Category: BWWC

Announcements, BWWC

Travel Grant App, BWWC ’19, Due 4/1

Kirstyn Leuner

Graduate students, independent scholars, and contingent faculty are invited to apply for a BWWA travel grant for BWWC 2019. The deadline for travel grant submissions is April 1st. 

To qualify for a BWWA travel grant, applicants must:

  • Be currently enrolled as full time graduate students;
  • Be currently employed in non-tenured, part-time, or adjunct positions; or
  • Have completed their doctorates within the last ten years and be unaffiliated with any university.

Please submit the following information as an attachment to lisa.hager@uwc.edu by April 1, 2019:

  • A copy of your conference proposal
  • A brief cover letter specifying:
  • Award being applied for: Graduate Student Travel Award or Independent Scholar/ Contingent Faculty Travel Award
  • Information regarding your previous affiliation with the BWWA
  • Anticipated travel distance
  • Any other pertinent details of employment.

Submission Directions:

  • All of the application documents should be part of one single attachment file.
  • The attachment should be a MS Word doc or Adobe pdf.
  • The file name should start with the applicant’s last name (ex. smith_bwwcapp.doc).
  • The subject line of the email should indicate:
    • Award being applied for: Graduate Student Travel Award or Independent Scholar/ Contingent Faculty Travel Award
    • Period that best fits the project: early to mid 18th-century, late 18th-century to early 19th-century, mid 19th-century to early 20th-century
Alicia Carroll

Associate Professor
Faculty Advisor
BWWC 2019
English
9030 Haley Center
Auburn University
Auburn AL 36849
Office phone: 334-844-9058
Fax: (334) 844-9027
Announcements, BWWC, CFP

BWWC 2019: “Movement,” April 25-27

Kirstyn Leuner

Julius_Caesar_Ibbetson_-_George_Biggins'_Ascent_in_Lunardi'_Balloon_-_WGA11831The 2019 British Women Writers Conference will take place on the plains of Auburn Alabama at Auburn University. The conference will take place from April 25 through Saturday, April 27, 2019. The theme for the conference is “movement.”

From transatlantic crossings, transnational diasporas, mobility studies, and the organization of literary history, the idea of movement is rich in significance for the study of British women writers. Our conception of both periods and places is widely defined, and we invite papers that will contribute to a rich discussion of the diversity of women’s writing. Please send a 500-word abstract and a brief bio to bwwc2019@gmail.com by January 5, 2019 [extended deadline].

For more information, see our CFP on the conference website.

 

Image credit: Julius Caesar Ibbetson’s painting “George Biggins’ Ascent in Lunardi’ Balloon” (1785), [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Julius_Caesar_Ibbetson_-_George_Biggins%27_Ascent_in_Lunardi%27_Balloon_-_WGA11831.jpg

Announcements, BWWC

Travel Grant Info, BWWC 2018, Due 2/16

Kirstyn Leuner

austin-247_640Graduate students, independent scholars, and contingent faculty are invited to apply for a BWWA travel grant for BWWC 2018. The deadline for travel grant submissions is February 16, 2018. The details below are also listed on the conference website.

To qualify for a BWWA travel grant, applicants must:

• Be currently enrolled as full time graduate students;
• Be currently employed in non-tenured, part-time, or adjunct positions; or
• Have completed their doctorates within the last ten years and be unaffiliated with any university.

Please submit the following information as an attachment to lisa.hager@uwc.edu by February 16, 2018:

• A copy of your conference proposal
• A brief cover letter specifying:
– Award being applied for: Graduate Student Travel Award or Independent Scholar/ Contingent Faculty Travel Award
– Information regarding your previous affiliation with the BWWA
– Anticipated travel distance
– Any other pertinent details of employment.

Submission Directions:

• All of the application documents should be part of one single attachment file.
• The attachment should be a MS Word doc or Adobe pdf.
• The file name should start with the applicant’s last name (ex. smith_bwwcapp.doc).
• The subject line of the email should indicate:
– Award being applied for: Graduate Student Travel Award or Independent Scholar/ Contingent Faculty Travel Award
– Period that best fits the project: early to mid 18th-century, late 18th-century to early 19th-century, mid 19th-century to early 20th-century

Announcements, BWWC

Info for BWWC 2017 Attendees

Kirstyn Leuner

Dear BWWC attendees,

The week of the 25th anniversary conference of the BWWC is [here!], and we’re sending along our welcome email with special events information so you may plan your stay.
We wish you safe travels and look forward to welcoming you in Chapel Hill! Please email us with questions or concerns anytime.
Doreen & Lauren
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Find all conference updates at bwwc17.web.unc.edu.

