Guide to the Faculty papers of Lila M. Harper

Guide to the Faculty papers of Lila M. Harper, 1987-2017

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Harper, Lila M. >
Title: Guide to the Faculty papers of Lila M. Harper
Dates: 1987-2017 (inclusive)
19872017
Quantity: 5 cubic feet, (10 document boxes)
Collection Number: FP-0049
Summary: Published Work, Drafts, Reports, Handwritten Notes, Printed Emails, News Clippings, Notes, Letters, Syllabi, Coursework, Ephemera
Repository: Central Washington University, Archives and Special Collections
Archives and Special Collections
Central Washington University
400 E University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926
Telephone: 509-963-1023
Fax: 509-963-3684
archive@cwu.edu
Access Restrictions: Open to the public for educational research.
Languages: english

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Dr. Lila M. Harper began her career at Central Washington University as an English senior lecturer in 1989. She earned her B.A. in English from Humboldt State University in 1976 and her M.A. in English from St. Cloud State University in 1987. She later earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon in 1996. During her time at Central Washington University, she served as an English senior lecturer, computer science senior lecturer, and Douglas Honors Program senior lecturer. She also served as a faculty advisor for the University Writing Center and a thesis editor for the Office of Graduate Studies. Lila M. Harper retired from Central Washington University in 2017.

Harper has numerous publications, including books, journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia articles, book reviews, conference papers, and instructor’s manuals and pedagogical material. Her book, published in 2001, is titled Solitary Travelers: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Travel Narratives and the Scientific Vocation. She was also the editor for Flatland by Edwin Abbott, published in 1884.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection comprises a range of topics relating to Lila M. Harper and her time at Central Washington University. It contains Lila’s publications, including drafts and final products, her syllabi and coursework, correspondence with students, colleagues, and publishers, reports, and items related to her involvement with the university, including her work in department committees. The committee materials include those from faculty senate, department committees, and her work regarding the United Faculty of Central.

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Arrangement

This collection is divided into subject files. The original arrangement is that of the collection donor, Dr. Lila M. Harper.

