The Anecdote is the newsletter of the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), dated May 2016. This issue features coverage of a conference on Philip K. Dick, reflecting CSUF's special relationship with Dick's literary legacy.
CSUF holds the Philip K. Dick Manuscript Collection (Collection SC.6), one of the two most important institutional repositories for Dick scholarship. The university's English department has accordingly developed a tradition of Dick-related academic programming. This newsletter documents a student-focused conference or event examining Dick's work, connecting the university's archival holdings with active scholarly engagement.
The newsletter represents the institutional dimension of Dick studies, showing how the presence of primary archival materials at CSUF has fostered ongoing academic attention to Dick's work within the university community. The involvement of students studying writing and linguistics alongside Dick's papers demonstrates the continuing pedagogical value of his literary archive.