Archer researches contemporary art and material culture, with an emphasis on modern textiles and garment histories. Further interests include critical and psychoanalytic theory, corporeal feminism, and performance studies. She is currently writing a manuscript, A Looming Possibility: Towards a Theory of the Textile, which considers how textiles are used to produce and maintain the limits of “legitimate” versus “illegitimate” forms of state violence. Her work has appeared in Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture. She is a regular contributor to SFAQ/NYAQ/AQ, where she writes and edits a regular column, “Style Wars: Critical Reflections on the Power of Style.”