The two readings below are especially useful for contextualizing and theorizing the Downtown Collection and the nature of archives. They are accessible to all NYU students.
- Muñoz, José Esteban. “Ephemera as Evidence: Introductory Notes to Queer Acts.” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 8/2 (1996): 5–16.
- Yale, Elizabeth. “The History of Archives: The State of the Discipline.” Book History 18 (2015): 332–359.
Image credit: Nelson Sullivan, still image from Bunny Chase [1986]. Nelson Sullivan Papers, Fales Library.