Jamie Ann Lee

Interests

Research

Theories of Archival Practice and Production; Digital, Community, and Moving Image Archives; Media Studies; Digital Humanities; LGBTQ Studies; Queer Theory; Theories of Affect & Embodiment

Teaching

Theories of Archival Practice and Production; Digital, Community, and Moving Image Archives; Media Studies; Digital Humanities; LGBTQ Studies; Queer Theory; Theories of Affect & Embodiment

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Lee, J. A. (2021). Producing the Archival Body. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429060168
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  Producing the Archival Body draws on theoretical and practical research conducted within US and Canadian archives, along with critical and cultural theory, to examine the everyday lived experiences of archivists and records creators that are often overlooked during archival and media production.Expanding on the author’s previous work, which engaged archival and queer theories to develop the Queer/ed Archival Methodology that intervenes in traditional archival practices, the book invites readers interested in humanistic inquiry to re-consider how archives are defined, understood, deployed, and accessed to produce subjects. Arguing that archives and bodies are mutually constitutive and developing a keen focus on the body and embodiment alongside archival theory, the author introduces new understandings of archival bodies. Contributing to recent disciplinary moves that offer a more transdisciplinary emphasis, Lee interrogates how power circulates and is deployed in archival contexts in order to build critical understandings of how deeply archives influence and shape the production of knowledges and human subjectivities.Producing the Archival Body will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of archival studies, library and information science, gender and women’s studies, anthropology, history, digital humanities, and media studies. It should also be of great interest to practitioners working in and with archives

Chapters

• Lee, J. A. (2021). Oral History Storytelling Methods: Towards a Queer-Chronology and Archival Implications for the Queer/ed Archives. In LGBTQ Oral History. Routledge.
• Lee, J. A., Suagee-Beauduy, K., & Montes, S. (2022). Naming Diversity: Non-dominant Representations in Community-Based Archives. In The Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposium: An Anthology of Works. ACRL.
• Lee, J. A. (2018). Archives. In History of American Sexuality. Routledge.
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  The Routledge History of American Sexuality will bring together leading scholarsin history and related fields to provide a far-reaching but concrete history ofsexuality in the United States. It will follow Raymond Williams’s “keywords”concept, in which individual essays interrogate a provocative word or conceptand unpack its multiple uses and meanings across time and disciplines. Throughkeywords -- as opposed to topics or periods -- individual essays can reflect acreative, synthetic approach to thinking about complex ideas, debates, anddifferences of historical and cultural context. Such an approach providesmaximum flexibility in the classroom because instructors and students will beable to access competing and even contradictory approaches to complexhistories of American sexualities in both national and transnational perspective.The main objective of The Routledge History of American Sexuality is tointroduce advanced undergraduate and graduate students at all levels to thefoundational concepts in the history of American sexuality. It will feature that areintellectually provocative and methodologically rigorous but that are alsoaccessible to general readers. We believe the book will be an invaluableresource as a reference guide for anyone interested in the history of sexualityand, more specifically, for teachers of undergraduate and graduate courses inAmerican history, sexuality studies, and a variety of related fields.
• Lee, J. A. (2017). Moving Images & Queer Affectivities: The Multiple Subjectivities of 'Madame Behave'. In Locating Queerness in the Media: A New Look(pp 147-160). Lexington Books of Rowman & Littlefield.
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  Locating Queerness in the Media: A New Look examines how media images of the LGBTQ community create a universal consciousness about the existence of queer people, ranging from tragic and villainous to upbeat and courageous. In this book, contributors explore how our media world invites a tension that marginalizes the LGBTQ community. It examines what a queer sensibility means and how the queer community is creating new ways to study itself. Throughout the book, contributors explore specific media images that resonate throughout the media, casting the community in a particular manner. Ultimately, its goal is to promote an understanding of the LGBTQ community.
• Lee, J. A. (2015). Beyond Pillars of Evidence: Exploring the Shaky Ground of Queer/ed Archives and Their Methodologies. In Research in the Archival Multiverse. Melbourne, Australia: Monash University Press / Social Informatics Monograph Series.

