About Emily Neie

Neie is a junior at The University of Texas at Austin studying English Honors and Rhetoric & Writing. Her main research interests include American poetry, the rhetoric of the feminist movement, and young adult fiction.

November 26, 2013 - Emily Neie

Recently acquired Nancy Cunard typescript documents a dreamy connection to poet John Keats

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, dreams, John Keats, Keats-Shelley House, Manuscripts, Nancy Cunard, Neville Rogers, typescript, Vera Cacciatore

On December 31, 1956, writer and political activist Nancy Cunard visited the Keats-Shelley House in Rome. She went there to contribute an account of one of her earliest, most intimate experiences as a young writer and to memorialize her connection with one of the most important figures of the Romantic… read more

April 16, 2013 - Emily Neie

Morris Dickstein to discuss Commentary magazine

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Alfred Kazin, Bernard Malamud, Commentary magazine, Irving Howe, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jewish history, literature, Morris Dickstein, Norman Mailer, Norman Podhoretz, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Author Morris Dickstein presents the lecture “America’s Best Magazine?: Commentary in the 1960s” this Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m. at the Harry Ransom Center. In 2011, Commentary magazine donated its archive to the Center, and the collection is now open for research. Founded in November 1945, shortly after World… read more

January 31, 2013 - Emily Neie

Art critic Jed Perl’s "Magicians and Charlatans"

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Art, art criticism, Chardin, Eakins Press Foundation, Gerhard Richter, Jed Perl, Lincoln Kirstein, Magicians and Charlatans: Essays on Art and Culture, Meyer Schapiro, Peter Kayafas, The New Republic, Warholism

The Harry Ransom Center welcomes Jed Perl, art critic for The New Republic, and Peter Kayafas, Director of the Eakins Press Foundation, to discuss their work on Magicians and Charlatans: Essays on Art and Culture and the way that artists, writers, and publishers have responded to the digital age. The… read more