Contains information and materials concerning various faculty members of the Brigham Young University English Department. Records included in this collection regard the appointment of faculty. Included are resumes, writing samples, letters, correspondence, memos and newspaper clippings.

Comments on his choice of English as a field of study; great American authors; academic freedom at BYU, including controversies in the late 1960s; and participation with his wife in the China Teachers Program sponsored by BYU's David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, 1983-1984 and 1991-1992. Interviewed by Carol Clark Ottesen. Sound is distorted on part of the audio recording.