Introduction to Archives of Gender & Sexuality

Zaeske, Susan, and Sarah Jedd. “From Recovering Women’s Words to Documenting Gender Constructs: Archival Research in the Twenty-First Century.” In The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address, edited by Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. Michael Hogan, 184–202. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Morris III, Charles E., and K.J. Rawson. “Queer Archives/Archival Queers.” In Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric, edited by Michelle Ballif, 74–89. Southern Illinois UP, 2013.

Archives across Disciplinary Lines

Helton, Laura. “Archive.” In Information: Keywords, edited by Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, and Jonathan E. Abel, 44–56. Columbia UP, 2021.

Manoff, Marlene. “Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines.” Portal: Libraries and the Academy 4, no. 1 (2004): 9–25.

Morris, Charles E. “The Archival Turn in Rhetorical Studies; Or, The Archive’s Rhetorical (Re)Turn.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 9, no. 1 (2006): 113–15. 

McKee, Heidi A., and James E. Porter. “The Ethics of Archival Research.” College Composition and Communication 64, no. 1 (2012): 59–81.

Caswell, Michelle. “‘The Archive’ Is Not an Archives: On Acknowledging the Intellectual Contributions of Archival Studies.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 16, no. 1 (2016).

Introduction to Archival Methods

Ramsey, Alexis E., Wendy B. Sharer, Barbara L’Eplattenier, and Lisa S. Mastrangelo, editors. Working in the Archives: Practical Research Methods for Rhetoric and Composition. Southern Illinois UP, 2010.

Digital Archival Methods

McKinney, Cait. “Feminist Digitization Practices at the Lesbian History Archives.” In Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies, 153–204. Duke UP, 2020. 

Rawson, K.J. “Transgender Worldmaking in Cyberspace: Historical Activism on the Internet.” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 1, no. 2 (2014): 38–60.

Brouwer, Daniel C., and Adela C. Licona. “Trans(Affective)Mediation: Feeling Our Way from Paper to Digitized Zines and Back Again.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 33, no. 1 (2016): 70–83. 

Graban, Tarez Samra. “From Location(s) to Locatability: Mapping Feminist Recovery and Archival Activity through Metadata.” College English 76, no. 2 (2013): 171–93.

VanHaitsma, Pamela. “Between Archival Absence and Information Abundance: Reconstructing Sallie Holley’s Abolitionist Rhetoric through Digital Surrogates and Metadata.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 106, no. 1 (2020): 25–47.

Feminist Recovery & Critical Imagination

Royster, Jacqueline Jones. Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change among African American Women. U of Pittsburgh P, 2000.

Imagination & Imaginaries

Martínez, Maria Elena. “Archives, Bodies, and Imagination: The Case of Juana Aguilar and Queer Approaches to History, Sexuality, and Politics.” Radical History Review 120 (2014): 159–82.

Holmes, Kwame. “What’s the Tea: Gossip and the Production of Black Gay Social History.” Radical History Review 122 (2015): 55–69.

Arondekar, Anjali. “In the Absence of Reliable Ghosts: Sexuality, Historiography, South Asia.” differences 25, no. 3 (2015): 98–122.

VanHaitsma, Pamela. “Gossip as Rhetorical Methodology for Queer and Feminist Historiography.” Rhetoric Review 35, no. 2 (2016): 135–47.

Gilliland, Anne J., and Michelle Caswell. “Records and Their Imaginaries: Imagining the Impossible, Making Possible the Imagined.” Archival Science 16 (2016): 53–75. 

Hartman, Saidiya. “Venus in Two Acts.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 12, no. 2 (2008): 1–14.

Critical Fabulation

Hartman, Saidiya V. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Queering & Transing Archives

Muñoz, José Esteban. “Ephemera as Evidence: Introductory Notes to Queer Acts.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 8, no. 2 (1996): 5–16.

Chen, Mel Y. “Everywhere Archives: Transgendering, Trans Asians, and the Internet.” Australian Feminist Studies 25, no. 64 (2010): 199–208. 

Alexander, Jonathan, and Jacqueline Rhodes. “Queer Rhetoric and the Pleasures of the Archive.” Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture 13 (2012).

