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About Gretchen Henderson

Gretchen Henderson is the Associate Director for Research at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. She is also a Senior Lecturer in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work and 2020-2022 Faculty Fellow in the Humanities Institute. Her interdisciplinary works grow from both critical and creative research methods and have taken form as books, arts media, and performances. Among other work in 2020, her research was published in Ploughshares, Ecotone, Notre Dame Review, and Nature Sustainability.

About Gretchen Ernster Henderson

Gretchen Ernster Henderson is the Associate Director for Research at The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She writes across the arts, humanities, and environmental sciences. In 2018-2019, she was the Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah and co-director of an NEH Institute on Museums: Humanities in the Public Sphere. Her fourth and latest book was Ugliness: A Cultural History (Reaktion Books of London/University of Chicago Press). Recent individual and collaborative work has appeared in Ecotone, Nature Sustainability, Environmental Conservation, Notre Dame Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.

April 21, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching

THRESHOLD ECOLOGIES: On Earth (and on Earth Day)

Blaeu World Map

A day turns into a week into a month, and more. Over the past year, our sense of time has extended into ongoing uncertainty from a global pandemic. For those grounded close to home, if we are lucky, our environments have become circumscribed by thresholds and windows, actual and virtual,… read more 

September 3, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching

What is Research? An exercise in Slow Research

On September 11, 2001, the BBC World Service reported the start of a performance titled Organ2/As SLow aS Possible (ASLSP). Originally composed by John Cage in 1987, the posthumous recital in Germany was planned to contribute to “a revolution in slowness”—to be performed chord by chord—over 639 years.

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