30th anniversary – British Women Writers Association

The organizers of the 2022 BWWC invite papers and panel proposals interpreting the theme of “Borders” in global British women’s writing across the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This year’s BWWC calls for papers that contextualize that history bearing in mind changes in the field itself, as it turns towards the global and the transatlantic. “Borders” may be broadly interpreted to include scholarship concerning borders within and among scholarly disciplines, borders within form and genre, political and geographical borders, socio-economic boundaries and borders, and borders among individuals or identities, especially between and within historically marginalized racial and ethnic communities.

Continue to read the full CFP: https://sites.baylor.edu/bwwc2022/cfp/

Send abstracts to BWWC2022@baylor.edu.

“BORDERS”

Baylor University, Waco, Texas, welcomes scholars to the website for the Thirtieth Annual British Women Writers Association conference, May 19-21, 2022! The BWWC 2022 theme of “Borders” and the supporting logo encourage reflection about widening the borders of the discipline. Who is included among the writers studied? What geographic boundaries could expand to include overlooked, colonized, or misrepresented lands? How might contemporary scholars disrupt historical boundaries between literatures, people, cultures, and disciplines to uncover and make evident intersectionality?

To start the conversation and to encourage dialogue about these questions, this website offers an interactive discussion forum where association and conference participants can engage with one another in the months and days ahead of the conference. Join the discussion here.

About the Logo

The conference logo is designed with two purposes: to foreground diverse voices of women writers from the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and to show, through its circular structure, a commitment to equity and welcoming. The circular “border” line around the outside of the inner circle gives the logo movement, creating the sense of borders widening. Writers represented in the logo are (from the center top, clockwise): Mary Seacole, Toru Dutt, Isabella Bird, Krupabai Satthianadan, Phillis Wheatley, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The background image is a map drawn by Shanawdithit, a member of the Beothuk people from what is now called Newfoundland. Shanawdithit (1801-1829) documented the culture of the Beothuk nation.

UPDATE May 2021: These positions have been filled.

As the British Women Writers Association (BWWA) approaches its 30th anniversary in June 2022, we would like to invite interested scholars of the long 18th and 19th centuries to help us expand participation in the Association’s governance. Specifically, we invite applications to serve on our new Association Board.

The Association Board is the governing body of the BWWA and will contain nine members, in addition to the members of the Executive Committee and past Chairs. They are encouraged to attend the annual board meeting during the annual British Women Writers Conference (BWWC); they recruit potential conference hosts and promote the BWWC in professional venues; and they help solicit papers and/or organize panels for the annual conference. Association Board members will be appointed for 2021-22, and afterward will be elected to serve terms of a minimum of two years, and may stand for re-election.

If you are interested in serving on the Association Board, please send a letter of interest and your CV by December 20 to BWWA Co-President Roxanne Eberle: eberle@uga.edu.

Eligibility:

Scholarly expertise in the British women writers of the long 18th and 19th centuries
Any rank (graduate students, independent scholars, tenure-track professors, contingent faculty, etc.)