With equal parts clarity and gilded nostalgia, I recall the first time I read the opening line of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” Often cited on lists of literature’s great first lines, the unusual configuration of words came tearing off the page. Who begins a story with, “Many years later”? [Read more…] about Many Years Later: Three Readings of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Meet the Staff
Meet the Staff: Pforzheimer project digitization specialist Cassandra Chen
Cassandra Chen was recently appointed the Pforzheimer project digitization specialist. Four years ago, she came to the University of Texas at Austin via Taiwan. [Read more…] about Meet the Staff: Pforzheimer project digitization specialist Cassandra Chen
A day in my life as a preservation and conservation intern
As an English student at Florida A&M University, I was attracted to this internship because it granted me an opportunity to really explore an archival library. [Read more…] about A day in my life as a preservation and conservation intern
Interview with Nick Purgett, intern in the description and access department
Nick Purgett is a senior art history major, graduating in May. He is working at the Harry Ransom Center as an intern in Description and Access, printed and published media. In the future, he wants to continue art history at the graduate level and beyond, though he plans on taking a year or two before starting an even larger profusion of school. [Read more…] about Interview with Nick Purgett, intern in the description and access department
Meet Leigh Hilford, undergraduate intern in public affairs
Leigh Hilford is a Junior at the University of Texas at Austin. She is double majoring in Plan II and English. She works in the Public Affairs department of the Harry Ransom Center. She plans on writing her Plan II senior thesis on Virginia Woolf’s works Jacob’s Room and To the Lighthouse. [Read more…] about Meet Leigh Hilford, undergraduate intern in public affairs
Q&A with Sylvia Feghali, undergraduate intern in Education and Public Engagement
Sylvia Feghali is an undergraduate intern in Education and Public Engagement at the Ransom Center, a position which interested Sylvia because she wanted to work with people within and outside of the Ransom Center, facilitate interpersonal relationships, and strengthen her communication and public speaking skills. [Read more…] about Q&A with Sylvia Feghali, undergraduate intern in Education and Public Engagement