Feb 25, 4:30 PM: Julietta Singh, "No Archive Will Restore You"

Julietta Singh Associate Professor of English & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Richmond "No Archive Will Restore You" At once memoir, theory, poetic prose, and fragment, No Archive Will Restore You is a feverish meditation on the body. Departing from Antonio Gramsci’s summons to compile an inventory of the historical traces left in each of us, Singh engages with both the impossibility and urgent necessity of crafting an archive of the body. Through reveries on the enduring legacies of pain, desire, sexuality, race, and identity, she asks us to sense and feel what we have been trained to disavow, to re-member the body as more than itself. Julietta Singh is Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond, and a writer and academic who works at the intersections of postcolonial studies, feminist and queer theory, and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke University Press, 2018), and No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018). Her academic writing has been published in leading cultural theory journals including South Atlantic Quarterly, Cultural Critique, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Symploke, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Her creative work has appeared in venues such as American Poetry Review, Animal Shelter, Prairie Fire, Social Text, and Women & Performance. Part of the LGBTQ Speaker Series.

Date: February 25, 2019
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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