August 27, 2014, Filed Under: Research + TeachingInternational database of copyright holders celebrates 20th anniversary The Harry Ransom Center and the University of Reading have worked together for the past 20 years to establish and maintain the WATCH File, now one of the largest worldwide resources on copyright information. To commemorate the 20th anniversary, Rick Watson, current U.S. compiler for WATCH, and Andrew Gansky, a… read more
August 21, 2014, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Ties to director Brian De Palma found throughout film collection at the Ransom Center Ethan de Seife is an independent scholar and the author of the book Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin. He is currently an arts writer for the Burlington, Vermont, alternative weekly newspaper Seven Days. His research was supported by a Ransom Center travel grant. The Ransom Center is celebrating… read more
August 13, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows Find: Scholar explores eleventh-hour additions to George Bernard Shaw’s corrected proof of play “Saint Joan” Alex Feldman, an Assistant Professor in the English Department at MacEwan University, Alberta, visited the Ransom Center to consult the papers of George Bernard Shaw, Lillian Hellman, and Arthur Miller, among others. His research, supported by the Dorot Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies, focused on the dramatization of… read more
August 7, 2014, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Puzzling over composite prints by Henry Peach Robinson Emily Talbot, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, received a dissertation fellowship to study nineteenth-century composite photographs by Henry Peach Robinson and his contemporaries in England and France. This research forms part of a larger project that considers the integration of photographic technologies and aesthetic standards into the… read more
July 30, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingNew biography sheds light on life and work of Dashiell Hammett Sally Cline, a British award-winning biographer and short story writer, recently published the biography Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery (Arcade). She received a Dorot Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies from the Harry Ransom Center in 2003-2004, which supported her work in the Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman collections.… read more
July 28, 2014, Filed Under: AuthorsJulia Alvarez to receive National Medal of the Arts Novelist, poet, and essayist Julia Alvarez will receive a 2013 National Medal of the Arts today “for her extraordinary storytelling.” The award will be presented by President Obama. The White House notes in the citation, “In poetry and in prose, Ms. Alvarez explores themes of identity, family, and cultural divides.… read more
