Research + Teaching
Fellows Find: Multilingual readers in Shakespeare’s England
I visited the Harry Ransom Center last July to research bilingual and multilingual dictionaries, grammars, and language manuals printed in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: Multilingual readers in Shakespeare’s England
The Humours of Whist, a sophisticated play
by David Levy
After a fruitful visit to the Harry Ransom Center in January, I tweeted,
“Who would have thought that I’d run into a Thomas J. Wise “sophistication” in my Hoyle research @ransomcenter?”
Like so many tweets, this is a bit tough to parse. Let’s break it into pieces: Hoyle, Wise, and “sophistication.” [Read more…] about The Humours of Whist, a sophisticated play
Recent visiting researchers
Throughout the year, the Ransom Center hosts fellows who conduct in-depth research in the Ransom Center collections. [Read more…] about Recent visiting researchers
Transnational sisterhood and solidarity in the Julia Alvarez archive
Image: Notecard card from Edgwidge Danticat to JuliaAlvarez; the image is titled Colored Girl.
In 1999, five years after Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies was published, the United Nations General Assembly cited the novel as an important cultural text that helped to pass the resolution to designate November 25 an official International Day of Observance for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The date commemorates the November 25, 1960 assassination of the Mirabal sisters in the Dominican Republic under the brutal regime of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1930–1961). [Read more…] about Transnational sisterhood and solidarity in the Julia Alvarez archive
Fellows Find: “Archipelago,” Jim Crace’s last novel that never was
Image: Jim Crace’s handwritten note on the “Archipelago” folder in his archive.
When I came to the Harry Ransom Center in August 2017 to research in the Jim Crace papers, the materials I was most curious to view were those related to Crace’s unpublished novel Archipelago. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: “Archipelago,” Jim Crace’s last novel that never was
