, Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Published in 2013

Collection Overview

Title: Elaine Marks papers
Date range: 1893-2001, (bulk 1949-2001)
Creator: Marks, Elaine
Extent: 4 linear feet (4 record center boxes)
Abstract: The Elaine Marks Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, research and teaching materials, and ephemera from the period 1949-2001. The collection includes manuscripts, course syllabi, promotional materials, and correspondence related to Elaine Marks' professorial work in the fields of French literature and Women's Studies. The collection also includes extensive materials from Marks' work with the Modern Language Association.
Language of materials: English
Repository: John Hay Library, Special Collections
Collection number: Ms.2007.003

Scope & content

The Elaine Marks Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, research and teaching materials, and ephemera from the period 1949-2001. The collection includes manuscripts, course syllabi, promotional materials, and correspondence related to Elaine Marks' professorial work in the fields of French literature and Women's Studies. The collection also includes extensive materials from Marks' work with the Modern Language Association.

The photographs depict family, friends, professional colleagues, and trips to Paris. The correspondence includes letters of a personal and professional nature. The personal correspondence is from friends and family discussing work and family news. The professional correspondence concerns Marks' faculty appointments, rank, and salaries, and publishing activities. Her teaching files include instructor evaluations, syllabi, course packets, exam questions, readings, and bibliographies. The research files include spiral notebooks containing extensive notes on a variety of topics including Saint John Perse, Sigmund Freud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Dante, Proust, Nietzsche, Auguste Comte, Colette. There are also files containing drafts and manuscripts of Marks' writings.

Access Points

Subject Names Subject Organizations Document Types Subject Topics Occupations Document Types Subject Topics

Arrangement

The collection is divided into the following series:

  • Series 1. Juvenilia
  • Series 2. Photographs
  • Series 3. Elaine Marks' student work
  • Series 4. Correspondence
  • Series 5. Modern Language Association
  • Series 6. Teaching
  • Series 7. Research
  • Series 8. Printed materials

Biographical note

Elaine Marks, an eminent scholar of women's studies, French literature, and Jewish studies, was born in New York City in 1930. Marks attended the Walden School from 1940 to 1948. She graduated magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1952 and pursued graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, where she received a doctorate in 1958. Marks held teaching appointments at New York University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for twenty-two years, where she was the Germaine Brée Professor of French and Women's Studies.

Books by Elaine Marks include Colette (Rutgers University Press, 1960), Simone de Beauvoir: Encounters with Death (Rutgers University Press, 1973), Homosexualities and French Literature: Cultural Contexts, Critical Texts, co-edited with George Stambolian (Cornell University Press, 1979), New French Feminism (University of Massachusetts Press, 1980), co-edited with Isabelle de Courtivron, and Marrano as Metaphor: The Jewish Presence in French Writing (Columbia University Press, 1996). Elaine Marks retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000. She died in Dallas in October 2001.

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: Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Preferred citation: Elaine Marks papers, Ms.2007.003, Feminist Theory Archive, Brown University Library.
Contact information: John Hay Library, Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
Acquisition: Gift of Brigitte Ozzello in 2004.
Accruals: There are no further materials anticipated for this collection.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Finding aid prepared by Amy Robb 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 2013-03-13
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. Juvenilia
2.0 folders

Box 1, Folder 1-2

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Child's cat drawings
Box 1, Folder 2 Walden School, One West 1948 Bulletin

