July 21, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Digital Collections, Featured1The first quarter century of PEN Outlined here are eight important moments that occurred during PEN’s first 25 years. All these and many others are treated in more depth and detail in the book PEN: An Illustrated History (Interlink Publishing, September 2021). October 5, 1921 CATHARINE AMY DAWSON SCOTT, a poet and novelist who was sometimes described… read more
April 15, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + TeachingWhat is research but a conversation in search of the truth? by IRIS JAMAHL DUNKLE This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Biography is a long, slow process of careful research … Reading diaries and letters and sifting through artifacts … I found the answers to these questions by carefully examining each document and artifact, and slowly… read more
April 10, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingETCHED ARCHIVE: Windows at the Harry Ransom Center by ANNE TERRILL This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Buildings tell stories. When Victorian-era critic John Ruskin looked at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, he saw a building that reminded him of an illuminated book, intended to be legible to a visitor. The façade created… read more
