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Hillary Gravendyk papers, approximately 2001-2012.
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Hillary Gravendyk papers, approximately 2001-2012Creator/Contributor:
Gravendyk, Hillary, 1979-2014, creator, creator.Abstract:
Contains Hillary Gravendyk's files spanning her academic and poetry career. Materials include papers submitted for her own
undergraduate work in various English courses, teaching materials for courses she taught, thesis materials and notes, college
transcripts, applications, poems, articles, submissions, awards, programs, student writings, personal correspondence, etc.
Also includes some snapshots of Gravendyk with her husband Benjamin Burrill and others, and some personal memorabilia.
Date:
2001 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caWomen poets
Poets, American -- California
Poetry -- Study and teaching
College teachers -- California
Poétesses
Poètes américains -- Californie
Poésie -- Étude et enseignement
College teachers
Poetry -- Study and teaching
Poets, American
Universities and colleges -- Faculty
Women poets
California
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) -- Faculty
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of English -- Faculty
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of English.
Gravendyk, Hillary -- 1979-2014 -- Archives
Gravendyk, Hillary -- 1979-2014 -- Portraits
Gravendyk, Hillary -- 1979-2014 -- Correspondence
Note:
Gift; of Benjamin W. Burrill; 20141015.
Hillary Gravendyk Burrill was an accomplished poet, scholar, and teacher. She did her undergraduate work at Tulane University
and was a graduate student in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley from 2003 to 2009. While
at Berkeley, she studied American poetry and poetics, with interests in disability studies, phenomenological theory, and environmental
studies. She won several departmental and university-wide awards at Berkeley for her teaching, poetry, and scholarly essays,
and was for two years the co-curator of the department's prestigious Holloway Series in Poetry. In 2009, she moved to Claremont,
California with her husband, Benjamin Burrill, to begin work as an assistant professor in the English department at Pomona
College. She died May 10, 2014.
Preferred citation: Hillary Gravendyk papers, BANC MSS 2015/102, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
faculty papers.Archives.
Portraits.
Personal correspondence.
Photographs.
Poems-California-20th century.
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print
5.6 (4 2
Language:
English