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From: Flanders, Julia <j.flanders@northeastern.edu>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2022 at 11:25 AM
Subject: [DHSI] Announcing the launch of Women Writers: Intertextual
Networks
To: institute@lists.uvic.ca <institute@lists.uvic.ca>

Dear all,

We are very excited to announce a new open-access research tool! Women
Writers: Intertextual Networks
(https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwp.northeastern.edu%2Fintertextual-networks&data=05%7C01%7Cj.flanders%40northeastern.edu%7C84827bf38f6e4aeee16008da3e5dbb76%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637890869548474910%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=y9gPux0vczbfTs40HUEgF6stR7zA9s4fUAMriEzF39o%3D&reserved=0)
is
the result of a three-year project focusing on intertextuality in early
women’s writing. This collaborative research initiative examined the
citation and quotation practices of the authors represented in Women
Writers Online (WWO) to explore and theorize the representation of
intertextuality, and to study the ways in which early women writers named,
cited, quoted, and remixed texts by other authors. We identified and
encoded each of these “intertextual gestures” within the Women Writers
Project collection, traced their sources, and created a bibliography
representing all of the materials referenced by WWP authors. We also
gathered a team of external collaborators who prepared exhibits exploring
particular forms and uses of intertextuality in women’s writing, which are
being published in Women Writers in Context
(https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwp.northeastern.edu%2Fcontext%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cj.flanders%40northeastern.edu%7C84827bf38f6e4aeee16008da3e5dbb76%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637890869548474910%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Ztm1fB6V0V6b%2Fzmiw8pKOQP%2FaADReZGWWG9wTfb6fS0%3D&reserved=0),
our open-access collection of critical exhibits. This project was
generously funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The interface offers many ways to explore early women writers’ engagements
with other authors and texts. There are four interconnected “explorer”
spaces focused on different aspects of the data: the bibliography, the
topics and genres referenced, the intertextual gestures, and the authors in
Women Writers Online.

– The Bibliography
(https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwp.northeastern.edu%2Fintertextual-networks%2Fbibliography&data=05%7C01%7Cj.flanders%40northeastern.edu%7C84827bf38f6e4aeee16008da3e5dbb76%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637890869548474910%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=TOTsuJtGKLyDZ%2BFimoiF5hifNk4j5JnlVqnSrbLSxew%3D&reserved=0)
of
works quoted, named, cited, or otherwise referenced by the authors in Women
Writers Online currently includes more than 3,000 works.
– The Topics & Genres
(https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwp.northeastern.edu%2Fintertextual-networks%2Fgenres&data=05%7C01%7Cj.flanders%40northeastern.edu%7C84827bf38f6e4aeee16008da3e5dbb76%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637890869548474910%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=v6siHFmBRCmKyBh9bUPhtd8uta4U9m7bYj9AuCRe%2BQk%3D&reserved=0)
explorer
includes referenced texts that range from agriculture to ethics to history
to travel writing.
– The Intertextual Gestures
(https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwp.northeastern.edu%2Fintertextual-networks%2Fgestures&data=05%7C01%7Cj.flanders%40northeastern.edu%7C84827bf38f6e4aeee16008da3e5dbb76%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637890869548474910%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GSy4I9RdXfyhOC%2BilKw%2Fh9eEztQcpX%2FZmkw80QpZcos%3D&reserved=0)
explorer
supports filtering by the different types of intertextual gestures, the
various works that are referenced, the topics and genres of the referenced
works, and the WWO source texts and authors.
– Finally, the Authors in *WWO*
(https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwp.northeastern.edu%2Fintertextual-networks%2Fauthors-in-wwo&data=05%7C01%7Cj.flanders%40northeastern.edu%7C84827bf38f6e4aeee16008da3e5dbb76%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637890869548474910%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EJZxfb8eCQzA%2BbL%2BGwcedHYuOV27X3GSXIcn%2F9GOAPo%3D&reserved=0)
explorer
provides a summary view of the intertextual gestures in each of the 440
texts in the Women Writers Online collection.

We are especially excited about the teaching possibilities for Intertextual
Networks: if you have ideas about using Intertextual Networks in the
classroom, or if you’re interested in joining our teaching partners program
(https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwp.northeastern.edu%2Fwwo%2Fteaching%2Fpedagogical-dev.html&data=05%7C01%7Cj.flanders%40northeastern.edu%7C84827bf38f6e4aeee16008da3e5dbb76%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637890869548474910%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8T1BUCBaPmVNrVKE4ZDNeMGmgvfoNqJ5Ebx45NhWgL0%3D&reserved=0),
please contact us! Teaching partners receive free access to Women Writers
Online and can share course materials at the WWP site. We also plan to
continue sharing the research made possible through this project on the
Women Writers in Context platform. If you are interested in submitting an
exhibit to Women Writers in Context, please see our guidelines for authors
(https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwp.northeastern.edu%2Fresearch%2Fpublications%2Fexhibits%2Fexhibitguide.html&data=05%7C01%7Cj.flanders%40northeastern.edu%7C84827bf38f6e4aeee16008da3e5dbb76%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637890869548474910%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ESIhSu%2FgRhYiv2482%2B5W5Nk%2FeQrhQEAVYHX%2Fvmq0oGY%3D&reserved=0)
and
our statement on peer review
(https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwp.northeastern.edu%2Fresearch%2Fpublications%2Fexhibits%2Freview.html&data=05%7C01%7Cj.flanders%40northeastern.edu%7C84827bf38f6e4aeee16008da3e5dbb76%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637890869548474910%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rCckgqR2HgNZo89QzfOiJiU2Yo%2FG5AIQImxy7x9ZOEg%3D&reserved=0).
To learn more about this project and its development, please visit the WWP
blog
(https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwp.northeastern.edu%2Fblog%2Fcategory%2Fintertextual-networks%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cj.flanders%40northeastern.edu%7C84827bf38f6e4aeee16008da3e5dbb76%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637890869548474910%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=otL7QH6QPk03xczW3VBC7eX%2FyVc7MWiLvJtfFfYBfKc%3D&reserved=0)
.

Intertextual Networks may become slow at times of high usage. We ask for
your patience as you explore all that the site has to offer.

*Intertextual Networks has been made possible in part by a major grant from
the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this
project, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for
the Humanities.*

Please contact wwp@northeastern.edu if you have questions about or feedback
on Intertextual Networks.

Many thanks, Julia
Julia Flanders
Director, Women Writers Project
Professor of Practice and Director, Digital Scholarship Group
Northeastern University