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Women Writers in History

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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

  • Alicia Montoya

    Professor of French Literature and Culture, Radboud University

    alicia.montoya@ru.nl
  • Amelia Sanz

    Professor Dr., Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

    Responsible for collaboration with national libraries

    Responsible for collaboration with national libraries

    amsanz@ucm.es
  • Viola Parente-Čapková

    Professor, University of Turku, Finland

    viocap@utu.fi

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