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BOX 50-64 Professional File, 1974-2023
The Professional File documents Mallon’s professional activities primarily related to his writing, editing, and teaching careers. This includes awards, fellowships, professional memberships, literary award judging, clippings and interviews, speeches and engagements, and course materials. The series covers Mallon’s 2002 nomination to the National Council on the Humanities and his subsequent tenure at the National Endowment for the Humanities as both the director of the Division of Preservation and Access and the deputy chair. Included is material regarding a 2005 trip to Kabul, Afghanistan, in collaboration with the National Geographic Society to negotiate a traveling exhibition of artifacts. There is extensive documentation of Mallon’s participation as a faculty member at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College (1996-2017). In addition, files related to his tenure, as a professor then lecturer, at Vassar College, along with other teaching positions, are present in the series. The speeches and engagements file within the series provides a comprehensive account of his speeches, lectures, readings, panel discussions, and residencies from 1979 to 2023. Digital audio and video recordings of some of Mallon’s speeches, lectures, and interviews are also present in the series.
Material types include agendas, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, pamphlets, photographs, syllabi, interviews, speeches, and lectures.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or material type. Speeches and engagements arranged chronologically therein. The file structure of the digital content maintained as received.
BOX 50 American Academy of Arts and Letters, award, 2011
BOX 50 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, membership, 2012
(2 folders)
BOX 50 American Scholar editorial board, 2004-2005
BOX 50 Author's Guild, committee on midlist publishing, 1997-1999
BOX 51 Blurbs and endorsements, 1987-2023
BOX 51 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
BOX 51 Bakeless Literary Publication Prize, judging, 2000-2001
BOX 51 General
BOX 51 1996-1999
(6 folders)
BOX 52 2001-2008
(9 folders)
BOX 53 2009-2016
(4 folders)
DF Reading, excerpt from Fellow Travelers, with Carl Phillips, 2004
Digital ID: mss86434_318_007
DF Reading, excerpt from Fellow Travelers, with Merrill Feitell, 2005
Digital ID: mss86434_318_008
BOX 53 Reunion, 2017
BOX 53 Clippings and interviews
BOX 53 1978-2001
(3 folders)
BOX 54 2002-2023
(4 folders)
BOX 54 Dictionary of Literary Biography, entry, 2004-2009
BOX 54 Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, award, 2002-2004
BOX 54 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, fellowship, 1999-2001
BOX 54 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, fellowship, reader in general nonfiction, 2002-2004
(2 folders)
BOX 54 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, judging, 1995-1996
BOX 54 Hopwood Awards, judging, 2000
BOX 54 Ingram Merrill Foundation, award, 1993-1994
DF Interviews, lectures, panels, and teaching, audio and video recordings, 1977, 1982-1985, 1990-2019
Digital ID: mss86434_318_018
DF Interviews, radio, audio recordings, 2001, 2009
Digital ID: mss86434_318_004
Digital ID: mss86434_318_005
Digital ID: mss86434_318_011
BOX 54 Invitations and solicitations, 1996-2006, 2022-2023
BOX 55 Library of America, advisory council, 2017-2020
BOX 55 McCarthy, Mary, miscellany, 1982-2021
BOX 55 National Book Awards, judging, 1998-1999, 2005
(2 folders)
BOX 55 National Book Critics Circle, award, 1997-1998
BOX 55 National Council on the Humanities
BOX 55 Agendas, 2003-2004
(3 folders)
BOX 55 Appointment and Senate confirmation, 2000-2008
(3 folders)
BOX 56 General, 2001-2004
(2 folders)
BOX 56 Orientation handbook, 2002-2003
(2 folders)
BOX 56 National Endowment for the Humanities
BOX 56 Afghanistan, 2005-2007
(4 folders)
BOX 57 General, 2004-2017
(2 folders)
BOX 57 Miscellany, 2006, undated
BOX 57 Travel and speeches, 2005-2006
BOX 57 New York Public Library, consultancy, 2007
(2 folders)
BOX 57 PEN American Center, membership, 1988-1989
BOX 57 Rockefeller Fellowship, scholar-in-residence, 1985-1992, 2000
BOX 57 Scholars and Writers Against Trump, 2016-2021
BOX 57 Society of American Historians, membership, 2015
BOX 57 Speeches and engagements
BOX 57 1979-1980, Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.
(2 folders)
BOX 57 1981-2015, Spoken introductions and miscellaneous remarks
BOX 58 1988, Writers at Work conference, Park City, Utah
BOX 58 1990, Vassar Club of New York, remarks on Mary McCarthy, New York, N.Y.
BOX 58 1991, Writers' Center of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Ind.
BOX 58 1992, New Orleans Writers Conference, New Orleans, La.
(2 folders)
BOX 58 1993
BOX 58 Bard College, Mary McCarthy conference, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
BOX 58 Brown University, commencement forum, Providence, R.I.
BOX 58 Brown University, memorial service for Elmer M. Blistein, remarks, Providence, R.I.
BOX 58 Rutgers University-Camden Summer Writers' conference, Camden, N.J.
BOX 58 1994
BOX 58 The New School, panel on Irish American writing, New York, N.Y.
BOX 58 Writers at Work conference, Park City, Utah
BOX 58 1995
BOX 58 Florida Center for the Book, lecture, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
BOX 58 Readings, miscellaneous
BOX 58 Rutgers University-Camden Summer Writers' Conference, Camden, N.J.
BOX 59 Writers' Center of Indianapolis, residency, Indianapolis, Ind.
BOX 59 1996, Rutgers University-Camden Summer Writers' Conference, Camden, N.J.
BOX 59 1997
BOX 59 Writers' Center of Indianapolis, panel, Indianapolis, Ind.
BOX 59 National Portrait Gallery, lecture, Washington, D.C.
BOX 59 Readings and appearances, general
BOX 59 Rutgers University-Camden Summer Writers' Conference, Camden, N.J.
BOX 59 1998
BOX 59 Brown University, commencement forum, Providence, R.I.
BOX 59 Davidson College, remarks, Davidson, N.C.
BOX 59 Union College, lecture, Schenectady, N.Y.
BOX 59 1999, St. Lawrence University, lecture, Canton, N.Y.
BOX 59 2000, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, visiting writer, Carbondale, Ill.
BOX 59 2000-2001, Miscellaneous appearances
BOX 59 2001
BOX 59 Brunswick School Greenwich Academy, living author series, Greenwich, Conn.
BOX 59 National Book Festival, Washington, D.C.
BOX 59 The New School, class, New York, N.Y.
BOX 59 Writers at Work conference, Park City, Utah
BOX 60 2002
BOX 60 Friends of the Dallas Public Library, speech, Dallas, Tex.
BOX 60 Jacksonville Public Library, book festival, Jacksonville, Fla.
BOX 60 Preservation magazine symposium, Chestertown, Md.
BOX 60 Surratt House Museum, lecture, Clinton, Md.
BOX 60 Texas Book Festival, panelist, Austin, Tex.
BOX 60 University of Virginia, visiting writer in fiction, Charlottesville, Va.
BOX 60 2003
BOX 60 Brown University, English Department building dedication, Providence, R.I.
BOX 60 Chicago Humanities Festival, panelist, Chicago, Ill.
BOX 60 PEN Authors' Evening benefit, guest author, New York, N.Y.
BOX 60 2003-2006, Miscellaneous appearances
BOX 60 2004, Texas Tech University, commencement speech, Lubbock, Tex.
BOX 60 2006
BOX 60 American Scholar, panel, Atlanta, Ga.
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