Regina Kunzel will discuss the archives of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, the federal hospital for the mentally ill in Washington, DC, and what it reveals about the encounters of sexual and gender variant people with psychiatry and psychoanalysis in mid twentieth-century America.  Her talk brings new scholarship on archives in conversation with queer history as it examines the roles of psychiatric scrutiny and stigma in the making of modern sexuality.
Hosted by:  Department of Gender and Women's Studies

In conjunction with:  Department of English, Department of History, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center, School of Social Work, Spurlock Museum, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women's Resource Center