October 14, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + TeachingLearning how to read again This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Part of what is so compelling about doing research with old books is that the learning curve never ends—there’s always some new challenge, another thing to explain, something else to get to the bottom of. Reading old books… read more
October 8, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingLISTEN SLOW: Researching Anne Sexton putting poetry her way by TANYA E. CLEMENT This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Annotated Audio: Anne Sexton Class Visit at Sweetbriar College, 1966 Recording annotations and transcription by Tanya Clement Anne Sexton Papers 1912-1996, R 0084, Harry Ransom Center. 17:10 Anne Sexton (AS): . . .… read more
October 6, 2020, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Featured1Archive of The Well of Loneliness author offers a view of queer history In her 2019 memoir, In The Dream House, author Carmen Maria Machado writes about the importance of seeing queer people not as saints, but as full human beings – human beings with complicated and sometimes upsetting ideologies. She writes in her essay, “Dream House as Queer Villainy,” “…it sounds terrible… read more
