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Author Biography

Dr. Karenza Sutton-Bennett is an independent scholar whose doctorate is from University of Ottawa. Her dissertation is titled The Female Guise: the Untold Story of Female Education in English Periodicals. Her research focuses on textual and visual representations of women learning in female-penned periodicals. Her research interests include History of education, cultural studies, theatre studies, and women’s writing. She is the co-editor of the open access digital edition of Charlotte Lennox’s The Lady’s Museum that she edits with Dr. Kelly Plante. In 2023, the edition won the ASECS Women's Caucus Editing and Translation Fellowship. Karenza’s publications include “Intellect versus Politeness: Charlotte Lennox and Women’s Minds” published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and “Teaching the Lady’s Museum and Sophia: Imperialism, Early Feminism, and Beyond” published in Aphra Behn Online that she co-wrote with Dr. Susan Carlile.

Abstract

The Lady’s Museum (1760–61) was among the most important early periodicals largely written by one of the most important eighteenth-century authors, Charlotte Lennox, whose multigenre, proto-feminist writing is beginning to receive the critical and pedagogical attention it deserves. Yet no modern edition of the text has existed—until now. Launched in 2021, the Lady’s Museum Project is presenting the first critical edition of—and learning community around—Lennox’s Museum in three open-access formats to encourage the widest possible readership: a non-specialist digital, interactive edition of the text and LibriVox audiobook intended for public and undergraduate-student audiences, and a specialist digital edition intended for scholars’ use—and participation (forthcoming). 2023 brought the completion of the teaching edition, which has been used in a variety of institutions across the U.S. and Canada, from 1000-level undergraduate to 5000-level graduate courses, and in undergraduate- and graduate-level internships designed to prepare interns for careers in editing and publishing, with a focus on transcending traditional teaching, editing, publishing, and disciplinary hierarchies and conventions.

Keywords

Lady's Museum, pedagogy, open access, open educational resource, OER, DH, Digital Humanities, Charlotte Lennox, Susan Carlile

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