Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel, Professor, Papers, 1934/2022, bulk 1965/2010

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Location of collection:: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia & Regional History Center

West Virginia University

P.O. Box 6069

1549 University Avenue

Morgantown, WV 26506

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Email: lori.hostuttler@mail.wvu.edu

Phone: (304) 293-3536

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Boxes 41-46 are restricted due to the presence of personally identifying information and graded student works. Materials will become accessible to researchers in 2093.

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Preferred citation:: [Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel, Professor, Papers, A&M 5039, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Summary

Extent:: 37.8 Linear Feet 24 record cartons, 15 in. each; 13 document cases, 5 in. each; 1 document case, 2.5 in.; 1 card file box, 5 in., 1 card file box, 6 in.; 2 flat storage boxes, 1.5 in. each; 4 flat storage boxes, 3 in. each
Creator:: Stitzel, Judith, West Virginia University. Center for Women's Studies, and West Virginia University. Department of English
Abstract:: These papers document the professional and personal life of Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel, professor of English and Women's Studies at West Virginia University. They include materials related to her own education, her career at West Virginia University, her public and professional service, her publications and speeches, and her awards and honors. These papers also detail the development of Women's Studies as part of the curriculum at West Virginia University.
Language:: English .
Preferred citation:: [Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel, Professor, Papers, A&M 5039, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

These papers document the professional and personal life of Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel, professor of English and Women's Studies at West Virginia University. They include materials related to her own education, her career at West Virginia University, her public and professional service, her publications and speeches, and her awards and honors. These papers also detail the development of Women's Studies as part of the curriculum at West Virginia University. The collection is divided into

Series 1. Personal

Sub-Series 1. Activism

Series 2. Professional and Service Activities

Sub-Series 1. Events and Travel

Series 3. Subjects

Series 4. West Virginia University (WVU)

Sub-Series 1. College of Arts and Sciences

Series 5. Recordings

Series 6. Restricted Material

This series contains materials collected or created by Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel in relation to her personal life and activities. This includes her pursuits in activism, communications with individuals, and received awards and certificates.

This sub-series contains materials collected or created by Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel while engaging in political and social activism. This includes letters of complaint and suggestions to politicians and businesses, and newspaper clippings and bills regarding these situations.

Letter from Judith Gold Stitzel to WV State Senator George Warner Regarding Abortion Legislation. Remarks Prepared after the Supreme Court Decision

Comments and Thoughts on an Advertisement for Montanaro's Restaurant

Letter and Clippings Alleging Sexist and Racist Remarks in West Virginia Law News, Newspaper for the WVU College of Law

This sub-series contains awards and certificates given to Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel from a variety of organizations and groups, as well as accompanying material including correspondence, award application materials, and newspaper clippings.

Sid Bell Memorial Award

Charles H. Daughtery Award in the Humanities

Celebrate Women Award

This sub-series contains material collected and created by Dr. Judith Stitzel in pursuit of her pre-collegiate, undergraduate, and graduate degrees. It covers her time at Junior High, Hunter College High School, Barnard College, University of Wisconsin, and University of Minnesota.

This sub-series contains materials collected and created by Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel in relation to her personal life, generally. It includes materials related to her employment, credentials, retirement, and family life.

Judith Stitzel Retirement Celebration at the WVU Health Sciences Center Auditorium. Two VHS tapes.

LP Record

2 LP Records

LP Record

This sub-series contains personal correspondence between Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel and various individuals. While these correspondences may contain discussions of Stitzel's professional life, they were not created in the proceedings of her professional life. This series also includes recommendation letters written by Stitzel for colleagues and students.

Alice Elizabeth "Betty" Boyd Letter and Speech. Also Includes Memoriam Articles and Letters from Boyd Family

Judith Gold Stitzel's Brother

Manuscript by Ivan Gold. Also Includes a Letter to Judith Gold Stitzel

Edited by Vera Gold. Volume I, No.1, Premiere Issue Fall/Winter 1992. Second Issue, 1993. Volume II, No. 3, Fall/Winter 1993. Edited by Vera Gold. Volume III, No.1, Spring/Summer 1994. Volume IV, No. 1 Spring/Summer 1995. Spring Summer 19990

A Short Story by Vera Gold, Adapted for the Stage by Sara Romersberger and the Students of Putney School and Produced by 96 Inc.

