Taking "Social, Critical & Feminist Consciousness" to the Archives

Dear ENG 4938 Seminar,

In the interest of two reminders:

1. The Women Writers Project offers free access for the month of March, so I have invited you to use that as one of your repositories for Problem-Solving Exercise #3;
2. our next reading assignment (for Thursday 3/23) is Ramirez ("Being Assumed Not to Be") and Eubanks ("Mississippi on My Mind"). And yes, I'll ask you one more time to bring back Steedman chapter 6. Next time, I will open our discussion with some passages from her chapter to create a reflective backdrop for the other two essays.

Steedman, Davy, and Kirsch: Cultural Memory and the "Feminist" Archive

Dear Folks,

I promised I would bring two things back into our discussion:

• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's dohistory.org project
• Carolyn Steedman's "What a Rag Rug Means."

Promises kept.

Some Changes to Our Reading Schedule

Dear Archiving Folks,

Much to my chagrin, we cannot read everything. As promised, here are the changes I'd like to make to our reading schedule, allowing us to finish the discussions we need to finish in this unit on "Archiving for Social, Critical, & Feminist Consciousness." Please do make these changes in your schedules or on your syllabi:

• T Mar 7 - Steedman ch 6 "What a Rag Rug Means" and Davy "Cultural Memory and the Lesbian Archive"; please also have Kirsch "Feminist Research" at the ready, as we will likely put Steedman and Davy into conversation with the latter pages of her chapter
• Th Mar 23 - Eubanks "Mississippi on My Mind" and Ramirez "Being Assumed Not to Be"
• T Mar 28 - unchanged
• T Apr 18 - unchanged

Some Resources for Working in the Archives

Dear Archiving Folks,

I offer a reminder that next week's schedule has been reversed: Tuesday (2/21) we are in Special Collections to further explore the Leora Pruitt King papers in all their riches; Thursday (2/23) we are in the regular classroom for a discussion of archiving for social, critical, and feminist consciousness. Next week marks the beginning of our third unit, and in this unit we may begin to think and talk more explicitly about archival erasure.

Is Nellie Here?, and FSCW Mascot

Is Nellie here? Or here, somewhere?

Before Chief Osceola, there was this guy, and then ... that guy.

-Dr. Graban