October 5, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingNotes from the Undergrad: Signature Course delves into works, life of Russell Banks Dillon Welch is an undergraduate student studying violin performance at the Butler School of Music. He researched the Ransom Center’s Russell Banks archive for a class devoted to the author’s works. During the course, Banks was on campus for an event at the Ransom Center, and Welch was given… read more
September 29, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyDavid Douglas Duncan photos of Pablo Picasso highlighted in exhibition in Spain In October 1996, world-renowned photographer and author David Douglas Duncan donated his archive> to the Harry Ransom Center. The Center has preserved, organized, cataloged, exhibited and made available a variety of images and artifacts that complete the archive, including many that document his years of friendship with Pablo Picasso. Recently,… read more
September 27, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingRemembering Penelope Fitzgerald: “We Can Only Hope It Keeps Going.” Philip Christensen, College Associate Dean for Curriculum Development at Suffolk County Community College, maintained a seven-year correspondence with novelist Penelope Fitzgerald, whose archive is housed at the Ransom Center. Christensen recently donated the letters from their correspondence to the Ransom Center, and in this essay, he shares some of the… read more
