What is Research?

April 23, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + Teaching

The slow research of collection development

This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Shortly before the end of 2020, the papers of National Book Award–winning author Lily Tuck arrived at the Harry Ransom Center. It is always exciting when a new archive enters our building, but this arrival from New York… read more

April 15, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + Teaching

What 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

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.

April 10, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching

ETCHED 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

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.

What is Research?

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