Jane Robbins Mize is a senior in English and Liberal Arts Honors and is a current intern in the Ransom Center’s public affairs department. She recently worked in the Anne Sexton papers for her English class “Women’s Autobiographical Writings.”
Undergraduate
A graduation diploma: “The Eviction Notice Written in Latin”
![Spalding Gray’s “The Graduation Speech I Never Made” reads like a warm-up exercise created by an anxious speechwriter. Its concluding sentences, which include strikeouts and misspelled words, read: “I’m sorry to say I have no advice to give. How could I deign [sic] to give advice when my life is held together like an ill-made birds nest, and I am still surprised as well as shocked by each new dawn?”](https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/files/2014/05/GrayS_15_9_001-768x982.jpg)
This week, The University of Texas at Austin prepares its podiums and fireworks for Saturday’s commencement ceremony, the 131st in the school’s history.
Seminar exposes students to the Ransom Center’s photography holdings
Dr. Sherre L. Paris—lecturer at The University of Texas School of Journalism—teaches her undergraduate class “A Cultural History of Photography” at the Ransom Center. During the three-hour-long-seminar, which meets every Tuesday in a classroom adjacent to the Ransom Center’s Reading Room, undergraduates work with primary source materials from the Center’s photography collections. “Cultural Compass” spoke with Dr. Paris about her experience teaching at the Ransom Center.