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Fellowships awarded to 56 scholars

May 4, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

2020-2021 Fellows

The Ransom Center has awarded 56 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation and independent researchers from around the world. The 2020-2021 fellows reflect the global stature of the Center’s collections, representing 15 U.S. states and eight countries, with more than half traveling from abroad. [Read more…] about Fellowships awarded to 56 scholars

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Fellowships awarded to 51 scholars

May 10, 2019 - Harry Ransom Center

Ransom Center Fellows logo

The Ransom Center has awarded 51 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation and independent researchers studying such diverse topics as civil liberties, nineteenth-century Latinx arts and literature, cookbooks, and more.

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The word on the streets

March 5, 2019 - Jared Neuharth

During the modernist era, writers experimented with the language of the street in their works. Brooks Hefner’s The Word on the Streets explores how multiple writers of different genres used street slang to emphasize classism through dialect. At the Ransom Center, Hefner consulted the archives of influential detective fiction writers Dashiell Hammett and Erle Stanley Gardner to inform his book.  [Read more…] about The word on the streets

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Central Texas to west Texas and beyond

November 14, 2018 - Matthew Harrison

“What do the books smell like?” asked one of my students. In my Shakespeare class at West Texas A&M University, we must use the internet as our rare book room. Our institution could never afford the kinds of specialized resources we use every week online: my students can easily flip through digitized Shakespeare quartos, see performance clips and stills, and trawl through databases of historical records. [Read more…] about Central Texas to west Texas and beyond

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Researcher publications

November 14, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center

Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
Mary V. Dearborn Knopf, 2017

A revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway. Dearborn’s biography gives a rich and nuanced portrait of this complex, enigmatically unique American artist, whose same uncontrollable demons that inspired and drove him throughout his life undid him at the end. Dearborn was the recipient of a Harry Ransom Center research fellowship supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment. [Read more…] about Researcher publications

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A very good year for Modernism

November 14, 2018 - Leigh Hilford

An interview with Bill Goldstein

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Filed Under: Featured1, literature, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Fellowships, modernism, Virginia Woolf

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