Ann Cvetkovich
Biographic Data
| ID | 172080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Cvetkovich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Cvetkovich |
| SIGNATURE | CVETKOVICH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1929-2018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 824 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A roundtable on lesbian generations
The following written dialogue began as an intergenerational conversation, hosted by the lesbian feminist literary journal Sinister Wisdom , about Mairead Sullivan's book Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer , and continued over a series of Zoom conversations in the spring of 2024. We discuss what the term lesbian means to us, teaching and intergenerational encounters, lesbian feminism in the archives, and lineages of lesbi…
Revisiting Hungry Listening
This coauthored essay is an invited response to Dylan Robinson’s 2021 book Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. The invitation built on his original act of holding space for settler engagement in the conclusion of the book, for which he had asked Waterman and Wong to contribute a dialogue. The authors reflect on prompts provided by Robinson and engage in an iterative, dialogical reflection on how Hungry Listening change…
An Archive of Feelings @ 20: An interview with Ann Cvetkovich
Feminist and queer studies scholar Ann Cvetkovich’s trailblazing book An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures has had an immense influence on the field of memory studies, inspiring new bodies of scholarship on queerness, trauma, and memory. In this interview, Cvetkovich discusses the impact that some of the book’s central concepts have had on the field of memory studies over the last 20 years. Cvetkovich also reflec…
Artists in the Archives
Ulrike Müller's Herstory Inventory (HI) is a collection of over one hundred works on paper by "feminist" artists who were given "drawing assignments" that began with textual prompts taken from an archival list of T-shirts that Müller discovered in the collections of the Lesbian Herstory Archives (LHA). HI has also had multiple incarnations as a staged reading/live performance, audio installation, collective art project, art exhibition, and book, …
On taking the affective turn: Interview with Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Deborah Gould
Keywords Symposium
2020 Keywords Symposium Jennifer C. Nash (bio), Samantha Pinto (bio), Marisol LeBrón (bio), Monica L. Miller (bio), Ann Cvetkovich (bio), Julie Livingston (bio), Psyche Williams-Forson (bio), Ruha Benjamin (bio), Christina Hanhardt (bio), Harris Solomon (bio), Neelima Navuluri (bio), Charles W. Hargett (bio), Peter S. Kussin (bio), Noémi Tousignant (bio), Joshua Chambers-Letson (bio), Tiana Reid (bio), Miriam Posner (bio), Racquel Gates, Sari Alt…
Billy-Ray Belcourt's loneliness as the affective life of settler colonialism
This article explores loneliness as the affective life of settler colonialism through the work of queer Indigenous (Driftpile Cree) writer Billy-Ray Belcourt's two volumes of poetry This Wound Is a World and NDN Coping Mechanisms . In particular, the article focuses on how Belcourt draws on queer affect theory and critical race theory in the work of scholars such as Jose Muñoz, Leo Bersani, Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, Saidiya Hartman and Chri…
“It Feels Right to Me”
Focusing in particular on how affect theory has been informed by art practice, this article develops the concept of the “sovereignty of the senses” through queer and feminist installation projects by Rachael Shannon and Zoe Leonard, as well as Alison Bechdel’s account of retreat from the social in her graphic narrative memoir Are You My Mother? (2012). Aiming to articulate notions of sovereignty, democracy, and freedom in affective and sensory te…
Sexuality’s Archive: The Evidence of the Starr Report
Articulating the Global and the Local: Globalization and Cultural Studies
Queering Archives
Queering Archives: A Roundtable Discussion" provides a reflection on histories of queer archives studies, while marking out some key directions for the field's future development. As a broad conversation about the career of the queer archival, as both intellectual project and political practice, this discussion focuses on developments and limits within North American queer studies of the archive, which emerges as a central object of analysis and …
Depression: A Public Feeling
This work crafts a cultural analysis that can adequately represent depression not as medical pathology but as a historical category, a felt experience, and a point of entry into discussions about theory and contemporary culture
Depression: A Public Feeling
A key inspiration for this book's desire to think about depression as a cultural and social phenomenon rather than a medical disease has been my collaborative engagement with other scholars under the rubric of Public Feelings.Begun in 2001 both nationally and at the University of Texas, our investigation has coincided with and operated in the shadow of September 11 and its ongoing consequences-a sentimental takeover of 9/11 to underwrite militari…
Depression is ordinary: Public feelings and Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother
What if depression, in the Americas at least, could be traced to histories of colonialism, genocide, slavery, exclusion, and everyday segregation and isolation that haunt all of our lives, rather than to biochemical imbalances? This article seeks alternatives to the medical model found in most depression memoirs by considering how the epistemological and methodological struggles faced by a scholar of the African diaspora confronted by the absent …
Can the Diaspora Speak
