Ann Cvetkovich

Ann Luja Cvetkovich (born 1957) is a professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin and professor emeritus in the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University. Until 2019, she was the Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was the founding director of the LGBTQ Studies program in 2017. She has published three books: ''Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism'' (1992); ''An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures'' (2003); and ''Depression: A Public Feeling'' (2012).

She co-edited ''Articulating the Global and Local: Globalization and Cultural Studies'' (1996) with Douglas Kellner, as well as ''Political Emotions: New Agendas in Communication'' (2010) with Janet Staiger and Ann Reynolds. Cvetkovich also co-edited a special issue of ''Scholar and Feminist Online'', entitled "Public Sentiments", with Ann Pellegrini. She is also a former co-editor of ''GLQ'' with Annamarie Jagose.

A number of well-known scholars have drawn on Cvetkovich's work, including Jack Halberstam, Heather Love, Sara Ahmed, Jonathan Alexander, and Deborah Gould.

In her scholarship, Cvetkovich engages with feminist and queer theory, affect and feeling, archival theory, oral history, and the everyday effects of trauma. Her interdisciplinary work includes documentary film, memoir, music and dance performance, literature, and visual arts. Provided by Wikipedia