May 3, 2016, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Lewis Allen, indie film pioneer Gracia Ramirez is an independent scholar whose research centers on the initiatives of independent film producers within the American film industry of the 1960s. She conducted research in the collection of American independent film and Broadway producer Lewis M. Allen last summer with support from a 2014-2015 Robert De Niro… read more
April 5, 2016, Filed Under: Film, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows Find: Hear inside Stella Adler’s studio Scott Balcerzak is Associate Professor of film and literature at Northern Illinois University. He was supported by the Dorot Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies and is currently writing a book on Stella Adler and male movie stars.
February 22, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: National identity’s influence on Elizabeth Bowen’s imagination Eibhear Walshe, a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at University College Cork, came to the Ransom Center in 2014 to utilize the collection of Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen. Dr. Walshe’s publications include Kate O’Brien: A Writing Life (2006), Cissie’s Abattoir (2009), Oscar’s Shadow (2011), and The Diary of… read more