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Elon Lang

April 7, 2015, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts

Drama in the Archives: Undergraduate Research at the Ransom Center

Elon Lang, seated in the center, and undergraduates from "Drama in the Archives" view collection materials. Students, clockwise from upper left, are Lily Pipkin, Haley Williams, and Kenneth Williams. Photo by Pete Smith.

After discussing his own work in the Harry Ransom Center’s archives with students in his Humanities classes, Dr. Elon Lang realized that despite his students’ interest in what he suggested could be learned from archival materials, very few had actually visited the Ransom Center and even fewer had contemplated doing… read more 

April 2, 2015, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts

Notes from the Undergrad: Student uses archival materials to explore Nietzschean nihilistic reading of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”

Letter from Samuel Beckett to Maya Peron. Dated June 12, 1969. The Carlton Lake Collection. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. All rights reserved.

Maureen Clark is a third-year government and Liberal Arts Honors student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the course, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Clark… read more 

March 30, 2015, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts

Notes from the Undergrad: Reviving Linda Loman in “Death of a Salesman”

Kenneth Williams working with archive materials.

Kenneth Williams is an English and Plan I Honors student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the class, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Williams shares… read more 

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