August 16, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Theatre + Performing ArtsAn interview with four-time Tony Award-winner Kevin Adams The archive of award-winning lighting designer Kevin Adams is now housed at the Harry Ransom Center. Adams has received four Tony Awards for his lighting designs of Spring Awakening (2007), The 39 Steps (2008), American Idiot (2010), and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014). Adams is a UT alumnus, and… read more
July 21, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Digital Collections, Featured1The first quarter century of PEN Outlined here are eight important moments that occurred during PEN’s first 25 years. All these and many others are treated in more depth and detail in the book PEN: An Illustrated History (Interlink Publishing, September 2021). October 5, 1921 CATHARINE AMY DAWSON SCOTT, a poet and novelist who was sometimes described… read more
April 15, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + TeachingWhat is research but a conversation in search of the truth? by IRIS JAMAHL DUNKLE This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Biography is a long, slow process of careful research … Reading diaries and letters and sifting through artifacts … I found the answers to these questions by carefully examining each document and artifact, and slowly… read more
