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