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The word on the streets

March 5, 2019 By Jared Neuharth

During the modernist era, writers experimented with the language of the street in their works. Brooks Hefner’s The Word on the Streets explores how multiple writers of different genres used street slang to emphasize classism through dialect. At the Ransom Center, Hefner consulted the archives of influential detective fiction writers Dashiell Hammett and Erle Stanley Gardner to inform his book.  [Read more…] about The word on the streets

Filed Under: Featured1, literature, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Dashiell Hammett, detective fiction, Erle Stanley Gardner, Fellowships

A very Texan story: Shelby Hearon writes Barbara Jordan’s biography

February 25, 2019 By Nina Tarnawsky

People always want you to be born where you are. They want you to have leaped from the womb a public figure. It just doesn’t go that way. I am the composite of my experience and all the people who had something to do with it. And I’m going to try to lay that out. —Barbara Charline Jordan [Read more…] about A very Texan story: Shelby Hearon writes Barbara Jordan’s biography

Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Barbara Jordan, biography, Shelby Hearon Papers

American publishing during the Cold War

February 19, 2019 By Austin Downey

In Amanda Laugesen’s new book, the novel is an object of war. In Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), Laugesen tells the story of Franklin Publications, a publishing company created in 1952 as a joint project between American publishers and the USIA. Amid the scramble for influence during the Cold War, Franklin was tasked with disseminating books that promote American ideals throughout the developing world. [Read more…] about American publishing during the Cold War

Filed Under: Featured1, literature, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Fellowship, Publishing, war

Born to be posthumous: An interview with cultural critic Mark Dery

February 4, 2019 By Jared Neuharth

Critics never quite knew what to make of Edward Gorey (1925-2000), the author and illustrator whose darkly droll tales have influenced Tim Burton, Lemony Snicket, Alison Bechdel, and Guillermo Del Toro. [Read more…] about Born to be posthumous: An interview with cultural critic Mark Dery

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, literature, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Edward Gorey, Mark Dery

The companion of the dead

February 1, 2019 By Diana Leite

Celebrating Mary Shelley at the 200th Anniversary of Frankenstein

[Read more…] about The companion of the dead

Filed Under: Featured1, literature, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Fugitive findings

January 31, 2019 By Diana Leite

How artists of color survive in the archives

By Diana Silveira Leite and Gaila Sims

We’re celebrating Black History Month with the display Fugitive Findings: How Artists of Color Survive in the Archives. [Read more…] about Fugitive findings

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Black History Month, graduate intern

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