harry ransom humanities research center

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin is now receiving applications for its 2009-2010 research fellowships in the humanities.

The application deadline is Feb. 2, 2009. Information about the fellowships and the application process is available online at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/.

About 50 fellowships are awarded annually by the Ransom Center to [...]

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center's exhibition "A Cabinet of Drawings" explores the art of drawing, the fundamental, versatile and expressive art form for visual communication.

The exhibition runs from Sept. 2 to Jan. 4 in the Ransom Center Galleries at The University of Texas at Austin.

The exhibition—or "cabinet"—of 180 items from the Ransom Center's diverse [...]

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center's exhibition "The Mystique of the Archive" takes a comprehensive look at archives themselves, the archival process and the culture surrounding archives.

Drawing on the Center's extensive holdings of the imaginative creations of writers and artists, "The Mystique of the Archive" illustrates the diverse nature of archives and their myriad uses.

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The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin has awarded more than 50 research fellowships for 2008-09.

These fellowships support research projects requiring substantial use of the Center's collections of manuscripts, rare books, film, photography, art and performing arts materials.

The Reading Room at the Ransom Center. Scholars from 17 states and [...]

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin hosts "Inside El Salvador," a photography exhibition of more than 100 black-and-white images concerning the country's civil war and its aftermath.

More than 30 images taken by award-winning documentary photographer Donna DeCesare, an associate professor in the School of Journalism at The University [...]

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired 77 letters from John Steinbeck to Henry S.

White, recording a regular correspondence between two business associates and close friends. Dating from October 1948 to August 1949, the almost daily correspondence documents a difficult period in Steinbeck's life.

Early in [...]

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired two unpublished letters written by playwright Tennessee Williams to his friend and former intimate Pancho Rodriguez Gonzalez, who inspired the character of Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947).

The first letter dates to 1947 New York, just after Gonzalez's [...]

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center and Education Service Center Region XIII announce free teacher workshops examining the United States in the 1950s.

These workshops are held in conjunction with the Ransom Center's exhibition "On the Road with the Beats." The workshops will take place at the Ransom Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on [...]

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archive of British writer Jim Crace, author of acclaimed works "Continent" (1986), "Arcadia" (1992), "Quarantine" (1997), "Being Dead" (1999) and "The Pesthouse" (2007).

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center has acquired the archive of British writer Jim Crace. "Continent," Crace's first [...]