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Women's Legacy at The New School collection

 Collection
Identifier: NS-02-25-01

Descriptive Status

No publicly accessible container list or inventory is available at this time. Please contact The New School Archives if you are interested in consulting this collection.

Abstract

Consists of material related to the Women's Legacy at The New School project, including student-led research projects, documentation of a performance during the New School Centennial, and a podcast interview with co-founder of the project, Gina Luria Walker.

Dates

  • 2017-2021

Creator

Extent

3.94 Gigabytes (110 files)

Language of Materials

English

Conditions Governing Use

To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the New School Archives and Special Collections. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.

Biographical note

Gina M. Luria Walker is a professor of women’s studies at The New School. An intellectual historian, Walker is best known for her work on late-18th-to-early-19th century English feminist intellectual Mary Hays, whose 1803 work Female Biography inspired Walker’s academic interest in the biographies of historical women.

Born Gina Luria in Brooklyn, New York, in 1942, Luria received her B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University before receiving her Ph.D. in 18th century literature from New York University in 1972 for her dissertation on Mary Hays. In 1976, she edited the reprints of 44 volumes of selected writing by 18th-to-19th century English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and members of her circle for Garland Publishing. After teaching at Northwestern University and Rutgers University, and working as a real estate consultant, she married her second husband, Chauncey Walker, in 1989. In 1993 Walker was hired by The New School’s Adult Division, and ran the “Conversations About Women” special program, a series of panels and lectures on women’s issues, with a special focus on women’s writing and women writers, until the series’ end in 1995. By 1998 she was made chair of the social sciences department of the university's Adult Division.

In 2009, Walker created the Female Biography Project, a group of scholars attempting to investigate and revise the entries of Mary Hay’s original Female Biography. Once this updated edition was published in 2013, the Female Biography Project became Project Continua, an online archive of biographies of historical women. In 2022, this again changed its name to The New Historia.

As of 2024, Walker is a professor of women's studies in the Schools of Public Engagement (SPE), a division of The New School.

Sources:

Ellen Moors, “Vindicating Mary Wollstonecraft". The New York Review of Books, February 19. 1976. Accessed July 16, 2024, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1976/02/19/vindicating-mary-wollstonecraft/

“Gina Luria Weds Chauncey Walker”. The New York Times, July 10, 1989. Accessed July 16, 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/10/style/gina-luria-weds-chauncey-walker.html

Gina Luria Walker. “Core Convictions: Women, Epistemological Authority, and the Canon”. Lecture. Temple University, Philadelphia. March 17, 2018. Accessed July 16, 2024, https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTXim2Pk7tm9JgRAmEvwuN14z31iIZmMLB16FI6Jw78y7PmMMiKOx2K8NUMDkaZ_Oop_zIOrpuqMP3i/pub

New School Office of Communications (1994). Conversations about Women series. George Calderaro New School Office of Communications records (NS.03.01.03, Box 4, Folder 47), The New School Archives and Special Collections.

The New School (1992). New School Bulletin 1993 Spring Vol. 50 No. 4 [course catalog]. New School Course Catalog Collection. New School Archives and Special Collections. https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/NS050101_ns1993sp

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The staff of The New School Archives and Special Collections assembled this collection from multiple office transfers and donations between 2019-2022.

Student work was transferred to the archives with permission by Nicole Story, Alexandra Oates, and Alice Van Heuven in 2018 and 2019. The Office of Marketing and Communication transferred the event photographs and additional digital assests in 2020 and 2022, respectively. The event videos were transfered by Celina Rubino, Eugene Lang associate professor of theater, 2021. The podcast recording was donated by Madison Gamba in 2021.

Related Materials

The New School Archives holds the papers of several gender studies faculty members including the Ann Snitow faculty records (NS.02.08.01) and the Barrie Karp papers (NA.0022.01). The Archives also holds recordings of a two-day conference celebrating the re-establishment of a gender studies program at The New School, No Longer in Exile: The Legacy and Future of Gender Studies at the New School recordings (NS.07.02.05).

Processing Information

In some cases, filenames have been shortened, to conform with digital preservation standards, but remain close to their original titles. Duplicates and near-duplicate files were deaccessioned during processing.

Title
Guide to the Women's Legacy at The New School collection
Status
In Process
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin