Maureen Clark is a third-year government and Liberal Arts Honors student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the course, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Clark shares her experience in the class. [Read more…] about Notes from the Undergrad: Student uses archival materials to explore Nietzschean nihilistic reading of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”
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Notes from the Undergrad: Reviving Linda Loman in “Death of a Salesman”
Kenneth Williams is an English and Plan I Honors student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the class, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Williams shares his experience in the class. [Read more…] about Notes from the Undergrad: Reviving Linda Loman in “Death of a Salesman”
Notes from the Undergrad: Feeling Samuel Beckett’s pain and “Godot” in German
Lily Pipkin was a Plan II student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the class, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Pipkin shares her experience in the class. [Read more…] about Notes from the Undergrad: Feeling Samuel Beckett’s pain and “Godot” in German
Notes from the Undergrad: Investigating the ending in David Mamet’s “Oleanna”
Emily Robinson is a rhetoric and writing and Plan I Honors senior in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the class, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Robinson shares her experience in the class. [Read more…] about Notes from the Undergrad: Investigating the ending in David Mamet’s “Oleanna”
Notes from the Undergrad: An alternate ending for A Streetcar Named Desire
Haley Williams is a psychology/Plan I Honors senior in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the course, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Williams shares her experience in the class. [Read more…] about Notes from the Undergrad: An alternate ending for A Streetcar Named Desire
Drama in the Archives: Humanities class fosters undergraduate research
Have you ever wondered how a play or film might have turned out differently? This was the guiding question in the new Humanities Honors course—titled “Drama in the Archives”—offered in fall 2014 by Dr. Elon Lang, lecturer and former part-time archivist at the Ransom Center. During the semester, Lang brought students from his class to the Ransom Center at least once per week to learn about the Center and to learn how to conduct original primary research in the Center’s theater and performing arts collections. [Read more…] about Drama in the Archives: Humanities class fosters undergraduate research
