Marianne Van Remoortel - WeChangEd

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Marianne Van RemoortelMarianne Van Remoortel is Assistant Professor at the Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University. She completed her PhD on gender, genre and the nineteenth-century sonnet in 2007. As a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO, 2009-2015), she specialized in Victorian periodicals, with particular focus on periodical poetry and women’s contributions to the periodical press. She is the author of Lives of the Sonnet, 1787-1895: Genre, Gender and Criticism (Ashgate, 2011) and Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical: Living by the Press (forthcoming 2015, Palgrave). Her ERC Starting Grant project “Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920″ takes her research on the periodical press into a new transnational collaborative direction.

In close collaboration with the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit), she is currently preparing the launch of JEPS, the new electronic open-access Journal of European Periodical Studies.

Marianne is a member of the Young Academy of Belgium and editor-in-chief of its magazine, Maja.

Contact: marianne.vanremoortel@ugent.be

Publications: https://biblio.ugent.be/person/801001765053

Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920 (WeChangEd)

The project examines a neglected aspect of the social and cultural life in Europe in the modern period: the impact of women editors on public debate. From the 1700s on, European women actively participated in the cultural arena through the journals that they edited. This project advances the hypothesis that periodical editorship enabled these women to take a prominent role in public life, to influence public opinion and to shape transnational processes of change. In order to test this hypothesis, the project will bring together a multilingual and multidisciplinary team of six researchers who will combine methodologies from literary studies, (women’s) history and the social sciences to map the transnational networks of intellectual exchange in which women editors participated, with particular attention to practices of textual transfer (including translation, adaptation, reprinting and reviewing) across language boundaries and historical periods. The project has two parts:

  1. a database will take stock of women editors and their periodicals, make available new material and provide a data source for socio-textual network analysis;
  2. five thematic subprojects will study the impact of women editors on some of the most significant processes of socio-cultural transformation in modern European history: the beginnings of the periodical press, the rise of the novel, domestic ideology, consumer culture and women’s rights.

By examining how these processes unfolded in the press through practices of textual transfer both among women and in the larger publishing landscape, the project will not only initiate a shift in our thinking about the participation of women in society and print culture but also pave the way for pan-European research on the periodical press.

More information: http://www.wechanged.ugent.be