August 23, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingNotes from the Undergrad: Student finds passage to past through diary is a journey full of surprises Joe Marshall recently graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, where he majored in Plan II Honors. He spent time in the Ransom Center’s reading room as he prepared to choose his senior thesis topic, and he shares that experience here. Arriving at the Ransom Center, I didn’t have… read more
August 16, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Irish Schlemiels Stephen Watt is a Professor of English and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington. He spent the month of June reading both manuscripts and published works in the Ransom Center’s Irish literature and Judaica collections. The result of this and further research, he… read more
August 10, 2011, Filed Under: ConservationGown of a different feather: Conservators investigate feathers on the burgundy gown from "Gone With The Wind" The burgundy ball gown Scarlett wears to Ashley’s birthday party in Gone With The Wind is meant to be provocative (“not modest or matronly,” Rhett snarls) yet glamorous. But when the gown arrived at the Ransom Center in the early 1980s, something wasn’t quite right. “It looked more like a… read more