Arondekar, Anjali, Ann Cvetkovich, Christina B. Hanhardt, Regina Kunzel, Tavia Nyong’o, Juana María Rodríguez, Susan Stryker, Daniel Marshall, Kevin P. Murphy, and Zeb Tortorici. “Queering Archives: A Roundtable Discussion.” Radical History Review 122 (2015): 211–31. 

Rawson, K.J. “The Rhetorical Power of Archival Description: Classifying Images of Gender Transgression.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 48, no. 4 (2018): 327–51.

Decolonizing Archives

Powell, Malea. “Dreaming Charles Eastman: Cultural Memory, Autobiography, and Geography in Indigenous Rhetorical Histories.” In Beyond the Archives: Research as Lived Process, edited by Gesa E. Kirsch and Liz Rohan, 115–27. Southern Illinois UP, 2008.

Swaby, Nydia A., and Chandra Frank. “Archival Experiments, Notes and (Dis)Orientations.” Feminist Review 125, no. 1 (2020): 4–16.

Arondekar, Anjali. “Without a Trace: Sexuality and the Colonial Archive.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 14, no. 1/2 (2005): 10–27, 235.

Cram, E. “Archival Ambience and Sensory Memory: Generating Queer Intimacies in the Settler Colonial Archive.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 13, no. 2, (2016): 109–29.

Ramírez, Cristina D. “Rhetorical Herencia: Writing Toward a Theory of Rhetorical Recovery and Transformation.” Latinx Writing and Rhetoric Studies 1, no. 1 (2020): 161–78.

Two-Spirit Memory & Story

Driskill, Qwo-Li. Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory. U of Arizona P, 2016.

Archival Research on AIDS & Race

Chávez, Karma R. The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance. U of Washington P, 2021.

Putzi, Jennifer, et al. “COVID-19 and Archival Research.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. 2022. https://legacywomenwriters.org/conversations/.

Archives & Letters

VanHaitsma, Pamela. “LGBTQ+ Epistolary Rhetoric/Letter Writing.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies & Communication, edited by Isaac N. West, E. Cram, Frederik Dhaenens, Pam Lannutti, and Gust Yep. Oxford UP, 2021.

VanHaitsma, Pamela. Queering the Language of the Heart: A Rhetorical Education, 1–73. U of South Carolina P, 2021. 

VanHaitsma, Pamela. “An Archival Framework for Affirming Black Women’s Bisexual Rhetorics in the Primus Collections.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 51, no. 1 (2021): 27–41. 

Hsu, V. Jo. “Toward QTPOC Community: A Theory in the Flesh, an Open Letter, a Closing Wound.” Rhetoric, Politics & Culture 1, no. 1 (2021): 27–33.

Archival Letters & AIDS

Hawkins, Ames. These Are Love(d) Letters. Wayne State UP, 2019.

Archival Pedagogy

Shayne, Julie D., Denise Hattwig, Dave Ellenwood, and Taylor Hiner. “Creating Counter Archives: The University of Washington Bothell’s Feminist Community Archive of Washington Project.” Feminist Teacher 27, no. 1 (2016): 47–65.

Carden, Kailah, and Sabina E. Vaught, with Arturo Muñoz, Vanessa Pinto, Cecilia Vaught, and Maya Zeigler. “A Critical Archival Pedagogy: The Lesbian Herstory Archives and a Course in Radical Lesbian Thought.” Radical Teacher 105 (2016): 23–32. 

Bessette, Jean. “Audio, Archives, and the Affordance of Listening in a Pedagogy of ‘Difference.’” Computers and Composition 39 (2016): 71–82.

VanHaitsma, Pamela. “Digital LGBTQ Archives as Sites of Public Memory and Pedagogy.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 22, no. 2 (2019): 253–80.

Enoch, Jessica, and Pamela VanHaitsma. “Archival Literacy: Reading the Rhetoric of Digital Archives in the Undergraduate Classroom.” College Composition and Communication 67, no. 2 (2015): 216–42.

Archival Activism

Bessette, Jean. Retroactivism in the Lesbian Archives: Composing Pasts and Futures. Southern Illinois UP, 2017.