Our hashtag for live-tweeting and live-gramming is #BWWC2017. Feel free to list your twitter handle in your PowerPoint or mention it before you begin your talk so attendees may tag you as they live-tweet your session. Thank you for supporting us online!
Follow us on Twitter @BWWC2017 and on Instagram as bwwc2017.

Please see the latest conference program at https://bwwc17.web.unc.edu/program/
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WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY
 
Self-Guided Tour of the Ackland Art Museum, Wednesday through Sunday

The BWWC Steering committee proudly presents a tour of the Ackland Art Museum to accompany the conference. All conference attendees are invited to visit these pieces in person during their stay in Chapel Hill or to study these works on our website. The Ackland is just a few steps from the Carolina Inn and is open from 10am to 5pm on Wednesdays through Saturdays, and from 1pm to 5pm on Sundays. Admission is free.

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WEDNESDAY
 
Pre-Conference Reception on Wednesday, 7pm
We’re starting this year’s series of events with a Pre-Conference Reception at Hyde Hall on the UNC Campus on Wednesday evening at 7pm. This event is included in your registration. Hyde is less than five minutes away from the Carolina Inn and we will mark the way so you can find it easily. Please see a walking map here.
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THURSDAY
 
Breakfast at the Carolina Inn, 7:00am-8:30am (included in your registration)
 
Opening Reception on Thursday, 7pm

We invite you to join us for our Opening Reception buffet in the splendid John Lindsay Morehead Lounge, Graham Memorial, on the UNC campus, at 7pm on Thursday. A dinner ticket can be purchased for $40 at the registration desk (cash or check only). Graham Memorial is right across from Hyde Hall, and we will mark the way for you.

Pub Crawl on Thursday, 9pm

Please join us for a Pub Crawl on Thursday evening, following the Opening Reception. It is the perfect opportunity to socialize with fellow BWWC attendees and explore Chapel Hill’s bar scene. We are meeting at 9pm on Thursday, right outside Graham Memorial on the UNC campus. More information about the different pubs here. We’re happy to organize walking groups and Uber rides for attendees to ensure that everyone gets home safely.

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FRIDAY

Breakfast at the Carolina Inn, 7:00am-8:30am (included in your registration)
 

Digital Paleography: A Beginner’s Workshop on Text Encoding and MS Letters, Friday, 10:30am

Registered workshop attendees may meet Rae Yan and Grant Glass at 10:15am outside the Carolina Inn to join a walking group to the Genome Science building where the workshop will be held. Click here for more information about the workshop.

Rare Books Exhibit, Friday, 2:30pm-4:30pm
Conference attendees wishing to explore the Rare Books Exhibit may join several walking groups that will start at the Carolina Inn’s main entrance and head for the Wilson Special Collections Library. Dr. Paula Feldman (University of South Carolina) has kindly agreed to present remarks at 4:00pm.
  • 2:15 Group led by Andrew Kim
  • 2:45 Group led by Anne Fertig
  • 3:15 Group led by Ally Palisoul
  • 3:45 Group led by Michele Robinson
Cocktail Hour and Banquet, Friday, 7pm-10pm

Our celebratory banquet is included in your conference registration and will be held at the Carolina Inn at 8pm. Conference attendees wishing to bring a non-registered guest to the banquet may purchase a banquet badge at the registration desk for $40. The banquet is preceded by a cocktail hour (cash-bar) and Chapel Hill’s famous bluegrass music program, “Fridays on the Front Porch,” at the Carolina Inn. Those in the mood for a light stroll after the evening meal are welcome to join Jane S. Gabin for a candle-light campus tour at dusk.

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SATURDAY
 
Breakfast at the Carolina Inn, 7:00am-8:30am (included in your registration)
 
Performance of “The Song Cycles of Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head,” Saturday, 1:30pm
Elizabeth Dolan (Lehigh University) has been working with composer Amanda Jacobs to set Smith’s Beachy Head for piano and mezzo soprano. Together they identified twenty-six songs in five cycles, which Amanda has set beautifully to music, accompanied by singer Shelley Waite. Jacobs and Waite will present all twenty-six songs for the very first time. The performance takes place in the Hill Hall auditorium (Hill Hall is across from Hyde Hall).
Plenary: Supporting Contingent Faculty, Saturday, 3:15pm
Drs. Miranda Yaggi (Indiana University), Cynthia Current (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and Jenny Pyke (Wake Forest University) invite scholars at all career stages to join in a robust, no-holds-barred brainstorming session centered around supporting the research of non-tenure-track professionals. More information on the session here.

