11 Aug 2021
By Katherine McKenna
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A Discussion with Dr. Wiesner-Hanks

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August 2021 Interviewer: Dr. Katherine McKenna                            Discussant: Dr. Merry Wiesner-Hanks Welcome back to the SSEMWG Blog and the Founding Mothers project page. Founding Mothers is an open-access digital history project dedicated to exploring the Society's origin and evolution. It also aims to illuminate the larger disciplinary history of Renaissance women’s studies in the American academy while forging lasting connections between premodern scholars at all career levels. In this post, Blog Editor Katherine McKenna interviews Merry Wiesner-Hanks about the Society's formation, her seminal contributions to the field of…
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06 Nov 2018
By Pia Jakobsson
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November 2018 – ‘She said’: women’s authority, #MeToo and Margaret Cavendish

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Joanne Wright for the SSEMW Blog In 1989, students and staff at Columbia University hung a 170-foot wide banner off the top of Butler Library featuring the names of women writers, from Sappho and Christine de Pizan to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Virginia Woolf. As Laura Brown, who designed and made the banner, pointed out, “Great women do not get their names inscribed on buildings.”[1]  To this end, the Columbia University Banner Project provided a symbolic counterweight to the list of iconic Western men that permanently adorn the building in stone. Later, in 1994, when designing another banner…
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29 Nov 2017
By Pia Jakobsson
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November 2017 – Early Modern Intersectionalities and Activisms

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Merry Wiesner-Hanks for the SSEMW Blog In January of this year, a group of us from Milwaukee joined the hundreds of thousands at the Women’s March in Washington, an experience that even those among us who were veterans of many protests will never forget. (You can see our group as the banner on my Facebook home page, as I can’t bear to change the picture.) As was true for many others, our experience began in the airplane on the way there, when we realized that almost everyone on the plane, even those women in pearls and heels, was going to…
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