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Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing Between Literature and Philosophy: Pedagogy and Practice

The aim of this online workshop is to share case studies and best practice regarding the teaching of early modern women’s philosophical writing in HE, across languages, disciplines and national settings. We intend to bring together teachers and researchers in HE with members of subject organisations to reflect on what’s working and what could be changed to improve the visibility of and engagement with early modern women’s philosophical writing, broadly conceived. The workshop will take place online over one afternoon (Wed 11th) and one morning (Thurs 12th).

The programme will consist of brief 10-minute interventions and will allow plenty of time for discussion.

For more details, see: https://culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/2026/10/14/895/#more-895.

Please register if you wish to attend: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=d10qkZj77k6vMhM02PBKU-4DEwGHT41JsxI-GytiPGVUMFoySDFBMzUxQzdTSUYwTU1ISzhBWVRXNC4u&route=shorturl.

Invited speakers:
Hannah Dawson (KCL); Sarah Hutton (York); Dino Jakusic (Warwick); Amanda Pipkin
(UNC); Francesca Romana Recchia Luciani (University of Bari); Sandra Plastina (Università della Calabria/SWIP Italia); Hannah Straw (Warwick); Rachael Wiseman (British Society for the History of Philosophy).

Programm

Wednesday 11th November (afternoon session: 12.30-4pm UK time)

12.30-12.40 Introduction and Welcome

Chair: Helena Taylor

12.40 Hannah Dawson (KCL), Consciousness raising in (teaching) early modern feminism

12.50 Elizabeth Thomas (Alliance University, Bangalore), Reasoning Otherwise: Teaching Wollstonecraft in a Postcolonial Classroom

13.00 Xinyao Zhang (University of Cambridge), Teaching Sor Juana Between Devotion and Philosophy: Women’s Learning, Religious Authority, and Literary Self-Defence

Discussion & Break

Chair: Felicity Henderson

13.40 Bogdana Miletić (University of Belgrade), The Odd One Out: Teaching Cavendish Beyond Biography

13.50 Sarah Hutton (University of York), Thinking Women in the Seventeenth Century: course outline and rationale.

14.00 Peter West, Sarah Connell, Brian Ball (Northeastern University), Teaching Cavendish’s Philosophy, Digitally

Discussion & Break

Chair: Floris Verhaart

14.40 Rebecca Kingston (University of Toronto), Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies (1405) – Toronto and Afghanistan

14.50 Dwight Lewis Jr (University of Minnesota), Teaching Beyond Inclusion: Reflection from the Center for Canon Expansion and Change

15.00 Amanda Pipkin (UNC Charlotte), Using Historical Fiction to Teach Early Modern Women’s Writing

15.10 Manali Allen (Bryn Mawr College), Les dialogues des Galantes Modernes by Catherine Durand

Until 16.00 Discussion and Close

Thursday 12th November (morning session: 9.30-1pm UK time)

9.30-9.40 Introduction and Welcome

Chair: Floris Verhaart

9.40 Dino Jakušić and Hannah Straw (Warwick University), Canonical Recognition VS Pedagogical Integration: Some Lessons from Medieval Philosophy and Aphra Behn

10.00 Suchismita Ghoshal (Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Teaching Emotional Wisdom Before Psychology: Philosophy of Moral Feeling, Grief, and Melancholy in the Writings of Lucy Hutchinson and Anne Finch

10.10 Sandra Plastina (University of Calabria/SWIP Italia), SWIP Italia: Promoting Women in Philosophy through Research and Teaching.

Discussion & Break

Chair: Kirsten Walsh

11.00 Victoria Rimbert (University of Geneva), Women in Translation. Introducing women’s philosophical writings into literary translation courses

11.10 Francesca Masiero (Pisa/University of Padua), Beyond the Canon: Teaching Premodern Women’s Intellectual History through the History of Girls’ Education: Archival Evidence from Fifteenth-Century Verona

11.20 Francesca Romana Recchia Luciani (Università di Bari Aldo Moro), A counterintuitive effect of feminism: the appearance on the cultural scene of women philosophers

Discussion & Break

Chair: Helena Taylor

12.00 Joana Serrado (Technischen Universität Chemnitz), Early modern women writings as pedagogical hospitality. Some theoretical and practical notes from Chemnitz.

12.10 Elena Gordon (UCD), Teaching Feminist History of Philosophy in Secondary and Tertiary Education

12.20 Susan James (Birkbeck/BSHP/BJHP), Expanding the Canon at the BSHP/BJHP: Aspirations and Activities

Until 13.00 Discussion and Close

The workshop is supported by ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, a project funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].