Knowledge Commons | Women also Know Literature | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/women-also-know-literature/ Activity feed for the group, Women also Know Literature. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 55fcc5d725bf985ad7a1a0be49a94ffe Sonia D. Andras deposited Sonia D. Andras - Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue (Conference Presentation, 2023) in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897243/ Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:00:24 -0400 Presentation of the paper "Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue" from 15 June 2023 at the ‪@EDERAPCE‬ Conference Titled "Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts/Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă" [See details: https://eder…[Read more]

]]> 0 98958b3614af4b05cd44abcdaa62df36 Cristina León Alfar created the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886888/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:37:33 -0400 08c9ec84ba78c7b562022bcc401d9b46 Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited "From Science Fiction to Futurism in Peruvian Literature" in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875802/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:03:58 -0500 Introduction to the bilingual anthology "Qhipa Pacha. Peruvian Futurism" and preliminary study about the origins and development of the science fiction genre in Peruvian letters since the 19th century. The anthology includes 14 short stories written by contemporary Peruvian and Peruvian-based authors, members of the Qhipa Pacha Collective. These…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd93e0f0e2bd97f6b4f10dacc0b1b1dd Rita Singer deposited DIEDERICH WESSEL LINDEN (fl.1745-1768; d.1769), medical doctor and minerologist in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865704/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:01:11 -0500 This biography of the German medical doctor and minerologist Diederich Wessel Linden (fl.1745-1768; d.1769) is the unabridged, pre-publication version of an accepted and revised article for publication in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. This version is also available as an online blog post:…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2608b68c4e47fa8ecc97a385d2cbb23 Rita Singer deposited Thomas Richards (1800-1877): A Bibliography in Progress in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852300/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:24:12 -0400 The following is a collection of identified fictional and non–fictional writing by Thomas Richards (1800-1877). Originally from Dolgellau, the young medical practitioner Richards published a considerable number of antiquarian and critical essays, editorials, travel writing, short stories and poetry in literary periodicals in England, Scotland a…[Read more]

]]> 0 78cce055150a015e89a8b60d89c82bd2 Rita Singer deposited The Picturesque and the Beastly: Wales and the Absence of Welsh in the Journals of Lady’s Companions Eliza and Millicent Bant (1806, 1808) in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852227/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:26:30 -0400 In spite of a burgeoning recognition of the Welsh language as part of a wider appreciation of Welsh culture at the beginning of the nineteenth century (see Constantine 2014: 124), Home Tour writing about Wales remained largely Anglocentric (Borm, quoted in Colbert 2012: 85). The journals written by lady’s companions, Eliza and Millicent Bant, in 1…[Read more]

]]> 0 f36db284711913114646a43634673ad1 Rita Singer deposited Introduction ['Minoritised Languages and Travel' special collection] in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851821/ Sat, 15 Jul 2023 02:26:31 -0400 This introduction to the MLO special issue “Minoritised Languages and Travel” provides an overview of the pieces in this collection in context with historical travel accounts in German about nineteenth-century Wales.

The contributions in this collection lay bare frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of soc…[Read more]

]]> 0 f55944db7cdea9428f4d804afeaa7280 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited "Mulieris Litterarum": Oral, Visual, and Written Narratives of Indigenous Elite Women. in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1779649/ Sun, 24 Apr 2022 02:23:57 -0400 Women’s literary expression in Latin America started as a crossroads of rhetorical practices and textual devices that included the knowledge and transmission of oral traditions, visual iconic narratives, tangible systems of record keeping, and the incorporation of the alphabetic script. I propose to look at the written production of Indigenous w…[Read more]

]]> 0 a5d26e7af3cfe70580668eafbfa6a7b5 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited "Sujeto colonial" [Colonial Subject] in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758825/ Thu, 18 Nov 2021 02:23:38 -0500 This essay-entry reviews and reflects upon the term "sujeto colonial" as a key concept of Latin American literary and cultural studies. A review of its definitions within the context of Latin American studies of colonialism and coloniality allows to observe (a) the criticism paradigms within which "sujeto colonial" has been defined in the last…[Read more]

