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
March 31, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingTeaching research online during a pandemic by ANDI GUSTAVSON This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Since the start of the pandemic, the Instructional team of the Harry Ransom Center has met every two weeks to figure out how to alter our teaching for virtual instruction. With each new class, our educators… read more