Incoming Letters and Notes on Conversation with Vera Gold (Judith Gold Stitzel's Sister-in-Law). Some Correspondence Relating to Kenmore Writer's Group Funding Problems (Massachusetts Cultural Council)

Manuscript of Vera Gold Play, Lady M, Produced by the Stage Wright Theater Company at the WVU Creative Arts Center Includes Flyers and a Review

Program and Flyer for Vera Gold Play, produced by 96 inc.

Letter to Dr. Donna Shalala Congratulating Her on Her Appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services and Letter to the Editor of Forward Magazine Regarding Shalala

This sub-series contains materials related to Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel's activities with the local government as President of the Suncrest Neighborhood Association.

This series contains materials related to Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel's professional and service activities outside of her employment with West Virginia University (WVU). It includes her international outreach, participation in organizations, and professional writings, speeches, and publications.

This sub-series contains materials related to Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel's international travels in pursuit of advancing women's studies and events she participated in at the local and national level. This includes her visits to Australian women's studies center, her participation in the UN End of the Decade on Women Conference in Kenya, and visits to Indonesia.

Contains release forms, no audio/transcripts

Readings (Articles) for Summer Seminar Reading Group on Gay and Lesbian Studies

Celebrating the Community Gathering. Includes Judith Gold Stitzel Remarks, Program, Ads for the Gathering, Clippings, Southern Poverty Law Center Materials, and Other Resources Related to Teaching Tolerance

NEH and Radcliffe College, Harvard University. Application to the WIC Project, Correspondence with Barbara Haber and Joy Christi Przestwer, Project Coordinators, Documents and Handouts from WIC Training Session, and Description of the Project and Funding, Committee Meeting Notes and Minutes, Planning for the Monongalia County Women Photo Exhibit, and WIC Newsletters, Grant Application to the WV Humanities Foundation for Funding for the WIC Project and Related Documents. Information on "Images of Our Past" Photo Exhibit, First of the WIC Series, Xerox Copies of Photos Reviewed for the "Images of Our Past" Photo Exhibit, Committee Meeting Minutes, Notes, Ads for Projects, and Speakers, Flyers and Programs for Events, Meeting Minutes, Judith Gold Stitzel Personal Essay Questions for the Project, and Ms. Magazine Article on Barbara Haber, National Director of WIC, Press for "Monongalia Women: Living and Working with Coal" Public Program. Resources Regarding Women in the Mines, Two Issues of Coal Mining Women's Support Team Newsletter, Conference Information and Notes, "Connecting Women in the Community, a Handbook for Programs" Compiled after WV WIC Program. Includes Sample Documents from the Morgantown Project.

Correspondence, Notes Related to Marat Moore's Women in Mining Project. Judith Gold Stitzel Served as a Consultant and Sponsor on the Project Funded by the WV Humanities Council and the Coal Employment Project

This sub-series contains materials generally related to Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel's non-WVU professional life. This includes her interactions and correspondences with the artist Alvena Sečkar and work with the West Virginia Feminist Activist and Women's History Collection at the West Virginia and Regional History Center.

Statement of Experience Working with Alvena Sečkar Collection; Clippings Regarding Seckar; and Copies of Seckar Manuscripts Including Mother, My Garden, and Success Story

Contains original silkscreen work by Sečkar

Pamphlet with Biographical Sketch of Alvena Seckar; Clippings and Advertisements Relating to Seckar; and Photographs of Seckar's Art

Political Material (and Xerox Copies) Belonging to Alvena Seckar; In These Times Newsletter, February 1980; Northern Neighbors Magazine, February 1979; and White House Rally International Year of the Child Pamphlet

This sub-series contains materials related to Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel's professional activities and interactions with various organizational bodies. It includes her work with the Appalachian Women Grants for Writers (APPALWOW), Artemis Sisters, Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, National Women's Studies Association, and various other universities and colleges.

Includes Correspondence with Jacqui Bernard, Grant Application Guidelines. Judith Gold Stitzel Was on the Submission Committee. Grant Guidelines, Submissions, Grant Applications, Correspondence with Applicants, Joyce Dukes, and Jacqui Bernard, and Conference Agenda and Notes. Correspondence and Article Regarding Death of Jacqui Bernard.

