August 7, 2014, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Puzzling over composite prints by Henry Peach Robinson Emily Talbot, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, received a dissertation fellowship to study nineteenth-century composite photographs by Henry Peach Robinson and his contemporaries in England and France. This research forms part of a larger project that considers the integration of photographic technologies and aesthetic standards into the… read more
July 30, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingNew biography sheds light on life and work of Dashiell Hammett Sally Cline, a British award-winning biographer and short story writer, recently published the biography Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery (Arcade). She received a Dorot Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies from the Harry Ransom Center in 2003-2004, which supported her work in the Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman collections.… read more
July 17, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Samuel Beckett’s radio plays Pim Verhulst of the University of Antwerp visited the Ransom Center to work with the Samuel Beckett papers, in particular the radio plays and related correspondence. His research, funded by a dissertation fellowship, seeks to bring together all the existing draft versions in a digital space and study the writing… read more
