Gina Luria Walker

Gina Luria Walker is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at New School University where she teaches Women’s Intellectual History. She is the Editor of the Chawton House Library Edition of Mary Hays's groundbreaking Female Biography (1803), the lives of 302 iconoclastic women in six volumes (Pickering & Chatto 2013, 2014), produced by a research collaborative of 164 international scholars. She describes the four-year project in "The Invention of Female Biography."^[1] She is the Director of Project Continua,^[2] a website devoted to earlier historical women, that partners with the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum. Professor Walker has also held faculty appointments at Rutgers University and Sarah Lawrence College.^[3]

Biography

Walker received her Ph.D. in 18th century Literature at New York University where she was given the Founders’ Day Award for doctoral studies. These included discovery of primary documents by and about Hays in private hands, now part of The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at The New York Public Library. Her areas of research include the history of learned women, women and Rational Dissent, late Enlightenment Feminisms, and women’s autodidactic production of new knowledge. Professor Walker is a Member of the International Advisory Board, UDC International Doctoral School, Universidade Da Coruña,Spain and on the Advisory Editorial Board, Enlightenment and Dissent, Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Queen Mary University of London. She is actively involved in encouraging new Wikipedia encyclopedia articles on historical women and is an authority on historical encyclopedias.^[4]

In 1974, she edited The Feminist Controversy in England 1788-1810 for Garland Publishing, 44 works in 89 volumes by and about women with new introductions that proposed a new female canon for scholarly investigation. She is the Editor, The Chawton House Library Edition of Female Biography in 6 volumes (2013, 2014); "The Invention of Female Biography," Enlightenment and Dissent, September 2014; “The Two Marys: Hays Writes Wollstonecraft,” Called to Civil Existence: Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Rights of Woman, ed. Enit K. Steiner, Dialogue Series, Rodophi Press, Amsterdam, 2014, pp. 49–70; Mary Hays (1759-1843): The Growth of a Woman's Mind (2006); The Idea of Being Free: A Mary Hays Reader (2005); ,and "Women's Voices," Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s (2011). She is the author of Mary Hays (1759-1843): the growth of a woman’s mind (2006), and editor of The Idea of Being Free: A Mary Hays Reader (2006).

She is coauthor of "Gender and Genre: Women in British Romantic Literature." She co-edited Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2001), Rational Passions: British Women and Scholarship 1702-1870 (2008), and Intellectual Exchanges: Women and Rational Dissent, a special issue of Enlightenment and Dissent (2011); Review Essay, European Romantic Review, Julia V. Douthwaite, The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France (U of Chicago P 2012); Katherine Astbury, Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution (Legenda 2012), Spring, 2014The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, Second Edition, eds. Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Notes and Queries (Oxford University Press, September 2013), doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjt158; “Preface: A Story to be Told Against Her,” Personal Moments in the Lives of Victorian Women: Selections from Their Autobiographies, ed. Abigail Burnham Bloom, Book 1, Edwin Mellen Press, 2008, pp. i-iii. From 1999-2001, she participated in the Feminism and Enlightenment Project. With G. M. Ditchfield (University of Kent), she co-edited Intellectual Exchanges: Women and Rational Dissent, Special Issue, Enlightenment and Dissent (2010).^[5]

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