May 2, 2013, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingScholar discusses research in De Niro collection R. Colin Tait, a Ph.D. candidate at The University of Texas at Austin, has used the Ransom Center’s Robert De Niro collection as the basis for his dissertation, “Robert De Niro’s Method: Acting, Authorship and Agency in the New Hollywood (1967–1980).” Tait argues that De Niro has been a major… read more
April 25, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: John Steinbeck’s “ideal woman” Heidi Kim is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She visited the Ransom Center in December 2012 on a travel fellowship to research her monograph in progress, Invisible Subjects: Asian America in Postwar American Literature. Some archival trips, like… read more
April 4, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Research + TeachingSherlock Holmes’s Infinite Case-Book Many of the items discussed here are featured in the display “The Intertextual Sherlock Holmes,” which can be seen outside the Reading and Viewing Room on the second floor of the Ransom Center until April 21. While fanfiction may seem like an Internet-dependent phenomenon, its origins stretch far back into… read more
