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Records of the Riverview Writing Clinic, a predecessor of the Write Place.

A twelve-part radio program authored by St. Cloud State assistant professor of English James Lundquist, produced by St. Cloud State College Broadcasting Service, and aired on the National Education Radio Network. Contains twelve cassettes and a brochure.

Publication by the English Department covering scholarship relating to author Sinclair Lewis.

Papers include:
Barry Gross: Yours Sincerely, Sinclair Levy: Lewis and the Jews
Roger Forseth: Sinclair Lewis, Drink, and the Literary Imagination
Sally E. Parry: Dodsworth and World So Wide: Sinclair Lewis's European/American Dilemma
T. J. Matheson: Misused Language: The Narrator's Satiric Function in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt
Edward J. Piacentino: Main Street Comes to Tennessee: A Southern Rendition of "The Revolt from the Village"
Walter H. Clark, Jr.: Sinclair Lewis and J.F. Powers: A Comparison of Babbitt and Morte D'Urban
Anna B. Katona: Sinclair Lewis: His Reputation in Hungary
Glen A. Love: Babbitt's Dance: Technology, Power, and Art in the Novels of Sinclair Lewis
W. Gordon Milne: Lewis's Muted Influence as Artist and Social Commentator
David Crowe: Illustration as Interpretation: Grant Wood's "New Deal" Reading of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street
Wayne Meyer: From Gopher Prairie to Lake Wobegon, Minnesota: From Sinclair Lewis to Garrison Keillor
Lydia Blanchard: "Gray Darkness and Shadowy Trees": Carol Kennicott and the Good Fight for Utopia Now
William Morgan: Sauk Centre as Artifact: The Town as Seen in History, Painting, Architecture, and Literature
Robert L. Coard: Jack London's Influence on Sinclair Lewis
F. Garvin Davenport: Gopher-Prairie-Lake-Wobegon: The Midwest as Mythical Space
Martin Bucco: Sinclair Lewis's Newsweek Essays
Wheeler Dixon: Cinematic Adaptations of the Works of Sinclair Lewis
Clara Lee R. Moodie: The Book That Has Never Been Published
James Jones: A Middle-Class Utopia: Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here
Elmer Suderman: The God Seeker in Sinclair Lewis's Novels
Judy Parham: Reading It Can't Happen Here with Freshmen
Eleanor H. Lincoln: Carol Kennicott, Survivor
David D. Anderson: Sinclair Lewis and the Midwestern Tradition
Robert E. Fleming: A Sinclair Lewis Checklist: 1976-1985

Publication of poetry and prose by winners of the St. Cloud State Creative Writing Contest for area high school students.

This collection contains records from the Department of English at St. Cloud State University. Items in this collection date from 1960 to the 2000s, the majority of which are from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. This collection contains various administrative records, brochures, and publications.

These records are arranged in two series:

Series 1: Administrative Records

This series contains a variety of administrative records. Information relating to personnel, committee and department minutes, budgets, course lists, enrollment, and department publications and projects are found here. There is also information on the Write Place and its predecessors.

Series 2: Publications and Conferences on Sinclair Lewis

Divided into two sub-series, this series contains records relating to St. Cloud State Department of English publications and conferences relating to the Nobel Prize-winning author Sinclair Lewis. Most of the series relates to the 1985 Sinclair Lewis Centennial Conference, hosted by St. Cloud State University in honor of the 100th anniversary of Lewis's birth. Also included are programs of conferences held in honor of Lewis and his friend and confidant, Ida K. Compton, in 2005 and 2007, copies of the Sinclair Lewis Newsletter from the late 1960s through mid-1970s, and cassette tapes of the 1971 radio production: Sinclair Lewis's Minnesota: A State of Mind.

Records relating to a University of Minnesota-led program for teaching college classes to inmates at the St. Cloud State Reformatory for Men.

Transcript and audio cassette of a presentation by Virginia Lewis at the Sinclair Lewis Centennial Conference.

Transcript and audio cassette of a presentation by Frederick Manfred at the Sinclair Lewis Centennial Conference.

Brochures and programs of conferences The American Village in a Global Setting (October 6-7, 2005) and The River is a Strong Brown God: Iconic Places and Characters in 20th Century American Cultures (October 18-19, 2007).

Correspondence and other records detailing interest in and the process by which the conference proceedings were published.

Reports of the Careers in English Committee (1971), Committee for Developing Evaluation Form (1971-1972), Committee on Composition (1971-1979), Department Planning Committee (1968-1977), General Education Committee (1969-1972), Policy Committee (1979), Student Appointment Committee (1969-1971), and Task Force on Departmental Self-Evaluation (1971).