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Joseph Foster - Audio interview, July 1981

 Item — Box: 6, CD: 8-9

Scope and Content

From the Collection: The collection is divided into 2 overlapping series.

Teaching and Academics documents Rudnick’s accomplishments as an American Studies scholar and her work as a teacher. Lectures, syllabi, curriculum, and readings for classes she taught are sampled in this series. Mabel Dodge Luhan, Sandra Cisneros, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cady Wells, Leslie Marmon Silko, N. Scott Momaday were among the subjects of classes she taught outside the academy.

The Research, Notes, Projects series comprises the bulk of the collection. It includes research notes, papers, proposals, presentations, and exhibitions on a variety of subjects, including Mabel Dodge Luhan and the Mabel Dodge Luhan house; Alice Corbin Henderson; Cady Wells; Eva Mirabel and other New Mexico artists and writers, as well as atomic issues; immigration; sexuality; syphilis; and Mark Twain.

The collection includes audio and transcripts of interviews conducted by Rudnick, relating to Mabel Dodge Luhan, Taos (NM), and "Utopian Vistas." Interviews with individuals including Joseph Foster, Lisa Law, Jack Loeffler, John Nichols, and others discuss the Taos intellectual and hippie scene including Anglo expatriates, Dennis Hopper, the Mabel Dodge Luhan House, communes, and related topics. Many of the oral histories in this collection were used for biographical information, analysis, and quotations in Lois Rudnick's published works. See Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds (University of New Mexico Press, 1984); Lois Rudnick, Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture (University of New Mexico Press, 1996); Lois Rudnick, editor, with Ellen Zieselmann, Red Earth: Poems of New Mexico, by Alice Corbin (Museum of New Mexico Press, 1999); and Lois Rudnick, editor, Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2009).

The collection, originally numbered MSS 921 has been changed to MSS 1088.

Dates

  • July 1981

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 6 boxes ((4.75 cu. ft.) plus 1 oversize folder)

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451