Co-presented by Itza Carbajal and Emma Whittington at the annual 2017 Archival Education and Research Institute held at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information.
4. Queer Archives Course Details
Number of Students
12 total
Academic Background
Journalism
Sociology
Communications
Anthropology
English
Studio Art
Exposure to Archival Research
2 / 3 had little to no
archival research exposure
Degree Representation
3 graduate students
9 undergraduate students
- Taught by Ann Cvetkovich, Spring 2017. Upper-level undergraduate
course, cross listed in Women & Gender Studies and English Dept.
-Based on queer and feminist theories that extend understanding of what
an “archive” constitutes (archive as affect, ephemera, traces)
-Course met twice a week for 1.5 hours at various sites across campus
(classroom, HRC classroom, Benson Latin American Special Collections)
-Independent and collaborative archival research of LGBTQ collections at
the Harry Ransom Center (HRC)
-Design and staging of public exhibit titled “Coming Out of the Archives,”
at the HRC, using their collection materials
5. Moving between archival collections
and literature, film, video, and visual
art, this course will take up queer
theory and research methods as it
explores activist approaches to
archiving, knowledge production,
and art-making.
-Cvetkovich, Queer Archives
Syllabus
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10. Background on Archival Studies at UT iSchool:
● Master’s degrees are are MSIS degrees
● 40 hours coursework
○ 9 hours ‘core’ coursework
○ 27 elective hours, 12 of which can be from outside the
iSchool (no more than 6 from any one department)
● Few iSchool students pursue archives related extracurriculars
● Yet over 13 NON-iSchool courses offered at UT Austin in last 3
years contain “Archives” in the title