Provided by Wikipedia Ann Luja Cvetkovich (born 1957) is a Professor and former Director of the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation (formerly the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies) at Carleton University in Ottawa. Until 2019, she was the Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she had been the founding director of the LGBTQ Studies Program, launched 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 has also 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. Furthermore, Cvetkovich has 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: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'' with Annamarie Jagose.
Cvetkovich's scholarship has been widely influential within academic circles. A number of well-known scholars have drawn on her 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, theories of the archive, and oral history. She has also argued for the significance of looking at the everyday effects of trauma. Her interdisciplinary work explores a wide range of cultural and artistic forms, including documentary film, memoirs, music and dance performances, literature, and visual art.
