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        Date: 2024-06-07 14:29:07+00:00
        From: McCarthy, Erin <erin.mccarthy@universityofgalway.ie>
        Subject: CFP: Connected Women: Religion, Text, and Network in the Early Modern World (abstracts due 27 September 2024)

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all enjoying the early days of summer. I am writing to share a
call for papers for an edited collection Genelle Gertz and I are putting
together. We were hoping to elicit a few more methodologically oriented and/or
quantitative pieces. Please feel free to reach out with any questions you might
have (and, of course, submissions).

All best,
Erin


Connected Women
Religion, Text, and Network in the Early Modern World

Drawing together scholars working with networks, texts, and religious
communities, this volume offers an expansive view of the range of women’s
textual communities across diverse religious contexts. Scholarship on early
modern women has long been attentive to text technologies of various kinds: from
manuscript and printed books to embroidery and painting. In parallel with these
textual recovery projects—and often closely connected to them—scholars have
sought to recognize and reconstruct the literary communities to which early
modern women contributed, many of which overlapped with religious networks and
communities. Thus, recent work on the multiplicity of early modern religious
beliefs and practices has helped to nuance and extend our understanding of the
particular circumstances surrounding women’s creation of, and engagement with,
diverse text technologies.
                Our edited collection seeks to map these intersections by
exploring religious women’s textual networks in and beyond early modern Europe
drawing on a range of approaches to network analysis, from the metaphorical to
the technical. Network analysis, whether theoretical, quantitative, or visual,
facilitates the study of communities by tracing the connections among their
members. Such work understands that relations themselves, rather than lone
heroes or hierarchies, define people and objects in the world. We therefore seek
contributors who are studying some aspect of women, text, religion and network,
especially within global contexts in the early modern era.
                We aim to have a complete set of abstracts by 27 September 2024
and full essay drafts by 31 January 2025.

For more information, contact: Genelle Gertz
(GertzG@wlu.edu<mailto:GertzG@wlu.edu>) or Erin McCarthy (erin.mccarthy@universi
tyofgalway.ie<mailto:erin.mccarthy@universityofgalway.ie>)



Professor Erin A. McCarthy FHEA
Ollamh Bunaithe le Litríocht an Bhéarla agus na Daonnachtaí Ríomhaireachtúla
Established Professor of English Literature and Computational Humanities
Príomhthaighdeoir, STEMMA   |   Principal Investigator, STEMMA
Scoil an Bhéarla agus na nEalaíon Cruthaitheach
School of English and Creative Arts
[University of Galway] <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/>



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