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

After a period of closure for updates, the NEWW VRE is now open again. Password holders can edit records and enter new information, and are invited to do so. Other visitors can consult the data, or request a password by sending a message to Suzan van Dijk (suzan.van.dijk@huygens.knaw.nl).

Other questions can be addressed to:
Amelia Sanz (amsanz@ucm.es) and Marie Nedregotten Sørbø (mns@hivolda.no) (Chairs of the WWIH Board)
Janouk de Groot (janouk.de.groot@huygens.knaw.nl) (DANS-assistant at Huygens-ING)

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

Programme of the Conference

WG Meeting Report 

Full list of the WWIH Working Group Members

Colleagues interested in joining the WWIH WG can contact Dr. Beatrijs Vanacker <beatrijs.vanacker@kuleuven.be>

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