Paul Brians was a professor of English at Washington State University from 1968 to 2008; he notes his focus as being "in literature outside the traditional Anglo-American canon (postcolonial, European, Asian, and other literatures, plus science fiction) and in interdisciplinary humanities studies and the history of ideas."
This collection consists of twenty CDs and DVDs, plus three self-published books. Most CDs and DVDs are labeled with three-digit numbers printed on them; these identifiers are relics of an early MASC digital images storage system and have no relation either to Dr. Brians' original filing or MASC's current ordering. The three digit number is included here only for ease of identifying discs.
Most of the CDs and DVDs in this collection contain photographs taken by Brians; also included in several cases are websites which Dr. Brians created from them for classes or for public use. In addition, three of the CDs/DVDs contain videos; two of these are photo slideshows with music, and the third is a presentation done by Dr. Brians primarily about Pullman and Washington State University in the 1960s.
The CDs and DVDs are broken into one series of international travel and one of Palouse-regional photographs, and the three books are placed at the end of the collection.
Selected photographs from this collection have been digitized and can be found online in the
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Paul Brians Photographs, 1991-2007 (PC 139)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
These images were received at Washington State University from Paul Brians in a series of small accessions between 2001 and 2008.
This collection was processed in September of 2010 by University Archivist Mark O'English.
Some of the websites and materials included here can be found online:
Faculty Tour of India and Thailand photographs
Paul Brians and Paula Elliot’s Trip to Japan
Art of the Counterculture
Tour WSU and the Palouse
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