WWP Texts Research and Teaching

The Brown Women Writers Project Online: "New" Texts, New Questions

Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, December 2000.

This is the record of an MLA session organized by Elizabeth H. Hageman for the Division on Methods of Literary Research, which focused on uses of Women Writers Online in teaching and research. The papers from the session are listed below. Several of the participants also provided syllabi for the courses they taught with WWO, which are listed below.

Papers

• "Searching for Women's Work: Literary and Cultural Analysis of Online Texts," Lori Humphrey Newcomb, University of Illinois, Urbana.
• "Medieval Women's Manuscripts: Authorship and Encoding Challenges," Laurie Anne Finke, Kenyon College
• "The Role of the WWP in the Development of Literary Encoding in the 1990s," Allen Renear, Brown University
• "Mary Carleton's Conditional Moods: A Discourse Analysis of a WWO Text," Kimberly S. Hill, Kent State University

Syllabi

• The Age of Elizabeth (Elizabeth H. Hageman)
• Materials and Methods for the Study of Pre-18th Century Women Writers (Jennifer Summit)
• Renaissance Literature: The Matter of Words and Images (Kirilka S. Stavreva)