Megan Barnard
Megan Barnard is Associate Director for Administration and Curatorial Affairs at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. In her role, she manages the acquisition of collection materials, provides support and direction for the curatorial staff, and serves on the senior leadership team. She has been actively involved in the acquisition of literary archives at the Ransom Center for more than 20 years and works closely with the Center’s literary collections. She has curated or co-curated more than a dozen exhibitions, including Literature and Sport (2013), Culture Unbound: Collecting in the Twenty-First Century (2011), and The Mystique of the Archive (2008–2009). Select publications include “Collecting Digital Manuscripts and Archives” (published in Appraisal and Acquisition Strategies by the Society of American Archivists, 2016); Born-Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories (Council on Library and Information Resources, 2013); and Collecting the Imagination: The First Fifty Years of the Ransom Center (University of Texas Press, 2007), for which she served as editor and co-author. She holds a Master of Arts degree in English from Texas A&M University.