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About Jared Neuharth

Neuharth is an undergraduate intern working with public affairs for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Early special effects

April 12, 2019 - Jared Neuharth

Leslie DeLassus is a film historian and instructor with a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of Iowa. While working on her Ph.D, DeLassus came to the Ransom Center to research early film special effects innovator, Norman O. Dawn, and his groundbreaking work.

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Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film Tagged With: Leslie Delassus, Norman O. Dawn, special effects

Weird Fiction

April 1, 2019 - Jared Neuharth

James Machin is the author of the book Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939 (2018). Machin was a 2014-2015 fellow at the Ransom Center. While here, he spent time researching the Arthur Machen, M.P. Shiel, and John Buchan archives. Machin utilized those materials for his Ph.D thesis, and later book, on early weird fiction.

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Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: Fellowship, literature, weird fiction

The word on the streets

March 5, 2019 - Jared Neuharth

During the modernist era, writers experimented with the language of the street in their works. Brooks Hefner’s The Word on the Streets explores how multiple writers of different genres used street slang to emphasize classism through dialect. At the Ransom Center, Hefner consulted the archives of influential detective fiction writers Dashiell Hammett and Erle Stanley Gardner to inform his book.  [Read more…] about The word on the streets

Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Dashiell Hammett, detective fiction, Erle Stanley Gardner, Fellowships, literature

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