The Harry Ransom Center has awarded 70 research fellowships for 2015–2016. The fellowships support research projects in the humanities that require substantial on-site use of the Ransom Center’s collections of manuscripts, rare books, film, photography, art and performing arts materials.
Fellowships
Video: Fellow discusses creation of performance histories
Matthew McFrederick visited the Harry Ransom Center’s Reading Room as an international fellow from the University of Reading. He conducted research for his thesis, “Staging Beckett in London: Constructing Performance Histories of Samuel Beckett’s Drama.” McFrederick’s research is part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council–funded “Staging Beckett” project, which… read more
Lost in the Archives: Video highlights fellow’s research methods
Kamran Javadizadeh, an assistant professor in the English Department at Villanova University, visited the Ransom Center this fall to conduct research for his current book project, “Bedlam & Parnassus: The Institutionalization of Midcentury American Poetry.” The idea for Javadizadeh’s book began when he discovered that Ezra Pound and Elizabeth Bishop… read more