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Reading Between the Lines Part II: A Mini Blog Series Investigating A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

Reading Between the Lines Part II: A Mini Blog Series Investigating A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

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By Claire Lavarreda, NULab/DITI Research Fellow and World History Ph.D. student I. Introduction In the first entry of the “Reading Between the Lines” series, we investigated how Mary Jemison (a white woman captured and adopted by a Seneca family) portrayed women and gender in her work, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison. Jemison was strongly influenced by her biological and adoptive mothers, as well as her adoptive sisters, and these bonds reveal the complex way Jemison viewed fellow women. Brave, tender, intelligent—in…

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Reading Between the Lines: A Mini Blog Series Investigating A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

Reading Between the Lines: A Mini Blog Series Investigating A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

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By Claire Lavarreda, NULab/DITI Research Fellow and World History Ph.D. student   I. Introduction “Mother, from the time we were taken, had manifested a great degree of fortitude, and encouraged us to support our troubles without complaining; and by her conversation seemed to make the distance and time shorter, and the way more smooth. But father lost all his ambition in the beginning of our trouble, and continued apparently lost to every care—absorbed in melancholy. Here, as before, she insisted on the…

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Antiracist Markup Practices Symposium

Antiracist Markup Practices Symposium

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By Grace O’Mara, Research and Encoding Specialist On May 15th, 2023, the Women Writers Project hosted a virtual symposium on Antiracist Markup Practices. The event gave participants the opportunity to hear from a variety of digital projects that are working to develop antiracist editing and encoding practices, and to think through the potential and challenges of representing marginalized and racialized identities through markup. Additionally, the symposium investigated the implications of social justice frameworks for text encoding theory and practice. We…

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The WWP begins research on the representation of racial identities in early women’s writing

The WWP begins research on the representation of racial identities in early women’s writing

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We are excited to announce that the WWP has begun work on a new project, “Representing Racial Identity in Early Women’s Writing,” funded by a Northeastern University TIER 1 grant awarded to professors Julia Flanders and Nicole Aljoe.  This project will develop new text encoding protocols and prototype data visualizations with attention to the representation of race in the Women Writers Online collection of early women’s texts. We will also convene an international group of scholars who work in critical…

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