What is Research?

March 31, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching

Teaching 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

ABOUT ANDI GUSTAVSON

Andi Gustavson is Head of Instructional Services at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center where she teaches primary source literacy using the collections at the Center. She publishes on the ethics of teaching undergraduates with archives, digital pedagogy, and primary source literacy. She is the co-chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries Rare Books and Manuscripts Section’s Instruction and Outreach Committee.

March 25, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + Teaching

NOT SPEED READING: The slow pleasures of research

by JULIA PANKO This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Lately, I have been dreaming of archives. I have never visited the Harry Ransom Center in person, but I recently perused its finding aids and made a checklist for a future trip. Noting the items from… read more

ABOUT JULIA PANKO

Julia Panko is an Associate Professor of English at Weber State University, where she directs the Literature and Textual Studies program. She is the author of Out of Print: Mediating Information in the Novel and the Book (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020).

March 18, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching

Slowly, and then round again

by SIMON LOXLEY This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? During my time as a researcher, I have always been a working graphic designer. I suspect that, as a consequence, my underlying mindset has always been very results-driven. As a designer, if you want to get… read more

ABOUT SIMON LOXLEY
Simon Loxley is the author of Type: the secret history of letters (2004), Printer’s Devil: the life and work of Frederic Warde (2013),Type is Beautiful: the story of fifty remarkable fonts (2016), and Emery Walker: arts, crafts and a world in motion (2019). He is a graphic designer, teacher, and writer in the UK, where he serves as designer and editor of Ultrabold, the journal of St. Bride Library.