May 22, 2024, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsJ. M. Coetzee’s Garden of Creation by HERMANN WITTENBERG Important additions to the Coetzee Papers shed light on the author’s recent writing Working in a literary archive can be a remarkable experience, like being present in a garden of creation. When reading through the early manuscript versions of novels, one can encounter a textual labyrinth of… read more
May 13, 2024, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Conservation, PhotographyConservation: The Clarkson Stanfield Album by ANDREA KNOWLTON Photographic albums are complex book structures with unique weaknesses and vulnerabilities. To make the Clarkson Stanfield Album, the photographs were adhered to individual leaves of paper, which were then hinged and nested together into sections that could be sewn together into a traditional book structure. Even with… read more
May 13, 2024, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellowships Awarded to 54 Scholars The Ransom Center has awarded 54 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation and independent researchers studying a wide array of topics, from a women’s history of modernism told through clothing to the imprisoned writer in the international imagination and more. Since 1990, the Ransom Center Fellowship Program has… read more
