Overview
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Contents note
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0139
Creator:
Dodds, John W. (John Wendell), 1902-
Title: John Wendel Dodds papers
Dates: 1942-1967
Physical Description:
3.75 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Biographical/Historical note
Professor of English at Stanford (1937-1967; emeritus 1967- ), interim head of the Department of French and Italian (September
1972-April 1973), Dean of the School of Humanities and Director of Special Programs in the Humanities.
Scope and Contents note
The majority of these files date from Dr. Dodd's term as Dean of the School of Humanities and Director of Special Programs
in the Humanities. Also included are miscellaneous files created during his service on various University committees, including
one on Far Eastern Studies; files and film footage from two programs written and narrated by Dodds and filmed by KQED (public
television station, San Francisco): AMERICAN MEMOIR and THE MEASURE OF MAN; and the published version of AMERICAN MEMOIR,
1961.
Access Terms
Dodds, John W. (John Wendell), 1902-
Rockefeller Foundation
Sokol, Anthony Eugene.
Stanford University. School of Humanities and Sciences.
Stanford University. Special Programs in Humanities.
American memoir.
East Asia.
Motion pictures.
The Measure of man.