This article evaluates the role of oral history in the public memory of September 11, 2001, through a small cluster of interviews with Afghan Americans that form part of Columbia University's September 11, 2001, Oral History Narrative and Memory Project. The interviews, most of them with young, educated, and secular Afghan Americans whose families came to the United States after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, tell a different story of 9…
A Girl's Journey into the Well of Forbidden Knowledge
The GLQ Gallery features Allyson Mitchell's 2010 installation for the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, A Girl's Journey into the Well of Forbidden Knowledge. In a plus-sized version of a sculpture gallery, two large ladies, in luminescent gold and silver, face two walls of books, attached to each other and to a giant crochet brain overhead by a crochet rope that links their crotches to the brain. Mitchell recreated a version of the Lesbian Hers…
Drawing the Archive in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
Drawing the Archive in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home Ann Cvetkovich (bio) Placing Alison Bechdel's Fun Home alongside other graphic narratives, most notably Art Spiegelman's Maus (1993) and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (2003) , that explore intergenerational trauma and the role of the child as witness, seems both obvious and potentially inappropriate, even presumptuous.1 In writing about the Holocaust and the Islamic Revolution in Iran, respectively,…
Public Feelings
Research Article| July 01 2007 Public Feelings Ann Cvetkovich Ann Cvetkovich Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (3): 459–468. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ann Cvetkovich; Public Feelings. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 2007; 106 (3): 459–468. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/003828…
Heart in the Wound
Ann Cvetkovich Ann Cvetkovich is a professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author ofMixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism(1992) and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (2003). She is currently associate editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.Lisa Kessler is an independent editorial and documentary photographe…
Witnessing Things A Response to Sue Grand
I respond to Sue Grand's “Unsexed and Ungendered Bodies: The Violated Self” from my position as a cultural critic, noting in particular how Grand's case history shows that historical trauma is made manifest in everyday sensory experience. I am particularly interested in Grand's suggestion that trauma produces a “thing-self” that must be witnessed in the psychoanalytic encounter. Exploring the implications of this insight for my own investigations…
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings: Documentary and Popular Culture
Ann Cvetkovich is associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (forthcoming from Duke University Press)
Every Day
Roundtable: Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique
Susan Lurie, Ann Cvetkovich, Jane Gallop, Tania Modleski, Hortense Spillers, Carla Kaplan, Roundtable: Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique, Feminist Studies, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 679-707
Don't Stop the Music
Research Article| January 01 2001 DON'T STOP THE MUSIC: Roundtable Discussion with Workers from the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival Ann Cvetkovich; Ann Cvetkovich Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Selena Wahng Selena Wahng Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2001) 7 (1): 131–151. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7-1-131 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementar…
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
Depression: A Public Feeling
A key inspiration for this book's desire to think about depression as a cultural and social phenomenon rather than a medical disease has been my collaborative engagement with other scholars under the rubric of Public Feelings.Begun in 2001 both nationally and at the University of Texas, our investigation has coincided with and operated in the shadow of September 11 and its ongoing consequences-a sentimental takeover of 9/11 to underwrite militari…
Public Feelings
Research Article| July 01 2007 Public Feelings Ann Cvetkovich Ann Cvetkovich Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (3): 459–468. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ann Cvetkovich; Public Feelings. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 2007; 106 (3): 459–468. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/003828…
Queering Archives
Queering Archives: A Roundtable Discussion" provides a reflection on histories of queer archives studies, while marking out some key directions for the field's future development. As a broad conversation about the career of the queer archival, as both intellectual project and political practice, this discussion focuses on developments and limits within North American queer studies of the archive, which emerges as a central object of analysis and …
Depression is ordinary: Public feelings and Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother
What if depression, in the Americas at least, could be traced to histories of colonialism, genocide, slavery, exclusion, and everyday segregation and isolation that haunt all of our lives, rather than to biochemical imbalances? This article seeks alternatives to the medical model found in most depression memoirs by considering how the epistemological and methodological struggles faced by a scholar of the African diaspora confronted by the absent …
In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings: Documentary and Popular Culture
