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The Emergent Matter of Archives : a Rhetorical Investigation of the Queer University of Louisville ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository Electronic Theses and Dissertations 5-2019 The mee rgent matter of archives : a rhetorical investigation of the queer formation of the Williams-Nichols archive. Richard Wysocki University of Louisville Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd Part of the Rhetoric Commons Recommended Citation Wysocki, Richard, "The mee rgent matter of archives : a rhetorical investigation of the queer formation of the Williams-Nichols archive." (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3228. https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/3228 This Doctoral Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ThinkIR: The nivU ersity of Louisville's Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ThinkIR: The nivU ersity of Louisville's Institutional Repository. This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has retained all other copyrights. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE EMERGENT MATTER OF ARCHIVES: A RHETORICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE QUEER FORMATION OF THE WILLIAMS-NICHOLS ARCHIVE By Rick Wysocki B.A., Chapman University, 2013 M.A., University of Louisville, 2015 A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Louisville in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English/Rhetoric and Composition Department of English University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky May 2019 THE EMERGENT MATTER OF ARCHIVES: A RHETORICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE QUEER FORMATION OF THE WILLIAMS-NICHOLS ARCHIVE By Rick Wysocki B.A., Chapman University, 2013 M.A., University of Louisville, 2015 A Dissertation Approved on April 5, 2019 by the following Thesis or Dissertation Committee: __________________________________ Thesis or Dissertation Director Name Dr. Karen Kopelson __________________________________ Second Committee Member Name Dr. Mary P. Sheridan __________________________________ Third Committee Member Name Dr. Frances McDonald ___________________________________ Fourth Committee Member Name Dr. Jacqueline Rhodes ii DEDICATION This dissertation is dedicated to my parents, who have supported me in countless ways. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Dr. Karen Kopelson for her guidance, feedback, and patience as she worked with me on this and other projects over the past six years. I have grown as an academic in so many ways with you as my mentor. Thank you to Dr. Mary P. Sheridan for your careful reading and for countless meetings during which we both talked entirely too fast. To Dr. Frances McDonald, thank you for keeping my theory honest. And thank you to Dr. Jacqueline Rhodes for agreeing to read on this project— your knowledge and feedback was invaluable. Many thanks to Patrick Danner and Chris Scheidler for reading drafts of this work. To my parents, thank you for always supporting me. To Allison, thank you for your endless love and patience. I cannot express how thankful I am for your care and support. Thank you to April, Ginsberg, and Queenie for your friendly, furry faces. Finally, my deepest thanks to David Williams. Your life’s work is an inspiration and a model for the stakes of archives and knowledge-making more generally. iv ABSTRACT THE EMERGENT MATTER OF ARCHIVES: A RHETORICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE QUEER FORMATION OF THE WILLIAMS-NICHOLS ARCHIVE Rick Wysocki April 5, 2019 Scholarly conversations across disciplines have asked researchers to consider archive as a site of power—often framed in terms of archives’ potential impact on history and practices of knowledge making more generally. This dissertation contributes to such conversations as they relate to queer archives and material rhetoric, exploring the Williams-Nichols Archive, an LGBTQ archive housed at the University of Louisville. I extend interdisciplinary scholarship to argue for approaching archives as rhetorical emergences rather than as containers or locations for discovery, a perspective that foregrounds the archive and archival practices as the subject of research. Drawing on archival research and oral history interviews, I develop a materialist perspective on the rhetoric of the Williams-Nichols Archive that synthesizes insights from queer rhetoric and new materialism to consider the complex rhetoric involved in the collection, curation, and maintenance of LGBTQ archives. This research is guided by the following primary questions: How have material phenomena—such as collection, circulation, classification, and the physical matter of archival holdings—participated in the Williams-Nichols Archive’s rhetorical emergence? What can this tell us about LGBTQ archives, and how might an attention to these materialities expand understandings of both queer rhetoric and v archival theory in our field? Ultimately, I argue that attending to materiality reveals less visible forms of rhetoric and queer archival activism that can expand our understandings of queer rhetoric, material rhetoric, and archives. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ........................................................................................................................1 The Williams-Nichols Archive ........................................................................... 4 Chapters .............................................................................................................. 7 Chapter I Disclosing the Williams-Nichols Archive: Theories, Methodologies, and Ethics ...................................................................................................................................11 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 11 Archival Orientations .......................................................................................... 11 Queer (Archival) Rhetorics................................................................................. 18 New Materialism: Dispatches from the Fourth Settlement ............................... 26 Disclosures, Ethics, and Methodology.............................................................. 39 Chapter II Making the World Through Silence: Disidentifications in a Queer Archive ..............................................................................................................................45 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 45 Gays and Lesbians United for Equality ............................................................ 49 Why GLUE? ..................................................................................................... 51 Queer Rhetoric, Silence, and Disidentification ................................................. 56 GLUE and Politics ............................................................................................ 61 Conclusion ........................................................................................................ 72 Chapter III Materializing Affect in Archival Production ............................................79 Materializing Affect .......................................................................................... 82 vii Queer Correspondence...................................................................................... 78 Archival Ethics................................................................................................. 106 Conclusion ...................................................................................................... 110 Chapter IV Queer Archives, Rhetorical Accretion, and Entanglement: Queer Curatorial Rhetoric and the Formation of the Williams-Nichols Archive ...............112 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 112 On “Material Rhetoric” ................................................................................... 118 The Matter of the Williams-Nichols Archive ................................................. 122 Queer Curatorial Rhetoric in Institutional Space............................................ 131 Archival Records ............................................................................................ 140 Conclusion ...................................................................................................... 143 Conclusion ......................................................................................................................145 References....................................................................................................................... ..151 Primary Sources .............................................................................................. 151 Secondary Sources .......................................................................................... 154 Curriculum Vitae ...........................................................................................................166 Education ........................................................................................................ 166 Dissertation ..................................................................................................... 166 Research .......................................................................................................... 166 Teaching .........................................................................................................
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