July 3, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows Find: Early recordings show how performance artist Spalding Gray developed his signature style Ira S. Murfin is a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD program in Theatre & Drama at Northwestern University. He received a dissertation research fellowship from the Ransom Center to work in the Spalding Gray collection, investigating the early development of Gray’s influential autobiographical monologues for his dissertation on the… read more
June 28, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingVideo highlights scholar’s work in Beckett collection Mark Byron came to the Ransom Center last year as a fellow from the University of Sydney to work on his project, “The Holograph Manuscript of Samuel Beckett’s Novel Watt: A Digital Representation and Transcription.” Byron spent his time at the Ransom Center going through the seven notebooks of Beckett’s… read more
December 16, 2010, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyView video of “Gernsheim Plays 20 Questions with George Bernard Shaw” In this video clip from a 1978 interview, J. B. Colson, Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Fellow of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, asks Helmut Gernsheim about his letter collection of famous and contemporary photographers, including correspondence with George Bernard Shaw. In this clip, Gernsheim discusses how he… read more
