April 2, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsSanora Babb: “An Owl on Every Post” Known for her evocative depictions of life in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression, author Sanora Babb shares her family’s perpetual bouts with struggles against crop-failure, starvation, mortgage foreclosures, and loneliness in her memoir An Owl on Every Post. Experiencing pioneer life in a one-room dugout shelter, Babb viewed… read more
April 1, 2013, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsFrom the Outside In: Title page from William Shakespeare’s "A Midsommer Nights Dreame," 1619 The atria on the first floor of the Ransom Center are surrounded by windows featuring etched reproductions of images from the collections. The windows offer visitors a hint of the cultural treasures to be discovered inside. From the Outside In is a series that highlights some of these images and… read more
March 28, 2013, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingSeminar exposes students to the Ransom Center’s photography holdings Dr. Sherre L. Paris—lecturer at The University of Texas School of Journalism—teaches her undergraduate class “A Cultural History of Photography” at the Ransom Center. During the three-hour-long-seminar, which meets every Tuesday in a classroom adjacent to the Ransom Center’s Reading Room, undergraduates work with primary source materials from the Center’s photography collections. “Cultural Compass” spoke with Dr. Paris about her experience teaching at the Ransom Center.
March 26, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsAdaptation of Alan Furst’s novel “The Spies of Warsaw” premieres next week on BBC America Alan Furst’s 2008 novel The Spies of Warsaw has been adapted into a new miniseries. Starring David Tennant of Doctor Who fame, the series premieres in two parts on BBC America at 8 p.m. CST Wednesday, April 3, and on Wednesday, April 10 . Tennant plays Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a… read more
March 25, 2013, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsFrom the Outside In: Typescript of "The Member of the Wedding," Carson McCullers, ca. 1946 The atria on the first floor of the Ransom Center are surrounded by windows featuring etched reproductions of images from the collections. The windows offer visitors a hint of the cultural treasures to be discovered inside. From the Outside In is a series that highlights some of these images and… read more
March 21, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsJ. M. Coetzee’s association with The University of Texas at Austin J. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940 and graduated from the University of Cape Town. After working three years as a computer programmer in England, he enrolled in The University of Texas at Austin in 1965 to pursue his Ph.D. in English, linguistics and Germanic… read more
