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
March 28, 2013, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingSeminar exposes students to the Ransom Center’s photography holdings Dr. Sherre L. Paris—lecturer at The University of Texas School of Journalism—teaches her undergraduate class “A Cultural History of Photography” at the Ransom Center. During the three-hour-long-seminar, which meets every Tuesday in a classroom adjacent to the Ransom Center’s Reading Room, undergraduates work with primary source materials from the Center’s photography collections. “Cultural Compass” spoke with Dr. Paris about her experience teaching at the Ransom Center.
