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Rice University Master of Graduate House records (Bob Patten)

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0197
Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Scope and Contents

The papers of Graduate Student Master Robert L. Patten include printed material and correspondence concerning the Graduate Student Association and the Graduate House Master's Office. A significant portion of the collection is dedicated to correspondence between Patten and Jordan Konisky, Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies from 1996-2006.

Dates

  • 1991 - 2007

Creator

Access Restrictions

This material is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish from this material must be facilitated through the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.

Biographical / Historical

Robert L. Patten, the Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Humanities at Rice University, was born on April 26, 1939 in Oklahoma City. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1960. He went on to earn an M.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1965) from Princeton University. After college, Patten lectured in English at Bryn Mawr College, leaving there in 1969 to take a position as Assistant Professor in the English Department at Rice University, where he became a full professor in 1976. In 1991 and 1992 Patten chaired Rice’s English Department. The author of dozens of articles and reviews on nineteenth-century British literature, Patten used the materials in this collection to write a two-volume biography of George Cruikshank, entitled George Cruikshank’s Life, Times, and Art (vol. 1, 1992; vol. 2, 1996). In 1999 The Guardian, a British newspaper, called Patten’s biography one of the best books of the 1990s.

Robert L. Patten was a Fulbright Scholar from 1963 to 1964 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 1980. He was also chosen as a Couper Scholar in 2004, served as president of the Rice University Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa from 1991 to 1994 and 1997 to 2002, and chaired the Dickens Society in 1973 and 1974. Patten has served in numerous capacities at Rice University, including on the Sallyport Award Committee (1986-87), the Advisory Committee on Parking (1992-94), as Graduate Student Master and on the University Review Board (1982-84). In addition to George Cruikshank’s Life, Times, and Art, Patten is the author of Charles Dickens and His Publishers(1978), and editor of George Cruikshank: A Revaluation(1974) and Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices (1995). He also serves as editor of Studies in English Literature and founded and briefly edited the periodical Dickens Studies Newsletter.

Extent

0.5 Linear Feet ( (1 box))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Overview

The papers of Graduate Student Master Robert L. Patten include printed material and correspondence concerning the Graduate Student Association and the Graduate House Master's Office. A significant portion of the collection is dedicated to correspondence between Patten and Jordan Konisky, Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies from 1996-2006.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transferred by Dr. Patten in 2009.

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Rice University Master of Graduate House records (Bob Patten), 1991-2007
Status
Completed
Date
2009
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

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Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA

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