February 23, 2018, Filed Under: Research + TeachingRecent visiting researchers Throughout the year, the Ransom Center hosts fellows who conduct in-depth research in the Ransom Center collections. Since the inauguration of the Center’s fellowship program in 1990, fellowship awards have supported more than 1,000 researcher visits. In addition to Ransom Center fellowships, an ongoing partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) supports AHRC-funded fellows from the United Kingdom. Here are some of the visiting fellows from the past two months. Visiting from Grinnell College, research fellow John Garrison worked on “Shakespeare and the Afterlife,” a book to be published by Oxford University Press. Arts and Humanities Research Council fellow Hilary White worked with the Christine Brooke-Rose papers during her 3 months here from the University of Manchester. Independent Scholar Carol Sklenicka was at the Ransom Center to research her biography on novelist and short story author Alice Adams. Visiting from Tsinghua University, fellow Stephanie Anderson worked on her research project, “Editing New York: Daisy Aldan and Folder Magazine.” Visiting from the National Library of Colombia, fellow Nicolás Pernett is here researching “Colombian Readings of Gabriel García Márquez.” Arts and Humanities Research Council fellow Marina Popea is here from the University of Oxford researching “Octavio Paz in and on Translation: Collaboration and Dialogue between North American and Mexican Poets and Critics.” Independent scholar and fellow Ruksana Abdul-Majid is here to research her project, “A Critical Edition of G. V. Desani’s ‘The Indian Journal’ (1951–1958).” Arts and Humanities Research Council fellow Rebecca Harding is here for 3 months researching “Don DeLillo’s Approach to Writing the Body.” Rebecca is from the University of Sussex. David Isaacs, an Arts and Humanities Research Council fellow, is here for his research project “J. M. Coetzee’s Revisions.” David is visiting from University College London. Visiting from the University of Toronto, fellow Jonathan Ullyot worked on his book “Ezra Pound and the Matter of Troy.” Photos by Pete Smith.
