June 14, 2016, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsRansom Center acquires archive of Indian author Raja Rao The Ransom Center has acquired the archive of Indian author and philosopher Raja Rao (1908-2006), recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and numerous other literary awards. Rao’s estate donated the archive to the Center.
June 9, 2016, Filed Under: Conservation, Research + TeachingBollinger gift establishes new conservation fellowship Thanks to a generous gift from Judy and Bill Bollinger, the Ransom Center announces its first post-graduate conservation fellow.
June 8, 2016, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: The goat-footed paganism of E. E. Cummings Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. It’s spring: the “mud-luscious”’ and “puddle-wonderful” season whistled in by E. E. Cummings’s most famous poetic creature. He is the little, lame, queer, old man selling balloons: “the goat-footed balloonMan.”
May 31, 2016, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingFellows Find: David O. Selznick constructs a “natural beauty” Producer of movies and star identities
May 26, 2016, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmThis is not a film: Ransom Center screens Ross Lipman’s NOTFILM The Ransom Center presents a screening of Ross Lipman’s Notfilm, an experimental “kino-essay” charting the development and production of Samuel Beckett’s ambitious and enigmatic 1965 silent film project, Film, directed by Alan Schneider and starring silent-film actor Buster Keaton.
May 24, 2016, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Smile (or pout!): Photographs of London’s professional primpers Before Lillie Langtry (née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, 1853–1929) became a stage actress, she was known as one of London’s “professional beauties.”
