November 30, 2018, Filed Under: Film, Theatre + Performing ArtsA family affair by Kate O’Toole It was through a friend in London, Professor Eva Griffith, that I first received unimpeachable bona fides for the Harry Ransom Center. Some years ago, Eva had received a fellowship from the Ransom Center to do research relating to the seventeenth-century playwright James Shirley.
November 14, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingResearcher publications Ernest Hemingway: A Biography Mary V. Dearborn Knopf, 2017 A revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway. Dearborn’s biography gives a rich and nuanced portrait of this complex, enigmatically unique American artist, whose same uncontrollable demons that inspired and drove him throughout his life undid him at… read more
June 27, 2018, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Searching for Kazuo Ishiguro’s unreliable narrators by Enora Lessinger I visited the Kazuo Ishiguro archive at the Harry Ransom Center in June 2017, a few months before Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. This British writer of Japanese descent is famous for the suggestive quality of his writing, and in particular for his self-deceived,… read more
