April 25, 2019, Filed Under: Research + TeachingThe ‘Court of Last Resort’ Ian Burney, a former Ransom Center fellow, was recently awarded a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.
April 7, 2019, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingA novel discovery While doing research in the John Herrmann collection during her fellowship at the Ransom Center, Sara Kosiba found a manuscript of an unpublished 1925 novel. Titled Foreign Born, it tells the story of Ernst Weiman, a German immigrant living in the fictional town of Fairbanks, Michigan during World War I.
April 1, 2019, Filed Under: Research + TeachingWeird Fiction 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… read more