Writer and journalist Selina Hastings is the author of four literary biographies, including The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, which was released today in the United States. Hastings recently wrote an article for Ransom Edition about her work in the Ransom Center’s collections and the “uneasy friendship” between Maugham and… read more
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More than 60 research fellowships awarded
The Ransom Center has awarded more than 60 research fellowships for 2010–11. The fellowships support research projects in the humanities that require substantial use of the Center’s collections of manuscripts, rare books, film, photography, art and performing arts materials. The scholars, almost half of whom will be coming from abroad,… read more
Medieval and early modern manuscripts collection now accessible online
The Ransom Center has launched an online database for its medieval and early modern manuscripts collection. The database includes more than 7,000 digital images and can be accessed via the Ransom Center’s website. The medieval and early modern manuscripts collection contains 215 items dating from the eleventh to the seventeenth… read more
A new home for "Finnegans Wehg"
Walter Wetzels, an emeritus professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, recently donated a German translation of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to the Ransom Center. He shares a bit of his history with the text. It must be more than 50 years ago… read more
No wire hangers: Costumes in Robert De Niro collection receive a set of custom padded hangers
In a scene from the 1995 film Heat, Robert De Niro storms into Ashley Judd’s hotel room, grills her for answers, and knocks a line of wire hangers off the rack. According to Ashley Judd, detail-oriented director Michael Mann chose those particular metal hangers for just the right visual and… read more
Doctoral theses of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss acquired by the Ransom Center
The Ransom Center has acquired the manuscripts of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss’s major and minor doctoral theses. The typed theses, annotated with handwritten corrections, were presented by Lévi-Strauss at the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1948 upon completion of his doctorate in humanities. Lévi-Strauss’s major thesis, “Les structures élémentaires de la… read more