Event
Patrick Anderson: An Archive Fever
Tuesday, March 17, 2026 17:00to18:30
McCall MacBain Arts Building
160, 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0G5, CA
Join the Department of English for "An Archive Fever", a talk by Professor Patrick Anderson
聽(UC San Diego) will discuss his most recent book, The Lamentations: A Requiem for Queer Suicide, and the intimate, sometime impossible-to-bear relationships between queer archives and mortality.
March 17, 5 pm, Arts 160
Patrick Anderson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at UC San Diego, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow; he is also faculty affiliate of Critical Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Native American/Indigenous Studies. He is the author of three books 鈥� So Much Wasted (Duke, 2010), Autobiography of a Disease (Routledge, 2017), and The Lamentations: A Requiem for Queer Suicide (Fordham, 2024) 鈥� and the co-editor (with Jisha Menon) of Violence Performed (Palgrave, 2009).
This event is free and open to all.