January 16, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Photography, Research + TeachingWar photography exhibition showcases images from the Ransom Center’s photography collection Back in November the exhibition WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath opened at its fourth and final venue, the Brooklyn Museum. This exhibition, which I curated with Anne Tucker and Will Michels in my former role in the photography department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, featured… read more
January 14, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts“Der Bestrafte Brudermord”: A puppet version of “Hamlet”? Tiffany Stern, Professor of Early Modern Drama at Oxford University, delivers the English Department’s Thomas Cranfill Lecture about her research on the play Der Bestrafte Brudermord (Fratricide Revenged) at the Harry Ransom Center this Thursday, January 16 at 4 p.m. Stern, the Hidden Room theater company, and the American… read more
January 13, 2014, Filed Under: AuthorsRansom Center acquires 21 J. D. Salinger letters The Ransom Center has acquired 21 previously unrecorded and unpublished letters by author J. D. Salinger. The letters are accessible as part of the Ransom Center’s existing Salinger collection, which includes published and unpublished manuscripts, galleys, page proofs, and correspondence. Most of the newly acquired letters are written by Salinger to… read more
January 9, 2014, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows Find: Stella Adler and Harold Clurman papers shed light on evolution of Method acting Justin Owen Rawlins is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication and Culture and the Department of American Studies at Indiana University. He visited the Ransom Center in May and June 2013 on a dissertation fellowship to conduct research for his dissertation, “Method Men: Masculinity, Race and Performance Style… read more
January 7, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingResearch at the Ransom Center: “To Cape Town and back, via Mongolia” Perhaps one of the most distinctive features of J. M. Coetzee’s 1981 novel Waiting for the Barbarians is the setting—an imaginary empire, one lacking a specified place and time. Yet, when Coetzee penned the first draft of the novel, it was set in Cape Town, South Africa. David Attwell, a… read more
December 19, 2013, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Jimmy Hare photography collection reveals early photojournalism history John Mraz is a research professor in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades “Alfonso Vélez Pliego” of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. He received a fellowship from the David Douglas Duncan Endowment for Photojournalism and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment to study “Jimmy Hare’s… read more
