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Professor Patrick Keilty on the academic value of archiving sexuality

Submitted on Friday, April 15, 2022

The McGill University Student Chapter of the Association of Canadian Archivists is creating an immersive blog series entitled PeepShow and Tell: Sex in Archives. For the first in their series of interviews, they spoke with Patrick Keilty, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto, and Archives Director of the Sexual Representation Collection.

Keilty’s research pertains primarily to the politics of digital infrastructures in the sex industries and the materiality of media in erotohistoriography.

In this interview he discusses what he likes most about his job, copyright, digitization and UofT’s “no topless boxes” policy. Read more about Professor Keilty’s work