August 7, 2014, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Puzzling over composite prints by Henry Peach Robinson Emily Talbot, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, received a dissertation fellowship to study nineteenth-century composite photographs by Henry Peach Robinson and his contemporaries in England and France. This research forms part of a larger project that considers the integration of photographic technologies and aesthetic standards into the… read more
July 17, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Samuel Beckett’s radio plays Pim Verhulst of the University of Antwerp visited the Ransom Center to work with the Samuel Beckett papers, in particular the radio plays and related correspondence. His research, funded by a dissertation fellowship, seeks to bring together all the existing draft versions in a digital space and study the writing… read more
July 15, 2014, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows Find: Determining audience taste in eighteenth-century English theater Diana Solomon, associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University, worked with the Ransom Center’s collections of eighteenth-century English playbills and promptbooks. Jointly supported by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the British Studies Fellowship, her research will be utilized in her current book project on comedy and repetition… read more