Series 2. Photographs
14.0 folders

Box 1, Folder 3-16

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 3 Two 19th Century photographs, one of two men and a woman, one of a man
Box 1, Folder 4 Photo album
Box 1, Folder 5 Photographs of Elaine Marks and friends
Box 1, Folder 6 Photographs from Aili Tripp
Box 1, Folder 7 Photographs throughout Elaine Marks’ life
Box 1, Folder 8 Photo of woman and envelope
 1955
Box 1, Folder 9 Black and white photograph on postcard of two women
Box 1, Folder 10 Photograph of Elaine Marks in hat, Germaine Brée in Peugot t-shirt
Box 1, Folder 11 A few memories…with gratitude and admiration for your many years of service to Women’s Studies
 1977-1985
Box 1, Folder 12 Music Box Canteen
Box 1, Folder 13 Elaine Marks with colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Elaine Marks at statue
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Elaine Marks at fountain
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Elaine Marks outside Notre Dame
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Elaine Marks in museum
2.0 envelopes
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Man on steps
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Elaine Marks by sidewalk tree
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Elaine Marks at outdoor café
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Elaine Marks at newsstand
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Elaine Marks with crowd
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Elaine Marks in traffic
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Elaine Marks at artist stand
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Man at square
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Elaine Marks with Venus de Milo
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Elaine Marks by the Seine
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Elaine Marks with motorcycles
Box 1, Folder 14 Paris - Man in apartment
Box 1, Folder 15 Mount Holyoke’s 125th Anniversary Convocation, honorary recipients
Box 1, Folder 16 Elaine Marks and friends sitting on grass

Series 3. Elaine Marks’ student work
17.0 folders

Box 1, Folder 17-33

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 17 Spanish language worksheets
 2001
Box 1, Folder 18 In Memory of S. Mallarme
Box 1, Folder 19 It’s Not Murder
 1949
Box 1, Folder 20 Contre Marcel Proust qui est Contre Sainte Beuve qui est contre Nerval, Baudelaire et Balzac
Box 1, Folder 21 The earth that is sufficient: A comparative study of "Les Nourritures Terrestres" and the "Song of the Open Road"
Box 1, Folder 22 What Maisie Knew and what maisie knew
 1956
Box 1, Folder 23 Une Discussion des Trois Jugements de Pascal sur Descartes
Box 1, Folder 24 Le Malentendu
Box 1, Folder 25 Discussion de "Le Héros Cornélien Fait Non Pas Ce Qu’il Doit Mais Ce Qu’il Se Doit"
Box 1, Folder 26 Le Voyage
Box 1, Folder 27 Crito-Method and Content
Box 1, Folder 28 La Mort de Manon Lescaut
Box 1, Folder 29 Comment Molière Nous Fait-Il Rire. Nous Fait-il Seulement Rire?
Box 1, Folder 30 The Passions of the Soul
 1950
Box 1, Folder 31 What We Are Ourselves
Box 1, Folder 32 Love against Time in the Sonnets of William Shakespeare
 1949
Box 1, Folder 33 Mondes Littéraires et "Monde" tout court: Essai de Définition d’un Terme Critique

Series 4. Correspondence, 1893-2001
69.0 folders

Box 1

Personal, 1893-2001
18.0 folders

Box 1, Folder 34-51

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 34 Stamp collection
Box 1, Folder 35 Letter
 1893
Box 1, Folder 36 Postcards from Elaine Marks to Eric Schoenfeld
Box 1, Folder 37 Postcard of Colette to Elaine Mark
 1984
Box 1, Folder 38 Postcard with French address information
 2000
Box 1, Folder 39 Postcard from Alison
 1984
Box 1, Folder 40 Letters from Nick
Box 1, Folder 41 Two letters from Elaine Marks’ mother
 1967
Box 1, Folder 42 Letter from Buzz
 1967
Box 1, Folder 43 Letter from Indira
 1965
Box 1, Folder 44 Three letters from Reveé
 1987
Box 1, Folder 45 Letter from Sol Bloom
 1949
Box 1, Folder 46 Letter from Gaylord Nelson
 1967
Box 1, Folder 47 Letter from Chamberlain Brown
 1953
Box 1, Folder 48 Thank you note from Elyave
Box 1, Folder 49 "The New York Review of Books" subscription
Box 1, Folder 50 Alliance Française de Dallas membership application
 2001
Box 1, Folder 51 Elaine Marks Fund for Comprehensive Cancer Center support
 2001

