Rachel Mattson works at the intersections where archival practice meets queer political & aesthetic desire. She currently manages Digital & Special Projects in the Archives of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and is a core member of the XFR Collective[xfrcollective.wordpress.com] and the Digital Library Federation's working group on Government Records Transparency & Accountability. Her writing has appeared in a diversity of publications, including in books published by Routledge and Thread Makes Blanket Press. She holds a PhD in U.S. History from NYU (2004) and an MLIS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2014). rachelmattson.wordpress.org[rachelmattson.wordpress.org].
Portrait collage by Kate Sorenson