WWP Publications and Presentations

Women Writers Online and Related Resources

• Women Writers Online, a digital collection of early women’s writing in English
• WWP Curricular Materials, including teaching materials and a searchable database of syllabi

Reports on Grant-Funded Work

• Encoding Names for Contextual Exploration in Digital Thematic Research Collections, 2008–2009, funded by NEH: Final report and white paper
• Seminars in Humanities Text Encoding with TEI, 2007–2009, funded by NEH: Final report
• Creating a Guide for Encoding Early Printed Books, 2003–2006, funded by NEH: Final report
• A Textbase of Pre-Victorian Women’s Writing in English, 1997–2000, funded by NEH: Final report
• Renaissance Women Online, 1997–1999, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Initial report and final report

Documentation

• A Guide to Scholarly Text Encoding: A detailed reference and guide to text encoding with TEI. The WWP Guide is an online resource designed to help scholars grapple with the whys and hows of text encoding. Clear, jargon-free, and aimed at a humanities audience, the Guide explains text encoding and XML markup from the ground up and provides detailed explanations of how to use the TEI Guidelines in scholarly digital projects.
• Women Writers Project Encoding Documentation: The WWP’s internal documentation database.
• Women Writers Project Training Materials: Various tutorials, training guides, and hotsheets.

Publications and Presentations

• Bauman, Syd. Seminars in Scholarly Text Encoding with TEI. Poster presented at the TEI annual conference, University of Michigan, 2009.
• Bauman, Syd. "Keying Names: The WWP Approach." WWP Newsletter 3:1(1997).
• Bauman, Syd. “Tables of Contents, TEI-Style.” Text Technology: Journal of Computer Text Processing. Autumn 1995, 235-247.
• Caton, Paul. “Putting Renaissance Women Online,” New Models and Opportunities, ICCC/IFIP Working Conference on Electronic Publishing ’97, April 1997.
• Caton, Paul. "Renaissance Women Online." WWP Newsletter 4:1 (1998).
• Fisher, Anna, and John Melson. Exhibiting Early Women’s Writing: Collaboration and Context in Digital Archives. Poster presented at NERCOMP, Providence, RI, 2009.
• Flanders, Julia. “Teaching ‘Craft’ Encoding”. Paper presented at the TEI annual conference, University of Michigan, 2009.
• Flanders, Julia. “Dissent and Collaboration.” Paper presented at DH2009, University of Maryland, June 2009.
• Flanders, Julia. “Data and Wisdom: Electronic Editing and the Quantification of Knowledge,” LLC 24:1 (2009), 53–62.
• Flanders, Julia. “The Rhetoric of Performative Markup.” Paper presented at DH2006, Paris, July 2006.
• Flanders, Julia. “Detailism, Digital Texts, and the Problem of Pedantry,” Text Technology 14:2 (2005), 41-70.
• Flanders, Julia. “Electronic Editions: Anthologies,” in Electronic Textual Editing, co-edited by John Unsworth, Lou Burnard and Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe. MLA, 2005.
• Flanders, Julia. “Markup, Idealism, and the Physical Text.” Paper presented at ALLC/ACH 2004, University of Göteborg, Sweden, June 2004.
• Flanders, Julia. “Learning, Reading, and the Problem of Scale,” Pedagogy 2:1 (2001)
• Flanders, Julia. “Trusting the Electronic Edition”, Computers and the Humanities 31:4 (1997/1998).
• Flanders, Julia. "Scholarly Habits and Digital Resources: Observations from a User Survey", revised version of a paper presented at Digital Resources in the Humanities, London, 1998.
• Flanders, Julia. “The Body Encoded: Questions of Gender and the Electronic Text”, in Sutherland, ed., Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory (Oxford, 1997).
• Flanders, Julia. "Editorial Methodology and the Electronic Text", part of a conference session entitled Electronic Texts and Textuality presented at NASSR, Boston, 1996.
• Flanders, Julia, and Domenico Fiormonte. “Markup and the Digital Paratext.” Paper presented at DH2007, University of Illinois, June 2007.
• Flanders, Julia, Syd Bauman, John Lavagnino, and Mavis Cournane, “Nouns Proper and Improper: Applying the TEI to the classification of proper nouns”, Computers and the Humanities 31:4 (1997/1998).
• Lavagnino, John, and Jacque Russom. "Senses of Sexual in the Women Writers Project Textbase". WWP Newsletter 2:3 (1996)
• Lavagnino, John. “Completeness and Adequacy in Text Encoding”, in The Literary Text in the Digital Age, ed. Richard Finneran, University of Michigan Press, 1996.
• Lavagnino, John. “Electronic Editions and the Needs of Readers”, in Critical Survey 9:1 (1997), 70-77; and in W. Speed Hill, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts II: Papers of The Renaissance English Text Society, 1992-1996 (Tempe, AZ: MRTS for RETS, 1998).
• Lavagnino, John. “The Show Must Go On: Problems of Tagging Performance Texts”, in Computers and the Humanities 29:2 (1995), 113-121.
• Mah, Carole, and Julia Flanders. "Scholarly Needs, Encoding Challenges: Correction, Regularization, and Expansion". WWP Newsletter 2:2 (1996).
• Mah, Carole, et al., “Some Problems of TEI Markup and Early Printed Books”, Computers and the Humanities 31:1 (1996).
• Renear, Allen. “Out of Praxis: Three (Meta)Theories of Textuality,” in Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory, Kathryn Sutherland, ed. Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Renear, Allen. "Theory and Metatheory in the Development of Text Encoding, The Monist, 80:3 July 1997.
• Renear, Allen, et al., “Author’s Response to Three Comments on ‘What is Text, Really?’” Journal of Computer Documentation, 1997.
• Renear, Allen, et al., “Refining Our Notion of What Text Really Is: The Problem of Overlapping Hierarchies” in Research in Humanities Computing, ed. N. Ide, Oxford, 1995.