Business emails, 1999-2001
2.0 folders

Box 1, Folder 52-53

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 52 Emails between Bousquet Gilles and Marianne Ferrera
 1999-2001
Box 1, Folder 53 Email from Maria Slocum
 2000

Correspondence regarding appointment, rank, and salary, 1964-2001
10.0 folders

Box 1, Folder 54-63

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 54 Letters from Robert Taylor regarding employment at University of Massachusetts Amherst
 1964-1967
Box 1, Folder 55 University of Massachusetts Amherst Notification of Appointment
 1965
Box 1, Folder 56 University of Massachusetts Notification of Personnel Action
 1966
Box 1, Folder 57 Letters regarding Elaine Marks’ resignation from New York University and appointment to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
 1963
Box 1, Folder 58 Appointment, rank, and salary for Department of French and Italian
 1963-1982
Box 1, Folder 59 Appointment, rank, and salary for Women’s Studies Program
 1977-1993
Box 1, Folder 60 Professional and academic activity reports
 1979-1999
Box 1, Folder 61 Letter from David Sorkin regarding Elaine Marks’ retirement
 2000
Box 1, Folder 62 Conferral of emerita status
 2001
Box 1, Folder 63 Emerita Status Certification of Recognition
 2001

Publishing correspondence, 1962-2000
11.0 folders

Box 1, Folder 64-74

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 64 Letter from E. David Cronon regarding Elaine Marks’ essay, "Women and Literature in France"
 1978
Box 1, Folder 65 Correspondence regarding "Signs" special issue, "Feminisms at the Millennium"
 1999
Box 1, Folder 66 Interview correspondence for "CSUN-Critical Divides: Dialogues on the Practices of Literary and Cultural Studies"
 1998
Box 1, Folder 67 Correspondence, "Approaches to Teaching Proust’s Fiction and Criticism"
 2000
Box 1, Folder 68 Book contracts with Macmillan Company
 1962-1963
Box 1, Folder 69 Letter from New American Library
 1963
Box 1, Folder 70 Correspondence regarding de Beauvoir article
 1966
Box 1, Folder 71 Letters from Georges Borchardt
 1955-1964
Box 1, Folder 72 Correspondence regarding chapter, "The Absurd and the Death of God," in "Columbia History of 20th Century French Thought"
 1996-1997
Box 1, Folder 73 Confirmations of article publications in "The Harvard History of French Literature" and "Sex Roles: A Journal of Research"
 1987-1990
Box 1, Folder 74 Feminist Press Mothers of Women’s Studies project
 1997

Invitations and participation in academic and professional activities, 1966-2000
9.0 folders

Box 1, Folder 75-83

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 75 Invitations from Tufts and Tulane to apply for positions
 1966-1980
Box 1, Folder 76 Correspondence regarding Germaine Brée’s festschrift and Elaine Marks' speech, "La Grande Mademoiselle and Madame Germane Brée"
 1973
Box 1, Folder 77 Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation acknowledgement and application notes
 1992
Box 1, Folder 78 Email regarding Nelly Furman’s talk for 25th Anniversary of Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison
 2000
Box 1, Folder 79 Invitation to participate in "New Pathways II Post-Tenure Review Study"
 2000
Box 1, Folder 80 Invitation to speak at UWM French Club Cercel français
 1967
Box 1, Folder 81 Invitation to become member of "Signs" editorial board
 1980
Box 1, Folder 82 Thank you for participating in "Emerging Issues" symposium
 1982
Box 1, Folder 83 Invitation to speak at University of Chicago colloquium series, "The Critical Forum"
 1983
Box 1, Folder 84 YMCA of Madison, Women of Distinction Awards 2000 Nomination Form
 2000

Series 5. Modern Language Association, 1987-2000
21.0 folders

Box 1, Folder 85-105
Series includes speeches and articles that Elaine Marks used to write her President's Column for the "MLA Newsletter."

