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Kayla Elizabeth Campana

The Archive Scholar

Welcome, dear visitor. My name is Kayla. I am an interdisciplinary humanities PhD candidate in the Texts & Technology program at the University of Central Florida and the self-proclaimed Archive Scholar. I seek to share my educational and professional journey as a first-generation student, pursuing research in the humanities. My research explores the relationship between individuals (scholars, curators, archivists, and more) and the archive, specifically through a feminist lens. As a scholar engaged with the archive, my interest is in the relationship with the past to the present and future, and vice versa.

To quote Vernon Lee, I am "companioned by the past."