Archives and Literary History: English House

This presentation is part of a Directed Study project and was given at Clark FEST 2022. It is also associated with the longer paper, The Malleability of Home: A Genealogy of Clark University\u27s English House, composed collaboratively by the authors. It is about the history of Clark\u27s English Department and, particularly, about the House it occupies. This presentation was presented orally by Christina Rose Walcott for a public audience as a culminating project in the Directed Study, and includes visual and interactive educational components. It also utilizes and showcases the project\u27s extensive use of Open Access Resources from various digital archives

The Malleability of Home: A Genealogy of Clark University\u27s English House

This essay details the history of the land and structures that occupy the property currently located at the corner of Hawthorne and Woodland Streets in Worcester, Mass. Covering over 300 years, it begins with the legacies of the Nipmuc and the early English colonialist settlers before moving into a discussion of Worcester\u27s 19th Century industrialists and 20th Century acquisition by the University. The essay builds on extensive archival research using materials from both physical and digital collections such as atlases, censuses, biographies, directories, criticism, and more. To further develop the story of the English Department and its home, the essay also relies on oral histories conducted by the authors with retired professors of the department