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Collecting effort to document theater community’s response to 2020 launched

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This month, the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin is launching the Theatre 2020 Project to invite theater artists and organizations to register and submit stories about how the events of 2020 have affected them, from the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent closures and furloughs, to national politics and protests and the experiences of those reckoning with longstanding racial injustices in the industry. [Read more…] about Collecting effort to document theater community’s response to 2020 launched

ABOUT JAMES ARNETT
James Arnett, PhD, is the UC Foundation Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and a former Harry Ransom Center Fellow.

ABOUT TANYA E. CLEMENT

Tanya E. Clement is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary areas of research are textual studies, sound studies, and infrastructure studies as these concerns impact academic research, research libraries, and the creation of research tools and resources in the digital humanities (DH). She has published widely in digital humanities and literary studies.

Archive of ‘The Well of Loneliness’ author offers a view of queer history

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In her 2019 memoir, In The Dream House, author Carmen Maria Machado writes about the importance of seeing queer people not as saints, but as full human beings – human beings with complicated and sometimes upsetting ideologies. She writes in her essay, “Dream House as Queer Villainy,”  “…it sounds terrible but it is, in fact, freeing: the idea that queer does not equal good or pure or right. It is simply a state of being—one subject to…moral complexities of every kind.” [Read more…] about Archive of ‘The Well of Loneliness’ author offers a view of queer history

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