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 85 Letter to M. Crawford Young regarding Elaine Marks’ appointment as President of the Modern Language Association
 1992
Box 1, Folder 86 "MLA Newsletter" with Elaine Marks’ President’s Column - Winter 1985 Volume 17, Number 4
 1985
Box 1, Folder 86 "MLA Newsletter" with Elaine Marks’ President’s Column - Spring 1993 Volume 25, Number 1, "The 1992 Convention in New York City"
 1993
Box 1, Folder 86 "MLA Newsletter" with Elaine Marks’ President’s Column - Summer 1993 Volume 25, Number 2, "Speaking in Tongues"
 1993
Box 1, Folder 86 "MLA Newsletter" with Elaine Marks’ President’s Column - Fall 1993 Volume 25, Number 3, "In Defense of Modern Language and Literatures, Masterpieces, Nihilism, and Dead European Writers"
 1993
Box 1, Folder 86 "MLA Newsletter" with Elaine Marks’ President’s Column - Winter 1993 Volume 25, Number 4, "Memory, Desire, and Pleasure in the Classroom"
 1993
Box 1, Folder 86 "MLA Newsletter" with Elaine Marks’ President’s Column - Spring 1994 Volume 26, Number 1
 1994
Box 1, Folder 86 "MLA Newsletter" with Elaine Marks’ President’s Column - Summer 1999 Volume 31, Number 2
 1999
Box 1, Folder 87 Correspondence and copyediting for "MLA Newsletter"
 1993
Box 1, Folder 88 Manuscript, "Speaking in Tongues"
Box 1, Folder 89 Manuscript and notes, "Memory, Desire, and Pleasure in the Classroom: La Grande Mademoiselle"
Box 1, Folder 90 Manuscript and notes, "Teaching Morality and Community: Intellectual Pleasure and Social Commitment"
Box 1, Folder 91 Speech, "Growing Up Jewish"
Box 1, Folder 92 Speech, "Monsieur, je vous remerci, et 00E0 travers vous je remercie le Ministre de l’Education Nationale, et la France, de cet honneur que vous m’avez accordé"
 1995
Box 1, Folder 93 Speech, "As Oscar winners often say"
Box 1, Folder 94 Speech, "Distinguished Teaching Awards Ceremony"
 1997
Box 1, Folder 95 Notes for informal presentation to the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics
 1990
Box 1, Folder 96 MLA San Diego 1974 readings
Box 1, Folder 97 Quotable, "It is a question of what I find exciting and what I find tedious, even boring," by Elaine Marks in "The Chronicle of Higher Education"
 1993
Box 1, Folder 98 "The Poetical and the Poetical: The 'Feminist' Inquiry in French Studies," by Elaine Marks, Feminisms in the Academy"
 1993
Box 1, Folder 99 "Teaching Language Through Literature," Modern Language Association Conference
 1987
Box 1, Folder 100 MLA Teaching Forum: Introduction to Literature in Foreign Language Programs
Box 1, Folder 101 Letter from Phyllis Franklin regarding "MLA Members Read Their Favorite Poems"
 2000
Box 1, Folder 102 Submissions and Elaine Marks’ notes for "Pedagogy 1900+"
Box 1, Folder 103 MLA Planning for 2001 Convention Sessions
Box 1, Folder 104 Correspondence with MLA Graduate Student Caucus
 1992
Box 1, Folder 105 Presidential Address 1993: Multiplicity and Morality

