Teaching and Lectures, 1969-2002

Please Note:

This collection is currently undergoing processing. The Academia series, Events and Engagement series, and Research Materials series are unavailable until approximately June 2026.

Scope and content:

This subseries includes materials from Wynter's teaching career at Stanford, UC San Diego, and other institutions where she taught seminars or as a guest lecturer. Included are course syllabi, lecture notes, reading lists and course readers, course handouts, exams, planning documents, and other materials. Courses topics include "AAAS 115: Africa and Philosophy", "AAAS 114: Africa and the Black Diaspora", Afro-Caribbean Literature and Theory in several iterations, Spanish Golden Age Theatre, discourse on race, literary theory, 1492 and Columbus's voyages to the Americas, and many others, which she taught multiple times and developed herself or in collaboration with others. The subseries contains significant materials related to the course "September 11, Its Aftermath", a seminar Wynter taught at the University of California, Berkeley in spring 2002, and some limited materials related to "Historical Construction? Or Cultural Code?", a lecture series at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1995, both of which are also included in the Writings series. Also included is a small amount of materials from her time at the University of the West Indies, as well as materials from faculty workshops Wynter ran at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego. Many courses were not identified, and materials may be for one specific course or several; dates for these were largely inferred by condition of materials.

Lecture notes are primarily handwritten, and photocopies of readings or research materials sometimes have annotations. Course readers or reading lists frequently repeat selections, and material may be duplicative across folders.

Materials are arranged by course number, then chronologically.

Processing information:

When first received by Rubenstein Library, materials were not grouped into clear series, and significant portions were unfoldered. Wynter's original folders were often unmarked, and contents were often not clearly identified as one work or course. Teaching materials were typically identified by the presence of lecture notes, which may have been explicitly labeled as "Lecture" or may have been inferred from the formatting of the contents, or by the presence of syllabi, handouts, and other course materials. Courses were identified in folder titles during processing, where possible. These materials are also present in other series, especially the Writings Series, but were moved to the Teaching and Lectures subseries if the folder or grouping appear to be predominantly these formats.

Many materials in course readers or course preparation materials were photocopies of published works, and many of these included title and publication information as well as a list of page numbers. Where citation information was present and there were no significant annotations, these extra photocopies were discarded. Extra copies of identical course materials in the same folder were also discarded, but duplication likely still exists across the subseries. Student records and grade lists were removed in accordance with FERPA.

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