September 8, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Scholar studies playwright Tom Stoppard’s wit Bill Demastes of Louisiana State University spent June 2011 at the Ransom Center on a fellowship reviewing material from various collections, including the Tom Stoppard papers, for his forthcoming book, The Cambridge Introduction to Tom Stoppard. Demastes’s fellowship was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Endowment. When playwright Tom Stoppard’s… 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
July 13, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Photos, playbills, news clippings document history of blackface in minstrel shows Matthew Sutton completed his Ph.D. in American Studies at the College of William and Mary in May 2011. This June, he came to the Ransom Center, supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship, to begin the process of revising his dissertation, Storyville: Discourses in Southern Musicians’ Autobiographies, into… read more
