May 3, 2011, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingAlaskan explorer "Yukon" Yates publishes book about life’s adventures Walter “Yukon” Yates, 86, recently published the autobiography Breakaway, which documents his life as an Alaskan explorer, bush pilot, gold miner, airplane and airport builder, helicopter crash survivor, World War II veteran, documentary filmmaker, grizzly bear hostage, and all-around adventurer. Yates’s story was detailed by filmmaker Warren Skaaren (1946–1990) in… read more
March 29, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Not "The Well": Radclyffe Hall’s Unpublished Short Fiction Dr. Jana Funke, Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, U.K., visited the Ransom Center on a Hobby Family Foundation Fellowship in July and August 2010 to work on Radclyffe Hall’s short fiction. She is using the material she gathered for a monograph exploring the relationship between modernist sexualities… read more
March 3, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingThe Writer’s Project: Searching for something to say Noah Gordon is a Master of Arts student in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He teaches tenth grade American Literature as a student teacher at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. He recently spent time at the Ransom Center gathering materials to use in… read more
