Ann Garascia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3460105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Garascia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Garascia |
| SIGNATURE | GARASCIA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6048-739X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Her Flowers are Her Children”: Cultivating Victorian Houseplant Motherhood in Colonial Archives
This essay introduces the figure of Victorian “plant mother” whose houseplant amities provide an alternative model of motherhood within nineteenth-century colonial archives. I argue that compiling instances of her dispersed presences across archival documents reveals a flexible avatar of motherhood who restores maternity’s embodied and emotional dimensions. Not simply an agent of colonialism, the plant mother and her plants provide moments of tra…
Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum: Exchanging Views of Empire
Impressions of Plants Themselves: Materializing Eco-Archival Practices with Anna Atkins'sPhotographs of British Algae
Three ghostly white plants float suspended atop the Prussian-blue background of a 27 x 21 cm print (fig. 1). Their leafy fronds are so exquisitely fine that in some places the blue bleeds through their tissues to expose delicate quiltings of veins and willowy inflorescences. Opaque white patches mottle each of the plants to signal where multiple layers of plant flesh overlap. The interplay of shapes, color, and textures in the image captures an a…
Disjecta membra: The archival seriality of Cecilia Glaisher’s Nature Printed (1857)
The Freak Show’s ‘Missing Links’: Krao Farini and the Pleasures of Archiving Prehistory
This article offers a new perspective on Victorian freakery and prehistory by reading the career of Krao Farini, the ‘Missing Link’, through lenses of queer theory and archival studies. Born in Laos with hypertrichosis, a condition that produces an abundance of body hair, Krao transformed into living proof of the ‘Missing Link’ upon migrating to London in the 1880s. I contextualize Krao’s exhibition by situating her show within contemporaneous vi…
Impressions of Plants Themselves: Materializing Eco-Archival Practices with Anna Atkins'sPhotographs of British Algae
Three ghostly white plants float suspended atop the Prussian-blue background of a 27 x 21 cm print (fig. 1). Their leafy fronds are so exquisitely fine that in some places the blue bleeds through their tissues to expose delicate quiltings of veins and willowy inflorescences. Opaque white patches mottle each of the plants to signal where multiple layers of plant flesh overlap. The interplay of shapes, color, and textures in the image captures an a…
The Freak Show’s ‘Missing Links’: Krao Farini and the Pleasures of Archiving Prehistory
This article offers a new perspective on Victorian freakery and prehistory by reading the career of Krao Farini, the ‘Missing Link’, through lenses of queer theory and archival studies. Born in Laos with hypertrichosis, a condition that produces an abundance of body hair, Krao transformed into living proof of the ‘Missing Link’ upon migrating to London in the 1880s. I contextualize Krao’s exhibition by situating her show within contemporaneous vi…
Disjecta membra: The archival seriality of Cecilia Glaisher’s Nature Printed (1857)
Impressions of Plants Themselves: Materializing Eco-Archival Practices with Anna Atkins'sPhotographs of British Algae
Three ghostly white plants float suspended atop the Prussian-blue background of a 27 x 21 cm print (fig. 1). Their leafy fronds are so exquisitely fine that in some places the blue bleeds through their tissues to expose delicate quiltings of veins and willowy inflorescences. Opaque white patches mottle each of the plants to signal where multiple layers of plant flesh overlap. The interplay of shapes, color, and textures in the image captures an a…
Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum: Exchanging Views of Empire
“Her Flowers are Her Children”: Cultivating Victorian Houseplant Motherhood in Colonial Archives
This essay introduces the figure of Victorian “plant mother” whose houseplant amities provide an alternative model of motherhood within nineteenth-century colonial archives. I argue that compiling instances of her dispersed presences across archival documents reveals a flexible avatar of motherhood who restores maternity’s embodied and emotional dimensions. Not simply an agent of colonialism, the plant mother and her plants provide moments of tra…
Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art history (1 works)