I'm a research and instruction librarian at Wellesley College. I earned my Ph.D. M.A. in Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University in 2009 (M.A. in 2000), and my M.L.I.S. from the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University in 2003.

My primary research fields are:

Critical archival studies

Cultural studies of science and technology

Visual cultural studies

Disability studies

Gender and sexuality studies

My research interests include:

Critical library instruction - developing a critical-pedagogical/liberatory approach to library and research instruction

Archival practices and principles (e.g., documentation advocacy, provenance), and how these are enacted inside and outside of institutional archival spaces

The politics of historical memory and public cultural practices to manage historical memory

Scholarly and artistic work that explores the materiality of the ephemeral

Creative documentation projects

Genetic genealogy and personalized genetic histories

Queer archive activism (following Juhasz); archiving from the ground-up

Classificatory systems, practices and logics (and their effects)

Radical librarianship

Zine libraries and independent media centers

Drag king cultures

& practice:

Letterpress printing & book arts!

Burlesque & queer cabaret performance!

Reading graphic novels & YA lit!

Porch-sitting and porch-gardening!