Custodial History

Acquisition Information

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Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1-1	Letters/Correspondence	1998-1999
1-2	Response to CWU's President Nelson's Resignation	1999
1-3	Kingsley; Encyclopedia of Travel and Exploration	2002-2003
1-4	Syllabi for English 105 (Fall 2001), English 102 (Fall 2011)	2001-2011
1-5	Washington Federation of Teachers, UFC, WEA
1-6	Solitary Travelers Publicity	1998-2013
1-7	"The starfish that burns" Article	2006-2007
1-8	Reviews and Comments on Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott	2006-2010
1-9	CCCC Convention "What Can We learn about Plagiarism from Master's Theses?" Article	2006
1-10	Mercator's World - Article on Kingsley	1997
1-11	UFC	1996
1-12	Dissertation - Correspondence with rejected publishers for "Solitary Travelers"	1996
1-13	"Science and Faith: The Water-Babies" Book Chapter	2001-2004
1-14	The Nameless Professional	1989-1996
1-15	Travel Conference - Minneapolis	1997
1-16	Wesleyan University Press - Flatland	2000
1-17	"Hark, Hark" Journal Article Notes and Queries	2015
1-18	"An Astonishing Change in Metaphor: Tom's Education and the Shrew-Mouse"	1999
1-19	Job Information - CWU	1989-1996
1-20	Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western US Conference Invitation	1998
1-21	Mary Henrietta Kingsley
1-22	"Flatland and Popular Culture" Book Chapter	2011
1-23	Service Appreciation Letters
1-24	NAVSA Conference/Eliot Flyers	2016
1-25	UFC Letters from CWU Faculty	1998-
1-26	PAMLA Conference Paper	2012
1-27	John AP Senate (emails)	1998
2-1	Culture and Civilization Article Confirmation	2012
2-2	What is wrong with academia today?	2008
2-3	Book Chapter "That Wonderous Medusa-Face"	2013
2-4	Review of "Wild and Fearless: The Life of Margaret Fountaine"	2007
2-5	Conference Paper: "Marginalizing the Man" Lewis and Clark College	1996
2-6	Rhetorical Strategies in Wollstonecraft's Travel Writing and "The Stigma of Emotions"	1998-2001
2-7	Review of "Letters to Henrietta" Northeastern University Press	2002
2-8	Review of "Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870-1900" by Monica Anderson	2003
2-9	Class Test - Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (WRAC)	1997-
2-10	"Wollstonecraft's Response to Imlay" NASSR Conference	2001
2-11	"Solitary Travelers" - Conference Paper - University of Minnesota	1997
2-12	"Harriet Martineau" - Encyclopedia Article , Dictionary of Library Biography Series, Vol 166	1994
2-13	"Isabella Bird" - Encyclopedia of World Environmental History Article	2002
2-14	"Issues of Dress in Women's Travel Narratives" - Modern Langauge Association	2007
2-15	Douglas Honors College - Fall 2008, Fall 2009	2008-2009
2-16	Enrichment Courses
2-17	"G.H. Lewes, George Eliot, and the Medusa at the Seaside" Article	2009
2-18	"G.H. Lewes, George Eliot, and the Medusa at the Seaside" Article - MLA	2008
2-19	CWU Adjunct List and Trouble with Adjuncts Essays	2010
2-20	American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship	2001-2002
2-21	Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Panel	2004
2-22	"The Blessing of a Good Thick Skirt" - NW Conference on British Studies	1995
2-23	Mathematics and Popular Culture - Flatland	2009-
2-24	ABELL Indexing	1996-1997
2-25	Non-Tenure Track (NTT) Bake Sale	2007-2008
2-26	A Tour of Dimensions with a Square
2-27	University Forum	1998-1999
2-28	Collective Bargaining Bill	2001-2002
2-29	Higher Education Salary Comparison	2000
3-1	"Domesticating the African Landscape: Mary Kingsley's Travel Memoirs" Lecture	2001
3-2	Computer Science 325 Course Material	2006-2008
3-3	"Entangled Lives in the Colorado Rocky Mountains" Kingsley Article	2013
3-4	"Flatland in VAs" Festschrift for Steve Tomasula - Journal Article	2010
3-5	Newspaper Clippings	1998-2001
3-6	Composition and Math Article by Lila and James Harper	2002-2003
3-7	Writing Center	2002-2004
3-8	Intertexual Approaches to Teaching 'The Tempest'	2012
3-9	Letters/MLA	2006-2014
3-10	Nineteenth-Century Prose - "Re-examining Taxonomy and Gender"	2011
3-11	Thesis Preparation Workshop and Thesis Logs	2006-2008
3-12	"Wild and Fearless: The Life of Margaret Fountaine"	2007
3-13	New Graduate Student Orientation	2006
3-14	"Reexamining Taxonomy and Gender: T.H. Huxley, G.H. Lewes, and George Eliot View the Medusa"	2008
3-15	Re-evaluating Elizabeth Von Arnim	2015
3-16	Women's Travel Writing, DHC 141 Humanistic Understanding II	2011
3-17	"Flatland in Popular Culture"	2008-2010
4-1	English 105 The Literacy Imagination: An Introduction to Literature	2005-2007
4-2	MLA	2017
4-3	William O. Douglas Honors College	2002-2013
4-4	Technical Writing for Computer Science "Using the Summary and the Paraphrase" by Lila Harper
4-5	Eugene Conference - "The Environmental Vision of Mary Wollstonecraft"
4-6	English 301 Course Pack
4-7	Coursework
4-8	From Fiction to Film: Exploring the Film Adaptation Course Pack
4-9	Honors Convocation	2014
4-10	"From Aga to Zebra Crossing: An American Mystery Reader's Guide to Contemporary British Allusions"	2011
4-11	Annual Performance Review	2001-2004
4-12	Ecological Imperialism instructed by Lila Harper	2014
4-13	Narrative for Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Winter 2015	2014-2015
4-14	Beth McCune	2005
4-15	Community college student who chose Lila's journal article for her exploration writing assignment	2009
