November 29, 2012, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsNotes from the Undergrad: The Penguin Illustrated Collapse Alyssa O’Connell is an English Honors junior in Professor Janine Barchas’s seminar, “The Paperback,” in which students used the Ransom Center’s collections to research the history of paperbacks.
November 27, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: When Knopf Inc. published a master work by Fernando Ortiz: A strange hurricane Armando Chávez-Rivera, an assistant professor at the University of Houston-Victoria, has published four books, among them Cuba per se. Cartas de la diáspora (2009), which summarizes extensive information about Cuban writers located off the island. He worked as a journalist for more than a decade in Latin America, with… read more
November 20, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingEnglish Honors seminar course on David Foster Wallace gives undergraduates a look into Wallace’s archive Before spring of last year, I had only heard David Foster Wallace referenced by acquaintances and a TV show character with an affinity for oversized novels. When I was applying for my undergraduate internship at the Ransom Center, I noticed that the Center had acquired Wallace’s archive and opened it… read more
