November 3, 2009, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingHearing Music in the David O. Selznick Collection Occupying almost 5,000 document cases, the archive of film producer David O. Selznick is the Ransom Center’s largest archive. Nathan Platte, a Musicology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, navigated through this enormous collection last year with a dissertation fellowship jointly sponsored by the Ransom Center and The University… read more
October 22, 2009, Filed Under: Research + TeachingScholar explores Hemingway family papers As a fellow at the Ransom Center last year, independent scholar Mary V. Dearborn uncovered new information about the Hemingway family while studying the Ernest Hemingway collection and Leicester Hemingway’s New Atlantis collection. She’s currently working on a book based on her findings: The Hemingway Family: The Human Cost, which… read more
September 30, 2009, Filed Under: Research + TeachingResearching 1959 Fred Kaplan worked in the Ransom Center’s Reading and Viewing Rooms while researching his book 1959: The Year Everything Changed, which was released last month. He describes his work at the Center: I came down to the Harry Ransom Center for a few days in the summer of 2008 as… read more