Teaching

Title: Teaching
Dates of Material:
1985-2024
Extent:
91 cm of textual records
1 video cassette
Scope and content

Series consists of records relating to A.F. Moritz’s teaching career at the University of Toronto, including his work as Writer in Residence, Northrop Frye Visiting Lectureship poetry readings, and Continuing Education classes and includes correspondence, lecture notes and typescripts, course outlines, handouts and schedules, teaching handbooks, research material, exam questions, class lists and students’ marks. Also included are correspondence, agendas and notes related to Mortiz's work on the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry Online, poetry chapbooks from Moritz's Creative Writing course, notes and posters from his office in Northrop Frye Hall, and thank-you cards and posters from students in his Vic One and Creative Writing courses.

Series also contains some material from courses taught by his wife, Theresa Moritz.

NOTE(S)
Access restrictions

Student marks and class lists are restricted for seventy-five years.

BOX FILE TITLE YEAR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Box 2
21ENG 306 English Prose and Poetry 1660-1800, Schedule and Reading Assignments1987-1996, 1987

Contains handwritten notes. Originally contained student marks.  These have been destroyed in keeping with privacy legislation. 

22 RRENG 308 Romantic Poetry Exam and student notes1987

Contains notes that AFM wrote assessing students work.   

23ENG 308 Romantic Poetry course notes and material1991-1992

   

24ENG 353Y Exam 1990

   

25ENG 201 Class notes 1995

   

26[Letters of application and correspondence regarding teaching positions]1982-1993

   

27ENG 100 and 103 course material1988

   

28ENG100 Notes1987-1992

   

29ENG100 and ENG103 Handbook for Instructors1990

   

210ENG100 and ENG103: Exams, quizzes, exercises, misc.handouts. 1986-1990

   

211ENG103 Schedules1986-1990

   

212University of Toronto Correspondence, Agreements, Forms, Information, Schedules1986-1990

   

213ENG308 Romantic Poetry [notes and course material]1987-1989

   

214ENG390: Clare and Hardy [notes]1988

   

215ENG246Y: Romantic and Victorian Literature [course material and notes]1988-1990

Trinity College (UofT) Course.

216ENG354: Modern Canadian Poetry, handouts1989-1990

St. Hilda's College (U of T)  

217ENG354Y - Modern Canadian Poetry / English, Lecture Notes1989-1990

   

218 RR[Reference for Suzanne McLaughlin graduate application]1990

Includes student's work for ENG490Y and material from that course.   

219ENG250: American Literature [notes and course material]1987-1988

   

220ENG256Y (taught with M. Redekop: 1/2 course) [notes and course material]1987

   

221ENG120Y: Forms of Literature [notes and course material]1992-1993

 Erindale College (UofT Mississauga) course.

Box 3
31[Course notes - Values in Current Releases]2002

   

32[English 250Y Exam instructions and schedule]1989

   

33[Notes and other teaching material]1990

Includes 3 photographs.   Includes ENG 246Y: Romantic and Victorian Literature course notes and material, Giving Voice to the Spirit poetry workshop and continuing education course at St. Michael's College, related newspaper, clippings, correspondence from students, rough notes for courses, photocopied poems, etc. 

(Photos P1-3)
34ENG130Y Course notes and exams1993-1995

   

35ENG 213 : The Short Story [Notes, exams and syllabi]1988-1993

   

36Vic 350 Souvenirs [cards from students] 2001-2002

   

37Office Bulletin Board [ephemera]1993-1994

   

310ENG 368Y: Creative Writing and Poetry1991-1992

Includes notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings and course material.   

311ENG 250Y : American Literature1988-1989

 Includes notes, course material, etc.  

315Film Reviewing Course [St. Michael's College]1999

Course material and notes.

316Poertry in Movies - St. Michael's College Continuing Ed.1997

Includes notes and course material.   

317Shakespeare in the Movies1999

St. Michael's Continuing Education course. Includes course notes and schedule.   

318-19Values in Current Releases1998-2001

Course materials and notes for St. Michael's Continuing Education course taught by AFM.   Course sessions 1998, 2000, 2001.

321Living and Learning in Retirement Info and Lectures2000-2001

At Glendon College, Toronto.   

323ENG 348 Summer 1993 - Erindale. Notes on Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot and Stevens with ENG 250. 1993

Also includes ENG201Y: Reading Poetry course schedule.   

Box 21
211 “Giving Voice to the Spirit” poetry course (Theresa Moritz)2002
212 RR“Giving Voice to the Spirit” class list2002
213–4“Values in Current Release” film course (Theresa Moritz)2002-2004
215 RR“Values in Current Release” class lists2002-2004
2007.05
2007.05, Box 1
11 Vic One Year End Dinner menu2006
2007.05, Box 2
22 ENG 103 - Class visit to Fresno State University School of Education video cassette2001

1 videocassette tape.

