October 10, 2013, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Fleur Cowles archive sheds light on woman behind pioneering magazine “Flair” Teal Triggs is a Professor of Graphic Design and Associate Dean at Royal College of Art, London. She spent time at the Ransom Center over the summer exploring materials related to Fleur Cowles with funding from the Fleur Cowles Endowment Fund. She shares some of her findings here. With the… read more
April 25, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: John Steinbeck’s “ideal woman” Heidi Kim is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She visited the Ransom Center in December 2012 on a travel fellowship to research her monograph in progress, Invisible Subjects: Asian America in Postwar American Literature. Some archival trips, like… read more
January 8, 2013, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Women behind the camera in and beyond the studio Margaret Denny received a Marlene Nathan Meyerson Photography Fellowship to conduct research in the Ransom Center’s Gernsheim collection. Below she shares some of her findings at the Ransom Center. During the past decade, I have conducted primary research on Victorian women in photography, an investigation that culminated in my dissertation From… read more
