k.j. rawson
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Research Interests: Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, as well as the Coordinator of Digital Integration Teaching Initiative.
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I am an Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. I am also the Director of the Digital Transgender Archive and co-chair of the Homosaurus editorial board.
Before coming to Northeastern, I was an Associate Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. Prior to that, I was a Lecturer in the Division of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky. I earned my Ph.D. in 2010 from Syracuse University in the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric program, my Master’s degree in 2005 from the University of Colorado, Boulder in English Literature, and my Bachelor’s degree in 2003 from Cornell University in English Literature .
My scholarship is at the intersections of rhetoric, LGBT studies, digital humanities, and feminist and queer theory. Most of my work focuses on archives (in theoretical and material senses) and the ways that they facilitate the collection, organization, access, and use of queer pasts. I am particularly interested in transgender archiving–both separate from and in conjunction with queer archiving–to better understand how transgender people and communities, and practices of trans-ing gender, are documented. My recent work has been particularly focused on digital archives and the questions and considerations they prompt for queer and rhetorical historiography.
A central part of my current work is the project that I founded and direct, the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA). The purpose of the DTA is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. The DTA is an international collaboration among dozens of colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, and private collections. By digitally localizing a wide range of trans-related materials, the DTA expands access to trans history for academics and independent researchers alike in order to foster education and dialog concerning trans history. In support of this work, I was awarded an ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship for the 2015–2016 academic year and an ACLS Digital Extension Grant for the 2017–2018 academic year. The DTA is also the recipient of the 2017 C.F.W. Coker Award for Archive Description, presented by the Society of American Archivists.
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