Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is devoting a special issue to Genevieve Taggard, her career and legacy. Given the interdisciplinary nature of Women’s Studies, and the breadth and depth of Taggard’s multi-faceted artistic, cultural, and political undertakings, proposals are sought for essays that demonstrate Taggard’s wide-ranging literary and political legacy and her significance to our present moment. 

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Taggard’s poetry and its influences/confluences
• Taggard in/and the “little” magazines
• Taggard as editor and anthologist 
• Taggard in intertextual dialogue with other poets and writers
• Taggard’s collaborations with other artists (i.e composers, photographers) 
• Taggard and the critics
• Taggard’s archives 
• Taggard’s correspondences
• Taggard and Greenwich Village bohemia
• Taggard and feminism
• Taggard and Hawaii/California
• Taggard and Vermont/New England
• Taggard and the lyrical Left
• Taggard, the Popular Front, and/or other political contexts.
• Taggard as teacher and biographer 
• Taggard and the political economy of nature (eco-feminism; eco-criticism)
• Rereading/Reclaiming Taggard in the 21st Century

Submission Instructions

Please send abstracts of around 300 words and a short bio to this special issue’s editor, Nancy Berke, Professor Emerita of English, City University of New York, LaGuardia (nancyberke@yahoo.com) by January 15, 2026. Selected contributors will be notified in February 2026, and completed articles of 6500 to 8000 words will be due by September 2026.