My research is broadly concerned with the aesthetic and political efficacy of our everyday practices in those places where literature, art and social activism meet. Current book-length projects include The Order of Resistance (an ethnography  investigating the  role of archives and archiving in the work of feminist activists, scholars and cultural workers from 1990 and 2010) and Adjusted Margin: The Copy Machine as a Co-Agent of Social Change (a media history investigating how copy machines supported the rise of feminist and queer counter-publics in the late twentieth century). In addition to my research in the fields of book and publishing history, cultural studies and media studies, I am a writer and literary editor. My most recent collection is Fieldnotes, a forensic (2010).  

Creating new and productive models of knowledge production and literary and artistic inquiry is an integral part of my work as a researcher, educator, and cultural worker. As an educator, I seek to stage encounters between writers, artists, curators, and students both on campus and in the community. As a researcher, I participate in many of the cultural organizations and social movements at the center of my research. These interventions reflect a commitment to promoting reciprocity and fostering strategic alliances between the university and community-based organizations in all aspects of my work.  

Personal website: www.kateeichhorn.com

• LCST 2211, Museums, Archives and Identity
  
  
• LCST 2450, Introduction to Media Studies
  
  
• LFYW 1000, Texts and Technology
  
  
• LCST 3029, Discourse and Difference
  
  
• LCST 3872: Civic Action and Interruption
  
  
• LNGC 1464, City Passages: 19th-century Paris, 21st-century New York
  
  
• LFYW 1000, Ugly Feelings: Affects and Public Culture

Selected Books

Fieldnotes, a forensic. Poetry. Toronto: BookThug, 2010.

Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics. Edited collection. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2009.

Fond. Poetry. Toronto: BookThug, 2008.

“Cursive Hand in a BlackBerry Field: A Poetics of Lists.” The New Everyday (Fall 2010) (Online journal). 

“D.I. Y. Collectors, Archiving Scholars and Activist Librarians.” Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal, 39 (2010),622–646.

“Notes on an Investigation with Selections from Forensic Vernacular.” Cultural Studies < = > Critical Methodologies, 10 (April 2010),100-106.

“Past Performance, Present Dilemma: A Poetics of Archiving Sound.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 42 (2009).

“Notes on an Investigation with Selections from Forensic Vernacular .” Cultural Studies< = > Critical Methodologies (2009).

“Archival Genres: Gathering Texts and Reading Spaces.” Invisible Culture, 12 (Spring 2008) (Online journal). 

“Breach of Copy/rights: The University Copy District as Abject Zone.” Public Culture, 18 (2006), 551-571.

“Sites Unseen: Ethnographic Research in a Textual Community.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 14, (2001), 565-578.