An internationally acclaimed author and editor, and long-time professor of English at Ryerson, Dr. Karen Mulhallen has published essays on the arts both in Canada and in the UK. For more than three decades she has edited the award-winning literary magazine Descant, and through the magazine and other anthologies has promoted the work of Canadian writers nationally and internationally. She has published ten books of poetry, as well as edited more than one hundred and thirty issues of Descant magazine, as well as many books, most recently, Blake In Our Time: Essays in Honour of G.E. Bentley Jr. (University of Toronto Press, 2010).

[biographical information taken from: https://mlc.ryerson.ca/people/karen-mulhallen]

This fonds contains textual records, articles, school essay, photographs, an object, reviews, and clippings

Photograph of Karen Mulhallen

Included with the poetry book "Modern Love" is an illustrated and signed broadside of a sonnet published in this book.

File contains different volumes and editions of the Descant, a quarterly literary magazine.

File contains reviews and critiques by Karen Mulhallen.

File contains a compilation of clippings by Karen Mulhallen.

File contains the Quarry Volume 22 Number 3 that contains the poem "Sequence" by Karen Mulhallen.

File contains a speech by Karen Mulhallen on H. Northrop Frye.

File contains a red and white beanie with “UC” (University College) on front.

Professional tape of Karen Mulhallen reading poetry. Recorded in RTA studios Winter 1968. Label information on tape :
1) Written by Richard Mulhallen ; Additional Script by Ken Bruder ; Produced by Ken Bruder
2) Incognito - A Radio 'Epic Fantasy' in Non-Communication and Avoidance
Reel-To-Reel Collection No. RR-155

This essay was written by Karen Mulhallen as a high school student at Woodstock (Ontario) Collegiate Institute. It won her a history prize of $50.

File contains the following journal articles written by Karen Mulhallen :

• 'For Friendship's Sake' : Some Additions to Blake's Sheets for Design to a Series of Ballads (1802)
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Schaferscapes/Wolfbound : Twelve Notes Toward a New View of Camping
• The Crying of Lot 318 ; Or, Young's Night Thoughts Colored Once More
• William Blake's Milton Portraiture And Eighteenth Century Milton Iconography

File contains the article, "Bower, Maze, Mirror : Four Sketches of Ken Nutt" by Karen Mulhallen

Book chapter in, Trudeau's Shadow : The Life And Legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, edited by Andrew Cohen and J.L. Granatstein

File contains Karen Mulhallen's curriculum vitae and a promotion application addenda.

File contains bibliographic information on works by or edited by Karen Mulhallen.

Two difference photographic portraits of Karen Mulhallen. Mrs. Mulhallen was a professor in the English department at Ryerson.