Stories of Straightening Up: Reading Femmes in the Archives of Romantic Friendship

Pamela VanHaitsma is an assistant professor in Communication Arts and Sciences and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University, where she also serves as an associate director of the Center for Humanities and Information. She is the author of Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education (University of South Carolina Press, 2019). Early research for the book was recognized with the Rhetoric Society of America’s 2015 Charles Kneupper Award. Her scholarship has appeared in journals including Advances in the History of Rhetoric, College Composition and Communication, Peitho, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Rhetoric Review, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly.