Dennis Camp Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal papers of Dennis Camp relating to his time as an English professor at Sangamon State University (later University of Illinois-Springfield). It includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and published scholarly works. Arranged alphabetically.
Dates
- 1966-1993
Creator
- Camp, Dennis (Person)
Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the University of Illinois-Springfield (UIS).
Copyrights
Copyrights to this collection are held by UIS.
Biography
Dennis David Camp was born December 14, 1937 in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Robert Thurston and Marjorie Ernell Hoxie Camp. He received his B.A. in English Literature from Hope College in Michigan; M.A. from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a founding faculty member of Sangamon State University (later University of Illinois-Springfield), where he taught from 1970 to 1993 and served as the Dean of the Arts and Sciences Cluster from 1982 to 1985. Camp was a Vachel Lindsay scholar and served as the President of the Vachel Lindsay Association from 2009-2011.
Extent
.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Provenance
Transferred to the archives May 3, 2012 by Chris Ryan. Camp's Vachel Lindsay Biography manuscript was transferred to the archives July 12, 2024 by Judy Everson.
Property Rights
UIS owns the property rights to this collection.
Processing Information
This collection was reprocessed in July 2024.
Creator
- Camp, Dennis (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Dennis Camp Papers
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the UIS Archives/Special Collections Repository
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