EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective

This project will produce a growing podcast library of interviews with contemporary transnational women and queer writers in Europe, reflecting on their craft and the experiences of living, thinking, feeling, and creating across multiple cultures and languages. In addition, it will publish one two-volume study of transnational women's and queer writing in Europe, which will include one volume on transnational literary theory and another on the works and lives of women and queer European writers who work in more than one language and/or across borders and cultures. The project will also yield a collection of essays in memory of the feminist modernist scholar Susan Stanford Friedman. Besides the new knowledge the project will generate and make available to the public, it is designed to professionally train 13 doctoral researchers, who will aim to earn their PhDs and produce individual book-length theses of their own.