Fellow discusses Ross Russell collection and Raymond Chandler
Judith Freeman, a fellow from the University of Southern California, discusses her research in the Ross Russell archive. Freeman’s focus lies primarily with noir, Raymond Chandler, and Los Angeles,...
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Fellows Find: Women behind the camera in and beyond the studio
Press pass for British photojournalist Christina Broom. 1910. Margaret Denney received a Marlene Nathan Meyerson Photography Fellowship to conduct research in the Ransom Center’s Gernsheim collection....
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Sueltas feature cartoons by Spanish caricaturist Manuel Tovar
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First edition of “The Vampyre” reveals clues about history of book and its...
Page from first edition of "The Vampyre" by John William Polidori. Molly Miller is a graduate student in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin. She is studying to become a...
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Stella Adler scholar explores acting master’s interpretation of great...
Cover of "Stella Adler on America’s Master Playwrights" (Knopf) by Barry Paris “Mommy, is that God?” a little girl once whispered to her mother as Stella Adler swept into a party in New York City. The...
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Sara Coleridge’s Pretty Lessons in Verse: Nineteenth- Century Flash Cards
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“Monarchia Solipsorum:” Rare Italian manuscript connected to Galileo’s trial...
Page from "Monarchia Solipsorum: ad virum clarissimum Leonum Allatium" in the Ranuzzi manuscript collection. Shaun Stalzer is a graduate student in the School of Information at The University of Texas...
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Researching Austen in Austin: Archival research reveals connections between...
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Frank Reaugh project reveals new details of the artist’s process
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Short story author Andre Dubus’s papers open for research
A journal from Dubus's archive. Photo by Anthony Maddaloni. In 1958, Andre Dubus graduated from McNeese State University in Louisiana and joined the U. S. Marine Corps, thinking it would be “a romantic...
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Seminar exposes students to the Ransom Center’s photography holdings
Dr. Sherre L. Paris, a lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin's School of Journalism, teaches the class “A Cultural History of Photography” at the Ransom Center. Photo by Pete Smith. Dr. Sherre...
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Sherlock Holmes’s Infinite Case-Book
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Fellows Find: John Steinbeck’s “ideal woman”
Cover of July 1950 issue of "Flair" magazine. Heidi Kim is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She visited the Ransom...
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Scholar discusses research in De Niro collection
R. Colin Tait, a Ph.D. candidate at The University of Texas at Austin, has used the Ransom Center’s Robert De Niro collection as the basis for his dissertation, “Robert De Niro’s Method: Acting,...
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More than 65 research fellowships awarded
James H. 'Jimmy' Hare crossing the Piave river, 1918, lantern slide; Gordon Conway, 'Red Cross Girl' illustration for Vanity Fair, 1918; Bob Landry, film still from 'A Farewell to Arms,' 1957; Erich...
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“Femme de Lettres” of the French Enlightenment: Emilie du Châtelet’s Textbook...
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Beat Generation poet Peter Orlovsky’s archive acquired
Peter Orlovsky’s notebook titled Rolling Thunder, Oct. 29, 1975. The Harry Ransom Center has acquired the archive of American poet Peter Orlovsky (1933–2010), an important figure in the Beat...
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Memory as source in Jayne Anne Phillips’s “Machine Dreams”
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Anthology documents 22 plays performed at 2 London theaters
Title page of "Measure for Measure" from the anthology "Comedy As it is Acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden." Sarah Alger is a graduate student in the School of Information at...
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Archivist traces manuscript waste in a set of volumes back to a dark origin...
These four volumes of German poetry are wrapped in manuscript waste materials written in Hebrew. Photo By Alicia Dietrich. It was a bitterly cold day in Frankfurt when my wife and I stepped off the...
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