The ray on my horizon, #Twitterstorians? "Archival Silences, Histories of Gender" graduate course. Hit me with your recommendations 1/7

Taking its lead in particular from Black feminist thinking, this course has three main aims: to explore new recuperative feminist historiography, including emergent streams from economic history and intellectual history to trans history and digital history 2/

to identify a feminist canon stretching from Hortense Spillers, Joan Scott and Eve Sedgwick to Imani Perry, that is of use to historians 3/

and to bring forward the remarkable range of methodologies, techniques and forms of interpretation required to give a history to gender, from counting differently to presencing to critical fabulation. 4/

All these aims turn on the problem of archival silence and the potential for redress. 5/

Students will encounter an array of concepts of gender as well as a working terminology for contemporary feminist research, including revivified ideas of intersectionality, patriarchy and social reproduction 6/

Bringing together scholarship about a range of times and places, our overarching concern is to develop a set of feminist reading and writing practices to approach the archives of the past from our present day. 7/7