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Jessica Lapp

Assistant Professor

Combined Degree Program Coordinator

Bio

Jessica Lapp is a critical archival studies scholar researching feminist and queer memory practices, theories of archival provenance and records creation, and the creation and circulation of digital surrogate records.

Teaching

INF1330H Archives Concepts and Issues 0.5 Credits

INF2104H Archives and Community 0.5 Credits

Specializations

Provenance and records creation, community archives, feminist and queer memory practices, digital surrogacy

Publications

  • Lapp JM (2019) “Handmaidens of History”: Speculating on the Feminization of Archival Work. Archival Science 19: 215-234. 
  • Lapp JM (2021) Posters with Glitter Issues: Exploring Archival (W)holes at the Newberry Library. Australian Feminist Studies 36(109): 278-296
  • Lapp JM (2023) “The Only Way We Knew How:” Provenancial Fabulation in Archives of Feminist Materials. Archival Science 23(1): 117-136
  • Lapp JM (2024) “Nothing Much was Lost”: Exploring Feminist Process as Records Creation. Archival Science.