Journals/Publications

• Lee, J. A. (2021). Archives as Spaces of Radical Hospitality. Journal of Australian Feminist Studies.
• Lee, J. A. (2019). in critical condition: (Un)Becoming Bodies in Archival Acts of Truth-Telling. Archivaria.
• Lee, J. A., & Cifor, M. (2019).

  Evidences, Implications, and Critical Interrogations of Neoliberalism in Information Studies

  . Journal of Critical Library & Information Studies, JCLIS. doi:10.24242/jclis.v2i1.122
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  Guest editors Jamie A. Lee and Marika Cifor introduce the issue on Evidences, Implications, and Critical Interrogations of Neoliberalism in Information Studies.
• Lee, J. A., & Cifor, M. (2019). Introduction to Special Issue on "Evidences, Implications, and Critical Interrogations of Neoliberalism in Information Studies". Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 2(2).
• Lee, J. A., & Cifor, M. (2019). Special Issue: “Evidences, Implications, and Critical Interrogations of Neoliberalism in Information Studies”. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, JCLIS, 2(2).
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  Neoliberalism, as economic doctrine, as political practice, and even as a "governing rationality" of contemporary life and work, increasingly encroaches on the Library and Information Studies field. The shift towards more conscious grappling with social justice and human rights debates and concerns has led to LIS scholarship that opens the possibility for addressing neoliberalism and the visible and often hidden roles it plays.Simultaneously practitioners and scholars across LIS regularly face the material realities of such delimiting neoliberal encroachments through continued and largely unquestioned practices that continue to uphold inequities. Despite its far-reaching impact, neoliberalism has yet to be substantively addressed in LIS. This special issue will provide a much-needed transnational forum to critically engage the genealogical threads that constitute the LIS field by interrogating the discursive and material evidences and implications of neoliberalism.Through its myriad definitions and instantiations throughout Information Studies and its associated domains (including archives, libraries, information policy, digital humanities, communication, media studies) and critical theory more broadly, this special issue will offer new ways to think about praxis as both practice and theory critically inform one another. Addressing neoliberalism provides a vital forum for international scholars and practitioners to come together to explore cross-cutting issues, such as: human rights frameworks as situated locally and globally, economic (in)justices, postcoloniality, decolonization, agency, access, ethics, Nation-State identities and citizenship, and belonging.
• Bentley, E., & Lee, J. A. (2018). Performing the Archive: POP-UP Pedagogies and a Queered Feminist Rhetoric of (Dis)Location. Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, 21(1), 183-211.
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  Abstract: This article brings the traditional archival paradigm and the pop-up movement into conversation with each other through a close reading of the POP-UP Archive of the Arizona Queer Archives, AQA, in collaboration with FARR, a coalition of feminist scholars, artists, and activists of public scholarship. We trace the interdisciplinary processes of planning and performing the POP-UP Archive while also attending to the pedagogical-political possibilities created by community-university-activist partnerships, more generally, and community-based archival productions, more specifically. The POP-UP decentered institutionalized educational and archival models in a turn towards community-based sites of inquiry and oft-marginalized forms of knowledge production. We contend that the AQA POP-UP Archive facilitated queered feminist rhetorics of (dis)location to provoke unruly, embodied, and sensuous encounters with local bodies of knowledge. Through interconnected readings of POP-UP participant reflections and the lesbian feminist oral histories, we delineate the embodied, affective, and temporal capacities of the POP-UP’s (dis)locational rhetorics. We provide a “POP-UP Archive Toolkit & Field Notes” as a means of encouraging fellow scholars, activists, and archivists to extend this approach into localized archival and community contexts. Keywords: rhetorics of (dis)location, queer theory, community archives, feminist pedagogy, oral history, performance, (dis)locational placemaking
• Cifor, M., & Lee, J. A. (2017). Towards an Archival Critique: Opening Possibilities for Addressing Neoliberalism in the Archival Field. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies (JCLIS), 1(1), 1-22. doi:https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v1i1.10
