May 15, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingMore than 50 fellowships provide opportunity to research at Ransom Center The Ransom Center has awarded more than 50 research fellowships for 2012–2013. The fellowships support research projects in the humanities that require substantial on-site use of the Center’s collections of manuscripts, rare books, photographs, art, film and performing arts materials. Christopher Grobe, an Assistant Professor in the Department of English… read more
May 10, 2012, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Scholar studies the Sandinista revolution and the Contra War through the lenses of photojournalists Ileana Selejan, Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, recently spent time in the Magnum Photos collection with a dissertation fellowship from the Ransom Center. Selejan’s work focuses on aesthetics in war photography and protest art at the turn of the 1980s, specifically on the Sandinista… read more
May 8, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsMaking It New: The Bible and Modernist Book Arts Although the focus of The King James Bible: Its History and Influence is on the 400th anniversary of the Bible, the occasion presented an ideal opportunity to display early English Bibles from the Ransom Center’s collections and some of the finest examples of modern book design featuring Biblical texts. Co-curators… read more
May 3, 2012, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsThe Adventure of the Immortal Detective: Discovering Sherlock Holmes in the Archives The BBC’s modernized television adaptation Sherlock and the steampunk-inspired Hollywood blockbuster Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows are only two of the most recent incarnations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective. The Ransom Center holds an eclectic array both of Sherlockiana and of materials illustrating Doyle’s diverse pursuits. Doyle… read more
May 1, 2012, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsNorman Bel Geddes: From the Nutshell Jockey Club to War Game to Futurama From September 11, 2012, to January 6, 2013, the Harry Ransom Center hosts the exhibition I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America, which explores the career of stage and industrial designer, futurist, and urban planner Norman Bel Geddes. The Ransom Center holds Bel Geddes’s professional archive, personal… read more
April 26, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Scholar explores connections between Langston Hughes and other black writers around the globe Shane Graham, Associate Professor of English at Utah State University, is the author of South African Literature after the Truth Commission: Mapping Loss (2009), and the principal editor of Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation: The Correspondence (2010). He has published articles in Modern Fiction Studies, Theatre Research… read more