Series 6. Teaching, 1972-2000
42.0 folders

Box 2

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 1 Instructor evaluations
 1972-1977
Box 2, Folder 2 Women’s Studies 310: Women and the Holocaust, Spring 1995, student papers
 1995
Box 2, Folder 3 Women’s Studies 520: Special Topics in Women and Society, Spring 1977, course description and syllabus for approval
 1977
Box 2, Folder 4 Women’s Studies 900: Motherhood In (And) The Feminist Inquiry, Spring 1988, course packet
 1988
Box 2, Folder 5 New French Feminisms Readings prepared by Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron, 1977 with letter from Denise Rall, 1992
 1977-1992
Box 2, Folder 6 Bibliographies, syllabi, and exam questions for Elaine Marks’ 100 level French classes
Box 2, Folder 7 Bibliography of the Poets
Box 2, Folder 8 Qu’est-ce Que la Littérature?
Box 2, Folder 9 Vocabulaire littéraire
Box 2, Folder 10 Flaubert Citations
Box 2, Folder 11 l’Anabase du lecteur: efforts preliminaries
Box 2, Folder 12 Your Questions and Comments handout
Box 2, Folder 13 Travaux de/en Cours: Lectures Autobiographiques, December 1983, course packet
 1983
Box 2, Folder 14 French 250 Proust notes
 1990
Box 2, Folder 15 French 251: French Women Writers Today, Fall 1984, course packet
 1984
Box 2, Folder 16 French 270: Themes in French Literature, "Death and Immortality," Fall 1972, course packet
 1972
Box 2, Folder 17 French 472: Femmes de Lettres: Christine de Pizan a Colette, Spring 1996, course description and notes
 1996
Box 2, Folder 18 French 462: La Mort de Dieu, Fall, 1996, course description and syllabus
 1996
Box 2, Folder 19 French 462: La Mort de Dieu, Fall, 1996, notes
 1996
Box 2, Folder 20 French 462: La Mort de Dieu, Fall, 1996, readings
 1996
Box 2, Folder 21 French 462: La Mort de Dieu, Fall, 1996, newspaper clippings
 1996
Box 2, Folder 22 French 474: Gide et Proust, bibliography and notes
Box 2, Folder 23 French 821: Issues and Methods of Teaching French and Italian, email and class roster
Box 2, Folder 24 French 821: Issues and Methods of Teaching French and Italian, preliminary remarks
Box 2, Folder 25 French 821: Pedagogy in and of Language and Literature, Spring 2000, syllabus
 2000
Box 2, Folder 26 Study questions for "Cheri"
 1999
Box 2, Folder 27 French 946: Littérature, Histoire, Fictions: Autour d’Auschwitz, course packet
Box 2, Folder 28-29 French 947: Femmes de Lettres, Fall 1999, student papers
Box 2, Folder 30 French 947: Histoire et Litterature: Le Cote de Guermantes, Sodome et Gomorrhe, Fall 1995, Wellesley College folder with notes
 1995
Box 2, Folder 31 French 947: Histoire et Litterature: Le Cote de Guermantes, Sodome et Gomorrhe, Fall 1995, grading system, syllabus, and course description
 1995
Box 2, Folder 32 French 947: Histoire et Litterature: Le Cote de Guermantes, Sodome et Gomorrhe, Fall 1995, student papers
 1995
Box 2, Folder 33 French 947: Histoire et Litterature: Le Cote de Guermantes, Sodome et Gomorrhe, Fall 1995, notes
 1995
Box 2, Folder 34 French 947: Histoire et Littérature: L’Affaire Dreyfus et la belle époque: Marcel Proust, Fall 1995, on the blackboard
 1995
Box 2, Folder 35 ARTFL Project: Concordance Report
 1995
Box 2, Folder 36 French 947: Histoire et Littérature: L’Affaire Dreyfus et la belle époque: Marcel Proust, Fall 1995, articles not handed out
 1995
Box 2, Folder 37 French 947: Histoire et Littérature: L’Affaire Dreyfus et la belle époque: Marcel Proust, Fall 1995, articles
 1995
Box 2, Folder 38 French 947: Histoire et Littérature: L’Affaire Dreyfus et la belle époque: Marcel Proust, Fall 1995, newspaper/magazine clippings
 1995
Box 2, Folder 39 French 947: Histoire et Littérature: L’Affaire Dreyfus et la belle époque: Marcel Proust, Fall 1995, student papers
 1995
Box 2, Folder 40 French 947: Histoire et Littérature: L’Affaire Dreyfus et la belle époque: Marcel Proust, Fall 1995, email correspondence
 1995
Box 2, Folder 41 Report on Proust Conference at UIUC
 2000
Box 2, Folder 42 Letter to Steven regarding French texts
 1996

