July 3, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows Find: Early recordings show how performance artist Spalding Gray developed his signature style Ira S. Murfin is a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD program in Theatre & Drama at Northwestern University. He received a dissertation research fellowship from the Ransom Center to work in the Spalding Gray collection, investigating the early development of Gray’s influential autobiographical monologues for his dissertation on the… read more
July 1, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsTwo interactive activities added to The World at War: 1914-1918 Two new interactive activities—an audio tour and a passport project—are now available for visitors to the exhibition The World at War, 1914–1918. Daniel Carter, a PhD student in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin who researches how people interact with cultural objects, facilitated the pilot… read more
June 26, 2014, Filed Under: Cataloging, Theatre + Performing ArtsTexas collection of comedias sueltas and Spanish theater available for research and in online database The Texas Collection of Comedias Sueltas and Spanish Theater is available for research. Individual records for each suelta are also available in an online database, providing extensive information about the collection. The collection includes more than 15,000 “comedias sueltas,” a generic term for plays published in small pamphlet format in… read more
June 24, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsAlan Furst’s “Midnight in Europe” now available Alan Furst, a New York Times bestselling author whose archive resides at the Harry Ransom Center, recently published his latest novel Midnight in Europe. Furst is widely recognized for his historical espionage novels set in the World War II era. His 2008 novel, The Spies of Warsaw, was adapted… read more
June 17, 2014, Filed Under: Cataloging, Theatre + Performing ArtsCataloging project reveals previously unknown copy of a comedia suelta The cataloging of the Texas collection of comedias sueltas at the Harry Ransom Center—funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources, Cataloguing Hidden Special Collections and Archives program—has proven to be a great success in revealing unknown jewels of early printed theater in Spain. One such jewel is Juan… read more
June 17, 2014, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: The ‘most wonderful’ images in an album of 19th-century photos of a fishing village in Glasgow Sara Stevenson, a senior research fellow at the University of Glasgow, worked with the photographs of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson at the Ransom Center last fall. Her research, supported by the David Douglas Duncan Endowment for Photojournalism, will be used in a book she is writing for the… read more
