Educator and author Paul Brians earned his B.A. from Pacific University (1964), and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University (1966, 1968). He joined the Washington State University English Department faculty in 1968 as an Assistant Professor, earned promotion to Associate Professor (1977), full Professor (1988), and retired in 2008. He was also a member of the faculty of the World Civilizations program. He is the author of several books, including Common Errors in English Usage (2003) and Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984 (1987). He has published many articles in a wide variety of scholarly and popular journals, and is a prolific photographer who has published and exhibited his photographs, and contributed several hundred items to the World Civilizations Image Collection, a digital collection hosted by the WSU Libraries.
This collection consists of papers of Paul Brians, primarily professional materials related to his teaching and research, and his career as a member of the Washington State University English Department faculty, as well as some papers related to social activism during the 1970s. It includes correspondence, research files, and audiovisual materials (VHS, DVD).
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
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Preliminary Guide to the Paul Brians Papers, circa 1968-2007 (MS.2008.13)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Paul Brians donated this collection to the Washington State University Libraries in 2008 (MS.2008.13).
Paul Brians Comics Collection, 1950-2004 (SC 3.3).
Community Free University Records, 1971-1999 (Cage 712).
Paul Brians Photographs, 1991-2007 (PC 139), and the World Civilizations Image Repository (digital collection).
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