Series 7. Research, 1949-2000
87.0 folders

Box 3
Elaine Marks maintained extensive notes for research and teaching in spiral notebooks. The folder titles here are taken from the front cover or first pages of each notebook.

Notebooks and notes, 1949-2000
32.0 folders

Box 3

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 1 Notebook, Elaine Marks, of Rue de Chavaue se, Paris, France
 1949 July 25
Box 3, Folder 2 Notebook, Saint John Perse: Anabase 10 chants
Box 3, Folder 3 Notebook, Sigmund Freud jokes and their relationship to the unconscious
Box 3, Folder 4 Notebook, Poe’sie Française contemporaire (3)
Box 3, Folder 5 Notebook, le Romantisme, Balzar, Stendhal with 2 postcards taped to front cover
Box 3, Folder 6 Notebook, Poe’sie Française contemporaire, 2e cahier
Box 3, Folder 7 Notebook, notes for French 221 Section 6 and French 222 Section 3
Box 3, Folder 8 Notebook, Guillaume Apollinaire
Box 3, Folder 9 Notebook, le Roman Française contemporian
Box 3, Folder 10 Notebook, Bernanos, Sartre, Camus
Box 3, Folder 11 Notebook, Le Romeu: Giono, Malraux, Sr Ex
Box 3, Folder 12 Notebook, Saint John Perse
Box 3, Folder 13 Notebook, Valéry, Mallarmé
Box 3, Folder 14 Notebook, Gide
Box 3, Folder 15 Notebook, Français XV
Box 3, Folder 16 Notebook, Biographies
Box 3, Folder 17 3x5 French note cards
Box 3, Folder 18 4x6 Proust note cards
Box 3, Folder 19 Notes written on back of envelope
Box 2, Folder 20 Notes for other books
Box 3, Folder 21 Notes on "imagination"
Box 3, Folder 22 Notes on Dante
 1995
Box 3, Folder 23 Notes on Proust
Box 3, Folder 24 Collected notes under the title, "Nihilism"
Box 3, Folder 25 Collected notes under the title, "Jewish Question"
Box 3, Folder 26 "The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy" excerpt on Nietzsche with annotations
Box 3, Folder 27 French dictionary entries for the letter "d"
Box 3, Folder 28 Email on philosophy of religion
 1996
Box 3, Folder 29 Flaubert Oluvres II, Appendice
Box 3, Folder 30 "L’Enseignement de la literature" by Serge Doubrovsky
Box 3, Folder 31 Auguste Comte
Box 3, Folder 32 La critique little’raire de Sainte-Beuve Sartre

Colette
7.0 folders

Box 4, Folder 1-7

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 1 Notes on Colette
Box 4, Folder 2 Articles on Colette
Box 4, Folder 3 Newspaper clippings on Colette
Box 4, Folder 4 "Societe des Amis de Colette, Compte Rendu de la Reunion de Travail"
 1979
Box 4, Folder 5 "Instructors Only" for "Week 9, French 204" for Colette
Box 4, Folder 6 "Colette and Nietzsche: A Reappraisal of ‘La Vasabonde’" by Robert Goodhand with notes
 1982
Box 4, Folder 7 Galley for Foreword of "Colette"

