CCWW Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Monday 29 April 2019
The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW) celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2019 with a series of events that showcase the variety of its work.
CCWW News
New Titles in Studies in Contemporary Women's Writing
Friday 17 August 2018
Two new titles have been added to the series 'Studies in Contemporary Women's Writing'.
Launch of 'Motherhood in Literature and Culture'
Thursday 7 September 2017
Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe will be launched on Thursday, 26 October 2017, at the Freud Museum in London.
'Nina Bouraoui, Autofiction and the Search for Selfhood' Published
Tuesday 13 December 2016
The motif of the ‘identity quest’ features strongly in much contemporary French women’s writing, but nowhere more so than in the work of French-Algerian author Nina Bouraoui. Author of numerous books since 1991 and winner of the 2005 Prix Renaudot , Bouraoui persistently explores the question of self-expression in her work, experimenting with a variety of self-representational modes and emphasising the importance of language to the construction of her sense of self.
'Mothering and Work in Italy in the Twenty-First Century' Published
Friday 9 September 2016
‘Mothering and Work in Italy in the Twenty-First Century: Culture and Society’, edited by Adalgisa Giorgio, has been published as a special issue of the Journal of Romance Studies (15.3, 2016).
Adalgisa Giorgio becomes IMLR Associate Fellow
Thursday 1 September 2016
Dr Adalgisa Giorgio (Bath) has been appointed an Associate Fellow at the IMLR. The Fellowship runs for five years in the first instance. Adlagisa Giorgio is an acknowledged specialist in Italian women's writing and a long-standing member of the Steering Committee of the Centre for the Study of Women's Writing (CCWW) at the Institute, contributing to its online resources, publications, events and Fellowships programme.
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'Motherhood, Religions and Spirituality' Published
Monday 27 June 2016
Motherhood, Religions and Spirituality , edited by Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Gill Rye, is now available as a special issue of Religion and Gender (6.1, 2016).
The concept for this interdisciplinary and cross-cultural publication – and some of the articles themselves – started life at the AHRC-funded 'Motherhood in post-1968 European Literature' Network Workshop on 'Motherhood, Religions and Spirituality', held at the University of London on 28 June 2013.
'Strange Adventures: Women’s Individuation in the Works of Pierrette Fleutiaux' Now Available
Saturday 14 May 2016
Strange Adventures: Women’s Individuation in the Works of Pierrette Fleutiaux by Elizabeth A. Sercombe examines portrayals of womanhood in the works of prize-winning French author Pierrette Fleutiaux.
'Voicing Voluntary Childlessness: Narratives of Non-Mothering' Published
Saturday 14 May 2016
The third volume in the 'Studies in Contemporary Women's Writing' series, Narratives of Non-Mothering in French by Natalie Edwards, is now available.
Papers from Mothering and Migration Workshop Published
Friday 20 November 2015
Mothering and Migration: Interdisciplinary Dialogues, European Perspectives and International Contexts has been published.
Papers drawn from the ‘Mothering and Migration’ Workshop, held on 26 April 2013, as part of the AHRC-funded ‘Motherhood in post-1968 European Literature’ Network, based at the Centre for the Study of Women’s Writing at the IMLR, are now available in Women’s Studies International Forum 52 (September-October 2015), edited by Anastasia Christou (Middlesex), Adalgisa Giorgio (Bath) and Gill Rye (IMLR).