November 3, 2016, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows Find: Seeing “the Indian” in vaudeville The bottom half of this postcard—one of many images in the Harry Ransom Center’s Tony Pastor collection—reveals a lot about the early days of vaudeville.
November 1, 2016, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows find: Letters of St. John Ervine, playwright for a tumultuous Ireland I visited the Harry Ransom Center for two weeks to access the collection of St. John Ervine (1883–1971), an enigmatic, occasionally-forgotten figure who nonetheless casts a spell over a select band of Irish scholars and historians. His personal story fuses both the culture and politics of his Ireland.
June 28, 2016, Filed Under: Art, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Painter and muse Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams’s dramatic opus as well as his abundant correspondence have been minutely and well systematized, interpreted, and to a large extent published, during the decades before and after his death.
