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ABOUT BARRIE GELLES

Barrie Gelles is a theatre scholar, director, and educator. She writes about the aesthetics of musical theatre and approaches to pedagogy and practice within the academy with a focus on accessibility in classroom and production practice. Barrie recently defended her dissertation at The Graduate Center, CUNY and is an adjunct instructor at Baruch College, Marymount Manhattan College, and NYU Steinhardt. She directs theatre in New York City with a focus on new musicals and re-envisioned revivals of musicals. For more information, visit barriegelles.com

, Filed Under: Conservation, Meet the Staff

Summer Intern: Malachi McMahon

This summer, the Harry Ransom Center’s Preservation and Conservation Department opened its doors to undergraduate interns in order to provide hands-on experience in the field. One of those interns is Malachi McMahon. A rising senior at Prairie View A&M University, McMahon is spending a month learning about preservation, conservation, digitization,… read more 

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Collaborating To Conserve

New initiative is designed to protect cultural collections across the The University of Texas at Austin In the 140 years since The University of Texas at Austin was founded, valuable collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, art, and much more have come to the university through generous gifts and purchased acquisitions.… read more 

, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Meet the Staff

Michael Gilmore’s Life in Objects

Michael Gilmore’s tenure at the Ransom Center began in 1982, after a transfer from UT’s Perry-Castañeda Library on the advice of a friend. “That’s how I ended up over here with rare books and manuscripts,” he says. “It was just a delight.” Through it all, he’s been a passionate advocate… read more 

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Archive of Poet James Fenton Acquired

The Harry Ransom Center has acquired the archive of English poet James Fenton, whose body of work reflects on the political upheavals of our time, including the regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the suppression of political protest in China’s Tiananmen Square, and Northern Ireland’s fratricidal bloodletting. His papers include notebooks… read more