February 22, 2012, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsThree Ransom Center authors announced as finalists for the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award Authors Russell Banks, Don DeLillo, and Anita Desai were selected as finalists for the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The Ransom Center holds the archives of Banks, Delillo, and Desai. Banks was nominated for his twelfth novel Lost Memory of Skin, DeLillo was nominated for his collection of short stories… read more
February 21, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsTeacher workshops demonstrate value of primary source materials in Ransom Center’s collections to enhance learning In elementary school, my class took a field trip to the main branch of the Houston Public Library. We learned how to use the microfilm machines, and I was allowed to look up the front page of the newspaper from the day I was born. I still remember the “Ransom… read more
February 16, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingAfrica and the Archive: Researching the Transcription Centre Georgetown University Assistant Professor of English and Women and Gender Studies Samantha Pinto is a fellow in the African and American Diaspora Studies Department at The University of Texas at Austin for the 2011–2012 year. She writes about her research in the Transcription Centre, an organization founded for African Literature… read more
