Guide to the Mary Ann Doane papers, 1966-2009

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:	Mary Ann Doane papers
Date range:	1966-2009
Creator:	Doane, Mary Ann
Extent:	9 Linear feet
Abstract:	The Mary Ann Doane papers represent forty years of education, research, and professional activity. The collection emphasizes Doane's academic training as a feminist film scholar through notebooks and essays that date from high school through her doctoral studies. Another portion of the collection presents notes and drafts of publications, including the books The Desire to Desire (1987), Femmes Fatales (1991), and The Emergence of Cinematic Time (2002). In addition to the many notebooks and physical papers, this collection includes computer disks and several reels of film.
Language of materials:	English
Repository:	John Hay Library, Special Collections
Collection number:	Ms.2011.020

Scope & content

This collection documents the writings, education and professional activities of feminist film scholar Mary Ann Doane from roughly 1966 through 2009. It is comprised mainly of handwritten notes and course materials from Doane’s studies, drafts and copies of her articles and books, and versions of her writings delivered at lectures and conferences. Also included are handwritten research notes, professional correspondence, notes from Doane’s involvement in organizations at Brown University, teaching materials, and photocopies of articles used for research.

The collection is arranged into 5 series:

Series 1. Education. This series is comprised of three subseries: Secondary Education (1966-1969); Undergraduate Studies, Cornell University (1970-1974); and Graduate Studies, University of Iowa (1974-1979). It contains course materials, including many spiral bound class notebooks and other handwritten class notes; academic essays, some with commentary from professors; honors and dissertation prospectus notes; and drafts and letters of application to academic positions. The series also includes a few workbooks, literary journals, and art books dating from high school.

Series 2. Research and Publications: A large portion of the series is comprised of handwritten notes, drafts and final copies, reviews and related correspondence about the books The Desire to Desire (Indiana University Press, 1987), Femmes Fatales (Routledge, 1991), and The Emergence of Cinematic Time (Harvard University Press, 2002). It also contains correspondence, notes, and drafts of articles that appeared in a special issue of differences entitled "Indexicality: Trace and Sign," edited by Doane in 2007.

Series 3. Conferences and Talks: This is a collection of notes and drafts of conference papers, invited lectures, and addresses presented by Doane, as well as materials and notes from conferences she attended. The materials date from 1980 to 2009.

Series 4. Professional Activities: This diverse series contains a variety of materials relating to Doane’s academic and professional career, including correspondence about fellowships and job offers; committee and department notes; and notes and correspondence related to the 2001-02 Pembroke Seminar. The series also contains several course syllabi and letters from students, newspaper clippings, and a copy of the 1979 proposal for the Pembroke Center.

Series 5. Media: This includes roughly 70 3.5 inch floppy disks and 20 Zip disks dating from the 1990s and early 2000s, as well as several reels of 16 mm film Doane produced while in graduate school.

Access Points

Subject Organizations

• Feminist Theory Archive.
• Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive.
• Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women.

Subject Topics

• Feminism and motion pictures
• Feminist theory

Document Types

• Audio tapes
• Essays
• Floppy disks
• Letters (Correspondence)
• Letters of recommendation
• magnetic tapes
• Manuscripts for publication
• Notebooks
• Psychoanalysis
• Research notes
• Syllabi
• Typescripts
• Videocassettes
• Writings (Document genre)

Subject Topics

• Education

Arrangement

• Series 1: Education
• Subseries 1: Secondary Education
• Subseries 2: Undergraduate Studies, Cornell University
• Subseries 3: Graduate Studies, University of Iowa
• Series 2: Research and Publications
• Series 3: Conferences and Talks
• Series 4: Professional Activities
• Series 5: Media
• Subseries 1: 3.5 Inch Floppy Disks
• Subseries 2: Zip Disks
• Subseries 3: Audiovisual

Biographical/Historical note

Mary Ann Doane works in the areas of film theory, feminist film studies, cultural theory, semiotics, photography, television, and digital media. She is the Class of 1937 Professor of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley. Doane was previously the George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she taught for more than three decades, from 1979 until 2011. She has also held visiting positions at New York University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Chicago, and served on the Executive Board of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990.

Doane has served on many professional organizations and editorial boards, including the Executive Council for The Society for Cinema Studies, the Film Division of the Modern Language Association and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. Her most recent work examines the use of close-ups in film practice and theory, and the way in which screen size and its corresponding scale have figured in the negotiation of the human body’s relation to space in modernity.

(Biography modified from: http://fm.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/mary-ann-doane/)

Access & Use

Access to the collection:	The majority of this collection is open for research use, but some disks with files relating to student and personnel records remain restricted. The collection can only be seen by prior appointment as some materials are stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day 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, 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.
Physical characteristics:	This collection contains a large number of documents on 3.5 inch floppy disks and Zip disks and several reels of video and audio.
Preferred citation:	Mary Ann Doane papers, Ms.2011.020, 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 Mary Ann Doane in 2011.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID
Author:	Finding aid prepared by Emily Gonzalez 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 2013-04-18
Descriptive rules:	Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
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

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