May 10, 2012, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Scholar studies the Sandinista revolution and the Contra War through the lenses of photojournalists Ileana Selejan, Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, recently spent time in the Magnum Photos collection with a dissertation fellowship from the Ransom Center. Selejan’s work focuses on aesthetics in war photography and protest art at the turn of the 1980s, specifically on the Sandinista… read more
April 26, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Scholar explores connections between Langston Hughes and other black writers around the globe Shane Graham, Associate Professor of English at Utah State University, is the author of South African Literature after the Truth Commission: Mapping Loss (2009), and the principal editor of Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation: The Correspondence (2010). He has published articles in Modern Fiction Studies, Theatre Research… read more
February 23, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: How Diane Johnson’s writing process evolved with her work in Victorian literature and screenwriting Carolyn A. Durham, Inez K. Gaylord Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the College of Wooster, spent the month of June (2011) at the Harry Ransom Center on a fellowship. Her research in the Diane Johnson collection informs her book, Understanding Diane Johnson, which will be published by the… read more
