September 19, 2011, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + EventsQ&A: Author Nicole Krauss While studying art history in graduate school, novelist Nicole Krauss spent hours in the library researching Rembrandt, only to find that she preferred imagining the details of his life instead. “Beyond looking at his paintings, no amount of research would ever take me there. But a novel might,” Krauss said.… read more
September 15, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingSignature Courses offer freshmen opportunity to experience primary materials and archival research Bibiana Gattozzi recently graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Masters in Musicology. Last year, she was a Teaching Assistant for a Signature Course entitled “Music, Art, and Ritual in Mexican Catholicism.” Designed for first-year undergraduates, Signature Courses are interdisciplinary seminars taught by professors from across the… read more
September 13, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingIn good company: Author busts keep watch over scholars in the Reading Room It’s hard enough to do archival research without the subjects themselves peering over your shoulder. But if you visit the Ransom Center Reading Room to pore over the letters, manuscripts, and papers of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Robert De Niro, or Edgar Allan Poe, they are all there… read more
September 8, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Scholar studies playwright Tom Stoppard’s wit Bill Demastes of Louisiana State University spent June 2011 at the Ransom Center on a fellowship reviewing material from various collections, including the Tom Stoppard papers, for his forthcoming book, The Cambridge Introduction to Tom Stoppard. Demastes’s fellowship was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Endowment. When playwright Tom Stoppard’s… read more
September 7, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsSlideshow: Installation of door from Frank Shay’s Greenwich Village bookshop The two exhibitions The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920-1925 and Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored are now open at the Ransom Center. In the image gallery below, staff members install the bookshop door in the galleries on Friday. Please click on the thumbnails below to… read more
September 2, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + TeachingHelp identify unknown signatures from the Greenwich Village bookshop door Yesterday, the Ransom Center launched the web exhibition The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920–1925. The exhibition uses a door from a bookshop owned by Frank Shay in Greenwich Village in the early 1920s as an entryway into the lives, careers, and relationships of New York bohemians… read more
