The Cultures of Philosophy team at the University of Exeter invites proposals for the online workshop Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing Between Literature and Philosophy: Pedagogy and Practice. The aim of this workshop is to share case studies and best practice regarding the teaching of early modern women’s philosophical writing in HE, across languages, disciplines and national settings. We intend to bring together teachers and researchers in HE with members of subject organisations to reflect on what’s working and what could be changed to improve the visibility of and engagement with early modern women’s philosophical writing, broadly conceived. The workshop will take place online over one afternoon (Wed 11th) and one morning (Thurs 12th); we envisage short (10 minute) interventions to allow for plenty of discussion. We intend to produce a report to be published on our project website, summarising the workshop’s findings and to use this as a landing page to bring together further resources.

Invited speakers: Hannah Dawson (KCL); Sarah Hutton (York); Dino Jakusic (Warwick); Amanda Pipkin (UNC); Francesca Romana Recchia Luciani (University of Bari); Sandra Plastina (Università della Calabria/SWIP Italia); Hannah Straw (Warwick); Rachael Wiseman (British Society for the History of Philosophy). We invite contributors to reflect on their own practice (case studies; engagement activities undertaken etc.).

Contributions might respond to the following prompts or questions:

• Are there discipline specific conditions for teaching early modern women’s (philosophical) writing? E.g. how does teaching across philosophy, literary, and intellectual history departments compare? What can we learn from each other?

• To take one perspective, how can we leverage the unique affordances of Modern Languages departments, as inherently interdisciplinary, to foster an inclusive approach to women’s writing, combining intellectual history/literature/philosophy in our teaching?

• What are the challenges of teaching an interdisciplinary author? How to attend to both their philosophical and literary output?

• Reflections on: Women/gender specific modules and/or integration of women’s writing in survey, introductory or comparative courses.

• Reflections on: Integration of feminist philosophy and inclusive methodologies across a range of courses.

• Reflections on: How methodology might be integrated to enhance the inclusion of women intellectuals.

• What alternative sources might we draw on to teach women’s contributions to cultural and intellectual history (e.g. historical fiction)? • Do course designers in HEIs have the same objectives as subject organisations? How can we share best practice?

• What do subject organizations do to raise awareness? What can others learn from this?

• Editing women’s writing: case studies highlighting women’s philosophical contributions across genres. How do decisions made in the editing (and translation) process impact pedagogy, and vice versa?

Please send abstracts of 150-200 words to cultphil@exeter.ac.uk by June 30th 2026 (please include a short biographical note of 50 words). The team will review the proposals and be in touch by the end of July. We welcome applications from PhD students and early career scholars.

The workshop is supported by the European Research Council-selected Starting Grant, ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].