Guide to Jane Newman files on the Women's Studies program at UCI (University of California, Irvine) MS.F.057
Finding aid prepared by Gabrielle Wood, 2024.
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Title: Jane Newman files on the Women's Studies program at UCI (University of California,
Irvine)
Creator:
Newman, Jane
Identifier/Call Number: MS.F.057
Physical Description:
5 Linear Feet
(5 record cartons)
Date (inclusive): 1977-2010
Abstract: The Jane Newman files on the Women's
Studies program at UCI (University of California, Irvine) contains materials related to
Newman's time as the Director of Women's Studies at UCI between 1988 and c. 1994, including
her role in helping establish the Interdisciplinary B.A. Major in Women's Studies and Ph.D.
Feminist Emphasis as well as the courses she taught in Women's Studies and Comparative
Literature at UCI. These materials include memos, budgets, outreach programs to local
women's groups and high schools, UC systemwide Women's Studies collaborations, posters of
events, research relating to women in higher education, syllabi, flyers, course schedules,
strategic plans, newsletters, meeting minutes and agendas, articles and course materials,
and correspondence. The Women's Studies program at UCI began in 1975 through the efforts of
a group of faculty, staff, and students, who saw women's studies programs developing at
other campuses across the United States and argued for a similar program at UCI. Classes on
various women and gender topics/themes began to appear in the course catalog in the latter
half of the 1970s, both under the Women's Studies Program as well as cross-listed with other
schools and departments such as Humanities, Social Ecology, and Social Science. In
1976-1977, a Women's Studies Concentration was developed and in 1984 a major emphasis in the
School of Humanities and later a minor were passed. A free standing major and minor were
approved in 1992, followed by a graduate emphasis in feminist studies in 1994. In 1997-1998
an external review committee recommended the Interdisciplinary Program in Women's Studies
should be a department offering a major and minor, permanently located in Humanities. The
first formal proposal for creation of a department was put forward in 2000 and 2005, leading
to the creation of the Women's Studies department on June 30, 2007. A minor in Queer Studies
was established in 2005. The department's name was later changed to from Women's Studies to
Gender & Sexuality Studies in 2014. Jane O. Newman is a professor of comparative
literature at UC Irvine, with research interest in topics such as 16th- and 17-century
German literature, Contemporary Theory and Criticism, and Feminism. She earned her PhD at
Princeton University and her BA at Yale University. Her primary fields are Renaissance and
Early Modern English, French, German, Italian and neo-Latin literature and culture. She has
also published and taught courses on Walter Benjamin and Erich Auerbach; the history of the
discipline of Comparative Literature; theories and methods of Comparative Literature;
Realism and its Discontents; translation theory; new historicism and cultural materialism;
Cold War Renaissance and Baroque Studies. Newman’s published works include: Pastoral
Conventions:Poetry, Language and Thought in Seventeenth-Century Nuremberg (1990), The
Intervention of Philology:Gender, Learning, and Power in Lohenstein's Roman Plays (2000),
and Benjamin's Library: Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque: Modernity, Nation, and the
Baroque (2011)as well as the English-language translator of a selection of Erich Auerbach's
essays (2014; ppb. 2016) in addition to numerous articles. Her awards include Guggenheim and
Humboldt fellowships, the M.H. Abrams Fellowship at the National Humanities Center, and the
John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities at the American Academy in Berlin. Newman was
also a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Freie Universität Berlin. Source: Jane O. Newman UCI
Faculty Profile. Accessed 1/2024. UCI Gender and Sexuality Studies, About the Department.
Accessed 1/2024.
Language of Material:
English .
The collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Copyrights are retained by the
creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please
contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Transferred from Jane Newman, 2023.
