February 4, 2016, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingBiography sheds light on William Cameron Menzies, the first production designer While researching his recent book William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come, author James Curtis visited the Ransom Center to seek insight about Menzies’s career. Menzies worked with producer David O. Selznick on several projects, including Gone With The Wind and Spellbound. Using the Selznick collection at the… read more
January 29, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Infinite Jest at 20 Dan Sinykin, a visiting assistant professor at Grinnell College, visited the Ransom Center during the summer of 2014 to research his dissertation After the Boom: Apocalypse and Economics in American Literature of the Neoliberal Period. Sinykin was the recipient of a dissertation fellowship. On February 23, David Foster Wallace’s… read more
January 29, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Researcher traces the compositional structures of David Foster Wallace’s Fiction David Hering, a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, visited the Ransom Center during the summer of 2013 to research his forthcoming book on David Foster Wallace. His research was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment.
