Teaching women writers with NEWW Virtual Research Environment Katja Mihurko Poniž, 1 Narvika Bovcon, 2 Marie Nedregotten Sørbø, 3 Viola Parente-Čapková, 4 Amelia Sanz, 5 Suzan van Dijk, 6 Aleš Vaupotič 7 1 School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13, SI 5000 Nova Gorica katja.mihurko.poniz@ung.si 2 Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 113, SI-1000 Ljubljana narvika.bovcon@fri-uni.lj.si 3 Volda University College, Post box 500. NO-6101 Volda mns@hivolda.no 4 Department of Finnish Literature, University of Turku FI-20014 University of Turku viocap@utu.fi 5 Faculty of Philology, Complutense University, 28040 Madrid amsanz@filol.ucm.es 6 Huygens ING KNAW, Postbus 10855, 1001 EW Amsterdam suzan.van.dijk@huygens.knaw.nl 7 School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13, SI 5000 Nova Gorica ales.vaupotic@ung.si 1.Introduction The underrepresentation of women in cultural historiography has challenged a number of feminist responses in the form of supplementary female canons since the 1970s. The DARIAH Working Group Women Writers in History (https://www.dariah.eu/activities/working-groups/women-writers- in-history/) takes this task a step further, and investigates historical sources until 1930 to find out whether female authors were read in the past. The objective of the DARIAH Working Group WWIH is: to carry out research about female authorship in history, the international reception of women’s writing and the connections between women authors. Evidence of readership, translations and commentary is contained in the digital repository NEWW VRE (Virtual Research Environment) http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/womenwriters, which serves as a collaborative research tool for the above mentioned working group. This tool aims to facilitate research about women’s authorship in Europe from the Middle ages until the early 20th century. Data are entered when any proof of reception (comments in press, private letters, translations, adaptations etc.) is found: in other words, when it becomes clear that a woman writer and/or her works were received and read. Although the main focus lies on European women authors, the NEWW VRE also includes information on works and reception created in European colonies, Canada and the United States, due to the mutual cultural exchanges between these regions and Europe. NEWW VRE provides information which is not always easy to find elsewhere; in particular it is presented in a structured way and within a meaningful context. The larger part of the information is open for consultation by everybody: data about women authors, their works and the reception of these works are accessible without a password. The systematic scrutiny of reception data from large-scale sources (library and booksellers’ catalogues, the periodical press) forms the basis for the study of women’s participation in this process. This includes hyperlinks to online biographies, texts and testimonies of reception (for instance, in the periodical press). Konferenca Jezikovne tehnologije in digitalna humanistika Ljubljana, 2018 Conference on Language Technologies & Digital Humanities Ljubljana, 2018 POVZETKI 254 ABSTRACTS