A Rough Outline of Historical Developments with Regard to Writing at UNH During the Post-War Years

1946-196X

• stability and commitment
• tradition and literature

Around 1963

• Forces shaping writing instruction from outside and within
• Ph.D in lit
• Grad students take over 401/402
• 401 in crisis
• Gen Ed program drops 402
• Murray arrives and teaches English Ed prep course and begins to make a name for himself in the region as a writing guru
• Murray gets involved in 401
• Carnicelli/Fisher/Murray form relationship around teaching writing/literature 

Around 1971-

• Forces shaping program from within
• Murray becomes 401 director
• Lit Ph.D. students begin to arrive—Murray has an audience
• MA in Writing established (year)?
• Departmental re-identification, from literature-only to writing and literature (particularly creative writing/journalism)
• Arrival of Donald Graves—UNH becomes a site of writing research
• Arrival of Thomas Newkirk—first English Education/composition person in English Dept (?)

Around... 1984 or so (?)

• Literacy Ph.D.
• Summer Institutes (Newkirk)
• Comp Ph.D. in English
• Annual fall conference
• English 401 has “national reputation”