Past Caucus Panels

Women’s Caucus Sessions

(Note: Papers were often given at lunches in the early years of the Women’s Caucus.)

1976 (Charlottesville, VA): Patricia Murphy, “Feminist Research in the 18th Century”
1977 (Victoria, BC): Business Meeting and Session combined
1978 (Chicago, IL): Luncheon, Session, and Business Meeting combined
1987 (Cincinnati, OH): Cynthia Caywood, “The Single Woman in Fact and Fiction”
1988 (Knoxville, TN): Deborah Caplan, “Eighteenth-Century Fictions of Domesticity”
1989 (New Orleans, LA): Margaret Anne Doody, “Feminist Theory and Eighteenth-Century Studies”
1990 (Minneapolis MN): Renee Waldinger, “Feminist Theory and Eighteenth-Century Studies”
1991 (Pittsburgh, PA): Martha Woodmansee, “Socialized Self-Silencing in Girls and Women”
1992 (Seattle, WA): No session listed, but Ruth Perry thinks…Irma Lustig, "Between Women: Female Relationships in the Eighteenth Century"
1993 (Providence, RI): Susan Heinzelman, “Laws of Evidence and Women’s Representation”
1994 (Charleston, SC): Dena Goodman, “The Voices and Representation of Working Women in the Eighteenth Century"
1995 (Tuscon, AZ): Felicia B. Sturzer, “Medical Discourses of/on Women: Literary, Philosophical, and Scientific
Manifestations”
1996 (Austin, TX): Blakey Vermeule and Alison Conway, “Profession and Production: Women in Eighteenth-Century
Studies Roundtable Discussion”
1997 (Nashville, TN): Minaz Jooma, “Feminism and Literary History: Women’s Studies/Gender Studies?”
1998 (South Bend, IN): Katherine Binhammer, “Feminists Teach the Eighteenth-Century: Pedagogical Possibilities and
Problematics”
1999 (Milwaukee, WI): Alison Conway, “Divided Subjects: Women and Their Bodies” and Joyce Grossman, “Who’s afraid of the femme savant? Women Scholars and the Academy: Past and Present”
2000 (Philadelphia, PA): Kirsten Saxton, “Making History: Eighteenth-Century Writing Across Disciplines and Nations” and Joy Arbor-Karnes, “Questions of Historiography: Writing Women’s History Today”
2001 (New Orleans, LA): Julie Shaffer, “Working Women” and Maureen Harkin, “Writing Women in the New World”
2002 (Colorado Springs, CO): Mary Trouille, “Divided Loyalties: Continuities and Discontinuities Among Teaching, Research,
Service…and Life" (Roundtable) and Leslie H. Walker, “Where is the Feminist Critique of the Enlightenment?” (Roundtable)
2003 (Los Angeles, CA): Sharon Harrow, “Navigating Troubled Waters: Women and Institutional Politics” (Roundtable), Kimberly S. Latta, “Heroines of Liberty” (Roundtable), and Renata Lana, “Female Foreign Relations” (Roundtable)
2004 (Boston, MA): Kate Jensen, “The Work and Method of Madelyn Gutwirth” (Roundtable), Mary Trouille, “Women in Eighteenth-Century Studies: The On-going Challenge” (Roundtable), and Corrinne Harol and Kimberly S. Latta, “New Work on Sex and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century Women’s Caucus” (Roundtable)
2005 (Las Vegas, NV): Susan Lanser, “A Fine Balance: Academic Professions, Women’s Lives” (Roundtable) and Antoinette Sol, “Women on Men: Enlightenment Women, Male Bodies”
2006 (Montreal, QC): Lori Davis Perry, “Eighteenth-Century Women Writers After the Digital Turn” (Roundtable) and Tedra Osell, “Mentoring” (Roundtable)
2007 (Atlanta, GA): Mary Trouille, “The Wedding Night in Eighteenth-Century Society and Literature” and Cynthia Richards, “The Beauty Myth: Managing the Body in the Classroom” (Roundtable)
2008 (Portland, OR): Kathryn Temple, “Thriving at Mid Career: Success Stories from Mid-Career Women” and Sharon Harrow, “The Future of Feminist Theory in Eighteenth-Century Studies” (Roundtable)
2009 (Richmond, VA): Ana de Freitas Boe and Abby Coykendall, “Heteronormativity in Eighteenth-Century Studies”
2010 (Albuquerque, NM): Tita Chico and Maureen Harkin, “Invisible Labor: Service through the Ranks” (Roundtable) and Danielle Bobker and Kathryn L. Steele, “Gender, Sexuality, and Happiness”
2011 (Vancouver, BC): Katherine Binhammer and Julie Candler Hayes, “Women and Networks: Local and Transnational” (Roundtable) and Misty Anderson, “From Dissertation to Publication” (Roundtable)
2012 (San Antonio, TX): Christine Clark-Evans and Linda Zionkowski, “Hard Times: Women Scholars and the Dynamics of
Economic Recession” (Roundtable), Peggy Schaller Elliott, “Let’s Get Engaged! Can Teaching Early Modern Women in the Twenty-First
Century Be Relevant?” (Education Panel sponsored by the Woman’s Caucus), and Rivka Swenson, “Gender, Sex, Species: Women and Other Animals”
2013 (Cleveland, OH): Margaret K. Powell, “Women Outside the Blue Stocking Circle,” Srividhya Swaminathan, "Let’s Get Engaged!: Creative Strategies for Meeting Pedagogical Challenges in Practice," and Dana Gliserman Kopans, “Women Don’t Ask: Negotiating the Academic Career” (Roundtable)
2014 (Williamsburg, VA): Rebecca Shapiro, “‘Are You My Mother?’ ‘No!’: Nurturing In and Out of the Classroom”
(Roundtable), Mary Trouille, “Life’s a Ball!—Women and Masquerade," and Heather King and Srividhya Swaminathan, “Let’s Get Engaged!: Teaching and Tradition in a Non-Traditional Classroom”
2015 (Los Angeles, CA) Alison Conway, “The ASECS Women’s Caucus at Forty” (Roundtable) and Srividhya Swaminathan, “Let’s Get Engaged: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Gender and Eighteenth-Century Texts”
2016 (Pittsburgh, PA) Heather King, "Let's Get Engaged! Innovative Approaches to Teaching Gender in Eighteenth-Century Novels" (Workshop), Emily Friedman, "Rethinking the Academic Conference," and Lucinda Cole, "Feeding the Eighteenth Century I and II"
2017 (Minneapolis, MN) Hannah Wirta Kinney and Rivka Swenson, "Gendered Materialities" and Regulus Allen and Emily M.N. Kugler, "Addressing Structural Racism in Eighteenth-Century Studies"
2018 (Orlando, FL) Nora Nachumi and Pamela Plimpton, "Thinking Alt-Ac: Exploring Alternatives outside Academia, Creating Access Within" and Hilary Havens, "Mansplaining in the Eighteenth Century"
2019 (Denver, CO) Katarina Stenke, "Women Don't Ask: Negotiating the Academy" and Ellen Malenas, "Women's Precarity in the Eighteenth Century"
2020 (St Louis, MO) Conference canceled due to COVID-19
2021 (Online) Emily Casey and Tita Chico, "Decolonizing ASECS" and Marilyn Francus, "Invisible Service: The Ethics of Academic Labor"
2022 (Baltimore, MD) Hannah Hudson, "Exhausted Women: Female Fatigue in the Eighteenth Century" (Roundtable) and Nicole Aljoe and Rebekah Mitsein, "Administration: Meaningful and Feminist Leadership" (Roundtable)