November 1, 2016, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows find: Letters of St. John Ervine, playwright for a tumultuous Ireland I visited the Harry Ransom Center for two weeks to access the collection of St. John Ervine (1883–1971), an enigmatic, occasionally-forgotten figure who nonetheless casts a spell over a select band of Irish scholars and historians. His personal story fuses both the culture and politics of his Ireland.
June 8, 2016, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: The goat-footed paganism of E. E. Cummings Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. It’s spring: the “mud-luscious”’ and “puddle-wonderful” season whistled in by E. E. Cummings’s most famous poetic creature. He is the little, lame, queer, old man selling balloons: “the goat-footed balloonMan.”
May 31, 2016, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingFellows Find: David O. Selznick constructs a “natural beauty” Producer of movies and star identities
