Feminism & the Archive: A Roundtable
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.
Reception to Follow
