Fellowships Awarded to 52 Scholars

The Ransom Center has awarded 52 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation and independent researchers studying a wide array of topics, from Tennessee Williams’ visual self portraits to 1980s Hollywood Gothic, Deborah Hay and the choreographer as archivist, literary estates and copyright, the Nigerian Civil War and Nigerian contemporary art, and more.

Since 1990, the Ransom Center Fellowship Program has supported more than 1,250 research projects requiring extensive onsite use of the Ransom Center’s collections and resulting in the publication of books, journal articles and doctoral theses. Fellowships are awarded for projects that span the Center’s collections in literature, performing arts, film, photography, and art.

Fellowship types vary, including one- to three-month fellowships, travel stipends and dissertation fellowships. Several individual donors and organizations fund the program.

The 2023-2024 fellows reflect the global stature of the collections, representing 12 U.S. states and 11 countries, with half traveling from abroad.

See the table below for the full list of recipients.

	FIRST	LAST	AFFILIATION	PROJECT
	Jonathan	Allen	University of London (Warburg Institute)	Motivated Magic: Conjuring Tricks on an Ideological Stage
	Kaveh	Askari	Michigan State University	Stripe, Frame, and Reel: Indian Ocean Film Circuits
	John	Bak	Université de Lorraine	“‘[A] picture of my own heart’: Tennessee Williams’s Visual Self-Portraits, 1939”
	Nourdin	Bejjit	Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco	The Three Continents Press and Arabic Literature
	Isabel	Bielat	University of Virginia	Romantic Nationalism and the Transnational Celebrities of British Political Culture, 1789-1905
	Mattia	Biffis	University of Oslo	The Return of Andrea Casali: Imposture, Identity, and the Power of Images in the Late Renaissance
	Susannah	Blair	The Morgan Library and Museum	Constantin Guys and the Modern Newspaper
	Niall	Carson	University of Liverpool	The Irish Academy of Letters
	Arka	Chattopadhyay	Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar	Beckett and Coetzee: Mathematical Modernisms
	Emily	Cline	Queen's University	Trace Evidence: The Influential Afterlives of Catherine Crowe’s Supernatural Detective Fictions
	David	Coates	University of Warwick	Amateur Theatre in Britain, 1779-1914
	Mattia	Corso	University of Verona	Italian Sacred Landscape: Insights into the Relationship Between Religion and Nature in Early Modern Italy from the Ranuzzi Archive
	Nancy	Dantas	The Museum of Modern Art	Aspirational Modernisms in the Archives of the Transcription Centre
	Maria	De Simone	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Faces of Many Colors: Racial Impersonation in American Popular Entertainment, 1870–1920
	Nicholas	Duddy	University of Oxford	Arthur Miller's Suicidology of the Stage: Suicide and Dramatic Form in All My Sons and Death of a Salesman
	Fergus	Edwards	University of Tasmania (UTAS)	Stoppard's Plays and Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Ethics
	Anne	Etienne	University College Cork	Digging Arnold Wesker
	Brice	Ezell	The Lovett School	Tom Stoppard's Theatre of Clarity
	Kate	Fortmueller	University of Georgia	Risky Business: Hazards and Risk Management in the U.S. Film Industry
	Samuel	Fullerton	University of California, Riverside	The Transformation of Libelous Politics in Seventeenth-Century England
	Anna	Girling	Institute of English Studies, SAS, U of London	Nancy Cunard and the Writing of Black Internationalism
	Carolyn	Guzski	SUNY, Buffalo State University	Norman Bel Geddes and Indigeneity at the Metropolitan Opera
	Kate	Highman	University of Cape Town	The Disciplinary Forces of English Literature
	Wendy	Hitchmough	University of Sussex	Buying power: Mary Hutchinson's agency and network as a bi-sexual modernist patron
	Tom	Hulme	Queen's University Belfast	Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation
	Anna	Jamieson	Birkbeck, University of London	“Mad Mary Lamb” and the English Private Madhouse, 1796-1847
	Dan	Kois	Independent Scholar	The United States v One Book Called "Ulysses"
	Eva-Marie	Kröller	University of British Columbia (Professor emerita)	Thomas B. Costain: A Canadian-American Career in Publishing and Authorship
	Kristin	Leahey	Boston University, College of Fine Arts	Hellman’s The Little Foxes: A Production and Scholarly Examination of African Americans in a Classic Postbellum Play
	Sophie	Levin	Washington University in St. Louis	“Amies des Livres”: Modernist Networks and Women Translators in Interwar Literary Paris
	Nicole	Lobdell	Northwestern State University of Louisiana	Bithia Mary Croker: A Life in Letters
	K. Bellamy	Mitchell	University of Chicago	A Poetics of Apology
	Chris	Mourant	University of Birmingham	Scholarly Edition of E. M. Forster's 'A Passage to India' (1924)
	Sorcha	Ní Fhlainn	Manchester Metropolitan University	Warren Skaaren: 1980s Hollywood Gothic
	Nigel	O'Hearn	University of Texas at Austin	Writing Between the Scenes: Tracing the Industrial Activity and Rhetorical Genres of American Drama, 1939–1964
	Rachel	O'Nunain	University of Oxford	Locating the 1890s Theatrical Avant-Garde: independent theatre movements and coterie dramatic networks
	Daniele	Pascale Giudotti Magnani	Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna	Celebrating Sanctity. The 1712 feasts for Saint Caterina de’ Vigri in Bologna
	Giulia	Pellizzato	Harvard University	Blanche Wolf Knopf’s Transatlantic Networks
	Laurent	Pichaud	Paris 8 University	Deborah Hay – portrait of the choreographer as an archivist
	Alec	Pollak	Cornell University	The Author Is Dead: Literary Estates, Copyright, and the Dissemination of Culture
	Michelle	Reynolds	University of Exeter	Women Illustrators and the Late-Victorian and Edwardian Little Magazine
	Elsa	Richardson	University of Strathclyde	Sex, Science, and the Simple Life: The British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology
	Joshua	Schulze	University of Michigan	Working Below Below-the-Line: Race, Labor, and Resources in Classical Hollywood
	Adam	Sellen	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	La Sorpresa: Tourism and Archaeology in Mitla, Oaxaca.
	Alexander	Sergeant	University of Portsmouth / Fantasy-Animation.org	Discovering "War Brides", Herbert Brenon and the Lewis Selznick Collection
	David	Vaughan	Northwestern Oklahoma State University	Milton and Catullus: Poetic Allusion and the Commentary Tradition
	Donya K.	Washington	Oregon Shakespeare Festival	Hellman’s The Little Foxes: A Production and Scholarly Examination of African Americans in a Classic Postbellum Play
	Molly Heather	Watson	University of Nottingham	Motherhood, Children and Loss in the Works of Sara Coleridge and Mary Shelley, 1820-44
	Eleanor	Webb	Department of History, University of Pennsylvania	Between Studium and Accademia: Intellectual Culture in Early Modern Italy
	Victoria	Wiet	Depauw University	George Ives and Queer Sociability at the Late Victorian Theatre
	Tash	Wilder	Independent Scholar	My Twin Anne
	Rebecca	Wolff	Christopher Newport University	Experience and Memory: The Nigerian Civil War and Nigerian Contemporary Art