Jane Newman papers. MS-F057. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries,
Irvine, California. [Date accessed]
Collection Scope and Content Summary
The Jane Newman files on the Women's Studies program at UCI (University of California,
Irvine) contains materials related to Newman's time as the Director of Women's Studies at
UCI between 1988 and c. 1994, including her role in helping establish the Interdisciplinary
B.A. Major in Women's Studies and Ph.D. Feminist Emphasis as well as the courses she taught
in Women's Studies and Comparative Literature at UCI. These materials include memos,
budgets, outreach programs to local women's groups and high schools, UC systemwide Women's
Studies collaborations, posters of events, research relating to women in higher education,
syllabi, flyers, course schedules, strategic plans, newsletters, meeting minutes and
agendas, articles and course materials, and correspondence.
The Women's Studies program at UCI began in 1975 through the efforts of a group of faculty,
staff, and students, who saw women's studies programs developing at other campuses across
the United States and argued for a similar program at UCI. Classes on various women and
gender topics/themes began to appear in the course catalog in the latter half of the 1970s,
both under the Women's Studies Program as well as cross-listed with other schools and
departments such as Humanities, Social Ecology, and Social Science. In 1976-1977, a Women's
Studies Concentration was developed and in 1984 a major emphasis in the School of Humanities
and later a minor were passed. A free standing major and minor were approved in 1992,
followed by a graduate emphasis in feminist studies in 1994. In 1997-1998 an external review
committee recommended the Interdisciplinary Program in Women's Studies should be a
department offering a major and minor, permanently located in Humanities. The first formal
proposal for creation of a department was put forward in 2000 and 2005, leading to the
creation of the Women's Studies department on June 30, 2007. A minor in Queer Studies was
established in 2005. The department's name was later changed to from Women's Studies to
Gender & Sexuality Studies in 2014.
Jane O. Newman is a professor of comparative literature at UC Irvine, with research
interest in topics such as 16th- and 17-century German literature, Contemporary Theory and
Criticism, and Feminism. She earned her PhD at Princeton University and her BA at Yale
University. Her primary fields are Renaissance and Early Modern English, French, German,
Italian and neo-Latin literature and culture. She has also published and taught courses on
Walter Benjamin and Erich Auerbach; the history of the discipline of Comparative Literature;
theories and methods of Comparative Literature; Realism and its Discontents; translation
theory; new historicism and cultural materialism; Cold War Renaissance and Baroque Studies.
Newman's published works include: Pastoral Conventions:Poetry, Language and Thought in
Seventeenth-Century Nuremberg (1990), The Intervention of Philology:Gender, Learning, and
Power in Lohenstein's Roman Plays (2000), and Benjamin's Library: Modernity, Nation, and the
Baroque: Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque (2011)as well as the English-language translator
of a selection of Erich Auerbach's essays (2014; ppb. 2016) in addition to numerous
articles. Her awards include Guggenheim and Humboldt fellowships, the M.H. Abrams Fellowship
at the National Humanities Center, and the John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities at the
American Academy in Berlin. Newman was also a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Freie
Universität Berlin.
Source: Jane O. Newman UCI Faculty Profile. Accessed 1/2024. UCI Gender and Sexuality
Studies, About the Department. Accessed 1/2024.
Related materials can be found in the following collection:
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Women college students -- California -- Irvine.
Women -- Education -- United States -- 20th century.
Women -- Employment -- California -- Orange County -- 20th century
Women's studies -- California -- Irvine -- 20th century.
Feminism -- California -- Irvine
Feminist theory
Affirmative action programs -- California
Newman, Jane
box 1
UCI WS 1980s - Department Documents, Student Papers, Fem Theory 1975-2000
box 1, folder 1-4
CASW 83-84 1987-1989
This folder contains: correspondence, workshop info, minutes, conference information.
