WOMEN'S STUDIES DIGITIZATION PROJECT
University of Minnesota
ELECTRONIC RESEARCH CENTER (ERC), WILSON LIBRARY, Rm 179


WOMEN'S STUDIES DIGITIZATION PROJECT:

TEXTS FOR RESEARCH & TEACHING


Project Director: Miranda Remnek, Co-Coordinator, ERC (m-remn@tc.umn.edu)
Associates: Barbara Walden, Bibliographer, European Social Sciences (b-wald@tc.umn.edu);
Caroline Tajbakhsh, Digital Media Center (c-tajb@tc.umn.edu)
INTRODUCTION:

Wilson Library's Electronic Research Center is in the process of developing a digitization project involving primary source materials for women's studies. The project is designed to reinforce burgeoning programmatic interests at the University of Minnesota, while drawing on extensive holdings in Wilson Library's general collections. The intent is to provide faculty and students with practical experience in preparing and working with digitized versions of research materials in their areas of interest. The project currently consists of two components:
  1. Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930
  2. Early Modern French Women Writers

  1. WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING, 1830-1930

    Working with faculty and students in the departments of English, French & Italian, History, Anthropology & Women's Studies, the ERC has decided to focus on travel writing by women in the period 1830-1930. Our plan includes women travellers from and to the United States, as well as selected American and European women travellers to non-Western areas. Our coverage will begin in 1830, so as not to conflict with the Women Writers Project at Brown University. Although not limited to the US, our decision to emphasize American experiences represents an effort to complement Indiana University's Victorian Women Writers Project (which focuses on British women writers, 1830-1901). Both Brown and Indiana have offered to share information and we plan to consult frequently with Indiana.

    For more information about the Women's Travel Writing (WTW) project, consult the WTW web page.

  2. EARLY MODERN FRENCH WOMEN WRITERS

    Working with faculty and students in the departments of French & Italian, History and Linguistics, the ERC is also developing a modest initative--involving collaboration with the University of Chicago's ARTFL Project--to digitize texts by women writers in Early Modern France. At present our plan is to focus on French women writers of the 15th-17th centuries. Our early focus will include Christine de Pizan, Louise Labe, Catherine and Madeleine des Roches, Madeleine de Scudery, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, and Henriette de Castelnau; we also have a working list of 10 other women writers from the period.

    For more information about the French Women Writers (EMFWW) project, consult the EMFWW web page.
The URL for this site is: http://www.lib.umn.edu/erc/womstudy.htm
Please send comments, corrections and suggestions to:

Miranda Beaven Remnek
Coordinator, Collections & Services, Electronic Research Center
Voice: (612) 624 7557; m-remn@tc.umn.edu

Last update: 12.29.97
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