“Loneliness in a beautiful place”: Collaboration as queer methodology, techné, and modality of remembering

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Acknowledgments

Authorship is equally shared. We are grateful to Dan Brouwer, and to the editors, contributors, and readers for engaging and extending his memory.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1 Throughout, quotes from Dan (with his collaborators) are highlighted to note his posthumous presence within and contribution to our collaborative voicing.

2 Daniel C. Brouwer and Charles E. Morris III, “Decentering Whiteness in AIDS Memory: Indigent Rhetorical Criticism and the Dead of Hart Island,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 107, no. 2 (2021): 164, 176, https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2021.1905868.

3 Daniel C. Brouwer and Adela C. Licona, “Trans(affective)mediation: Feeling Our Way from Paper to Digitized Zines and Back Again,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 33, no. 1 (2016): 78, https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2015.1129062.

4 Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa Ede, “Collaborative Authorship and the Teaching of Writing,” in The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature, ed. Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994), 425.

5 Brouwer and Licona, “Trans(affective)mediation,” 81.

6 Andrea Zeffiro and Mél Hogan, “Queered by the Archive: No More Potlucks and the Activist Potential of Archival Theory,” in Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change, ed. Andrew J. Jolivétte (Bristol, UK: Policy Press), 44.

7 Lunsford and Ede, “Collaborative Authorship and the Teaching of Writing,” 431.

8 Daniel C. Brouwer and Robert Asen, eds., Public Modalities: Rhetoric, Culture, Media, and the Shape of Public Life (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2010), 3.

9 Brouwer and Asen, Public Modalities, 19.

10 We wish to make clear that when we speak of institutionalized processes of tenure and promotion, we are not referring to a singular institution but to the broader systems in which we are all implicated. We endeavor to invite others, and ourselves, to more deeply consider how we have internalized and (dis)embodied which forms of scholarly labor are most valuable.

11 Daniel C. Brouwer et al., “Toward a Critical Pedagogical Syllabus of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic,” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 8, no. 5 (2012): 125, http://liminalities.net/8-5/syllabus.pdf.

12 Kimberlee Pérez and Daniel C. Brouwer, “Potentialities and Ambivalences in the Performance of Queer Decorum,” Text and Performance Quarterly 30, no. 3 (2010): 318, https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2010.483098.

13 Pérez and Brouwer, “Potentialities and Ambivalences in the Performance of Queer Decorum,” 317–318.

14 Sharon Patricia Holland, Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000), 4–5.

15 Daniel C. Brouwer and Linda Diane Horwitz, “The Cultural Politics of Progenic Auschwitz Tattoos: 157622, A-15510, 4559, … ,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 101, no. 3 (2015): 549, https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2015.1056748.

16 Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou, Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2013), 118.

17 Butler and Athanasiou, Dispossession, 122.

18 Butler and Athanasiou, Dispossession, 118.

19 Daniel C. Brouwer, “Risibility Politics: Camp Humor in HIV/AIDS Zines,” in Brouwer and Asen, Public Modalities, 231–2.

20 Pérez and Brouwer, “Potentialities and Ambivalences in the Performance of Queer Decorum,” 322.