Co-Editors Kelly J. Plante and Karenza Sutton-Bennett can guest-lecture in your classroom to introduce your students to the website, to eighteenth-century periodicals, Charlotte Lennox, and the Lady’s Museum. We are looking for beta-testers who are interested in teaching and learning with the Lady’s Museum. As this is a community-based website, we are eager for students to gain hands-on experience with the site by participating in our glossing activity. If you are interested in scheduling a guest lecture with us, please contact us. Let us know if you are interested the option for students to obtain potential publication to the site to gain professionalization and experience, by publishing a critical introduction, annotations, or an introductory headnote. Or, pitch another idea. We are happy to discuss your pedagogical needs.
Awards
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Women’s Caucus Editing and Translation Prize (2023)
- “These scholars’ digital project of Charlotte Lennox’s Lady’s Museum, published between 1760 and 1761, was among the most important early periodicals in proto-feminist writing. The project will have a wide reach, its universal design will make these texts available to a full range of readers and scholars, and it is developed by early career scholars who have clear plans and a vision that goes beyond a single publication. The digital Lady’s Museum crosses boundaries between disciplines (art, literature, history, social sciences) and involves scholars of all capacities, from long established academics like Susan Carlile to the unknown undergraduate who will be assigned something on women writers and will come across this accessible forum while doing their online research. Supporting this kind of scholarship and public outreach is crucial to maintaining a continual exploration of women’s contributions to literature and history.” — ASECS Women’s Caucus Prize Committee, 2023
- British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Postgraduate Conference Award. BSECS (Kelly) (2023)
- Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) D. W. Smith Research Fellowship (2021)
- “This project benefits from a collaborative team with demonstrable experience in both the digital and pedagogical areas necessary. The site, available through open access, will be valuable resource for scholars, students, and teachers.” — CSECS Awards Committee, 2021
Publications
- “The present therefore seems improbable, the future most uncertain”: Transcending Academia through Charlotte Lennox’s Lady’s Museum (1760–61). Digital Editing and Publishing for the 21st Century (Scheduled: 2024)
- “’A Numerous and Powerful Generation of Triflers’: The Social Edition as Counterpublic in Charlotte Lennox’s the Lady’s Museum (1760–61) and the Lady’s Museum Project (2021–).” Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Spring 2023)
- Karenza Sutton-Bennett and Susan Carlile. “Teaching the Lady’s Museum and Sophia Imperialism, Early Feminism, and Beyond.” ABO: An Interactive Journal for Women and the Arts, 1640-1830, vol. 12, Summer 2022.
- Kelly Plante. “The Lady’s Museum Project: A Digital Critical Edition in Phase 1 of Its Development, Now Available for Teachers and Students to Learn Collaboratively through Charlotte Lennox’s Lady’s Museum (1761-62)” ABO: An Interactive Journal for Women and the Arts, 1640-1830, vol. 12, Summer 2022.
Classroom Guest Lectures
- “Editing and Glossing an Eighteenth-Century Periodical: Theory and Praxis.” University of Ottawa (Fall 2022)
- “The Lady’s LibriVox: How and Why to Record an Eighteenth-Century Magazine as a Public-Access Audibook.” Texas Woman’s University (Fall 2022)
- “How Digital Humanities Projects Can Center Marginalized Voices.” University of Ottawa (Winter 2022)
- “Teaching Lennox’s Serialized Novel The History of Harriot and Sophia Using Online Resources.” University of Ottawa (Winter 2022)
- “The Numerous and Powerful Generation of Triflers”: 18th-Century Eidolon in a 21st-Century DH Project. University of Ottawa (Winter 2022)[student testimonials]
- “Teaching with Lennox: Using Digital Editions.” Brandeis University (Fall 2021)
- “Women’s Periodicals & Digital Open Access Sources.” Wayne State University (Fall 2021)
Conference Presentations
- Poster: “Lady’s Librivox: Teaching Multimodal Editing with Charlotte Lennox and the Lady’s Museum (1760-61)” (March 2023)
- Roundtable: Karenza Sutton-Bennett. “The Lady’s Museum Project: A Social Edition Recovering Charlotte Lennox’s Lady’s Museum (1760-61)” (March 2023)
- Paper: “The Lady’s Museum Project Year 2: Resonances between History and the Present Day.” Scholarly Websites. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. University of Ottawa, CA (October 2022)
- Paper: “‘The present therefore seems improbable, the future most uncertain’: Transcending Academia through Charlotte Lennox’s Lady’s Museum (1760–61).” Digital Worlds and the Eighteenth Century. St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK (January 2023)
- Exhibition: “Blending Group-, Process-, and System-Centered Intersectional Approaches in the Lady’s Museum Project” at the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Online Conference (January 2022) [slides] [video]
- Workshop: Karenza Sutton-Bennett. “Blending Group-, Process-, and System-Centered Intersectional Approaches to Center Marginalized Voices in the Lady’s Museum Project” at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Baltimore, Maryland (April 2022) [script]
- Roundtable: Kelly Plante. “Blending Group-, Process-, and System-Centered Intersectional Approaches to Center Marginalized Voices in the Lady’s Museum Project” at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Baltimore, Maryland (April 2022) [project overview infographic] [script]
- Paper: Karenza Sutton-Bennett. “The History of Charlotte Lennox’s Learning Ladies” at the Canadian Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) 2021 Online Conference, run by University of Winnipeg (October 2021)
LMP in the News
- “PhD candidate and part-time professor Karenza Sutton-Bennett recently awarded the D.W. Smith Eighteenth-Century Research Fellowship.” University of Ottawa (22 June 2021)
- “English Doctoral Candidate Awarded Research Fellowship.” Wayne State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences News (8 June 2021)
- Announcement for winner of D.W. Smith Fellowship. Candian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies News Circular (May 2021)
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