Stephen Enniss is the Betty Brumbalow Director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Over his tenure, he has acquired scores of archives of some of the most important writers of our time, including the archives of Arthur Miller and those of Nobel Laureates Gabriel García Márquez and Kazuo Ishiguro. Under his leadership, the Ransom Center has strengthened curatorial excellence, expanded the Center’s instructional program, and launched a campus-wide program for conservation care of the university’s most distinctive research collections. Enniss is a recipient of the Biblio Award from Biographers International for exceptional contributions to the craft of biography. His research interests are in twentieth–century poetry, and he has written on Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Seamus Heaney, among other figures. He co-curated the award-winning exhibition “No Other Appetite”: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Blood Jet of Poetry. He is a past recipient of a Leverhulme Fellowship from the University of London, and he is the author of After the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon (2014). The Belfast Group: Poetic Community in a Divided Ireland is forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press.  

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.