John F. Callahan collection
The collection includes material built from Callahan’s works as a renowned scholar, writer and educator, including Callahan’s notes, drafts and related correspondence surrounding his work as Ralph Ellison’s Literary Executor.
View the 2025/2026 digital exhibit, Cooperative Meaning-Making in John F. Callahan's Literary Career curated by Thomas Schwiebert '26, here.
Callahan English 313 syllabus, exam questions
1975
John Callahan's letter to Barack Obama
A Night with Ralph Ellison Gala (Oklahoma History Center)
2014-02-08
Concept for Invisible Man TV adaptation
2016-11
Invisible Man stage play: Court Theatre Actor Packet
2012
Invisible Man Huntington Theatre Company booklet
2013-01-04
Correspondence from Professor Sundquist of UCLA regarding Ellison's inspiration for the character Ras
1995-05-16
Hulu adaptation correspondence with Beatrice Springborn
2018-08-18
Ellison: note on how to make a movie of Invisible Man
1985-10-25
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, stage adaptation
The Learning Room: handwritten notes and outline, 2008
2008
Ralph Ellison's "Life in Letters": A Presentation at the International Ralph Ellison Symposium
2017-09-29
Belonging plot notes and revisions
2014
Fulcrum marketing for A Man You Could Love
2006-10-25
The American Scholar(s) John F. Callahan Inaugural address of the Morgan S. Odell professorship in the humanities
1995-03-14
Notes on A Man You Could Love: Hubris and Nemesis
2002-05-24
A Man You Could Love: deleted passages: 1st-5th drafts
2006-06
Photo of John Callahan at Holy Cross
Christine's Drawings: A Man You Could Love characters
“Fragment A Notes: Hickman in D.C.”
undated
Letter from Adam Bradley to John F. Callahan
1999-09
Letter from Adam Bradley to John F. Callahan
1999-06
First page of a letter from John F. Callahan to Fanny Ellison
1995-01
First page of a letter from Ralph Ellison to John F. Callahan
1985-05
First page of a letter from John F. Callahan to Ralph Ellison
1978-02
First page of a draft of John F. Callahan's “The Testifying Voice in Michael Harper’s Images of Kin”
circa 1977-1979
Letter from Michael S. Harper to John F. Callahan
1970-02
Dear John, Dear Coltrane cover
1970
Michael S. Harper
undated