2009.02
2009.02, Box 1
11 “Values in Current Release”2005
12 “Values in Current Release”2006
13 “Values in Current Release”2007
14 Trinity College Associate2006-2007
15 University of Toronto—Department of English2007
16 Trinity College Parents Day lecture2008
17 Victoria College2007-2008
2010.01
2010.01, Box 1
11St. Michael’s College Continuing Education1995-2005
12St. Michael’s College—“Values In Current Release”2008
12Victoria College—Vic3501998
14Victoria College—VicOne2009
2015.08
2015.08, Box 5
515Vic College Docs. 2015

Victoria College/ U of T course schedules, nomination as permanent fellow at Victoria College.

516Creative Writing documents1995

Part of planning document for creative writing courses at Victoria College.  

2015.08, Box 7
71Schedules

Victoria College teaching / work / personal schedules.  

2016.08
2016.08, Box 16
165 RRVic Business2014

Includes correspondence around classes that AFM was teaching, scheduling, employment agreements, and records related to salary.    

2017.07
2017.07, Box 3
314Paz translation2017

AFM's edited translation of Paz's "Response & Reconciliation" jotted down for his VIC 165H course.

2019.12
2019.12, Box 4
46Jewison Brochure Profile2011

Brochure announcing the launch of the Jewison Stream at Victoria College, part of the Vic One Program. AFM was part of the Jewison Stream faculty.

2024.10
2024.10, Box 3
36University of Toronto: Representative Poetry Online2023

Correspondence, meeting agenda, meeting notes and handwritten notes regarding modernization of the University of Toronto’s Representative Poetry Online. AFM was an Advisory Board Member. Changes included the appointment of Marc Plamondon as General Editor and updating the RPO to reflect new technologies and additional poets.

37University of Toronto: New Writing in Canada2007

Handwritten notes by AFM on contemporary Canadian poets and poetry books from 2007, when he originated the new course ENG357, New Writing in Canada, for the Department of English.

38Victoria University: Notes on Paz2011-2024

Handwritten notes by AFM on Octavio Paz, both for his own work and for teaching. Also includes a small pamphlet on the Aztec Calendar and a printout of an image related to Aztecs.

39Victoria University: Notes on Ellul (with Tennyson)2012-2024

Handwritten notes by AFM on Jacques Ellul, as well as Tennyson, both for his own work and for teaching.

310Victoria University: Notes on Miłosz2009-2024

Handwritten notes by AFM on Czesław Miłosz, both for his own work and for teaching.

311Victoria University: Notes on DeLillo2009-2024

Handwritten notes and research printouts by AFM on Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, primarily for teaching.

312Victoria University: Notes on Arendt2016-2024

Handwritten notes by AFM on Hannah Arendt, primarily for teaching. Includes a Smithsonian clipping (2012).

313Victoria University: Notes on Lubrin2021-2024

Handwritten notes written on typed poems and promotional materials in praise of Canisia Lubrin, particularly The Dyzgraphxst. Primarily for teaching and welcoming a visiting scholar, but also for AFM’s own writing.

314Victoria University: Notes on Breton and Rimbaud2019-2024

Handwritten notes and typed translations (some by AFM) of André Breton and Arthur Rimbaud, for AFM’s own use and for teaching.

315Victoria University: More Notes on Miłosz, Blake and Ellul2009-2024

Handwritten notes by AFM on Czesław Miłosz, William Blake, Joseph Ellul and others, both for his own work and for teaching.

316Victoria University: Notes on Film and Music2010-2024

Handwritten notes by AFM on film and music, primarily for teaching but also for his own work. Includes some printouts of film images and articles on civil rights and music.

317Victoria University: Charley Patton2010-2024

Typewritten items related to American musician Charley Patton, for teaching and for AFM’s own work. Includes AFM’s transcriptions of Patton’s songs, revised in places by himself, and AFM’s notes in essay form on Patton and the 1927 Mississippi flood.

318Victoria University: Notes on Form and Content2010-2024

One page of handwritten notes and selected sample poems for teaching students about the form and content of poetry.

319Victoria University: Course Notes2003 and 2011

Handwritten notes for courses taught at Victoria University in 2003 and 2011.

320Victoria University: Student Thanks2012-2024

A collection of thank-you cards and end-of-year thank-you posters from students in AFM’s Vic One and Creative Writing Courses.

2024.10, Box 4
41Victoria University: Northrop Frye Office1993, [before 2024]

Contains various notes hung on the door of AFM’s office at Northrop Frye Hall and a poster for a Ludwig Zeller seminar on poetry, which hung on the wall of his office until he moved out in Spring 2024.

42Victoria University: Student Chapbooks2012-2013, 2019-2020

Five chapbooks and a typewritten poem by students in AFM’s Creative Writing courses.