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October 14, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + Teaching

Learning 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 + Teaching

LISTEN 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

ABOUT TANYA E. CLEMENT

Tanya E. Clement is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary areas of research are textual studies, sound studies, and infrastructure studies as these concerns impact academic research, research libraries, and the creation of research tools and resources in the digital humanities (DH). She has published widely in digital humanities and literary studies.

September 3, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching

What is Research? An exercise in Slow Research

On September 11, 2001, the BBC World Service reported the start of a performance titled Organ2/As SLow aS Possible (ASLSP). Originally composed by John Cage in 1987, the posthumous recital in Germany was planned to contribute to “a revolution in slowness”—to be performed chord by chord—over 639 years.

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