November 2019 – “I leave the Reader to judge and compare ’em”: Computational Explorations of Aphra Behn’s Dramatic Dubia

Mel Evans for the SSEMWG Blog Aphra Behn and her literary works, as is often the case with pioneers, have been subject to extensive criticism and derogation. Accusations of plagiarism, salacious and bawdy content, and poor literary merit were directed at her theatrical, prose and poetic works throughout her lifetime, and subsequent criticism and popular opinion has often adopted a similar stance. More recently, Behn’s achievements have, of course, been increasingly recognised and celebrated as part of the endeavour to rehabilitate and reposition women’s writings in Anglophone literature; Virginia Woolf’s famous eulogy to Behn, as the woman to whom all…
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cfp: “Women’s Voices of the Middle Ages and Renaissance”

CALL FOR PAPERS: "Women’s Voices of the Middle Ages and Renaissance" A symposium to be held on March 13, 2020 in the Joseph F. Smith Building on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, sponsored by BYU’s Department of French & Italian, Global Women’s Studies Program, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies. A Keynote Lecture will be delivered by Elissa Weaver, Professor Emerita of the University of Chicago and author of *Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women*. In the evening, Suzanne Savoy will perform her one-woman theatrical performance, *Je Christine, A Medieval Woman in Her…
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