A Response to Baileys’ #reclaimhername: A Forum on the Challenges of Literary Recovery
In early August, the Women’s Prize for Fiction and their corporate sponsor Baileys (yes, Baileys of Irish cream liqueur fame) […]
Reclaiming Black Biography
Lois Brown, Arizona State University Acts of reclamation are often, at their core, heroic acts of intervention and inclusion. They […]
Missed Opportunity
Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia The Reclaim Her Name project was a missed opportunity for public scholarship. Imagine what […]
On Claiming and Naming: Whose Feminism? What Ends?
Brigitte Fielder, University of Wisconsin-Madison As I consider the efficacy of the Reclaim Her Name project, I am interested in […]
What Is a Female Author?
Grace Lavery, University of California Berkeley The project aimed to mark the 25th year of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, […]
Literary Recovery, #ReclaimHerName, Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Sandra Zagarell, Oberlin College Consider some of the propositions that inform the Reclaim Her Name project. One: “the author” is […]
Which “Women” Are Prized? On Racialized Gender
Christine “Xine” Yao, University College London #ReclaimHerName invites us to affectively participate in the triumph of rescuing benighted women authors […]
My Undead Name
Jules Gill-Peterson, University of Pittsburgh I have the unusual experience, for a living author, of having been both male and […]
“And Yet . . .”
María Carla Sánchez, UNC Greensboro I beg a little indulgence, and an indirect path to explaining my titular ellipsis: I […]
Who is This For?
Hannah Lauren Murray, University of Liverpool From its launch in August until today, a question I have repeatedly returned to […]