April 15, 2015, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsFamily Day at the Ransom Center Visit Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland on Saturday, April 25, between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. and enjoy free activities for the young and young at heart. You can participate in writing activities with teaching artists from Austin Public Library Friends Foundation’s Badgerdog Creative Writing Program or engage with Lewis Carroll–inspired math activities… read more
April 12, 2015, Filed Under: Art, Books + Manuscripts, ConservationBefore and After: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” Movie Jecktors The exhibition Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland features two 1933 toy paper film strips called Movie Jecktors. The film strips portray two of the most memorable parts of the Alice story: “Down the Rabbit Hole” and “The Mad Hatter.” Images and text are printed in three colors on 35″ strips of… read more
April 7, 2015, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsDrama in the Archives: Undergraduate Research at the Ransom Center After discussing his own work in the Harry Ransom Center’s archives with students in his Humanities classes, Dr. Elon Lang realized that despite his students’ interest in what he suggested could be learned from archival materials, very few had actually visited the Ransom Center and even fewer had contemplated doing… read more
April 2, 2015, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts“My Alices”: Writer John Crowley shares his connection to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” John Crowley, whose archive resides at the Ransom Center, is an American author of fantasy, science fiction, and mainstream fiction. He published his first novel, The Deep, in 1975, and his 14th volume of fiction, Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land, in 2005. He has taught creative writing at Yale… read more
April 2, 2015, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsNotes from the Undergrad: Student uses archival materials to explore Nietzschean nihilistic reading of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” Maureen Clark is a third-year government and Liberal Arts Honors student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the course, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Clark… read more
March 30, 2015, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsNotes from the Undergrad: Reviving Linda Loman in “Death of a Salesman” Kenneth Williams is an English and Plan I Honors student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the class, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Williams shares… read more