Transgender 101 Workshop, Saturday, 3:15pm

Dr. Lisa Hager (University of Wisconsin, Waukesha) invites you to participate in this special workshop on transgender and gender non-conforming identities, issues, lives, and activism in our workplaces and communities. More information here.
British Women Writers Association’s 25th Anniversary Celebration: Champagne, Cupcakes, & Awards, Saturday, 7pm
Please join us once more in the John Lindsay Morehead Lounge, Graham Memorial, for an hour of delicious desserts, the official announcement of our four BWWA travel award winners, reminiscences spanning 25 years of BWWA conferences, and a preview of the 2018 BWWC at Austin, Texas.
Dinner Groups on Saturday, 8pm
If you’re free on Saturday night, please sign up for one of our 14 dinner groups to enjoy a great meal with friends old and new. The dinner groups will meet at 8pm outside Graham Memorial’s main entrance and head out at around 8:15pm. Look out for the sign with your restaurant!

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Doreen Thierauf & Lauren Pinkerton
Co-Chairs, British Women Writers Conference 2017
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Twitter: @bwwc2017
Announcements, BWWC

Transgender 101 Workshop and Discussion @ BWWC2017

Kirstyn Leuner

A Conversation about Best Practices for Supporting Transgender Folks in Higher Education & Beyond

This special session, organized and run by Lisa Hager (University of Wisconsin, Waukesha), will be held on Saturday, June 24, 2017, 3:15-4:45, in the Incubator, Hyde Hall. Link to website

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A central part of the ethos of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Association (BWWA) has always been its feminist politics—both in the scholarship on women writers it supports and its commitment to the work and professionalization of graduate students. If we want to continue to build on this legacy, we must make the BWWA’s feminist politics a truly trans-inclusive feminist politics.

Consequently, as we celebrate the BWWA’s twenty-fifth anniversary here in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, it is our responsibility to acknowledge and witness the violence, be it legal, physical, or social, that has been done to transgender and gender non-forming North Carolinians as a result of HB2 and its recent problematic “repeal.” We must also use this conference as a space to educate ourselves on transgender and gender non-conforming identities and issues so that we can support the lives and activism of transgender and gender non-conforming people in our workplaces and communities.

To these ends, this workshop will include the following three parts:

  • A basic introduction to transgender and gender non-conforming identities and key related concepts (please note: this portion of the session will assume no prior knowledge of these terms and concepts);
  • A discussion of North Carolina’s HB2, the grassroots activism of local LGBTQ organizations around this issue, and the deeply problematic repeal of this law;
  • A conversation about practical methods of welcoming LGBTQ+ people, especially transgender and gender non-conforming people, in higher education and our daily lives;
  • The goal of this session is to begin a thoughtful and ongoing conversation about and foster activism around issues of gender identity and sexuality in the BWWA, our home institutions, our communities, and our families.

All are welcome!

Announcements, BWWC

Remembering Pam Corpron Parker

Kirstyn Leuner

It is with deepest sympathy and heartfelt sadness that we share the news that Pam Corpron Parker passed away on August 2, 2016. Pam was the co-founder of the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association and the keeper of the spirit of this organization and its conference. She welcomed and inspired attendees, mentored graduate student organizers, and advised many organizing committees since the beginnings of the BWWA in 1991. She was an incisive scholar and dedicated teacher and friend to her students at Whitworth University and beyond. Our field and, indeed, our world is the lesser for her absence.

Here is a link to her obituary, where you can also leave a message in the guest book. 

As part of our 25th Anniversary conference at UNC-Chapel Hill, in June 2017, we will be sharing remembrances of Pam, and we will also pass them along to her family.

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Toasting the 20th Anniversary BWWC in 2012. L-R: Roxanne Eberle, Pam Corpron Parker, Troy Bassett, Donelle Ruwe
Announcements, BWWC, CFP

CFP: BWWC 2015

Kirstyn Leuner

Call for Papers (Updated 9/28/14)

BWWC 2015 CFP Image_Relations

23rd Annual Meeting of the British Women Writers Conference: “Relations”
June 25th-27th, 2015
Hosted by The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
at The Heyman Center, Columbia University

Relations

The British Women Writers Conference will engage the theme of “Relations” for its 23rd annual meeting to be held in New York City. The inspiration for this theme comes from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, who taught at the Graduate Center from 1998-2009, and whose investment in relations continues to inspire new ways of looking at the richness and variance of (dis)connection. One of her last courses, “Reading Relations,” explored literary constructions and alternative understandings of relationality (the syllabus for the course can be seen here). Sedgwick’s interdisciplinary approach informs our conference’s investments. In this spirit, we invite papers—as well as panel proposals—that focus on possible interpretations of and approaches to relationality across a broad spectrum of topics, methods, and disciplines. We would welcome investigations of interaction, exchange, correlation, or conjunction. Alternately, treatments might focus on relationality as a political, historical, global, social, personal, critical or textual phenomenon.