WWP Research on Women’s Writing

Selected publications on women’s writing and history by present and past members of the WWP.

• Barash, Carol. English Women’s Poetry 1649-1714: Politics, Community and Linguistic Authority. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Barash, Carol. “Poems of Aphra Behn and Anne Finch”, in James Fitzmaurice, Josephine Roberts, Eugene Cunnar, Nancy Gutierrez, and Carol Barash, eds., Major Women Writers of 17th-Century England. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
• Caldwell, Patricia, ed. Fall River: An Authentic Narrative, by Catharine Williams. Edited with introduction and notes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Caldwell, Patricia. “In ‘Happy America’: Discovering Catharine Williams’s Fall River for the Women Writers Project.” South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 11:2 (Summer, 1994), 79-98.
• Curran, Stuart. “Charlotte Smith and British Romanticism.” South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 11:2 (Summer, 1994), 66-78.
• Curran, Stuart, ed. The Poems of Charlotte Smith. Edited with introduction and notes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Ezell, Margaret. The Patriarch’s Wife: Literary evidence and the history of the family. University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
• Ezell, Margaret, ed. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh. Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Hageman, Elizabeth H. “The ‘False Printed’ Broadside of Katherine Philips’s ‘To the Queens Majesty on her Happy Arrival’.” The Library 17(1995):321-26.
• Hageman, Elizabeth H. and Andrea Sununu. “New Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, ‘the Matchless Orinda’”. English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 4(1994):174-216.
• Hageman, Elizabeth H. and Andrea Sununu. “’More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin’d’: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, ’the Matchless Orinda.” English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 5(1995):127-69.
• Hageman, Elizabeth H. and Andrea Sununu. The Poems, Plays, and Letters of Katherine Philips. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• Steen, Sara Jayne. The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart. Edited with introduction and notes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Steen, Sara Jayne. “Manuscript Matters: Reading the Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart.” South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 11:2 (Summer, 1994), 24-38.
• Woods, Susanne. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer (1611). Edited with introduction and notes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Woods, Susanne. “Shifting Centers and Self Assertions: The Study of Early Modern Women,” in Shakespeare Studies 25 (1997), 67-75.
• Woods, Susanne. “Born to Write: Vocation and Authority in Aemilia Lanyer,” in Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre and the Canon, ed. Marshall Grossman (Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press, 1998).
• Woods, Susanne. “Anne Locke and Aemilia Lanyer: A Tradition of Protestant Women Speaking,” in The New Seventeenth Century: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, ed. Amy Boesky and Mary Crane (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998).
• Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet, a study of Aemilia Lanyer in relation to Spenser, Jonson, Shakespeare, and Donne. Oxford University Press, 1999.