Death of God and the Absurd
10.0 folders

Box 4, Folder 8-17

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 8 Death of God and the Absurd, newspaper clippings
Box 4, Folder 9 Death of God and the Absurd, newspaper clippings and book reviews
Box 4, Folder 10 Death of God and the Absurd, Free Thought Today and Palisades Home Video
Box 4, Folder 11 Death of God and the Absurd, books consulted
Box 4, Folder 12 Death of God, notes
Box 4, Folder 13 Death of God, notes for book and articles
Box 4, Folder 14 Death of God and the Absurd, attached articles
Box 4, Folder 15 Intertexts for "Survival in Auschwitz"
 2000
Box 4, Folder 16 Antisemitism after Auschwitz," possible preface or early chapter to "The Death of God
Box 4, Folder 17 Death of Death, edited Preface

Drafts and manuscripts
12.0 folders

Box 4, Folder 18-28

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 18 Comments and conclusion of a French paper
Box 4, Folder 19 John Milton, "Paradise Regained" and Brée dedication
Box 4, Folder 20 Classicism--Romantisme
Box 4, Folder 21 Romantisme
Box 4, Folder 22 Classicisme
Box 4, Folder 23 Feminism’s Perverse Effects
Box 4, Folder 24 For a "Polymorphously Perverse" Curriculum
Box 4, Folder 25 Revisions and Blindspots
Box 4, Folder 26 I cannot predict the paths the Department of French and Italian
Box 4, Folder 27 The Courage to See
Box 4, Folder 28 Essay on Nancy K. Miller’s, "French Dressing: Women, Men, and Ancient Régime Fiction" and Naomi Schor’s, "Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular"

Articles by and about Elaine Marks, 1989-1998
7.0 folders

Box 4, Folder 29-35

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 29 Multiple Personality" by Elaine Marks in "The Women’s Review of Books
 1991 Dec
Box 4, Folder 30 Loving Words: Nightmares and Pleasures of the Glossophile or the Advocacy of Semiotic Bliss," in "MIFLC Review
 1997-1998
Box 4, Folder 31 "Transgressing the (In)cont(in)ent Boundaries: The Body in Decline," by Elaine Marks in "Yale French Studies
Box 4, Folder 32 Biography of Simone de Beauvoir by Elaine Marks in DLB 72
Box 4, Folder 33 Reviews of "Simone de Beauvoir: Encounters with Death"
Box 4, Folder 34 "Professor Elaine Marks: francais & feminism spoken here," in "The Feminist Connection
 1981 Jan
Box 4, Folder 35 "Marks Urges More Metaphysical Feminism," in "University of Maryland Arts & Humanities Newsletter"
 1989

Articles and newspaper clippings, 1946-2000
19.0 folders

Box 4, Folder 36-54

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 36 Explication de Tete: Cancion de Poeta Soldato y Istoriografo
Box 4, Folder 37 "Booz endormi" by Victor Hugo
Box 4, Folder 38 La Sainte Bible-La Genese: La Nausance d’Eve
Box 4, Folder 39 "Temps Modernes" by Jean-Paul Sartre
 1946
Box 4, Folder 40 Kinship Structures, Psychoanalysis and Feminism Discussion Paper
Box 4, Folder 41 "In the Heart of Connecticut, 200 Acres of Tolstoy’s Russia," in "New York Times"
 1972 Aug 4
Box 4, Folder 42 Chronicle of Higher Education
 2000 Apr 12
Box 4, Folder 43 Germaine Brée: The Humanist as the Involved Intellectual," in "The Capital Times
 1973 Apr 28
Box 4, Folder 44 "An academic comes of age in the ‘Sleepless City’" in "The Chronicle of Higher Education"
 1998 Feb 06
Box 4, Folder 45 "Times Literary Supplement" articles on Mallarmé, Stendhal, and Flaubert
 1998 Dec
Box 4, Folder 46 "A Readiness to be Surprised," in "Times Literary Supplement"
 1998 Jan 23
Box 4, Folder 47 "A Debut to Remember in the Comics," in "New York Times"
 1998 Oct 31
Box 4, Folder 48 "Sought after Director," unknown newspaper clippings
Box 4, Folder 49 "Women in Paris," in "The Village Voice"
 1975 Apr 28
Box 4, Folder 50 "Study of Graduate Programs Serves Up Several Surprises," in "New York Times"
 1995 Sep 13
Box 4, Folder 51 "Lesbians in Psychoanalysis Theory and Practice" by Evelyn Torton Beck & Susan (Shanee) Stepakoff
Box 4, Folder 52 "Le ‘beau jeu’ de la philosophie" by Jan Mirnowski in "Montaigne Studies"
 2000
Box 4, Folder 53 Nouvelles Conferences sur la Psychanalyse par Sigmund Freud
Box 4, Folder 54 "Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, and the Teaching of Foreign Languages" by Claire Kramsch

