Affiliations:
Co-Instructor, Listening and Seeing with the Body in Mind
About
Ann Cvetkovich is currently Professor in the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She has also been Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, and inaugural director of LGBTQ Studies at the University of Texas at Austin She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism (Rutgers, 1992); An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Duke, 2003); and Depression: A Public Feeling (Duke, 2012). She co-edited (with Ann Pellegrini) “Public Sentiments,” a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, and (with Janet Staiger and Ann Reynolds) Political Emotions (Routledge, 2010). She has been coeditor, with Annamarie Jagose, of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. She has done oral history interviews for Columbia University’s September 11, 2001 and Covid-19 projects, as well as for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. She is writing a book about the current state of LGBTQ archives and the creative use of them by artists to produce counterarchives and interventions in public history. For additional info, see www.anncvetkovich.com.