November 9, 2010, Filed Under: Theatre + Performing ArtsRansom Center acquires Spalding Gray archive The Ransom Center has acquired the archive of writer and actor Spalding Gray (1941–2004). Spanning more than 40 years, the archive traces the author’s career since the late 1970s, when Gray helped define a new era in theater where public and private life became an indivisible part of each new… read more
November 4, 2010, Filed Under: Research + Teaching‘What Every Girl Should Know’: The birth control movement in the 1910s Layne Craig, a lecturer in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin, recently used materials from the Ransom Center’s collections to supplement her class “Literature of the Birth Control Movement.” She writes about discoveries she made in the Center’s collections and how the materials were used… read more
November 3, 2010, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events"Consider the Archive: An Evening of David Foster Wallace" The Harry Ransom Center commemorated the opening of the David Foster Wallace archive with readings of Wallace’s work by writers and actors on September 14, 2010. Readers Wayne Alan Brenner, Elizabeth Crane, L. B. Deyo, Doug Dorst, Owen Egerton, Chris Gibson, Kurt Hildebrand, Shannon McCormick, and Jake Silverstein shared selections… read more
