May 18, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #6 Harry Ransom Center Book Collection #6: James Joyce’s Ulysses (Published for the Egoist Press, London, by John Rodker, Paris,1922), inscribed by Joyce for Jane Heap by CLARE HUTTON This is the sixth article in a series devoted to objects that tell the story of women who supported author James Joyce… read more
May 17, 2022, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingWinners announced for inaugural Schuchard Prize Macaella Gray, Megan Snopik, Breigh Plat (clockwise from left) The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has awarded the first Ronald Schuchard Undergraduate Archival Research Prize to three outstanding researchers. The competition awards cash prizes to the top undergraduate research papers or digital projects created using… read more
May 9, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1Archive charts Lisa Alther’s extensive literary career First page of an edited draft of Lisa Alther’s Kinflicks, ca. 1975. Lisa Alther Papers. Harry Ransom Center. The Ransom Center is now home to the papers of bestselling American writer Lisa Alther (b. 1944), whose works frequently explore cultural stereotypes—particularly those relating to women—with wit and humor. Alther is… read more