About me
Alexandra Pucciarelli's research focuses on ethical practices in archival collections and explores the concept of "wounded landscapes." She employs autoethnography and discourse analysis to examine spectatorship within information spaces. Her dissertation, Counter-Mapping Memory: Jewish Belonging, Boundaries, and the Afterlives of Violence in Squirrel Hill, investigates memory, trauma, and spatial politics through counter-mapping practices at the site of the shooting, analyzing how archival materials and public memory intersect in the aftermath of violence. Her research aims to advance trauma-informed, justice-centered approaches to archival theory and methodology, with particular attention to affect, space, and community resilience. She serves as co-chair of the Museums and Memory group within the Memory Studies Association. She is also the recipient of the second annual Fine Fellowship for the study of 10/27 for her dissertation research.
