April 21, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingTHRESHOLD ECOLOGIES: On Earth (and on Earth Day) 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
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
