Women’s Caucus Editing and Translation Prize Winners for 2023:
Karenza Sutton-Bennett and Kelly Plante: "The Lady’s Museum Digital Project"
These scholars’ digital project of Charlotte Lennox’s Lady’s Museum, published between 1760 and 1761, was among the most important early periodicals in proto-feminist writing. The project will have a wide reach, its universal design will make these texts available to a full range of readers and scholars, and it is developed by early career scholars who have clear plans and a vision that goes beyond a single publication. The digital Lady’s Museum crosses boundaries between disciplines (art, literature, history, social sciences) and involves scholars of all capacities, from long established academics like Susan Carlisle to the unknown undergraduate who will be assigned something on women writers and will come across this accessible forum while doing their online research. Supporting this kind of scholarship and public outreach is crucial to maintaining a continual exploration of women’s contributions to literature and history.
Kathleen Lubey: “The Literary and Philosophical Origins of Nineteenth-Century Pornography” Nineteenth-Century British Pornography: Sources and Materials
Lubey’s project is the opening volume of the Routledge Nineteenth-Century British Pornography: Sources and Materials,. This series begins in the eighteenth century, and follows with volumes on pornography and medicine, elite pornography, and mass-market pornography. As Lubey notes, “Together, they provide an archival account of pornographic textual culture...and they make available an unprecedented spectrum of primary sources for a study of sexuality.” Lubey’s work contributes to this archival account by challenging tidy assumptions about pornography’s origins. She shows that the function of early pornography was not only or even primarily to arouse the body, but rather showcases, “staunch philosophical and political convictions, evincing polyvocal, feminist, and queer critiques” of eighteenth-century culture. This project furthers the work of disrupting masculine ideologies of women’s (and others) bodies and identifies eighteenth-century pornography as a new and unexpected source of historical feminist commentary on sexual violence and bodily autonomy.
Karenza Sutton-Bennett and Kelly Plante: "The Lady’s Museum Digital Project"
These scholars’ digital project of Charlotte Lennox’s Lady’s Museum, published between 1760 and 1761, was among the most important early periodicals in proto-feminist writing. The project will have a wide reach, its universal design will make these texts available to a full range of readers and scholars, and it is developed by early career scholars who have clear plans and a vision that goes beyond a single publication. The digital Lady’s Museum crosses boundaries between disciplines (art, literature, history, social sciences) and involves scholars of all capacities, from long established academics like Susan Carlisle to the unknown undergraduate who will be assigned something on women writers and will come across this accessible forum while doing their online research. Supporting this kind of scholarship and public outreach is crucial to maintaining a continual exploration of women’s contributions to literature and history.
Kathleen Lubey: “The Literary and Philosophical Origins of Nineteenth-Century Pornography” Nineteenth-Century British Pornography: Sources and Materials
Lubey’s project is the opening volume of the Routledge Nineteenth-Century British Pornography: Sources and Materials,. This series begins in the eighteenth century, and follows with volumes on pornography and medicine, elite pornography, and mass-market pornography. As Lubey notes, “Together, they provide an archival account of pornographic textual culture...and they make available an unprecedented spectrum of primary sources for a study of sexuality.” Lubey’s work contributes to this archival account by challenging tidy assumptions about pornography’s origins. She shows that the function of early pornography was not only or even primarily to arouse the body, but rather showcases, “staunch philosophical and political convictions, evincing polyvocal, feminist, and queer critiques” of eighteenth-century culture. This project furthers the work of disrupting masculine ideologies of women’s (and others) bodies and identifies eighteenth-century pornography as a new and unexpected source of historical feminist commentary on sexual violence and bodily autonomy.
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ASECS Women’s Caucus Editing and Translation Fellowship deadline: January 15, 2024
The ASECS Women’s Caucus Editing and Translation Fellowship is an annual award of $1000 to support an editing or a translation work in progress of an eighteenth-century primary text on a feminist or a Women’s Studies subject. Editing and translation work of eighteenth-century texts in languages other than English are eligible. The award is open to all members of ASECS who have received a PhD. Proposals from Emeritae/i faculty that do not already have professional support for the project will also be considered. The award is meant to fund works-in-progress, commensurate in scope with a scholarly article to a longer scholarly and/or a classroom edition with a strong scholarly basis for which research and work is well under way, rather than work that is already completed. To be eligible for the prize, projects must translate and/or edit works by eighteenth-century women writers or works that significantly advance our understanding of women’s experiences in the eighteenth century or works that offer a feminist analysis of any aspect of eighteenth-century culture and/or society. Projects typically fall within the period from 1660 to 1820. Applications must include an abbreviated curriculum vitae that lists achievements relevant to the project, a three to five page proposal outlining the project, a two page bibliography of pertinent works, and a budget explaining the candidate’s plans for using the funds. The winner will be asked to submit a brief written report on the progress of the project one year after receiving the award, and whenever possible, will serve on the Award committee in the following year. Award winners will be requested to acknowledge this grant’s support in the publication that results from the project. The prize winner will be announced at the ASECS Annual Meeting and the Women’s Caucus Luncheon. Please submit applications through this Google Form by January 15. |
Past Winners
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