Archive for: humanities

 

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The Play’s the Thing

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After 400 years, we still have much to learn from Shakespeare. In an educational climate focused on buzzwords like efficiency, STEM, and MOOCs, one UT scholar reminds...

 
 

Ransom Center Acquires 21 Unpublished J. D. Salinger Letters

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J.D. Salinger may have led a private life, but even a century’s time couldn’t hide the extent of his talent. UT’s world-class humanities archive, the...

 
 

Ransom Center Receives Biggest Donation Ever

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UT’s Harry Ransom Center has long been an archival powerhouse that draws scholars from around the globe, with holdings including an original Gutenberg Bible...

 
 

Stumbling on a Mystery in the Ransom Center

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How a happenstance discovery in the Ransom Center led one researcher down a winding literary path. This essay first appeared in the New York Times. I was in the...

 
 

Louis Menand Challenges Humanities Colleagues to ‘Take No Hostages’

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The “embattled” humanities were the topic of yesterday’s 2013 Glickman lecture at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center. Louis Menand, the Pulitzer Prize-winning...

 
 

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Voices of Free Minds: Irene Pickney on Plato

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Free Minds really helped me explore possibilities I didn’t think I had. The professors made me feel like I was capable to do whatever I put my mind to and encouraged...

 
 

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Voices of Free Minds: Nelson Toala on “The Tempest”

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I am a chef at a hotel, and until recently my job just felt like a routine, the same thing over and over. Now I find myself paying more attention to the details,...

 
 

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Voices of Free Minds: “Christmas 2010” by Lorena Elias

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I grew up in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. I’ve lived half my life in Mexico and half of it here. This poem was my way to describe being in two worlds at the...

 
 

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Voices of Free Minds: “Rush Hour” by Grace Adams

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I said I would never go back to college. It was too hard, too expensive, and I hated it. But this time is totally different. I’m studying English at Austin...

 
 
 
 
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