Research

December 1, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

The passion to push the paradigm

Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, Julia Alvarez, literature, Research, What is Research?

by DANIEL ARBINO This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? As a librarian at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin, I have been fortunate to carry values from my personal research journey and apply them to collection development… read more

DANIEL ARBINO
Daniel Arbino is the head of collection development at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin. He has published extensively in Caribbean and U.S. Latinx literature with an emphasis on post-colonial theory and critical race theory. His most recent publication is “When the Mirror Says Yes to Dark Beauty: Healing the Colonial Wound" in Inés Hernández-Ávila's "That's Tejana," Chiricú Journal (Fall 2019).

November 19, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

75 YEARS HENCE: Arthur Miller adapts Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for radio

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by JANINE BARCHAS This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? On the 18th of November in 1945, Arthur Miller’s radio adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice could be heard nationwide as part of a special Thanksgiving program. Listeners in New York heard it at 10 p.m.… read more

JANINE BARCHAS
Janine Barchas is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Lost Books of Jane Austen, which led to an exhibition entitled “Austen in Austin” at the Ransom Center in the fall of 2019. She has also contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Lit Hub.

November 18, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

Carmen is everywhere: opera, diaspora, and interdisciplinary inquiry

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by JENNIFER M. WILKS This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? My latest fascination with Carmen began 14 years ago, when I was spending a semester in Paris on a faculty exchange. The night before leaving for spring break, I went to see Mark Dornford-May’s 2005… read more

ABOUT JENNIFER M. WILKS

Jennifer M. Wilks is an associate professor of English, African and African Diaspora Studies, and comparative literature at The University of Texas at Austin, where she directs the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies. Her cultural history of Carmen adaptations set in African diasporic contexts is under contract with Oxford University Press.