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Southern Agrarian culture : clippings

File includes a number of newspaper articles about Robert Penn Warren, an article by Rock entitled "Why a year's sabbatical was not enough", and a 1959 programme for All The King's Men at the East 74th St. Theatre in New York City

Southern Agrarians and culture : articles

File includes printouts of web pages and articles pertaining to Harriet Jacobs and Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Written By Herself, as well as Rock's notes about Jacobs from 2006-2007. Also included in the file are photographs of houses and landmarks, including Jefferson Davis Park, in Memphis, Tennessee, dated January 1982, though they were likely taken during Rock's attendance at a Memphis conference in October 1981.

Southern Gothic poster

Item is a poster for a play starring Helen Porter, directed by Doug Hilker, at the Palmerston Library Theatre in Toronto.

Student papers on women and the American South

File consists of two papers by Rock's students at York University, entitled "Crumbling the monolith: a painful metamorphosis" by Julia Brady and "The Southern lady: from pedestal to politics, 1830-1930" by Denise Costis.

"The Fugitive-Agrarians in response to social change" : correspondence and drafts

File pertains to Rock's presentation of this paper at the Modern Language Association (MLA) conference in December 1966 and the paper's publication in the summer 1967 issue of the Southern Humanities Review. Correspondents in this file are Eugene Current-Garcia and Taylor Littleton of the Southern Humanities Review and C. Hugh Holman of the University of North Carolina, organizer of Rock's MLA session.

The Georgia review

Item includes an article written by Rock entitled "Agrarianism in Southern literature: the period since 1925". Included is a postcard sent to Rock in 1976, used as a bookmark.

The South and Agrarians

File consists of photographic slides of a park in Lexington, Kentucky, the Nashville State Capitol building and a dam in Tennessee, presumably taken by Rock while visiting the Southern United States.

The Southern Agrarians

Item is a list of members of the Southern Agrarians with brief descriptions of their work, positions, publications and honours.

Toronto Area Women's Research Colloquium

File consists of correspondence, notices, memoranda, abstracts, financial statements, participant lists, questionnaires and schedules pertaining to the organization of a series of colloquia featuring the research projects by women from the University of Toronto and York University, including Rock.

Trip : Warsaw, Krakow : dups and extras

File consists of a variety of photographs taken by Rock in Poland. Included are photographs of street scenes and buildings in Warsaw and Krakow, a May Day parade in Warsaw, the Lajkonik, the 600th anniversary of Jagiellonian University in 1964, and images of Polish countryside.

Virginia Rock fonds

  • F0600
  • Fonds
  • 1926-2014, predominant 1962-2006

Fonds consists of material related to Virginia Rock's research for her doctoral dissertation and other academic writing pertaining to the Twelve Southern Agrarians. Records include research notes and index cards, photocopies of newspaper clippings, book reviews, literary criticism, journal articles, and photocopies of material written by or about the Southern Agrarians regarding their lives and work, as well as their correspondence with Rock. The fonds also contains Rock's personal and professional correspondence, drafts of Rock's final dissertation and articles, records concerning her involvement with the Canadian Women's Studies Association, as well as materials pertaining to Rock's work as a professor at York University, including information about Stong College, syllabi, course kits and reading lists, information about symposiums she attended, and items relating to her work as an instructor and advisor for the Graduate Women's Studies Programme. Also included in the fonds are records pertaining to Rock's experience teaching American literature as a Fulbright visiting professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow between 1962 and 1964. These records, which include photographs, correspondence and memorabilia, document Rock's activities while in Poland as well as her return visits to Poland in later years and her general interest in the country. An issue of the Polish magazine "Ameryka," featuring an article about Virginia Rock, has been added to Special Collections; an English translation is available in the fonds.

Rock, Virginia J., 1923-2015

Warsaw : environs, sculpture, Albee poster, people

File consists of photographs taken by Rock in Poland. Included are photographs of Warsaw's palace of culture, Warsaw street scenes, two photographs of Robert Kennedy at Jagiellonian University, and a portrait of artist Jerzy Beres.

Women's diaries and letters and the American West / Andrew E. Watts

Item is an information package prepared by Andrew Watts for his presentation on using women's diaries and letters to study migration and settlement in the American West at the American Studies Conference held in Toronto in September 1989. Included is an overview of his presentation, notes for teachers in this field and copies of source material.

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