What is Research?

February 8, 2021, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + Teaching

Jean Malaquais and the life of a novel

by JULIA ELSKY This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Researching the life of a novel means uncovering the traces of how it was written—not only the edits, corrections, and additions made to a manuscript, but also the conversations in letters or in diaries that show… read more

ABOUT JULIA ELSKY

Julia Elsky is Assistant Professor of French at Loyola University Chicago. A chapter of her book, Writing Occupation: Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France (Stanford University Press, 2020), focuses on Jean Malaquais and is based on her research at the Harry Ransom Center.

February 5, 2021, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Film, Research + Teaching

The women who made Selznick’s screenplays

by ERIN MCGUIRL This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Research is part of the history of Hollywood’s Golden age. Eighty years ago, in the heyday of the studio system, little libraries on studio lots employed a handful of people who collaborated with writers, directors, producers,… read more

ABOUT ERIN MCGUIRL

Erin McGuirl is the Executive Director of the Bibliographical Society of America. Her background is in librarianship, and since 2008 she has worked with library and private collections of rare materials in New York City and elsewhere. Her writing has appeared in Printing History, Atlas Obscura, the blog for the Journal of the History of Ideas, and in the forthcoming Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton University Press).

January 28, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching

TIME TO REST: Rethinking disability and research

by COYOTE SHOOK This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? “Just use this time to rest,” the doctor advised me as though he was delivering good news. Rest as a concept did not exist in my worldview. While melancholy and illness doubtlessly pranced rampantly through Appalachian… read more

ABOUT COYOTE SHOOK
Coyote Shook is a doctoral student in American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and the education and outreach coordinator for the Radclyffe Hall/ Una Troubridge grant project at the Harry Ransom Center. Their debut graphic novel, Coyote the Beautiful, was the winner of the 2020 Leiby Chapbook Contest with The Florida Review and is set for publication with Burrow Press in March 2021.