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• Athas, Daphne, 1923-2020.
• Authors, American--North Carolina.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Creative Writing Program--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of English and Comparative Literature--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of English--Faculty.

Daphne Athas (1923-2020), a white author and teacher, taught creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1968 until her retirement from teaching in 2009. In the 1970s, Athas began teaching a stylistics writing course known as "Glossolalia," which became known for its annual student performances. Athas's 2007 book, Gram-O-Rama, is based on this class. Athas's other works include Entering Ephesus, The Weather of the Heart, The Fourth World, Cora, Greece by Prejudice, Chapel Hill in Plain Sight, and others.

Contains materials related to Daphne Athas's career as an author and creative writing instructor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Primarily includes typescript drafts of literary works and files related to teaching, including lecture notes and photocopies related to specific texts. Typescript drafts include Battle and Circumstance, Chapel Hill in Plain Sight, Cora, Crack the Egg Your Own Way, Deeds of Love and Hate and Anger, Eastern Point, Entering Ephesus, Forty-One Language Exercises with Illustrations, The Fourth World, Greece by Prejudice, "I Never Dreamed", The King Makes Himself, "The Lay of the Land" Mothers and Writers: A Memoir of Betty Smith, Music and Pure Meaning, Optical Illusions, "Ouida General," "The Pied Piper of Greenlaw," Taste of the Orange Kiss, Weather of the Heart, and "Tolstoy's Search for God." Teaching and faculty files include records from Athas's stylistics class, "Glossolalia" (English 47W), including annual Glossolalia and Gram-O-Rama student performances; correspondence; and publicity materials.