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What is research but a conversation in search of the truth?

April 15, 2021 - Harry Ransom Center

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by IRIS JAMAHL DUNKLE
This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. 
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ABOUT IRIS JAMAHL DUNKLE
Iris Jamahl Dunkle writes and lives in Northern California and is the author of Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020) and her latest collection of poetry is West : Fire : Archive (Center for Literary Publishing, 2021). Dunkle teaches at Napa Valley College and is the Poetry Director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.

ETCHED ARCHIVE: Windows at the Harry Ransom Center

April 10, 2021 - Harry Ransom Center

by ANNE TERRILL
This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. 
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ABOUT ANNE TERRILL

Anne Terrill is a Visitor Services Assistant at the Harry Ransom Center. Prior to joining the Ransom Center, she worked as a guide at Glenstone, a contemporary art museum in Potomac, Maryland. She is currently working on a project to broaden access to information about the Center's windows.

Teaching research online during a pandemic

March 31, 2021 - Harry Ransom Center

by ANDI GUSTAVSON
This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. 
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ABOUT ANDI GUSTAVSON

Andi Gustavson is Head of Instructional Services at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center where she teaches primary source literacy using the collections at the Center. She publishes on the ethics of teaching undergraduates with archives, digital pedagogy, and primary source literacy. She is the co-chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries Rare Books and Manuscripts Section’s Instruction and Outreach Committee.

Fellowships awarded to UT-Austin faculty and graduate students

March 29, 2021 - Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center has awarded over a dozen fellowships for 2021-2022 to The University of Texas at Austin faculty and graduate students through the Center’s new UT-Austin Fellowship program. The new fellows reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the Center’s collections and represent a wide range of departments, programs, and schools across the university. [Read more…] about Fellowships awarded to UT-Austin faculty and graduate students

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NOT SPEED READING: The slow pleasures of research

March 25, 2021 - Harry Ransom Center

by JULIA PANKO
This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation.  [Read more…] about NOT SPEED READING: The slow pleasures of research

Filed Under: archive, Authors, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archival research, Virginia Woolf, What is Research?

ABOUT JULIA PANKO

Julia Panko is an Associate Professor of English at Weber State University, where she directs the Literature and Textual Studies program. She is the author of Out of Print: Mediating Information in the Novel and the Book (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020).

Slowly, and then round again

March 18, 2021 - Harry Ransom Center

by SIMON LOXLEY
This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation.  [Read more…] about Slowly, and then round again

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ABOUT SIMON LOXLEY
Simon Loxley is the author of Type: the secret history of letters (2004), Printer’s Devil: the life and work of Frederic Warde (2013),Type is Beautiful: the story of fifty remarkable fonts (2016), and Emery Walker: arts, crafts and a world in motion (2019). He is a graphic designer, teacher, and writer in the UK, where he serves as designer and editor of Ultrabold, the journal of St. Bride Library.

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