4-16	Letters of Recommendation	2001-2014
4-17	Personal Statement: Philosophy, Goals, and Achievements in the Area of Teaching
4-18	English 105 Intro to Literature - History of English Powerpoint
4-19	A Feminist Journal Online	2007
4-20	Forces of Nature, Naturalizing Gender and Gendering Nature in the Discourses of Western Culture	2009
4-21	English 301	1996-1997
4-22	"Does it matter that your professor is part time?"	2008
4-23	Prerequisites for English 102
4-24	Email Correspondence	1995-1996
5-1	102 Material	1992
5-2	"Swimming Among the Jellyfish": Elizabeth von Arnim and Marianne North by Lila Marz Harper
5-3	"The Untitled Discipline" PMLA, January 1996, Volume 3, Number 1	1996
5-4	Book Review "Friction with the Market": Henry James and the Profession of Authorship by Michael Anesko
5-5	"The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing" Proof	2001
5-6	Personal Assessment (English 301)	1997
5-7	Adjunct Senate Representative	2002
5-8	Summer Course Packet	1997
5-9	Recurring Thesis Errors, Moving from MLA to APA, and Reoccuring Problems in APA Formatted Theses
5-10	Teaching the Tempest
5-11	"Solitary Travelers: nineteenth-century women's travel narratives and the scientific vocation"
5-12	Faculty Bake Sale Observer Article	2007
5-13	DHC 101	1996-1997
5-14	Doc Workshop	1999
5-15	Solitary Travelers Proof: Chapter 1 "New Opportunities: Women, Science, and Travel"	2000
5-16	Solitary Travelers Proof: Chapter 2 "Mary Wollstonecraft: A New Genus"	2000
5-17	Solitary Travelers Proof: Chapter 3 "Harriet Martineau: An Investigative Observer"	2000
5-18	Solitary Travelers Proof: Chapter 4 "Isabella Bird Bishop: An RGS Fellow"	2000
5-19	Solitary Travelers Proof: Chapter 5 "Mary H. Kingsley: In Pursuit of Fish and Fetish"	2000
5-20	Solitary Travelers Proof: Chapter 6 "Conclusions"	2000
5-21	Martineau	1996
5-22	Materials from Travel Conference	1997
5-23	Workshops
5-24	Darwin	1995-1999
5-25	Adjunct Newsgroup	1996-1997
6-1	English 323 - Editing for Usage, Style, and Clarity	2006
6-2	University Bullentins, Letters, Nominations, Vita	1996-2000
6-3	Writing in Freshman Composition and the Disciplines	1994
6-4	Writing in Freshman Composition and the Disciplines - Small Group Work Sessions	1994
6-5	Patricia Garrison	1995-1998
6-6	Notebook
6-7	English 102 Course Packet - Winter 2010	2010
6-8	"Solitary Travelers" in The Death of the Scholarly Monograph in the Humanities? Citation Patterns in Literary Scholarship	2002
6-9	English 105 Materials
6-10	"Self-Censorship in Mary Kingsley's Travels in West Africa"
6-11	"Teaching Darwin in the English Composition Class: A Tangled Book of Problems and Approaches"	2000
6-12	English 102 Quizzes
6-13	Humanities 103	2000
6-14	Humanities 103	2001
6-15	Humanities 103	2001
7-1	DNB Duff Gordon	1997-1999
7-2	19th Century British Women Writers	1997-2000
7-3	DHC Women Travelers
7-4	Course Materials	1996-1997
7-5	Evolution and Genetics Course Pack	1997
7-6	Tech. Writing for Computer Science	2004
7-7	Correspondence with Dean Babener	1990-1997
7-8	Humanities Program	1998-2000
7-9	English 102 Summer 2001	2000-2001
7-10	Entangled Lives in the Colorado Rocky Mountains by Lila Harper
7-11	Wollstonecraft, Frankenstein, Austen
7-12	Technology Writing Transparencies
7-13	Institutional Studies Time Analysis	1998
7-14	Writing Center - Dean Correspondence	2002
7-15	Forces of Nature: Naturalizing Gender and Gendering Nature in the Discourses of Western Culture "The Starfish that Burns"	2009
8-1	Evaluations	1993-2014
8-2	"The Starfish that Burns: Gendering the Jellyfish" Drafts
8-3	"Borges' Pearl"
8-4	Bibliomania Article	1987-2006
8-5	Part-Timers' Evaluation	1994-1998
8-6	RMMLA	2013
8-7	Washington AFT and UFC	1995-1997
8-8	Union Activism	1996
8-9	Journal Articles
8-10	Letters	2013-2015
8-11	Literature of Travel and Exploration	1999
8-12	Darwin - Subversive Teaching in Conservative Classrooms
8-13	Tuition Waiver	1997
8-14	Longman Website Project	2000
8-15	Email Correspondence	1997-1998
9-1	Correspondence	1996-2005
9-2	Publications and Conferences	1997-2015
9-3	United Faculty of Central/Union	1995-2003
9-4	Book Review: "Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Lation America: European Women Pilgrims"	2014-2015
9-5	"Clues in the Street: Sherlock Holmes, Martin Hewitt, and Mean Streets"	2000 -2009
9-6	DHC	2004-2005
9-7	Flatland Publication
9-8	Flatland for Publication	2002
9-9	Publishing Communications	1995-2006
9-10	Frank Cioffi Correspondence	2001
9-11	Campus Involvement	1995-2006
9-12	In Transit Conference	2002
9-13	"The Blessing of a Good Thick Skirt": Issues of Dress in Women's Travel Narratives	1995
9-14	"Self-Censoring in Mary Kingsley's Travel in West Africa" Borders and Crossings Seuils et Traverses	2004
9-15	Grad School Thesis Work	2005-2011
10-1	English 102 Course Pack Fall 2006	2006
10-2	English 102 Course Pack Fall 2011	2011
10-3	Farleigh Dickinson University Press Catalog of Publications	2012-2013
10-4	MLA Bibliography	1995-2016
10-5	Rudy Rucker	2001
10-6	Pearson Contracts	2002-2008
10-7	English 101 Course Pack
10-8	Professional File
10-9	English Department 101 Syllabus and Common File	1995-1996
10-10	Packet Copyrights	1996
10-11	English 102 Packet Material	1997
10-12	Editing Class	2006-2007
10-13	Part-Time Faculty	1995
10-14	English 301 - Evolution and Genetics - Spring 1996	1996
10-15	Correspondence	1997-2004

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