Alicia Montoya
Professor of French Literature and Culture, Radboud University
alicia.montoya@ru.nlWomen Writers in History
Overview
The underrepresentation of women in cultural historiography has been challenged since the 1970s by a number of feminist responses in the form of supplementary female canons. Women Writers in History takes this task a step further, and investigates historical sources until 1930 to find out whether female authors were read in the past. Evidence of readership, translations and commentary is contained in a database, which serves as a collaborative research tool for the working group. Its latest incarnation is a virtual research environment (VRE) named New approaches to European Women’s Writing (NEWW). The group also runs a BRILL book series and pursues methods of incorporating this new knowledge at the different levels of education through regional groups. Further concerns consist in finding openings for outreach and for funded, future research projects.
Latest News
- The CEEPUS Women Writers in History Network and the Women Writers Route Association held their week-long International Summer School ‘Intimacy in women’s writing and reading’ from 22 to 27 August 2022 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- The Women Writers Route was certified in June 2022 and becomes the 48th Cultural Route of the Council of Europe. It is the first of these tourism routes that demonstrate the shared and living cultural heritage of the different countries of Europe to be based in Slovenia and to focus specifically on women.
- A new portion of Isabelle de Charrière’s digitised correspondence has been launched; c. 900 of these letters are now available A symposium was held on November 23, 2021 to mark the occasion. Video recordings are available online.
Board
- Prof. Alicia Montoya – Chair, Radboud University database hosting and development, Coordinator of WWiH
- Prof. Amelia Sanz – Chair, Collaboration between research and teaching
- Dr. Isabel Lousada – Contacts between participating countries
- Prof. Katja Mihurko Poniž – Collaboration with the Central European Exchange Program for University Studies Network (CEEPUS)
- Prof. Marie Nedregotten Sørbø – International collaborative research projects
- Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan – Collaboration with DARIAH WGs and other women’s writing projects
- Dr. Suzan van Dijk – Collaboration with Wikipedia and other forms of citizen science
- Prof. Viola Parente-Čapková – Chair, Communication
Past Meetings and Workshops
- DARIAH Annual Event 2022: Athens, June 2022
- Women Writers in History Research panel
- DARIAH Annual Event 2019: Warsaw, May 2019
- Women Writers in History Working Group Programme
Internal Meeting Minutes
Membership
Colleagues interested in joining the Women Writers in History working group can contact Chair Alicia Montoya (contact details below). The full list the working group members, updated in July 2022, is available in a PDF.
Links
Regional teaching and research networks
- Central and South-Eastern Europe
- CEEPUS network Women Writers in History CIII-SI-1515-02-2122
- The Netherlands and Belgium
- Huizinga Research Network Women’s Writing in History
Affiliated research projects
About the reception of women’s writing
- The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700 (RECIRC)
- Texts on the move: Reception of women’s writing in Finland and Russia 1840–2020
About reception
- Measuring Enlightenment: Disseminating Ideas, Authors and Texts in Europe, 1665-1830 (MEDIATE)
Digital editions of the letters of women writers
- A.L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint’s letters
- La Correspondance d’Isabelle de Charrière / De briefwisseling van Belle van Zuylen
- Elektronska zbirka Pisma / Letters
Outreach
- Women Writers Route, a Council of Europe Cultural Route
Contacts
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Amelia Sanz
Professor Dr., Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Responsible for collaboration with national libraries
Responsible for collaboration with national libraries
amsanz@ucm.es -
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