]]> 0 54ba80c6aed945c42b6aa56cef2754bb Rita Singer deposited Liberating Britain from Foreign Bondage: A Welsh Revision of the Wars of the Roses in L. M. Spooner’s Gladys of Harlech; or, The Sacrifice (1858) in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721595/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:29:48 -0500 In the ten years following the publication of the infamous Reports on the State of Education in Wales (1847) that had classified the Welsh population as a vice-ridden nation of working-class drunkards and promiscuous hoydens, the middle-classes in Wales strongly rejected this Anglo-centric condemnation at first in the press and, later on, in…[Read more]

]]> 0 d13fddd0f179e994f4feb16c545af6f7 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Gender and Genre Bias: Women Writers & Networks in Latin America in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1715799/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 02:31:09 -0500 It is well known that the literary history of Latin America and its canon has been/is written by a patriarchal Eurocentric society that controls what constitutes national literature. It is also established that (colonial/contemporary) Latin American subjects in the periphery of the urban republic of letters are not included due to their gender…[Read more]

]]> 0 a7f957beb1f1c397bd1c77b84e504a0b Rita Singer deposited A Welshman on the Water: The Portrayal of In-Betweener Identities in Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s The Maid of Sker (1872) in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1715514/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 02:24:13 -0500 Published during a time of rapid colonial expansion, Richard Doddridge Blackmore's The Maid of Sker (1872) constitutes a conglomerate of fictional autobiography, historical and sensation novel. It takes the reader on a number of voyages to witness the most important British sea battles at the end of the eighteenth century. Considering the…[Read more]

]]> 0 3400756737c15eadcdeba2485528b5fa Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary PhD Fellowship: UVA, 2021 application cycle in the discussion Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/groups/women-also-know-literature/forum/topic/indigenous-studies-interdisciplinary-phd-fellowship-uva-2021-application-cycle/ Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:14:24 -0400 Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! The University of Virginia is thrilled to announce a new interdisciplinary PhD fellowship in Indigenous Studies, beginning Fall 2021. Any student admitted to a PhD program in the College of Arts & Sciences who intends to work in Indigenous Studies (art history, environmental science, history, religious studies,…[Read more]

]]> 3317abf8648396b2ec747ae1a8f082a5 Rita Singer deposited Bicultural Geographies: Narrating Anglo-Welsh Identities in the Novels Of Allen Raine in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1708815/ Fri, 18 Sep 2020 02:25:04 -0400 Written around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, Allen Raine’s novels and short stories predominantly depict life in a fictionalised version of the coastal area of south Cardiganshire in an unspecified but clearly Victorian past. Raine’s characters are portrayed as geographically and socially mobile as they overcome the met…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3fdc23d7a5782ac155d13175f35a207 Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680215/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 03:57:59 -0500 How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]

]]> 0 7daba9e942e4b79ce18307eea4aaa695 Cristina León Alfar started the topic New publication in the discussion Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/groups/women-also-know-literature/forum/topic/new-publication/ Sat, 15 Feb 2020 19:16:50 -0500 Alfar, Cristina León “Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 86, no. 3, Nov. 2019, pp. 789–819. (Available through ProjectMuse muse.jhu.edu/article/741025.)

]]> 23ee04d286721d7f71d305a1d66977ef Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Transatlantic Quechuañol: Reading Race through Colonial Translations in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1678575/ Sat, 15 Feb 2020 16:25:21 -0500 Translation is often described with opposed terms like loyalty and betrayal, even though the work of translation defies such a description. New research in translation studies argues for the value of mistranslation and untranslatables, especially in recovering Indigenous knowledge production. This study joins these efforts by documenting how…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6c879112c95b807d4eb6d2652972f4e Kate Koppy deposited Book Proposal for The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643222/ Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:26:11 -0400 The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture begins from the premise that fairy tales are a battleground in twenty-first century American culture. Hundreds of fairy tales enter the cultural space each year and are met with both acclaim and censure. Fairy tales are censured even as we consume them, but these cultural moments have been underexamined in…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b9f8dbed50bf5c2dca9dd6e188b2a54 Sheryl McDonald Werronen deposited An edition of Ambrósíus saga og Rósamunda based on BL Add 24 969 in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640791/ Thu, 23 May 2019 16:25:27 -0400 Ambrósíus saga og Rósamunda is a post-medieval Icelandic romance which belongs to a group of Scandinavian narratives utilizing the pound of flesh motif. It survives in 19 paper manuscripts from the 18th and 19th centuries, and it has never before been edited. The aim of the present edition is of an introductory nature, primarily to make the sa…[Read more]