For paper proposals, please send a 300-word abstract and a short bio (in a single attachment) to bwwc2015@gmail.com by January 5, 2015. For full panel proposals, please compile all proposals, along with a brief rationale for the panel, into a single document. Papers and panels must address the theme and its application to British women’s literature of the long 18th- or 19th-centuries. Graduate students whose submissions are accepted may apply to receive a travel grant sponsored by the British Women Writers Association.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

Conceptual Relations:
Influence (literary or otherwise)
Subject-Object relations
Human-Animal relations
Human-Machine relations
Darwinian relations
Affect
Connection
Complementarity
Synthesis
Affiliation
Collaboration
Spatial arrangements/Bodies in space
Communication

Personal Relations:
Sexual relations/Intimate relations
Interiority
Domestic arrangements
Care-giving, professional and personal
Courtship/Marriage/Divorce
Familial Relationships/Kinship
Friendship

Global Relations:
Cosmopolitanism
Economic systems
Trade
Exploration
Anthropological interactions

Social/Political Relations:
Social arrangements
Class relations
Labor relations
Gender relations
Community
Political relationships
Revolutionary relations
Colonial relations
Race relations
Cross-national/cross-cultural relations
Historical connections

Critical/Textual Relations:
Theoretical approaches
Hermeneutic relations
Reader relations
Biographical relationships
Literary circles/networks
Relations between literary forms/genres/traditions/
conventions
Palimpsests

Pedagogical Relations:
Pedagogical approaches
Text-Media relations
Interdisciplinarity
Adaptations

Image caption: Dido Belle with her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray, formerly attrib. Johann Zoffany, 1779.

Announcements, BWWC, CFP

BWWC 2014 CFP Extension to Jan. 17th

Kirstyn Leuner

EXTENDED DEADLINE (1/17/14): British Women Writers Conference @ Binghamton University (SUNY): June 19-21, 2014

full name / name of organization:
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference
contact email:
bwwc2014@gmail.com

“REFLECTIONS”

22nd Annual Meeting of the British Women Writers Conference
June 19-21, 2014
Binghamton University, State University of New York

For the 22nd annual meeting of the British Women Writers Conference, we will focus on the theme of “Reflections.” Cross-disciplinary in scope and implication, we invite papers—as well as panel and roundtable proposals—to explore “reflections” as broadly as possible, whether they are physical or metaphysical; individual or cultural; social, historical or fictional; real or imagined; seen or unseen.

For paper proposals, please send a 300-word abstract and a short bio (in a single attachment) to bwwc2014@gmail.com by January 17, 2014. For full panel or roundtable/session proposals, please attach all proposals to a single email. Papers and panels must address the theme and apply to long 18th- or 19th-century, Romantic or Victorian women’s literature. For more information, please see our website at http://bwwc2014.wordpress.com.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

Reflective Objects and Spaces

Imagery of mirrors in women’s writing
Cemeteries, memorials, monuments; museums
Ruins
Shop-windows
Fashion/clothing; consumption/consumerism; advertising
Women in business/finance
Books (and readers)
Photography/photographs
Private spheres: homes/decor, women’s rooms, closets
Public spheres: public gardens, theaters, salons
Liminal spaces

Reflections of/on the Body

“Beauty”/appearance; body image
Youth/age
Changes in the female body: internal and external; psychological or
physiological; perspectives and attitudes regarding adolescence and
maturation, menstruation and menopause, motherhood and childbirth
Health/disease
Disability
Gender and sexuality
Body as reflection of the unconscious

Reflective Genres

Women’s life writing; women writing about women; biographical
or autobiographical reflection
Letters and journals; epistolary novel; transnational correspondence
Reviews/reception
Ekphrasis; reflections on/of visual arts (other arts) in literature
Histories/origins; the historical novel
Detective fiction
Travel writing
Medical writing
Metafiction; fiction about reading fiction; Romantic poetry

Textual Reflections

Repetition in form/structure
Doubling, doppelgängers; the uncanny
Dreams
Textual gaps or silences
Revisions/retellings of original stories
Creative Work: poetry, fiction, non-fiction inspired by BWWs

Reflective Moments

Epiphany
Memory/remembrance; Erlebnis and Erfahrung
Sensory reflection (smell, taste, sound)
Self and identity, self-recognition/narcissism
Death and (re)birth
“The mirror stage”
Desire/eroticism
BWWs and travel
Women’s rights/suffrage

Distorted Reflections

Repressed or displaced language
Translations
Cross-disciplinary reflections
Abstractions
The Gothic
The grotesque
(Re)imagining the past and future
“Aura”/mass reproduction
Madness, hysteria
Through the Looking-Glass

Reflective Possibilities
(Possible roundtables/special sessions)

British Women & Health/Medicine
British Women & American Women
British Women in Pop Culture/Film
British Women & Travel
British Women & the History of Women’s Rights
British Women & the Military
British Women Writers & Digital Humanities