Summary

Creator:

Duffey, Bernard I., 1917-1994

Abstract:

Bernard I. Duffey worked as an author and Professor of English at Duke University. Papers include correspondence, notebooks, memoranda, minutes, committee notes, course materials, manuscript materials and research notes. Major subjects include Bernard I. Duffey, Duke University, Duke University's Department of English curriculum, the Duke University Press, Program II, and study and teaching of American literature and poetry. Materials range in date from 1957-1983. Contains restricted materials. English.

Extent:

1 Linear Foot
1,000 Items

Language:

English.

Collection ID:

UA.29.02.0047

University Archives Record Group:

29 -- Papers of Faculty, Staff, and Associates
02 -- Individuals

Background

Scope and Content:

Contains materials pertaining to the professional work of Bernard I. Duffey, author and Professor of English at Duke University. Papers include correspondence, notebooks, memoranda, minutes, committee notes, course materials, manuscript materials and research notes. Major subjects include Bernard I. Duffey, Duke University, Duke University's Department of English curriculum, the Duke University Press, Program II, and study and teaching of American literature and poetry. Materials range in date from 1957-1983. Contains restricted materials.

Biographical / Historical:

Bernard I. Duffey received his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and his master's and doctoral degrees from Ohio State University. Duffey began his career teaching at Michigan State University and the University of Minnesota.

In 1963, he joined the Duke University English Department, where he taught American poetry and contemporary American literature. He received a Fulbright scholarship to teach at the University of Copenhagen in 1970, and was also a visiting professor at the University of California at Irvine. Duffey was chair of the English Department Courses and Curriculum Committee and served on a variety of committees and boards at Duke University: the Committee on Teacher Evaluation and Learning Process, Program II Committee, and the Duke University Press Editorial Advisory Board.

Duffey's writings include: Modern American Literature (1951), The Chicago Renaissance in American Letters (1956), Poetry in America : Expression and its Values in the Times of Bryant, Whitman, and Pound (1978), Chicago's Public Wits; a Chapter in the American Comic Spirit (1983), and A Poetry of Presence: the Writing of William Carlos Williams (1986). One of his essays was published in The Comic Imagination in American Literature (1973), a collection about the sources of humor in literature.

Bernard I. Duffey, professor emeritus of English, died in 1994.

Acquisition Information:

The Bernard I. Duffey Papers were received by the University Archives as a transfer in 1974 and 1988.

Processing information:

Processed by Emily Glenn

Completed March 2003

This collection is partially processed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

Encoded by Jill Katte, September 2003

Physical Location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult University Archives, Duke University.

Rules or Conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related

Related Material:

Dept. of English records. University Archives, Duke University.

Subjects

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Subjects:

American poetry -- 20th century -- Study and teaching (Higher)
American literature -- 20th century -- Study and teaching (Higher)

Names:

Duke University. Program II
Duke University. Department of English -- Faculty
Duke University. Department of English -- Curricula
Duke University Press
Duffey, Bernard I., 1917-1994