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  Neoliberalism, as economic doctrine, as political practice, and even as a "governing rationality" of contemporary life and work, has been encroaching on the library and information studies (LIS) field for decades. The shift towards a conscious grappling with social justice and human rights debates and concerns in archival studies scholarship and practice since the 1990s opens the possibility for addressing neoliberalism and its elusive presence. Despite its far-reaching influence, neoliberalism has yet to be substantively addressed in archival discourse. In this article, we propose a set of questions for archival practitioners and scholars to reflect on and consider through their own hands-on practices, research, and productions with records, records creators, and distinct archival communities in order to develop an ongoing archival critique. The goal of this critique is to move towards "an ethical practice of community, as an important mode of participation." This article marks a starting point for critically engaging the archival studies discipline along with the LIS field more broadly by interrogating the discursive and material evidences and implications of neoliberalism.
• Lee, J. A. (2017). A Queer/ed Archival Methodology: Archival Bodies as Nomadic Subjects. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies (JCLIS), 1(2), 1-27. doi:https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v1i2.26
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  This article highlights the particular - embodied - ways in which the human record can be collected, organized, and preserved. Engaging both archival and queer theories, the understanding of body-as-archives and archives-as-body is instantiated in the oral history record from one genderqueer poet. This poet's narration can be understood as a nomadic one of multiplicities, undoings, and metamorphoses. The far-reaching possibilities of the ongoing histories of the simultaneous becoming and unbecoming - archived (un)becomings - are at play and embodied throughout this archived oral history. The archives can produce a dizzying effect through which, I argue, archivists can resist the urge to settle, to neatly organize, and to contain the archival records to consider new ways to understand and represent the dynamic (un)becomings. Through the interpretive frame of the nomadic, the archives can be understood as a site of (un)becomings and as a space that can hold moving living histories.
• Lee, J. A. (2016). Be/Longing in the Archival Body: Eros and the 'Endearing' Value of Material Lives. Archival Science, 16(1), 33-51. doi:10.1007/s10502-016-9264-x
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  This paper explores the nature of the archival body and the ways in which it is temporally situated and yet also always in motion. Applying transdisciplinarylogics, it argues that the affective nature of archival productions follows the machinations of metamorphoses and (un)becoming. Using two queer/ed andtransgender archives as sites of inquiry, the paper explores the erotic and affective nature of accessing the archival body in its multimodal forms. Although touching, smelling and stroking what remains of distinct material lives might elucidate arousal and certain other affective and haptic responses within the visitor to the archives, the records themselves hold and cradle their creators and their storytelling techniques along with their relationships to longing for and belonging in the archival body of knowledge. This approach suggests that understanding of the record and its affects can be enriched by temporal perspectives that acknowledge distinct and diverse temporalities and promote generative understandings of potentially meaningful progressions of time and everyday rhythms embodied within archival materials.Keywords: Queer; Embodiment; Affect; Belonging; Temporality; ArchivalbodyHis
• Lee, J. A. (2016). Mediated Storytelling Practices and Productions: Bodies of Affective Evidences and Archives. Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies (MeCCS) Journal, 9(6), 74-87.
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  Special Issue on Together While Apart: Mediating RelationshipsEdited by Patricia Prieto-Blanco and Maria SchreiberThis special issue of Networking Knowledge seeks to explore how interpersonal relationships are mediated in contemporary contexts. Digital technologies and practices associated with them enable us to interact with our social network of support in a seemingly easy way: we just need to use the touch of a finger to show that we care. However, it also takes the same effort and the same fingertips to demonstrate hate. Interrogating the pragmatics of mediated affection and disaffect has become a necessity. In mediated interpersonal relationships, the intimate and the emotional are often subjected to a set of infrastructures, somewhere else called affordances (Chemero, 2003; Wright and Parchoma, 2011), as well as to set of practices (Couldry, 2002). The contributions that make up Together While Apart? highlight the emotive dimension of mediated communication. The common thread of all contributions to this issue is the focus on how relationships, intimacy and (dis)affect are constituted and negotiated through media.Published: December 9, 2016

