Harry Ransom CenterThe University of Texas at Austin

Research Fellowship Recipients

The 2007-2008 Research Fellowships Award winners are:

General Manuscript and Book Collections

Jeffrey Barbeau
Oral Roberts University
Sara Coleridge: Theologian of the Heart
General Manuscript and book collections
Pforzheimer

Chris Beyers
Assumption College
The Text of The Collected Poems
General Manuscript and book collections
Knopf

Edward Bishop
University of Alberta
The Social Life of Ink
General Manuscript and book collections
Pforzheimer

Jonathan Bloom
University of Paris Dauphine
C.P. Snow Biography
General Manuscript and book collections
C.P. Snow

Sara Danger
Valparaiso University
Picturing the Victorian Woman Writer: Popular Illustrated Fiction and the Construction of Women's Authorship, 1830-1965
General Manuscript and book collections
Fleur Cowles

Joel Dinerstein
Tulane University
The Cool Mask: Jazz, Noir, and Existentialism, 1940-1960
General Manuscript and book collections
Mellon

Gary Dyer
Cleveland State University
Romantic Secrecy: Esoteric Writing in Britain, 1790-1830
General Manuscript and book collections
ASECS/Mellon

Julia Ehrhardt
University of Oklahoma
Making Weight: Food, Fat, and Dieting in Modern American Women's Writing
General Manuscript and book collections
Cline

Edward Friedman
Vanderbilt University
"The Fictions of Gerald Brenan"
General Manuscript and book collections
Mellon

François Gallix
La Sorbonne, Paris IV
Graham Greene New Perspectives
General Manuscript and book collections
Mellon

Vanessa Guignery
La Sorbonne, Paris IV
Julian Barnes: a Generic and Genetic Analysis
General Manuscript and book collections
Mellon

Allan Hepburn
McGill University
Elizabeth Bowen: Short Stories and Essays
General Manuscript and book collections
Mellon

Ruth Jennison
University of Mass.-Amherst
The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins and the Avant-Garde
General Manuscript and book collections
Mellon

Patricia Laurence
Brooklyn College
A Biography of Elizabeth Bowen
General Manuscript and book collections Mellon

Laura Long
Lynchburg College
Lady of Comets: The Lives of Caroline Herschel
General Manuscript and book collections
Pforzheimer

Gail Low
University of Dundee
Publishing Anglophone African and Caribbean Writing in the UK, 1950-68
General Manuscript and book collections
Mellon

Ulrika Maude
University of Durham
Perception, Textual Genetics and Aesthetics in the Work of Samuel Beckett
General Manuscript and book collections
Oneal

John McCourt
Università di Roma, Tre
Joyce and Catholic Ireland
General Manuscript and book collections
Mellon

Erik Mortenson
Koc University
The Beats and Dreaming
General Manuscript and book collections
Dorot

Axel Stähler
Universität Bonn
The Playwright as Author Icon: The Case of Arnold Wesker
General Manuscript and book collections
Mellon

John Thornton
Independent Scholar
The House of Knopf: Alfred and Blanche Knopf and the Company They Kept
General Manuscript and book collections
Knopf

Dirk Van Hulle
University of Antwerp
The Material Aspects of Samuel Beckett's "work in regress"
General Manuscript and book collections
C.P. Snow

Leigh Ann Wheeler
Bowling Green State University
Liberating Sex: How the ACLU Shaped Policy and Culture in the 20th Century United States
General Manuscript and book collections
Woodward/Bernstein

Special Topic: "In Times of War"

Greg Barnhisel
Duquesne University
Cold War Modernists
Special Topic
Mellon

Arne Bialuschewski
Universitaet Kiel
"A True Account of the Design, and Advantages of the South-Sea Trade: Profits, Propaganda, and the Peace Preliminaries of 1711"
Special Topic
Pforzheimer

Philip Errington
Sotheby's and University College London
John Masefield's Great War: The Collected Works
Special Topic
Mellon

Olga Leontieva
Tver Archival Department, Deputy Director
Russian Political Emigrants in Times of War
Special Topic
Mellon

Adam Piette
University of Sheffield
Cold War Hawks and Doves
Special Topic
Mellon

Erica Sheen
University of York (UK)
Maxwell Anderson: Elizabeth the Queen Goes to War
Special Topic
Hobby

Marsha Siefert
Central European University
In Times of War - Rethinking American-Soviet Cultural Diplomacy
Special Topic
Mellon

Alex Vernon
Hendrix College
"Hemingway's The Spanish Earth"
Special Topic
C.P. Snow

Film

Dominique Brégent-Heald
Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland
Duel in the Sun: Race and Gender in the Texas Borderlands
Film
Fleur Cowles

Tom Kemper
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences
Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents, 1928-1949
Film
Skaaren

Catherine O'Rawe
University of Bristol, as of Feb. 1
Between Neo-Realism and Hollywood: David O. Selznick's Collaboration with Vittorio De Sica
Film
Mayer

Jane Park
University of Oklahoma
The China Film: Madam Chiang Kai-Shek Goes to Hollywood
Film
Skaaren

Andrew Shail
Oxford University
The "Reinventions" of Cinema in the US and the UK during the First World War
Film
Fleur Cowles

Photography

Anne Tucker
MFAH
We Bear Witness: Photographers Responding to War
Photography
Mellon

Geoffrey Batchen
CUNY
Sun-Limned Portraits: The Photography of Richard Beard and Antione Claudet
Photography
Duncan

Duncan Forbes
National Galleries of Scotland
Edinburgh's Urbanity: the City in Early Photography
Photography
Duncan

Stephen Pinson
NY Public Library
Speculating Daguerre
Photography
Meyerson

Music

Emily Laurance
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Harp-accompanied vocal music and popular romantic aesthetics in France, Britain, and the US, 1770-1840
Music
ASECS/Mellon

Michael Puri
University of Virginia
Ravel's Revelries
Music
Mellon

Thomas Schuttenhelm
Independent Scholar
Literary Influence, Creative Process, and the letters of Sir Michael Tippett (1905-1998)
Music
British Studies

Performing Arts

Carolyn Roark
Baylor University
Death and the Puppet: Effigy Performance and the Human Encounter with Mortality
Performing Arts
Fleur Cowles

Susan Kattwinkel
College of Charleston
Tony Pastor and the Development of American Vaudeville
Performing Arts
Dorot

Art

Louis Cellauro
Independent Scholar/Univ. Francois Rabelais
"At the Origins of Modern Scientific Archaeology: Antoine Desgodet's Les Edifices Antiques de Rome (1682)"
Art
C.P. Snow

Nancy Green
Cornell University
A Room of Their Own: The Artists of Bloomsbury
Art
Limited Edition

French

Catherine du Toit
Stellenbosch University
Henri-Pierre Roché- A Definitive Biography
French
Dorot