WOMEN'S STUDIES DIGITIZATION PROJECT: EARLY MODERN FRENCH WOMEN WRITERS

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EARLY MODERN FRENCH WOMEN WRITERS:

A WOMEN'S STUDIES DIGITIZATION PROJECT INITIATIVE

Project Director: Susan Stekel, Assistant Curator, James Ford Bell Library
(steke002@tc.umn.edu)
Project Assistant: Vacant
Former Project Assistants: Mary Skemp, Chris Loomis, Michelle Miller

CONTENTS

General Information

Introduction/Steering Committee/Advisory Board
Project Outline
Related Websites
Primary Texts

DIRECT ACCESS to Texts Available (Alphabetically By Writer)
List of Texts Available by Period/Links to Supplementary Materials
Texts Selected for Processing
Writers Under Consideration
Supplementary Project Materials

Biographies
Images
Publication Histories
Secondary Studies
Teaching & Course-Related Materials
- Courses Using EMFWW Texts

Introduction
Working with faculty and students in the departments of French & Italian and History, Wilson Library's Electronic Text Research Center has developed an initiative--in consultation with the internationally- known ARTFL Project--to digitize texts by women writers in Early Modern France. At present we focus on women writers of the 15th-17th centuries. Our early list has included Christine de Pizan, Diane de Poitiers, Louise Labé, Madeleine de Scudéry, Marguerite de Navarre, Marie de Gournay, and Pernette du Guillet; we also have a working list of 16 other women writers from the period.

As with our Women's Travel Writing project, this project has two major goals: (1) to support programmatic strengths by expanding the range of research materials available; (2) to help Minnesota faculty and students learn more about the issues involved in digitizing texts. We are pleased by the extent of faculty support for this project, but would welcome input from other faculty and students throughout the University *and elsewhere*. For further information, see below.

Steering Committee

Susan Stekel, Assistant Curator, James Ford Bell Library
Marcia Pankake, Bibliographer, Eng. & Am., Fren. & Ital. Lang. & Lit.
Caroline Lilyard, Digital Media Center
Susan Noakes, French & Italian (EARLY MODERN)
Alan Smith, French & Italian (16TH CENTURY)
Juliette Cherbuliez, French & Italian (17TH CENTURY)

Advisory Board

F. R. P. Akehurst, French & Italian (MEDIEVAL)
Daniel Brewer, French & Italian (17th/18th CENTURIES)
Kathryn Reyerson, History (LATE MEDIEVAL)
Françoise Denis, Macalester College (MEDIEVAL)
Anne Duggan, Wayne State University (17TH CENTURY)
Dominique Estival, University of Melbourne (LATE MEDIEVAL)
Mark Olsen, University of Chicago (ARTFL)
Mary Skemp, Georgetown College (16TH CENTURY)
Barbara Walden, History Bibliographer, Univ. of Wisconsin

NOTE: The Early Modern French Women Writers Project was recently selected as a "Key Internet Resource" for Women's Studies by the Links2Go Service:

Links²Go
Women's Writers

Our URL is: http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/frenwom.htm. Please send comments to:
Susan Stekel, Assistant Curator, James Ford Bell Library
Voice: (612) 624 7040, steke002@tc.umn.edu

Last update: 12.31.02
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