May 20, 2026, Filed Under: FeaturedHarry Ransom Center Announces 2026–2027 Fellows The Harry Ransom Center is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2026–2027 research fellowships. This year’s cohort consists of 47 postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and independent researchers who will travel to Austin from seven countries and 15 US states to immerse themselves in the Center’s collections. Their research interests… read more
May 19, 2025, Filed Under: Research + TeachingWinners Announced for 2025 Schuchard Prize The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has awarded the fourth-annual Ronald Schuchard Undergraduate Archival Research Prize to three outstanding researchers. The competition awards cash prizes to the top undergraduate research papers or digital projects created using primary source material from the Center’s archival collections. Jessica… read more
May 6, 2025, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellowships Awarded to 46 scholars The Ransom Center has awarded 46 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation, and independent researchers. The selected projects span a wide breadth of collection materials and include topics such as predigital communication systems in the work of Caroline Herschel, the early Chinese translation and reception of Lewis Carroll’s… read more
May 2, 2025, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsCelebrating Gabriel García Márquez’s Global Journey: Q&A with the Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia by RICARDO CASTRO AGUDELO The publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967 and its global success transformed Gabriel García Márquez’s life, propelling him from being a relatively unknown writer in Mexico City to one of the most celebrated literary figures of the twentieth century. He received the Nobel… read more
May 2, 2025, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsDe Macondo al Mundo. Una celebración del recorrido global de Gabriel García Márquez Por: Ricardo Castro Agudelo La publicación de Cien años de soledad en 1967 y su éxito global transformaron la vida de Gabriel García Márquez, quien pasó de ser de ser un escritor relativamente desconocido en Ciudad de México a convertirse en uno de los escritores más celebrados del siglo XX.… read more
April 23, 2025, Filed Under: Film, Theatre + Performing ArtsLorne Michaels Lands at the Ransom Center Creator of Saturday Night Live Donates Historic Archive by CINDY MCCREERY When the director of the Harry Ransom Center, Stephen Enniss, shared the news with me that Saturday Night Live Executive Producer and renowned TV comedy writer/producer Lorne Michaels would be donating his collection to the Center, I literally gasped.… read more
