May 10, 2019, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellowships awarded to 51 scholars 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.
March 5, 2019, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingThe word on the streets 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… read more
November 14, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingCentral Texas to west Texas and beyond “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… read more
