Harry Ransom Center

September 12, 2023
Even when fielding everyday reference queries at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, I try not on
August 1, 2023
To mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin will display all three cop
March 30, 2023
The archive of the English poet, journalist and literary critic James Fenton is heading to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. 
November 17, 2022
Austin, Texas — A credit-card-size fragment is all that survives of a manuscript scroll of the Gospel of John that was written in Greek circa A.D. 250-350.
May 20, 2022
I am sitting in the beautiful, air-conditioned space of the gallery at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, looking at
April 6, 2022
Austin, Texas — Thomas F. Staley, author, professor emeritus and 25-year director of the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, died March 29. He was 86.
February 28, 2022
Austin, TX — More than 60,000 digitized items and a new
February 2, 2022
Austin, TX — To mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s landmark work of literary modernism, “Ulysses,” The University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center will offer a
October 28, 2021
James Joyce’s literary masterpiece, Ulysses, is closing in on its 100th anniversary on February 2, 2022, which has occasioned some festive publications, auction lots, and exhibitions.
October 29, 2020
Austin, TX — A digital collection of manuscripts and photographs related to Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas will soon be available online thanks to an international collaboration.