October 5, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingNotes from the Undergrad: Signature Course delves into works, life of Russell Banks Dillon Welch is an undergraduate student studying violin performance at the Butler School of Music. He researched the Ransom Center’s Russell Banks archive for a class devoted to the author’s works. During the course, Banks was on campus for an event at the Ransom Center, and Welch was given… read more
August 23, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingNotes from the Undergrad: Student finds passage to past through diary is a journey full of surprises Joe Marshall recently graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, where he majored in Plan II Honors. He spent time in the Ransom Center’s reading room as he prepared to choose his senior thesis topic, and he shares that experience here. Arriving at the Ransom Center, I didn’t have… read more
July 29, 2010, Filed Under: Research + Teaching"The Ransom Center is what the House of the Medicis once was to 14th century Florence." Christopher Bigsby, a professor of American Studies and the Director of the Arthur Miller Centre at the University of East Anglia, has written extensively about Arthur Miller. He recently published a biography on the playwright, Arthur Miller (Harvard University Press, 2009), and he writes here about working at the Ransom… read more