February 16, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingAfrica and the Archive: Researching the Transcription Centre Georgetown University Assistant Professor of English and Women and Gender Studies Samantha Pinto is a fellow in the African and American Diaspora Studies Department at The University of Texas at Austin for the 2011–2012 year. She writes about her research in the Transcription Centre, an organization founded for African Literature… read more
February 14, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Photography"The Gernsheim Collection" Earns Recognition The Gernsheim Collection, co-published by the Harry Ransom Center and the University of Texas Press, has been awarded an Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, which honors a distinguished catalog in the history of art published during the past year. Edited by Ransom Center Senior Research Curator Roy Flukinger, The Gernsheim… read more
February 9, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Finding humanity in the Isaac Bashevis Singer correspondence Alexandra Tali Herzog, PhD candidate in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, visited the Harry Ransom Center in June 2011 on a dissertation fellowship to investigate the Isaac Bashevis Singer collection. In her dissertation, she examines the interplay between demonology, libertinism, and religion in Singer’s work. Drawing… read more