Presentations

• Lee, J. A. (2018, April). “Performing the Archives: Oral Histories IN and OUT OF Time”. Southwest Oral History Association Conference. Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA: Southwest Oral History Association.
• Lee, J. A. (2018, January). “Arizona Archives Matrix Explained,” panel presentation with Nancy Godoy (Arizona State University archivist). Arizona Archives Summit. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Archives Alliance.
• Lee, J. A. (2018, January). “What does it mean to do ‘queer archiving’ in the Arizona Queer Archives?”. Gallery Talk, Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center. Tucson, AZ: Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center.
• Lee, J. A. (2018, June). “For the Time Being: Tracing the Archival Record as Queer-Chronology” paper on the panel titled “Archival Temporalities: The Violences of and Liberatory Possibilities for Records and their Social Lives” with Professors Michelle Caswell (UCLA), Marika Cifor (Indiana), and Tonia Sutherland (Alabama). Temporal Belongings and the Social Life of Time Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland: University of Edinburgh.
• Lee, J. A. (2018, September). “New Strategies Beyond Soft Money: Fundraising as a Sustainability Strategy for Community-Based Archives”. Architecting Sustainable Futures: Exploring Funding Models in Community-Based Archives Symposium. New Orleans, LA: Mellon Foundation.
• Lee, J. A. (2017, Fall). Methods of Be/Longing: Oral History Practices and Prodcutions. Oral History Association Conference. Minneapolis, MN.
• Lee, J. A. (2017, Fall). Nomadic Subjectivities in Archival Theory & Practice. Thinking Its Presence: The Ephemeral Archive Conference. University of Arizona: Poetry Center.
• Lee, J. A. (2017, Fall). POP-UP Archives as Place-based Pedagogies: A Study on the Archival Body. Institute for LGBT Studies DEEP DISH Lecture Series. University of Arizona: Institute for LGBT Studies.
• Lee, J. A. (2017, February). Performing the Archives: POP-UP Pedagogies and Archival Affectivities. 2017 Lesbian Lives Conference. University of Brighton, Brighton, UK: Queer Life Research Hub, University of Brighton.
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  ABSTRACT:Interdisciplinary scholar Ann Cvetkovich, who writes about feminism, queer theory, and ‘the archive,’ suggests in An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures that “Queer performance creates publics by bringing together live bodies in space, and the theatrical experience is not just about what’s on stage but also who’s in the audience creating community” (2003, p. 9). Following Cvetckovich’s lead in attending to living bodies in space—whether archival bodies of knowledge or the participants in an archival event—I consider the forms of participation within such performances along with the concept of participatory pedagogy. In this participatory presentation, I bring the traditional archival paradigm and the pop-up movement into conversation with each other through a close embodied and performative reading of the POP-UP Archives of the Arizona Queer Archives in collaboration with FARR, a coalition of feminist scholars and activists of public rhetoric. I offer first-person narratives of performers, audiences, and those original interviewees whose oral histories have been opened up to playful repurpose. Through affect and performance theory, I analyze the participatory ethos of such archival productions that cross the threshold into the archives and then back out into the streets while complicating the terrain of place-based pedagogical practices that pull together community and academia in creative and generative ways. The major question that I seek to answer is: What does it mean to perform the archives?
• Lee, J. A. (2017, January). On Women's Collections. Arizona Archives Summit. Tempe History Museum, Tempe, AZ: Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records.
• Lee, J. A. (2017, October). On Decolonizing the Archives. Arizona Archives Fall Symposium. Arizona State Historical Society: Arizona Archives Alliance, Arizona State Archives.
• Lee, J. A. (2017, Summer). Identifying and Dismantling White Supremacy in Archives: Developing a Plan of Action, panel presentation. Society of American Archivists, SAA. Portland, OR.
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  Hands-on panel presentation with Michelle Caswell (UCLA) and Ricky Punzalan (Maryland).
