December 2, 2013, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingFellows Find: How Hollywood producers used Alfred Hitchcock’s weight to their advantage Casey McKittrick is an Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan University. He spent June and July of 2012 researching the David O. Selznick and Myron Selznick archives at the Harry Ransom Center. His work, which was funded by the Warren Skaaren Research Fellowship Endowment, produced the first chapter, and informed several others, of… read more
October 10, 2013, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Fleur Cowles archive sheds light on woman behind pioneering magazine “Flair” Teal Triggs is a Professor of Graphic Design and Associate Dean at Royal College of Art, London. She spent time at the Ransom Center over the summer exploring materials related to Fleur Cowles with funding from the Fleur Cowles Endowment Fund. She shares some of her findings here. With the… read more
April 25, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: John Steinbeck’s “ideal woman” Heidi Kim is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She visited the Ransom Center in December 2012 on a travel fellowship to research her monograph in progress, Invisible Subjects: Asian America in Postwar American Literature. Some archival trips, like… read more