]]> 0 907b4f5f1a71ef1d9c82ef0307eb737a Cristina León Alfar started the topic Another welcome and please post announcements! in the discussion Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/groups/women-also-know-literature/forum/topic/another-welcome-and-please-post-announcements/ Wed, 22 May 2019 12:05:48 -0400 Dear All,

I started this group almost a year ago.  We have 53 members and I hope more will join us.  Please invite others whom you may know.

We have a few members who have deposited their work with the group when uploading to the CORE Repository.  I hope more of you will do the same.  Also if there are any announcements you have or dis…[Read more]

]]> dcf9e4dc3dd04117a3ced40e82a6615f Penelope Geng deposited Jurisprudence by Aphorisms: Francis Bacon and the “Uses” of Small Forms in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633818/ Sat, 02 Mar 2019 04:00:14 -0500 The belief that Francis Bacon was, from the start, a stalwart defender of royal absolutism has prevailed in scholarship despite occasional comments about Bacon’s pluralist or collaborative legal and political imagination. Building on recent revisionist work, this article questions the standard historiography. It argues that Bacon’s jur…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddb6946bf9a3a7a5657eaec4713c1ad8 Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Literature as a Tribunal: The Modern Iranian Prose of Incarceration in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627182/ Sun, 23 Dec 2018 16:25:21 -0500 This essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose, with a focus on how literary texts function as a tribunal, delivering forms of justice missing from the existing legal system. It constructs from the prison memoirs of a range of dissident writers (Dashti, ʿAlavi, and Baraheni) a genealogy of prison consciousness in…[Read more]

]]> 0 8220056c6fedb00aae80fa5c5dbebfae Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Aesthetic Terrain of Settler Colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov’s Natives” (2018) in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1625836/ Sat, 15 Dec 2018 16:25:24 -0500 While Anton Chekhov’s influence on Katherine Mansfield is widely acknowledged, the two writers’ settler colonial aesthetics have not been brought into systematic comparison. Yet Chekhov’s chronicle of Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East parallels in important ways Mansfield’s near-contemporaneous account of colonial life in New Zealand…[Read more]

]]> 0 93ba15131fb324fc6cd538cd59fe0e5e Penelope Geng deposited Before the Right to Remain Silent: The Examinations of Anne Askew and Elizabeth Young in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1614795/ Wed, 08 Aug 2018 03:53:52 -0400 In recent years, Anne Askew has attained something of celebrity status among scholars of Tudor women’s writing and, more generally, of Tudor Reformation history. In the course of privileging Askew’s examinations above those of other female defendants (such as Elizabeth Young), scholars sometimes equate Askew’s rhetorical expertise with legal exper…[Read more]

]]> 0 4144efbc604f55e47d1e6d7ce692a7ce Cristina León Alfar started the topic Welcome to Women also Know Literature in the discussion Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/groups/women-also-know-literature/forum/topic/welcome-to-women-also-know-literature/ Sat, 16 Jun 2018 17:11:46 -0400 Welcome to Women also Know Literature.   If you are not yet a member, we hope that you will join us!

We are a group of literature scholars inspired by the efforts of "Women Also Know History," which has launched an impressive website dedicated to promoting and supporting the work of women historians.  We hope to do the same for women scholars of…[Read more]

]]> b81eb214887143aa7f8c1835b2ebb275 Cristina León Alfar created the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610919/ Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:59:28 -0400 0