S4.6: Shannon Devlin: Emotional Investments, Good Relationships & the Trouble With Graduation

My utmost apologies for the lengthy time between last podcast release and this one. Things have been a little busy and then just a little wonky around here. I’m sure that everyone can understand that, considering the Pandemic is pretty much making our lives which may not have been stable before…very much less so.

However, I am quite sorry to any listeners who like listening regularly if they missed having stable show “ness” and to the guests whose episodes I recorded before my brief few week break.

However, now I’m back in action and diving right in with my wonderful, talented and eloquent friend Shannon. I wish so much I could give her a hug right now. She’s so sweet and just has the best energy. I think you will hear it in our conversation. What a great asset to media archives and preservation and (for me personally) what a great pal to have!

As usual, here’s the podcast, and bio and cool links are below! Check out those links!

Shannon Devlin (she/they), is a film and media archivist, and recent graduate of the Master of Library Science program at Indiana University. While there she specialized in Archives and Records Management, and worked both for the Indiana University Moving Image Archive as well as for the Mass Digitization Preservation Initiative as an assistant to the Audiovisual Specialist. She was the 2019 Roselani Media Preservation Intern at the University of Hawaii at West Oahu’s ‘Ulu’ulu Moving Image Archive, and is currently working in the film lab at Memnon Archiving Services as well as continuing her role at the Indiana University Moving Image Archive.

Links:

IU Moving Image Archive

MDPI

Memnon @ IU

‘Ulu’ulu

Episode 10: Anne Marie Kelly- the Power of Oral History, a Good Haircut and Preservation As a Political Practice

Not only will this be the 10th episode of Archivist’s Alley but it is also Pride Month. Therefore, this month I thought it would be wonderful to showcase some of the most exciting work and wonderful queer archivists in the preservation community. I hope that you all are as thrilled about it as I am. It’s going to be a Fabulous month, in every sense of the word!

Full disclosure: I was incredibly moved putting together episode 10. Anne Kelly’s work, passion and eloquence is inspirational. I first met her while she was writing an excellent column on Katherine Hepburn called A Year With Kate which we talk about a bit on the show. Thanks to TCM Film Fest, we got to hang out even more and shared such great times. You’ll learn how she moved from TCMFF and this incredible 52-week Kate Hepburn extravaganza to interning with the ultra brilliant Teague Schneiter at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to her current position as the Program Specialist for New Dimensions in Testimony at the USC Shoah Foundation.


But our conversation focuses on much more. We talk about the critical nature of oral history and the oral tradition. Genocide and the fact that it is still a problem. It is on-going and it has not stopped and that many simply associate the term genocide with the Holocaust and that continues to allow people, entire cultures, to disappear.

I talk to Anne about her identity as a queer woman in the archival landscape, community and the thing that has brought her and I together so strongly for so many years: our love for and belief in the revolutionary nature of memory work.

I am so excited to present this episode for you to kick off a month where we need to support and celebrate each other and erase erasure now more than ever.

Guest Bio:

Anne Marie Kelly is a Project Specialist at the USC Shoah Foundation. She is a recent graduate with her Masters in Cinema & Media Studies from USC with publications in The Cine-Files and Spectator. Anne previously worked in film sound restoration for Deluxe Entertainment and consulted at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral History Projects on the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA Oral History Interviews collection.

Link to the USC Shoah Foundation: https://sfi.usc.edu/