January 17, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsFrom Longhorn to the "Mayor of Greenwich Village" Before Lew Ney became the Mayor of Greenwich Village (and a signer of the door featured in the current exhibition The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920–1925), he was a Longhorn. Born and raised in Austin, Texas, as Luther E. Widen, Lew Ney graduated from Austin High… read more
January 12, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingGobsmacked: Professor Recounts Class’s Tour of the Ransom Center In October, University of Texas at Austin Psychology Professor Marc Lewis brought his freshman Plan II Honors class on a trip to the Ransom Center. Professor Lewis has won numerous teaching awards, including the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award and the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award. Below, Professor Lewis writes about… read more
January 10, 2012, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingThe Letters of Samuel Beckett Last fall, Cambridge University Press published The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 2: 1941–1956. Edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn, and Lois More Overbeck, the volume is the second in a four-part series offering a comprehensive range of Samuel Beckett’s letters. In compiling this edition, the editors… read more