Young Alumnae on Campus

Mentoring Program with Clarksburg Business and Professional Women. Includes Notes on Presentation Made at BPW Meeting, Notes on Mentoring Workshop, Project Description and Grant Application, Handouts from the Mentoring Program, Evaluations of the Workship. Student Journal Entries, Articles, News Clippings, Cards Relating to the Mentoring Program with the Clarksburg Business and Professional Women

Simone de Beauvoi Institute - International Conference on Research and Teaching Related to Women

College English Council

Letters and Clippings. Newsletters, Brochures, Programs, and Judith Gold Stitzel Letters

Congressional Briefing Notes, Evening Meeting Notes, "Discourse" Humanities Newsletter, Lynn Cheney Speech. Articles on Women in the Humanities from Journal of State Humanities Councils. "Discourse," Federation of State Humanities Councils Newsletter

Board Meeting Notes/Minutes. Executive Director Evaluations, WV Poetry TV Project Final Report and Evaluation Form. Board of Directors Meeting Minutes. Risk Management Policy, Sample Letters to Senator Robert C. Byrd, and Board Member Address List. Includes Correspondence Regarding an Exemplary Grant and Women's Task Force Meeting Minutes. WV Humanities Foundation 15th Anniversary Conference. Includes Program, Speech Delivered by Judith Gold Stitzel.

WV Humanities Foundation Board of Directors Reports, Meeting Minutes, Memoranda. President's Report, Board Meeting Minutes, Reports, Budgets, and Activities of the Foundation.

Includes Grant Application, Award Nomination

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant. WV Institute of Technology and WV Labor Foundation, AFL-CIO. Professor Stitzel Served on a Steering Committee for this Project. Includes Grant Application, Articles, Correspondence and Memoranda Related to the Project, as well as Meeting Notes. NEH Grant, WV Institute of Technology and AFL-CIO. Includes Memoranda, Meeting Notes, and an Interim Report for the Project. NEH Grant, WV Institute of Technology and AFL-CIO. Includes Notes, Final Report of the Project, Correspondence with Gordon Gee, President of WVU

Posters for Tillie Olsen's Participation in the Birke Writers Series at Marshall University. Includes Biographical Sketch

Day of the Woman Conference

Orientation Meeting

Evaluation of Composition Courses

Report as External Evaluator of the Master of Arts in Humanities Program at SUNY, with Professor Virgil Grillo

Judith Gold Stitzel Proposal to U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau for Happy School Rural Childcare Project, Notes, and University of Cincinnati Women's Studies Newsletter

Washington Seminar Sampler Materials. Includes Pamphlet on "Women as Leaders"

Thirty Minute Programs Produced in Cooperation with the WV Women's Commission. Includes Project/Program Descriptions, Correspondence, and Some Notes Regarding the Series and the Episode, "Women, History, and Power" in which Judith participated

Womyn's Community Newsletter. Includes Two 1996 Issues

Contains one cassette tape

Contains Cassette Tape

This sub-series contains Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel's professional writings, presentations, publications, and speeches. It includes drafts, published copies, reviews, and publishing information.

Published in West Virginia University, Alumni Magazine

Presented at the University of Ohio, Athens and Published in Willa. Includes Notes, Memoranda, and Drafts

Judith Gold Stitzel Article Published in Women's Studies International Forum, Vol 9, No. 2, pp. 203-205

Working Paper #83 Published by Michigan State University

Article Written with Barbara Hillyer Davis on National Women's Studies Association Administrators, Includes Notes, Drafts, and Submissions

Published in The Feminist Teacher Anthology

Published in Women's Studies Quarterly

Drafts of Judith Gold Stitzel Article "You Can Go Home Again" for English International

Ethics Lecture Series Speech with Notes and Evaluation

Programs for Women and Society Conference at St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vermont.

Tulane University - Newcomb College Center for Research on Women

Given at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference

Presented at the WV Women in Higher Education Conference

Presented at the Annual Communication, Language, and Gender Conference

Presented at the Fifth Annual National Women's Studies Association Conference.

Presented at the 1983 National Women's Studies Association Conference

Presented at Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida. Includes Notes and Resource Articles

Delta Kappa Gamma Speech with Thank You Cards and Responses

Given at the Archives in the Eighties Conference

Proposed Book with Lauralee Sherwood, Includes Tentative Text Outline and Correspondence with Publisher

Judith Gold Stitzel Review of Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives by Bulkin, Pratt, & Smith Published in Feminist Collections. Includes Drafts, Correspondence with Cathy Loeb, a Letter from Maggie Anderson Regarding the Review, and Reviews of the Book by Other Writers

Leadership speech. Business and Professional Women of the Year Award Speech. Drafts, Notes of Talk Given to BPW, Chamber of Commerce and MAC

Notes, Supporting Materials, Speech Given at the Chi Omega Scholar's Dinner

Guest Lecture in Enid Portnoy Course

Judith Gold Stitzel Notes on a Speech by Katie Cannon Entitled, "God's Fierce Whimsey"

Talk on Homophobia for GALA

"Women's Centenary at WVU" and "Expanding Reach of the Foundation"

Notes, Articles, Relating to a Speech on Women

Luncheon Speech. Includes Notes.

