May 13, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsL.A. theater company resurrects deleted monologue in Sebastian Barry’s “The Steward of Christendom” Sebastian Barry’s play The Steward of Christendom tells the story of Irishman Thomas Dunne, the former chief of the Dublin Metropolitan Police who is now confined to an asylum. He reminisces about his personal and professional life, going back and forth between lucidity and seeming incoherence. A Roman Catholic still… read more
May 9, 2014, Filed Under: Research + TeachingRansom Center to host more than 80 scholars in fellowship program’s 25th year The Ransom Center will support more than 80 research fellows for 2014–2015, the 25th anniversary of the fellowship program. Since the program’s inception, the Center has awarded fellowships to more than 900 scholars from around the world. The fellowships support research projects in the humanities that require substantial on-site use… read more
May 8, 2014, Filed Under: AuthorsAuthor Jim Crace awarded literary prize This year, novelist Jim Crace, whose archive resides in the Ransom Center, has received an award of $150,000 for his fiction writing. Presented by Yale University, the Windham Campbell Prize is awarded to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and drama to financially support their literary endeavors.
