Riding, Scarring, Knowing

This essay captures the author’s emergent thinking about how her exploration of autobiographical performance with a seventy-five-minute solo piece, Horseback Views, staged at three academic conferences and a professional venue over the last three years, functions as a queer mode of historiographic research into nineteenth-century women’s performance of equestrianism. Heretofore exclusively a scholar, she discusses the queerness of embodied performance that puts her in a moving—at times vigorously moving—relationship to “an archive of feelings”—the record in print, pictures, heirloom riding equipment, and her own flesh and blood—of equine impact on women’s lives. That physical movement connects her corporeally and affectively to the material and the moment, bringing the historically consequential and queering movements of horses into the present for public and scholarly attention

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feeling · Historiography · Horseback riding · Literature · Queer · Sociology · Visual arts · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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