Notes, Resource Articles, and Gerontology Syllabi for Older Women Lecture

Program, Clippings Relating to Commencement Address Given by Judith Gold Stitzel at Pickens School. Also Includes Pickens School Yearbook

Former student of Judith Stitzel

"No Turning Back: Endowing Academic Excellence in Women's Studies", an Address Given by Judith Gold Stitzel on the Occasion of Her Retirement

"Do Women Know Something that Men Don't Know?" Given as a Fireside Chat in 1992, at Scott High School in 1994, and as Part of the English Department Speaker Series in 1995. Includes Notes, Articles, and Supporting Material on the Film Jury of Peers by Susan Giaspell

Given for B'nai B'rith

Remarks for WV Alliance for Women Hat Fete. Speech Given at West Virginia Alliance for Women's Studies Awards Lunch

Portrait of the Critic as a Young Woman, Keynote Speech for WVACET Symposium

Remarks upon Receiving the WV National Organization for Women 6th Susan B. Anthony Award. Also Includes Ceremony Program

Remarks Made in Conjunction with Awards to Certificate Students, MA Students, and Carrie Koeturius Scholarship Winners. Talk Given on the 10th Anniversary of Women's Studies at WVU

"The Changing Face of Pharmacy: More Women, Even Equal Salaries, Don't Tell the Whole Story". Includes Notes and Resource Materials.

Notes, Drafts, Speeches Relating to Women's Centenary at WVU. Includes speeches given to the Rotary Club, Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, Link Day, WVU President's Brunch, and Women's Centenary Convocation

Notes on Women and Business

This series contains materials collected by Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel for research value. It mostly consists of newspaper clippings and articles.

"The Stress in Our Lives: Real Life Drama in Modern Day Canada," Paper by Anita Clair Fellman. Provides Perspective on Canadian Feminism

Also known as the Montreal Massacre. Judith Gold Stitzel Letter to Editor of Daily Athenaeum Regarding Murder of 14 Women in Montreal, Canada. Includes Drafts, Responses, Letter of Support, Clippings, and Materials Related to Violence Against Women

Materials Relating to Gender Equality and Teaching Gender Equality. "The Classroom Climate: A Chilly One for Women?" Article by Roberta Hall and Bernice Resnick Sandler. Judith Gold Stitzel Considers It a Key Text on the Need for Gender Fair Teaching.

Collected Articles, Newsletters, and Clipping Related to the Persian Gulf War. Judith Gold Stitzel Reactions to the Person Gulf War. Includes Personal Notes, Letters to the Editor, Remarks for the WVU Student Administration Teach-In, and Flyers for Local Groups Protesting the War

Clippings and Articles Relating to Dr. Sharon Lord Who Was Active in National and WV Politics. Also Includes Letters from Lord to Betty Boyd

Collected Poetry for and about Women

Simulation Gaming Articles and Perception Exercises

Bus Ticket

Miscellaneous Women's Studies Attitude and Knowledge Surveys. Articles, Clippings, and Other Materials Relating to Women's Studies Pedagogy

Contains CD

This series contains materials related to Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel's time with WVU in the Department of English and Center for Women's and Gender Studies. It also contains materials related to WVU generally.

This sub-series contains materials related to Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel's work with the WVU Department of English and Women's Studies Program. The Women's Studies Program existed from 1978 to 1984 under the College of Arts and Sciences before being reconstituted as the Center for Women's Studies under the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research.

Used in conjunction with Teaching Women's Literature From a Regional Perspective - Annotated

This sub-series contains materials related to Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel's work with the WVU Department of English, Center for Women's Studies, and Center for Women's and Gender Studies as existing under the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.

