Primary researcher(s): Roger Rothman, Erica Delsandro, Eowyn Andres, Haley Beardsley, Lyndon Beier, Mia DeRoco, Margaret Hunter, Sophie McQuaide, Olivia Martin, Zoha Nadeer, Bri Perea, Ricky Rodriguez, Zaely Rodriguez, Valeria Riley, Kaitlyn Segreti, Maggie Smith, Kelly Troop, Maya Wadhwa, Lucy Wadsworth, Anna Marie Wingard, Olivia Wychock
Date: Ongoing
The Heresies Project at Bucknell University is a collaborative research experience dedicated to the recovery, recuperation, and preservation of the Heresies Journal. Like many other individuals whose groundbreaking ideas, artworks, and perspectives have been overlooked because of their gender, race, sexual orientation, or class, many of Heresies’ contributors have been lost to history. We aim to illuminate these marginalized voices through collaborative digital humanities research. Through the creation of accessible spaces for the circulation of feminist ideology in LEAF (Linked Editing Academic Framework), we advance these contributors’ presences within academia. Our efforts are extremely pertinent: we’re expanding art history and political canons beyond a constraining patriarchal framework.
Heresies at Bucknell began when Roger Rothman shared an essay from an issue of Heresies with Sophie McQuaide in 2020. McQuaide then gathered a group of friends to work with faculty to develop a research project around the journal. The project has grown to involve over 20 students who continue to enocde and analyze the issues to pursue new research about this groundbreaking journal.
The project has been supported by funds from Bucknell (a Candland High-Impact Grant, the Humanities Center, L&IT), as well as the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.