Profile
Gina Luria Walker is an intellectual historian who investigates alternatives to traditional accounts of the past. She is the Director of The Center for The New Historia, recently launched at The New School, whose mission is to present authoritative, multidisciplinary scholarship on women鈥檚 contributions to society, to broadcast these stories on a pioneering, interactive platform and at public events, and to reveal an alternative history that values the roles women have always played in human endeavors. Dr. Walker is a pioneer in the global project of feminist historical recovery of earlier women.
Her interests include the struggles of female intellectuals to be educated outside the male-only institutions of teaching and learning and recognized in the Republic of Letters; and the diffusion of the Reformation concept of 鈥渢he right to private judgment鈥 as a pivotal force in the withering of absolutism in church and state. Dr. Walker also explores the emergence of 鈥渢he rights of man鈥 and the conflict over efforts to apply these to women, the working class, People of Color, colonists, and Jews. She is the Editor of the Chawton House Library edition of聽Female Biography聽(1803) by Mary Hays, a six-volume work documenting the lives of 302 active, learned, and rebellious women, which Jane Austen is known to have read and may have used in writing her novels. To produce the new edition, Dr. Walker assembled an international team of 164 scholars, representing 116 institutions in eighteen countries.
Degrees Held
PhD, New York 好色先生
Recent Publications
Editor, The Invention of Female Biography (Chawton House Studies in Scholarly Editing, 2017), essays by fourteen scholars from The Female Biography Project.
Co-Editor, Women鈥檚 Writing, special issue on Female Biography, Spring, 2017;
鈥淚 sought and made for myself an extraordinary destiny,鈥 Women鈥檚 Writing, 2017.
Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries听(1803).听Chawton House Library Series: Women's Memoirs, ed. Gina Luria Walker,聽Memoirs of Women Writers Part II聽(Pickering & Chatto: London, 2013, 2014) in six volumes.
"The Two Marys: Hays Writes Wollstonecraft,"聽, ed. Enit K. Steiner,聽Dialogue Series, Rodophi Press, Amsterdam, 2014, pp. 49-70.
鈥淚ntellectual Exchanges: Women and Rational Dissent,鈥 in special issue,聽Enlightenment and Dissent, (2010) (co-editor)
鈥淲omen鈥檚 Voices,鈥 in聽, ed. Pamela Clemit (2010)
Rational Passions: Women and Scholarship in Britain, 1702鈥1870聽(2008) (co-editor)
Mary Hays (1759鈥1843): The Growth of a Woman鈥檚 Mind听(2006)听
The Idea of Being Free: A Mary Hays Reader聽(2005)听
鈥淢ary Hays: An Enlightened Quest,鈥聽in Women, Gender and Enlightenment (2005)听
鈥溾楥an Man Be Free/And Woman Be a Slave?鈥 Teaching Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers in Intersecting Communities,鈥 in聽Teaching British Women Writers 1750鈥1900听(2005)
Research Interests
The lives of attested women, the history of learned women, the feminist intellectual tradition, , self-writing, the diffusion of the concept of the right to private judgment, the gendering of knowledge, the permeability of genre.聽
Awards And Honors
2014-聽Member, International Advisory Board, UDC International Doctoral School, Universidade Da Coru帽a,Spain
2013-听Advisory Editorial Board,聽Enlightenment and Dissent, Dr Williams鈥檚 Centre for Dissenting Studies, Queen Mary 好色先生 of London