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What’s in the PEN archives?

March 27, 2017 - Harry Ransom Center

PEN. Membership card with information for Malcolm Muggeridge, 1955-1990.

The PEN records occupy 180 linear feet, span 1912 to 2008, and document the history and activities of the English PEN and PEN International, as well as the formation (and sometimes dissolution) of other PEN centers around the globe.

[Read more…] about What’s in the PEN archives?

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching Tagged With: activism, archive, Arthur Miller, Catharine Amy Dawson Scott, collections, David Carver, digital archive, grant, Hermon Ould, human rights, John Galsworthy, PEN, PEN America, PEN International, politics, Storm Jameson

Video: Fellow discusses role of white South African writing in the human rights struggles in South Africa

September 22, 2015 - Marlene Renz

Gareth Griffiths is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Western Australia and a Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong. He came to the Ransom Center to begin researching the South African writer Stephen Gray’s archive. Griffiths wanted to examine “the role of white South African writing in the human rights struggles in South Africa.” [Read more…] about Video: Fellow discusses role of white South African writing in the human rights struggles in South Africa

Filed Under: literature, Research + Teaching Tagged With: apartheid, Australia, bisexual, Fellowships, gay, human rights, prejudice, South Africa, Stephen Gray

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