Women Writers in History

Overview

The underrepresentation of women in cultural historiography has challenged a number of feminist responses in the form of supplementary female canons since the 1970s. 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 the digital repository NEWW Women Writers, which serves as a collaborative research tool for the working group. The group also pursues methods of incorporating this new knowledge at the different levels of education. Further concerns consist in finding openings for outreach and for funded, future research projects.

Links

The NEWW VRE: http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/womenwriters

Latest News

Women Writers in History Working Group Meeting and Conference
Cultural Encounters between North, South, West and East: Mapping the Digital Future of European Women Writers before 1900.
University of Edinburgh, 27–28 June 2018, organized by Séverine Genieys-Kirk

Read more here

Members

• Nadezhda Alexandrova (University of Sofia, Bulgaria)
• Susan Brown (University of Alberta, Canada)
• Biljana Dojčinović (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
• Carme Font (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
• Séverine Genieys-Kirk (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
• Hilde Hoogenboom (Arizona State University, U.S.A)
• Päivi Lappalainen (University of Turku, Finland)
• Isabel Lousada (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• Katja Mihurko Poniž (University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia)
• Alicia Montoya (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
• Marie Nedregotten Sørbø (Volda University College, Norway)
• Magdalena Ożarska (University of Kielce, Poland)
• Viola Parente-Čapková (University of Turku, Finland)
• Henriette Partzsch (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
• Orsolya Réthelyi (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest (ELTE), Hungary)
• Anne-Birgitte Rønning (University of Oslo, Norway)
• Amelia Sanz (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
• Francesca Scott (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Netherlands)
• Ursula Stohler (University of Basel, Switzerland)
• Beatrijs Vanacker (University of Leuven, The Netherlands)
• Margit van der Steen (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Netherlands)
• Suzan van Dijk (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Netherlands)
• Ton van Kalmthout (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Netherlands)
• Zsuzsana Varga (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
• Gudrun Wedel (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
• Jasmine Westerlund (University of Turku, Finland)
• Kerstin Wiedemann (University of Lorraine, France)

The complete list of Working Group members and collaborators is in the DARIAH Wiki and shall be made available on the forthcoming “Women Writers in History” pages.

Board of the DARIAH WWIH Working Group

• Prof. Amelia Sanz – Chair, Collaboration with National Libraries and other stakeholders in Cultural Heritage
• Prof. Marie Nedregotten Sørbø – Chair, International collaborative research projects
• Dr. Nadezhda Alexandrova – Head of the Editorial Board of the WWIH Brill series
• Dr. Viola Parente-Čapková – Communication
• Dr. Isabel Lousada – Contacts between participating countries
• Prof. Katja Mihurko Poniž – Connection between research and teaching
• Prof. Alicia Montoya – Connecting between projects
• Prof. Anne-Birgitte Rønning – Technical and development issues
• Dr. Beatrijs Vanacker – Administration of WG-members
• Dr. Suzan van Dijk – Contact with IT-department Huygens ING and collaboration with Wikipedia and other forms of citizen science