Accession consists of records pertaining to Ray Ellenwood's work as a York University professor and his research, writing and translation work relating to Surrealism and the Automatist movement in Quebec. Records include e-mail and other correspondence, course materials, research files, subject files, publications, conference papers, draft manuscripts, page proofs, newsletters, agendas, event notices, photographs, posters, and audiovisual materials including DVDs and videocassettes (Hi8 and VHS). These materials document, in general, his scholarly output and communications from 1973 to 2019, including his teaching at York University and six-month teaching contract in Nanjing, China, in 1993; his organization of and participation in a Nov. 1998 York University-hosted conference, exhibition and performance entitled "Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism: 1948 and Onwards"; his work with the Literary Translators' Association of Canada; his involvement with a 2009-2010 travelling exhibition entitled "The Automatist Revolution" and the resulting book, "The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal, 1941–1960", co-written with Roald Nasgaard; his translation of Guillaume Charette's "L'espace de Louis Goulet" and related research; and the publication and translation and publication of Ellenwood's "Egregore: A History of the Montreal Automatist Movement" (2014). Also included in this accession is correspondence pertaining to Ellenwood's research for his PhD thesis, "André Breton and Freud" (1972).
