August 16, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Theatre + Performing ArtsAn interview with four-time Tony Award-winner Kevin Adams The archive of award-winning lighting designer Kevin Adams is now housed at the Harry Ransom Center. Adams has received four Tony Awards for his lighting designs of Spring Awakening (2007), The 39 Steps (2008), American Idiot (2010), and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014). Adams is a UT alumnus, and… read more
July 21, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Digital Collections, Featured1The first quarter century of PEN Outlined here are eight important moments that occurred during PEN’s first 25 years. All these and many others are treated in more depth and detail in the book PEN: An Illustrated History (Interlink Publishing, September 2021). October 5, 1921 CATHARINE AMY DAWSON SCOTT, a poet and novelist who was sometimes described… read more
May 18, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1Q&A With Author Lily Tuck The Ransom Center is now home to the papers of National Book Award–winning writer Lily Tuck. Tuck is the author of seven novels, including The News from Paraguay (2004), Siam or The Woman Who Shot a Man (1999), I Married You for Happiness (2011), and Sisters (2017); three story collections,… read more
May 6, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Theatre + Performing ArtsRare ephemera shows legacy of Henry “Box” Brown In his day, Henry “Box” Brown was a celebrated stage magician who incorporated performance into his lectures on abolitionism in the United States and England. Much of what we know about him comes from his memoir, the Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself (1851).
April 23, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + TeachingThe slow research of collection development This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Shortly before the end of 2020, the papers of National Book Award–winning author Lily Tuck arrived at the Harry Ransom Center. It is always exciting when a new archive enters our building, but this arrival from New York… read more
April 21, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingTHRESHOLD ECOLOGIES: On Earth (and on Earth Day) A day turns into a week into a month, and more. Over the past year, our sense of time has extended into ongoing uncertainty from a global pandemic. For those grounded close to home, if we are lucky, our environments have become circumscribed by thresholds and windows, actual and virtual,… read more
