February 7, 2013, Filed Under: Art, Cataloging, Research + TeachingFrank Reaugh project reveals new details of the artist’s process The Ransom Center is currently engaged in a one-year, grant-funded project to digitize, catalog, process and make the Frank Reaugh art collection available online, which will be the first complete collection of the Ransom Center’s new digital asset management system. The project is ongoing and is expected to be completed… read more
February 5, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingResearching Austen in Austin: Archival research reveals connections between Jane Austen’s characters and real-life celebrities and politicians Janine Barchas is an associate professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin. Barchas used the Ransom Center’s collections as she conducted research for her book Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity, published this past fall by John Hopkins University Press. She writes about… read more
January 31, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsArt critic Jed Perl’s "Magicians and Charlatans" The Harry Ransom Center welcomes Jed Perl, art critic for The New Republic, and Peter Kayafas, Director of the Eakins Press Foundation, to discuss their work on Magicians and Charlatans: Essays on Art and Culture and the way that artists, writers, and publishers have responded to the digital age. The… read more
January 29, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching“Monarchia Solipsorum:” Rare Italian manuscript connected to Galileo’s trial of 1632 Shaun Stalzer is a graduate student in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin specializing in special collections librarianship. He earned his master’s degree in American history from Texas State University in San Marcos, and his research interests include the history of American theater. Here,… read more
January 24, 2013, Filed Under: Research + TeachingRansom Center to offer summer undergraduate internships The Harry Ransom Center will support six undergraduate internships during the summer of 2013, four from The University of Texas at Austin and two from another accredited college or university.
January 22, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingSara Coleridge’s Pretty Lessons in Verse: Nineteenth- Century Flash Cards “John Lockland. One thousand one hundred and ninety nine, John his brother to him succeeds: Magna Carta he’s forced to sign: that in truth was the best of his deeds.” This stylized anecdote is but one example of the 399 handwritten verse cards—penned by the English translator, editor, and writer… read more