Ann Cvetkovich is associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (forthcoming from Duke University Press)
Sexual Trauma/Queer Memory: Incest, Lesbianism and Therapeutic Culture
Research Article| October 01 1995 Sexual Trauma/Queer Memory: Incest, Lesbianism and Therapeutic Culture Ann Cvetkovich Ann Cvetkovich Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1995) 2 (4): 351-377. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-4-351 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ann Cvetkovich; Sexual Trauma/Queer Memory: Incest, Lesbianism and Therapeutic Culture. GLQ 1 October 1995; 2 (4): …
Drawing the Archive in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
Drawing the Archive in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home Ann Cvetkovich (bio) Placing Alison Bechdel's Fun Home alongside other graphic narratives, most notably Art Spiegelman's Maus (1993) and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (2003) , that explore intergenerational trauma and the role of the child as witness, seems both obvious and potentially inappropriate, even presumptuous.1 In writing about the Holocaust and the Islamic Revolution in Iran, respectively,…
Don't Stop the Music
Research Article| January 01 2001 DON'T STOP THE MUSIC: Roundtable Discussion with Workers from the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival Ann Cvetkovich; Ann Cvetkovich Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Selena Wahng Selena Wahng Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2001) 7 (1): 131–151. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7-1-131 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementar…
A Girl's Journey into the Well of Forbidden Knowledge
The GLQ Gallery features Allyson Mitchell's 2010 installation for the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, A Girl's Journey into the Well of Forbidden Knowledge. In a plus-sized version of a sculpture gallery, two large ladies, in luminescent gold and silver, face two walls of books, attached to each other and to a giant crochet brain overhead by a crochet rope that links their crotches to the brain. Mitchell recreated a version of the Lesbian Hers…
Roundtable: Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique
Susan Lurie, Ann Cvetkovich, Jane Gallop, Tania Modleski, Hortense Spillers, Carla Kaplan, Roundtable: Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique, Feminist Studies, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 679-707
Histories of Mass Culture: From Literary to Visual Culture
V ICTORIAN STUDIES has always been, for me, a form of cultural studies. As early as my sophomore year in college, while reading Raymond Williams’s Culture and Society for a modern humanities course, I was fascinated to learn that a case could be made for the nineteenth century as the period during which notions of culture were constructed. Williams’s work was presented without much contextualization and it was only much later that I came to assoc…
From Margin to Center
News| May 01 1989 From Margin to Center Ann Cvetkovich Ann Cvetkovich Ann Cvetkovich teaches English and women’s studies at the University of Texas at Austin and is working on a book about feminism, mass culture, and affect. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1989) 16 (10): 3. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1989.16.10.3 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Dat…
Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism
Arguing that affect has a history, Ann Cvetkovich challenges both nineteenth- and twentieth-century claims that the expression of feeling is naturally or intrinsically liberating or reactionary. The central focus of Mixed Feelings is the Victorian sensation novel, the fad genre of the 1860s, whose controversial popularity marks an important moment in the history of mass culture. Drawing on Marxist, feminist, and Foucauldian cultural theory, Cvetk…
Sexuality in Victorian Fiction
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community . Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy , Madeline D. Davis Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town .…
Sexual Trauma/Queer Memory: Incest, Lesbianism and Therapeutic Culture
Research Article| October 01 1995 Sexual Trauma/Queer Memory: Incest, Lesbianism and Therapeutic Culture Ann Cvetkovich Ann Cvetkovich Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1995) 2 (4): 351-377. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-4-351 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ann Cvetkovich; Sexual Trauma/Queer Memory: Incest, Lesbianism and Therapeutic Culture. GLQ 1 October 1995; 2 (4): …
Articulating The Global And The Local: Globalization And Cultural Studies
Introduction: Thinking Global and Local Ann Cvetkovich and Douglas Kellner. Theorizing The Global And The Local * Collective Identity and the Democratic Nation-State in the Age of Globalization Roland Axtmann. * Looking for Globality in Los Angeles Michael Peter Smith. * The (Trans)National Basketball Association: American Commodity-Sign Culture and Global-Local Conjuncturalism David L. Andrews. * The Politics of Corporate Ecological Restorations…
Video, Aids, and Activism
Histories of Mass Culture: From Literary to Visual Culture
V ICTORIAN STUDIES has always been, for me, a form of cultural studies. As early as my sophomore year in college, while reading Raymond Williams’s Culture and Society for a modern humanities course, I was fascinated to learn that a case could be made for the nineteenth century as the period during which notions of culture were constructed. Williams’s work was presented without much contextualization and it was only much later that I came to assoc…
Roundtable: Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique
Susan Lurie, Ann Cvetkovich, Jane Gallop, Tania Modleski, Hortense Spillers, Carla Kaplan, Roundtable: Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique, Feminist Studies, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 679-707
Don't Stop the Music
Research Article| January 01 2001 DON'T STOP THE MUSIC: Roundtable Discussion with Workers from the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival Ann Cvetkovich; Ann Cvetkovich Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Selena Wahng Selena Wahng Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2001) 7 (1): 131–151. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7-1-131 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementar…
In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings: Documentary and Popular Culture
Ann Cvetkovich is associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (forthcoming from Duke University Press)
Every Day
Witnessing Things A Response to Sue Grand
I respond to Sue Grand's “Unsexed and Ungendered Bodies: The Violated Self” from my position as a cultural critic, noting in particular how Grand's case history shows that historical trauma is made manifest in everyday sensory experience. I am particularly interested in Grand's suggestion that trauma produces a “thing-self” that must be witnessed in the psychoanalytic encounter. Exploring the implications of this insight for my own investigations…
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
Heart in the Wound
Ann Cvetkovich Ann Cvetkovich is a professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author ofMixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism(1992) and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (2003). She is currently associate editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.Lisa Kessler is an independent editorial and documentary photographe…
Public Feelings
Research Article| July 01 2007 Public Feelings Ann Cvetkovich Ann Cvetkovich Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (3): 459–468. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ann Cvetkovich; Public Feelings. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 2007; 106 (3): 459–468. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/003828…
Drawing the Archive in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
Drawing the Archive in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home Ann Cvetkovich (bio) Placing Alison Bechdel's Fun Home alongside other graphic narratives, most notably Art Spiegelman's Maus (1993) and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (2003) , that explore intergenerational trauma and the role of the child as witness, seems both obvious and potentially inappropriate, even presumptuous.1 In writing about the Holocaust and the Islamic Revolution in Iran, respectively,…
Can the Diaspora Speak
This article evaluates the role of oral history in the public memory of September 11, 2001, through a small cluster of interviews with Afghan Americans that form part of Columbia University's September 11, 2001, Oral History Narrative and Memory Project. The interviews, most of them with young, educated, and secular Afghan Americans whose families came to the United States after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, tell a different story of 9…
A Girl's Journey into the Well of Forbidden Knowledge
The GLQ Gallery features Allyson Mitchell's 2010 installation for the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, A Girl's Journey into the Well of Forbidden Knowledge. In a plus-sized version of a sculpture gallery, two large ladies, in luminescent gold and silver, face two walls of books, attached to each other and to a giant crochet brain overhead by a crochet rope that links their crotches to the brain. Mitchell recreated a version of the Lesbian Hers…
Depression: A Public Feeling
This work crafts a cultural analysis that can adequately represent depression not as medical pathology but as a historical category, a felt experience, and a point of entry into discussions about theory and contemporary culture
Depression: A Public Feeling
A key inspiration for this book's desire to think about depression as a cultural and social phenomenon rather than a medical disease has been my collaborative engagement with other scholars under the rubric of Public Feelings.Begun in 2001 both nationally and at the University of Texas, our investigation has coincided with and operated in the shadow of September 11 and its ongoing consequences-a sentimental takeover of 9/11 to underwrite militari…
Depression is ordinary: Public feelings and Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother
What if depression, in the Americas at least, could be traced to histories of colonialism, genocide, slavery, exclusion, and everyday segregation and isolation that haunt all of our lives, rather than to biochemical imbalances? This article seeks alternatives to the medical model found in most depression memoirs by considering how the epistemological and methodological struggles faced by a scholar of the African diaspora confronted by the absent …
Queering Archives
Queering Archives: A Roundtable Discussion" provides a reflection on histories of queer archives studies, while marking out some key directions for the field's future development. As a broad conversation about the career of the queer archival, as both intellectual project and political practice, this discussion focuses on developments and limits within North American queer studies of the archive, which emerges as a central object of analysis and …
Articulating the Global and the Local: Globalization and Cultural Studies
Sexuality’s Archive: The Evidence of the Starr Report
Sociology (22 works) · Gender Studies (19 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Art (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Feeling (8 works) · Lesbian (8 works)