September 1, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events"The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920–1925" web exhibition now live The Ransom Center has the web exhibition The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920–1925. The exhibition uses a door from a book shop 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
August 31, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingIn Memoriam: William B. Todd (1919–2011) Not everyone remembers that Harry Ransom was a fisher of minds as well as of rare books and manuscripts. One of his early catches was William B. Todd, an up-and-coming young bibliographer at Harvard’s Houghton Library who had done his graduate work at the University of Chicago. Todd had served… read more
August 31, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingRansom Center Receiving Applications for Research Fellowships in the Humanities The Ransom Center is now receiving applications for its 2012-2013 research fellowships in the humanities. More than 50 fellowships are awarded annually by the Center to support research projects in all areas of the humanities. All applicants must demonstrate the need for substantial on-site use of the Center’s collections and,… read more
August 30, 2011, Filed Under: ConservationWhat was the repair process after removing weights from the "Gone With The Wind" burgundy gown? The Ransom Center has begun conservation work on the gowns from Gone With The Wind, and readers can follow the progress of the project on the Center’s website. Cultural Compass solicited questions from readers, and staff will answer a few of those questions in the coming weeks on this blog.… read more
August 23, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingNotes from the Undergrad: Student finds passage to past through diary is a journey full of surprises Joe Marshall recently graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, where he majored in Plan II Honors. He spent time in the Ransom Center’s reading room as he prepared to choose his senior thesis topic, and he shares that experience here. Arriving at the Ransom Center, I didn’t have… read more
August 16, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Irish Schlemiels Stephen Watt is a Professor of English and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington. He spent the month of June reading both manuscripts and published works in the Ransom Center’s Irish literature and Judaica collections. The result of this and further research, he… read more
