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Ann Cvetkovich

Professor Emeritus

Degrees:Ph.D. and M.A. English (Cornell), B.A. Literature and Philosophy (Reed College)
Email:anncvetkovich@cunet.carleton.ca
Website:www.anncvetkovich.com

Professor Emerita, Dr. Ann Cvetkovich, is a distinguished scholar who served as Director and Professor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation from 2019 to 2022. During her tenure, she was instrumental in the renaming of the institute, guiding the transition from the former name to the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation. This change reflected a broader, more inclusive vision that encompassed not only women’s and gender studies but also Sexuality Studies, Disability Studies (est. 2018), and Critical Race Studies (est. 2021).

Leading up to 2019, she was the Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism (Rutgers, 1992); An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Duke, 2003); and Depression: A Public Feeling (Duke, 2012).  She co-edited (with Ann Pellegrini) “Public Sentiments,” a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, and (with Janet Staiger and Ann Reynolds) Political Emotions (Routledge, 2010). She has been co-editor (with Annamarie Jagose) of GLQ:  A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Her current writing projects focus on the current state of LGBTQ archives and the creative use of them by artists to create counterarchives and interventions in public history.