June 20, 2023, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1Archive 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
May 9, 2023, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellowships Awarded to 52 Scholars The Ransom Center has awarded 52 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation and independent researchers studying a wide array of topics, from Tennessee Williams’ visual self portraits to 1980s Hollywood Gothic, Deborah Hay and the choreographer as archivist, literary estates and copyright, the Nigerian Civil War and Nigerian… read more
April 28, 2023, Filed Under: Featured1Winners Announced for 2023 Schuchard Prize The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has awarded the second-annual Ronald Schuchard Undergraduate Archival Research Prize to three outstanding researchers. The competition awards cash prizes to the top undergraduate research papers or digital projects created using primary source material from the Center’s archival collections. On… read more
April 11, 2023, Filed Under: Featured1BOOK EXCERPT: Designs on Film by CATHY WHITLOCK The following is an excerpt from Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction, Cathy Whitlock ©2010 HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted with permission.
April 4, 2023, Filed Under: Featured1, Meet the StaffLois Kim Appointed Chief Development Officer for the Harry Ransom Center The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has selected Lois Kim to lead its comprehensive development program aimed at advancing the Center’s strategic initiatives.
March 10, 2023, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsThe Knickerbocker Theatre Collapse by HANNAH NEUHAUSER In the 1980s, the Harry Ransom Center received a scrapbook from John and Vera Hills along with an extraordinary unpublished account of their survival of the Knickerbocker Theatre roof collapse in Washington, D.C. on January 28, 1922. The scrapbook and testimony are available for research in the… read more
