January 7, 2011, Filed Under: Meet the StaffStaley to remain Director of the Harry Ransom Center Bill Powers, President of The University of Texas at Austin, shared the below communication with faculty and staff today: I am pleased to announce that Tom Staley has agreed to stay on as director of the Harry Ransom Center. Tom was previously scheduled to retire on August 31 of this… read more
January 6, 2011, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts“The Proper Binge”: Julia Child in the Ransom Center archives The Ransom Center holds the Knopf Inc. archive, which includes material related to the publication of the groundbreaking cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle.
January 5, 2011, Filed Under: FilmSpalding Gray’s life as told by…Spalding Gray Steven Soderbergh’s film And Everything Is Going Fine (2010) documents the life and work of the master monologist Spalding Gray (1941–2004) using only footage of Gray’s performances, interviews, and home movies with Gray and his family. Last year, the Ransom Center acquired Gray’s archive, which traces the author’s career since… read more
January 4, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Elizabeth Bowen and the Discourse of Propaganda Stefania Porcelli of Libera Università- San Pio V in Rome, Italy, recently visited the Ransom Center on an Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf fellowship to research the Elizabeth Bowen collection. She shares some of her findings. With the support of an Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf fellowship, I… read more
December 16, 2010, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyView video of “Gernsheim Plays 20 Questions with George Bernard Shaw” In this video clip from a 1978 interview, J. B. Colson, Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Fellow of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, asks Helmut Gernsheim about his letter collection of famous and contemporary photographers, including correspondence with George Bernard Shaw. In this clip, Gernsheim discusses how he… read more
December 14, 2010, Filed Under: Digital CollectionsYour old computer equipment could make the Ransom Center’s New Year Since the early 1990s, the Ransom Center has been receiving computers, disks, and similar media as part of its manuscript collections. One of the biggest challenges we face when trying to preserve these materials is accessing files that are on older disks. Some of the items in our collection, such… read more