• Lee, J. A. (2017, Summer). Performing the Archival Body: Animating Records in Place through POP-UP Pedagogies. Archival Education Research Institute, AERI. University of Toronto's iSchool, Toronto, Ontario.
• Lee, J. A. (2016, August). Complicating Matters: Challenges of Normativity in the Building of the Arizona Queer Archives. National Diversity in Libraries Conference on the panel 'Telling Different Stories: Evaluating Impact of Archives on Communities'. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA: National Diversity in Libraries Conference.
• Lee, J. A. (2016, February). Archival Bodies as Nomadic Subjects: (Un)Becomings and Reconfigurations. Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium (CLAPS). University of Arizona: UA Libraries.
• Lee, J. A. (2016, February). Archival Bodies: Ethos and Ethics of Embodied Productions (Special Speaker). 7th International Conference on Information Law and Ethics. Pretoria, South Africa.
• Lee, J. A. (2016, July). Archival Bodies: Ethos and Ethics of Embodied Productions. Archival Education Research Institute (AERI). Kent State University, Kent, OH: Archival Education Research Institute.
• Lee, J. A. (2016, June). Arizona's LGBTQ Heritage and Pioneers ~ panel presentation with Nancy Godoy and Marshall Shore. Arizona Historic Preservation Conference. Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Historic Preservation Conference.
• Lee, J. A. (2016, November). On Arizona's LGBTQ Archives ~ panel presentation with Nancy Godoy (Chicano/a Research Collection, ASU) and Marshall Shore (Historian). Arizona Library Association Conference. Tucson, AZ: Arizona Library Association.
• Lee, J. A. (2016, November). Technologies of Be/Longing: Documenting Storytelling Practices and Productions. American Studies Association, Panel titled 'Queer Archival Be/Longing and Other Memory AIDS'. Denver, CO: American Studies Association.
• Lee, J. A. (2016, November). Toward a Theory of (Un)Becoming: Archiving Nomadic Bodies. National Women's Studies Association Conference, panel on 'Bodies of Evidence: Re/Membering Archives'. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: National Women's Studies Association.
• Lee, J. A. (2016, September). Archival Bodies: Toward a Theory of (Un)Becoming. School of Geography and Development's Fall 2016 Colloquium Series. School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona: School of Geography and Development.
• Lee, J. A. (2015, July). Archival Bodies as Nomadic Subjects: (Un)Becomings & Reconfigurations. Archival Education Research Institute (AERI). University of Maryland: AERI.
• Lee, J. A. (2015, November). Archival Bodies in Critical Condition. National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference. Milwaukee, WI: NWSA.
• Lee, J. A. (2015, November). The Archives as the Emerging Knowledge of Self. National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference. Milwaukee, WI: NWSA.
• Lee, J. A. (2015, October). Be/Longing in the Archival Body: Material/isms and the Affective Twists and Turns of the Queer/ed Archives. Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
• Lee, J. A., & Licona, A. C. (2015, September). aguamiel: secrets of the agave ON WATER. Arts & Environment Cinematic LunchInstitute of the Environment, University of Arizona.
• Lee, J. A., & Licona, A. C. (2015, September). aguamiel: secrets of the agave ON WATER. Transformative Digital Humanities Conference. University of Maryland.

Creative Performances

• Lee, J. A., Licona, A., Bentley, E., Peres, A., & Ramirez, A. (2016. Engaging Unruly Archives through POP-UP Pedagogies ~ hand-on roundtable. National Women's Studies Association Conference. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: National Women's Studies Association.

Others

• Lee, J. A. (2018, August). Archival Legibility: Sustainability through Storytelling across Generations. Invited essay for Architecting Sustainable Futures blog. https://medium.com/community-archives/archival-legibility-legitimacy-sustainability-through- storytelling-across-generations-d0849a4f346d
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  Invited essay for Architecting Sustainable Futures blog and symposium that was held in New Orleans, LA in mid-September. Essay was one of five that led discussions about community archives and the challenges and promises of long-term sustainability.