Friday, September 12, 4pm

Room 4406, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Moderated by Nancy K. Miller

 

This roundtable will bring together a variety of perspectives on feminism and the archive, broadly conceived. Participants will speak about their work about and in the archive as archivists, scholars, and feminists, as well as how archival research  allows us to consider and reconceive of feminist genealogies and genres.

 

Roundtable participants to include:

Meredith Benjamin is a PhD candidate in English at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is writing a dissertation entitled “Creating Feminist Identities: The Autobiographical Across Genres in the 1970s and 80s” that explores how and why various uses of the autobiographical became the privileged mode of expression for U.S. feminist writers, and how these forms were mobilized to created feminist subjects, identities, and communities.

 

Kate Eichhorn is the author of The Archival Turn in Feminism (Temple UP, 2013) and Adjusted Margin: The Copy Machine and the Making of Public Cultures (forthcoming in 2015). She is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Studies at The New School.

 

Margaret Galvan is a PhD candidate in English at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is writing a dissertation entitled “Archiving the ’80s: Feminism, Queer Theory, & Visual Culture” that traces a genealogy of queer theory in 1980s feminism through representations of sexuality in visual culture. See margaretgalvan.org for further information.

 

Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz is a volunteer Archivist at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, a faculty librarian at the Graduate Center, and co-producer of Rivers of Honey, a Cabaret highlighting the art of women of color. She is completing her MFA in Fiction at Queens College, holds a BS in Queer Women’s Studies from the CUNY Baccalaureate Program, and an MLS from Queens College. You can find out more about Shawn and her work on the Commons: shawntasmith.commons.gc.cuny.edu.