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

Working group website: http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/womenwriters

Latest News

Call for Participation: Cultural Encounters between North, South, West and East – Mapping the Digital Future of European Women Writers before 1900

Members

• Nadezhda Alexandrova(University of Sofia, Bulgaria)
• Susan Brown(University of Alberta)
• Biljana Dojčinović(University of Belgrade)
• Carme Font(Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
• Séverine Genieys-Kirk(University of Edinburgh, Great Britain)
• 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)
• 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)
• Amelia Sanz(Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
• Francesca Scott(Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, 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, Netherlands)
• Suzan van Dijk(Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Netherlands)
• Ton van Kalmthout(Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, 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.

Special functions

• • Dr. Beatrijs Vanacker (KU Leuven/FWO, Belgium): WG membership list
  • Professor, Dr. Anne Birgitte Rønning (University of Oslo, Norway): technical and development issues
  • Associate Professor, Dr. Nadezhda Alexandrova (University of Sofia, Bulgaria): publishing activities, Brill series Women Writers in History
  • Dr. Isabel Lousada (New University of Lisbon, Portugal): collaboration with stake holders in cultural heritage