Materials Since 1989 Award Including 1989 Case Award and 1991 Foundation Award. Inventory of Documents and Materials

Unsolicited Letters in Response to CASE Award (Submitted for Eberly Consideration)

Unsolicited Letters in Response to Outstanding Teacher Award (Submitted for Eberly Consideration). Outstanding Teacher Award (Submitted as Documentation for Eberly Award)

Unsolicited Letters in Response to Celebrate Women Award (Submitted for Eberly Consideration)

Development of the Women's Studies Residency in Honor of Judith Gold Stitzel

Floppy disk

8 floppy disks

This sub-series contains materials related to Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel's work with WVU in general. It includes materials on the Council for Women's Concerns, social justice at WVU, and the Center for Black Culture and Research.

Letters from Luz Maria Umpierre Relating to the Privileging of Speakers at the WVU Foreign Language Conference on Race, Gender, and Marginality. Also Includes Conference Paper and Other Writings by Umpierre

Majority/Minority Status Handout and Exercises

Includes Documents Relating to the Planning, Development, and Creation of the WV Humanities Center, Also the WV Humanities Faculty Development Conference. Includes Memoranda, Reports, and Activities of the Center

This sub-series contains materials related to Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel's work with the Center for Women's Studies as existing under the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research between 1984 and 1994.

Judith Gold Stitzel Letter to John D. Rockefeller after His Benedum Lecture at WVU. Also Includes Reply from Rockefeller, a Program, and Notes on His Talk

Molly Yard Visit to WVU, Young Feminist Conference

Judith Gold Stitzel Notes on Comments by Virginia Klenk, Ph.D. on Promoting Access to Careers in Science for Women through the Center for Women's Studies

This series contains various audio recordings created and collected by Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel in various contexts.

Cassette tape

Cassette tapes

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Cassette tapes

Biographical / historical:

Dr. Judith Gold Stitzel was born March 3, 1941, to Artie and Syd Gold in New York City. Upon graduation from Hunter College High School in 1957, she began higher education at Barnard College with a four-year scholarship from the New York State Regents, graduating in 1961 with her B.A. in English. While attending Barnard College, she met Robert Stitzel, a pharmacologist, whom she would marry in 1961. They remained married until Robert's death in 2007.

She received her M.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin in 1962. While working on her Ph.D. in English at the University of Minnesota, the Stitzels had their first and only child, David. Stitzel graduated with her Ph.D. in 1968 with the dissertation "Comedy and the Serious Moralist: The Sexual Ethic in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones". In 1965, before graduating from the University of Minnesota, Stitzel began working as an instructor in the English department at West Virginia University, where she would remain in employment in several capacities until her retirement in 1998.

Her academic positions at WVU include instructor (1965-1968), assistant professor (1968-1972), associate professor (1972-1979), professor (1979-1998), director of the Writing Laboratory (1969-1973), coordinator of the Women's Studies Program (1980-1984), and director of the Center for Women's Studies (1984-1993).

After expanding courses in WVU's English department to include women's studies topics in the 1970s, Stitzel co-developed and coordinated the Women's Studies Program as an academic discipline at WVU, which would in 1984 become the Center for Women's Studies, and in 2012 the Center for Women's and Gender Studies.

While employed with WVU, she was active in a variety of ways, including as an advisor to student organizations such as the Student Action for Appalachian Progress (SAAP) (1972-1975), Mortarboard (1972-1975), and Women's Center (1975-1982).

She was also active in several non-WVU organizations, including the Modern Language Association (1968-1986), National Council of Teachers of English (1973-1980), Conference of College Composition and Communication (1972-1980), North Central Women's Studies Association (1978-1994), and National Women's Studies Association (1980- ).

Throughout her career, Stitzel published many articles, some of which featured in the Appalachian Review, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, The Japan Women's Studies Journal, and West Virginia History.

After her professional retirement in 1998, Stitzel remained active in West Virginia and WVU. She was president of the Suncrest Neighborhood Association in the late 1990s and early 2000s and was active in the process of creating the Morgantown Comprehensive Plan during that period.

After the death of her husband Robert, Stitzel wrote and published the book Field Notes From Grief: The First Year in 2012, documenting the first year after his death.

Stitzel was also an early member and contributor to the West Virginia Feminist Activist and Women's History Collection (WVFAWHC), a project of the West Virginia and Regional History Center, which began archiving materials in the early 2020s. As of 2026 May, Stitzel remains active with WVU through her work with the WVFAWHC Advisory Board and her contributions to the Center for Women's and Gender Studies.

Acquisition information:

Gifts of Stitzel, Judith, 1999 May 28, 2015 September 11, 2018 April 02, and 2023 October 25.

Physical location:

West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: West Virginia & Regional History Center

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