September 9, 2010, Filed Under: Research + TeachingRansom Center receiving applications for research fellowships in the humanities The Harry Ransom Center is now receiving applications for its 2011-2012 research fellowships in the humanities. The application deadline is February 1, 2011. Information about the fellowships and the application process is available online. About 50 fellowships are awarded annually by the Ransom Center to support scholarly research projects in… read more
September 2, 2010, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsScholar explores vaudeville circuits and regional architecture Paula Lupkin, a professor in the American Culture Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis, recently spent time as a fellow working in the Hoblitzelle-Interstate collection at the Ransom Center. Her research yielded some surprises and insights into the regional vaudeville circuits in the Southwest, which she shares here.… 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
