December 3, 2015, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Manuscripts reveal internal battles of Civil War novelists writing outside the “moonlight and magnolias” school Dr. Niall Munro, Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University, was a fellow at the Ransom Center during the summer of 2015. His research was supported by the Fred W. Todd Southern Literature Endowment Fund. Munro is at work on a book entitled “Our only ‘felt’ history”: American… read more
December 1, 2015, Filed Under: Theatre + Performing ArtsArrival of Dame Edith Evans papers The Harry Ransom Center has recently acquired a large collection of papers from the late actress Dame Edith Evans (1888-1976) from the estate of Bryan Forbes, who was Evans’s biographer and directed in her in a number of projects
December 1, 2015, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsFrank Reaugh’s preferred medium Isabella Savage is a Westlake High School student who spent the fall semester as an intern with Curator of Art Peter Mears to help gather and organize data related to the materials in the exhibition Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West. Isabella met with Peter two hours… read more
