Scholarship

Publications

“Accessing Transgender // Desiring Queer(er?) Archival Logics.” Archivaria 68 (Fall 2009). 123-140.

“Queering Feminist Rhetorical Canonization.” Rhetorica In Motion: Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies. Eds. Dr. Eileen Schell and K.J. Rawson. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. 39-52.

Rhetorica In Motion: Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies. Co-edited with Dr. Eileen Schell. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.

Book Reviews

Review of Sally Hines’ TransForming gender: Transgender Practices of identity, intimacy and care (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2007). Co-authored with Avery Brooks Tompkins. Journal of Gender Studies 19.1 (December 2010).

Forthcoming

“Archive This! Queer(ing) Archival Practices.” In Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflections on Ethically Responsible Research. Eds. Katy Powell and Pam Takayoshi. Hampton Press, forthcoming.

Work In Progress

“Queer Archives/Archival Queers.” Co-authored with Charles E. Morris III. For Re/Theorizing Writing Histories of Rhetoric. Ed. Michelle Ballif.

Overview

My scholarship is at the intersection of queer and rhetorical studies. I am interested in the ways that queer people theorize, preserve, access, and deploy history. In particular, I focus on transgender archiving–both separate from and in conjunction with LGB archiving–to better understand how transgender people and communities rhetorically relate to and use history.

In my future work, I plan study digital archives of queer and transgender history to consider the ways that the digital turn inspires new questions and considerations for queer and rhetorical historiography.

Dissertation Abstract (click for PDF)

Future Scholarship (click for PDF)

K.J. Rawson