May 15, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingMore than 50 fellowships provide opportunity to research at Ransom Center The Ransom Center has awarded more than 50 research fellowships for 2012–2013. The fellowships support research projects in the humanities that require substantial on-site use of the Center’s collections of manuscripts, rare books, photographs, art, film and performing arts materials. Christopher Grobe, an Assistant Professor in the Department of English… read more
May 10, 2012, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Scholar studies the Sandinista revolution and the Contra War through the lenses of photojournalists Ileana Selejan, Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, recently spent time in the Magnum Photos collection with a dissertation fellowship from the Ransom Center. Selejan’s work focuses on aesthetics in war photography and protest art at the turn of the 1980s, specifically on the Sandinista… read more
April 26, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Scholar explores connections between Langston Hughes and other black writers around the globe Shane Graham, Associate Professor of English at Utah State University, is the author of South African Literature after the Truth Commission: Mapping Loss (2009), and the principal editor of Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation: The Correspondence (2010). He has published articles in Modern Fiction Studies, Theatre Research… read more