These materials relate to: Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women
(1988), Parenting/child care' sexual harassment, affirmative action, pay equality,
'Conference on Women in UC: Goals for the 1990's' (1987), 'UCLA Conference on status
of UC Women, Report on Sexual Harassment at UCI', and Rape prevention education
program.
box 1, folder 5-6
WS Core Faculty Meetings (1992-1993) (1993-1994) (Task force on Women's/Ethnic studies) 1992-1994
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UCI - WS - High schools 1994
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UCI WS late 1980s/1990s - Academic Planning, Staff Positions, Recruitment 1982-1992
This series contains newsletters, correspondence, budget information, schedule of
classes, course materials, hiring materials, articles, guidelines, memos, and plans for
developments. topics covered include women's studies course offerings, faculty and
director searches, and articles relating to women's studies.
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UCI WS 1984 - Fem Theory 55C 1984-1995
This series contains conference materials, correspondence, memos, hiring materials,
newsletters, and syllabus. Topics covered include Women's Studies course offerings,
Women's Studies conferences, proposals for designated graduate emphasis in Feminist
Studies, Faculty searches, and responses to task force reports and recommendations.
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FRP/IRV in Gender & Diversity. FRI ORW 1989-1993
This folder contains: memos, correspondence, financial/funding records, conference
materials, guidelines for organized research programs at UCI, annual reports of the
organized research initiative in women and the image 1991-1992, draft proposals,
agendas, CVs, papers/articles, and interest statements.
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UC council of WS programs 1986-1990
This folder contains: newsletters, memos, retreat schedules, program flyers,
correspondence, program overviews, enrollment statistics/courses offered, mailing
list, meeting notes/agendas, distinguished speakers series, constitution and by laws,
conference budget, self study, and proposals/guidelines.
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box 4
UCI WS 1988-1990s- Major FTEs Office Space 1980-1991
This series contains program information, job postings, memos, conference information,
newsletters, correspondence, agendas, and syllabus. Topics covered include information
about Womens Studies programs at other universities, samples of job postings for women
studies faculty, Five year plan for the womens studies program, and Chacellors Advisory
Committee on the Status of Women.
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CACSW 1988
This folder contains: memos, correspondence, agendas, notes, article copies, copies
of newspaper articles, supplemental meeting materials, committee member list, draft
reports, forms, draft memos, planning committee reports/information, draft
correspondence and responses to articles/newspaper. These materials relate to the
Chancellor's advisory committee on the status of women, data on male and female salary
comparisons/status of women in universities, and status of black and chicano groups in
UC system.
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WS as a Discipline NWSA Info 1980-1991
This folder contains: brochures, descriptions of women's studies programs from other
colleges/universities, newsletters, conference notes, newspapers, questionnaires,
correspondence, data on female faculty numbers, agendas, article copies, notes, WS
course list, reading list, and syllabi.
box 4, Folder 18
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Women Faculty 1987-1990
This folder contains: notes, survival manual for new faculty, flyers, memos, agendas,
minutes, questionnaires, copies of articles, Woman at UCI data, sign in sheets,
request to appeal chancellor's decision for non-reappointment, meeting with chancellor
questions draft, and correspondence.
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Chairs - Directors Academic Planning Under TIEN 1988-1990
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WS/ FTE Search 1990-1991
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WS Syllabi 1980-1993
This folder contains: syllabi (WS 50B, WS 301, WS 50B, WS101, Social Ecology 198,
Social Ecology S161, Feminist Studies 160, Hum172, Social Science 131B, History 194A,
Hum 55C, Hum 173, Hum 171C, History 139W), textbook request, abstracts, examples;
Feminist Criticism and Theory seminar, Intro to Feminist Literary Theory and
Criticism, Introduction to Feminist Cultural Studies, Humanities 55C, Women's Studies
420, Humanities 155, Women in Politics, Women's Studies 131, Women and the Visual
Arts, AAS 112, Honors 205, Humanities 173A/Philosophy 185, Humanities 171C, Hum173,
Hum55C, Sexism and Power, Women's Studies 131, Women in the Ancient World, Hum 172,
Social Ecology S161, Social Ecology 198, Philosophy 107/Women Studies 101, Women's
Studies 55, Women and the Ancient World, Hum 139W, Women and the Visual Arts.
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