We are pleased to announce this year’s Research Support Grant recipients. Congratulations to this year’s grantees! Naomi Greyser, University of Iowa, “Writing through Writer's Block: Race, Gender and Knowledge Cultures in the American Academy”Vesna Kuiken, SUNY-Albany, “Life on the Rocks: Celia Thaxter's Drift-Weed Aesthetics”Shealeen Meaney, Russell Sage College, “American Women Writers in South Asia”Christopher Phillips, [...]
Maine Women Writers' Collection director Jennifer Tuttle and Curator Cathleen Miller have published an article in the Journal of Medical Humanities. Growing out of a presentation at the Artists’ Books and the Medical Humanities symposium at the University of Kent in 2016, Jennifer S. Tuttle and Cathleen Miller explore the use of Martha A. Hall’s [...]
Are you an artist (in any medium) or writer who would like to explore archival materials as source text for your own creative project? We offer one grant annually for artists and writers to use the archives. Deadline for applications is March 1, 2020. We host one artist or writer to engage in research in [...]
"Women's Long Road - 100 Years to the Vote" exhibit at the Maine State Museum in Augusta. (Photo by Joe Phelan) The Maine Women Writers Collection is one of many participating institutions in the Maine State Museum's exhibition commemorating the centennial of Maine's vote to approve suffrage for women. “Women’s Long Road – 100 Years [...]
A poem written by Jefferson Navicky, archivist for UNE’s Maine Women Writers Collection, was featured on Maine Public Radio’s February 8 episode of “Poems from Here.” Navicky was inspired to write the poem, titled “The Rare Book Publisher Gives a Talk,” in the fall of 2017 after taking a trip with other Maine Women Writers Collection [...]
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