an invitation from *Spenser
Review*
Dear
Spenserians and Sidneians,
Please
write to me with proposals for brief pieces you'd like to contribute
for the new series in *The Spenser Review* described here.
(Thanks to Roland Greene for discovering the right name of the
series; thanks to everyone whose roll-calls of women scholars
convinced me even more than I was that we need to do this
series.)
Many
thanks,
Terry
De Mulieribus
claris
The Spenser Review
announces a new series, of short pieces remembering the careers of
women scholars of medieval and Renaissance literature from the early
days of the profession until 1975: until postmodernism and
second-wave feminism changed the face of literary scholarship.
In keeping with the Review's mission of documenting and
preserving scholarship and its local, specific contexts, we invite
pieces written as memoir; analyses of individual women's careers and
the nature of their structural roles in the profession and the
institution; surveys of a woman scholar's work; investigations of
specific events like the five articles by women in a 1926 PMLA
or the University of Virginia dissertation from the 1930s on 16th and
17th-century women writers. The work and careers of many
remarkable women call for intelligent documentation and analysis,
among them Marjorie Hope Allen, Josephine Waters Bennett, Muriel
Bradbrook, Lily Bess Campbell, Rosalie Colie, Madeleine Doran, Enid
Ellis-Fermor, Helen Gardner, Isabel MacCaffrey, Marjorie Hope
Nicolson, Rosemond Tuve, Joan Webber, Enid Welsford, Helen C. White,
Kathleen Williams, Lilian Winstanley, Frances Yates. Note that
this series isn't limited to women scholars who worked on
Spenser.
The series will be supervised
by current Spenser Review editor Theresa Krier, with the
assistance of a board comprised of Judith H. Anderson, Heather
Dubrow, Andrew Hadfield, and Debora Shuger. Some pieces will be
commissioned, but we hope that many people will send proposals for
pieces they would like to contribute.
We anticipate being able to print one piece per issue, of a maximum
of 3000 words. If authors strongly wish to contribute longer
pieces, we suggest writing an essay in sections, such that it could
be serialized.
Please send all inquiries to the editor, Theresa Krier, at
[log in to unmask] or
Theresa Krier, editor
The Spenser Review
Department of English
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
U.S.A.