Series 8. Printed materials, 1952-2001
25.0 folders

Box 4, Folder 55-83

Pamphlets
4.0 folders

Box 4, Folder 55-58

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 55 Pamphlet, "Alliance Française de New-York"
Box 4, Folder 56 Pamphlets, "Waiting in Fearful Hope, Approaching the New Millennium," and "Fin de Siecle, Millennium"
Box 4, Folder 57 Pamphlet, University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Jewish Studies
Box 4, Folder 58 Pamphlet, "The Case Against School Prayer"

Fliers, 1982-1989
4.0 folders

Box 4, Folder 59-62

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 59 Flier, Elaine Marks’ "Contexts for Gertrude Stein"
 1982 Apr 12
Box 4, Folder 60 Flier, "Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture, and the Jewish Question in France"
Box 4, Folder 61 Flyer, French Literature Conference call for papers
Box 4, Folder 62 Flyer, Elaine Marks’ speech, "The Jewish Question in French Writing: Theoretical Considerations"
 1989

Catalogues and brochures, 1969-1979
5.0 folders

Box 4, Folder 63-67

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 63 Catalogue, Christian Doir Collection été 1969
Box 4, Folder 64 Brochure, New York University Institute of French Studies
Box 4, Folder 65 Brochure, Columbia University La Maison Française with notes
Box 4, Folder 66 Notice for Elaine Marks’ "Marrano as Metaphor" in Columbia University Press
Box 4, Folder 67 Cornell University Press, New Books
 1979

Poems and songs, 1966-1980
4.0 folders

Box 4, Folder 68-71

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 68 Poem, "chanson pour l’année qui vient," by Henry
 1966
Box 4, Folder 69 Poem, "Pour L’Anniversaire d’Elaine," by Alfred
Box 4, Folder 70 Lyrics and speech, "Something About the Women for Elaine’s 50th Birthday"
 1980
Box 4, Folder 71 Lyrics, "The Addressing of Elaine"

Plays and programs
3.0 folders

Box 4, Folder 72-74

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 72 The Root: A dadadramatic choral-symphonic symposium on Jean Kacine in three parts and seventeen movements
Box 4, Folder 73 Play, Out on a Limbo Class of 1952
Box 4, Folder 74 Program, The Bryn Mawr College French Club presents Orpheé

Journal and bulletin issues, 1961-1996
5.0 folders

Box 4, Folder 75-79

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 75 "B+B" un Journal Privé au 20éme siécle
Box 4, Folder 76 Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin
 1961
Box 4, Folder 77 "Le Temps Retrouvé: Bulletin des Anciennces Etudiantes du Departement de Français de Wellesley," including Michael Grimaud memoriam
 1995
Box 4, Folder 78 Le Pèlerin de Sainte Anne May
 1996 June
Box 4, Folder 79 La Quinzaine
 1995 March

Dissertations
4.0 folders

Box 4, Folder 80-83

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 80 "André Gide: Grief and the Father," dissertation by John Parisot
Box 4, Folder 81 "A Nice Jewish Boy Among the Indians," by Arnold Krupat
Box 4, Folder 82 "Coming Out of the Text," dissertation by and correspondence from Scott Fish
 1999
Box 4, Folder 83 Camus Dissertation (title page missing)