This lecture is dedicated to the memory of Susan Stanford Friedman.

Susan Stanford Friedman's work was seminal for the conception of EUTERPE, and we deeply grieve her passing. She was not only a highly respected and influential scholar, but also a special friend known for her warm personality and intellectual generosity. This lecture series was created in her honour, to celebrate her legacy and to keep her presence alive.

This episode features a lecture delivered by Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Claire Tow Professor of English and Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Barnard College. The episode also includes an introduction given by Jasmina Lukić, Professor with the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Vienna and the Principal Leader for the EUTERPE project.

The lecture pays tribute to the legacy of Susan Stanford Friedman as a scholar and mentor by reflecting on the concept of “reshuffling,” which Friedman developed in her later work as a way of thinking about feminist collaboration across differences of generation, nationality, race, religion, and class.

Sewing together moments from Friedman’s scholarship across several decades, the lecture highlights her persistent engagement with models of feminist collaboration and transnational solidarity that she finds in the writings of Virginia Woolf, as well as in the work of other readers and re-writers of Woolf’s texts. “Reshuffling” is the methodology Friedman derives from this dynamic of reading and writing over generations. It is a methodology she both describes and performs, and in that sense it demonstrates her commitment to creativity as well as to criticism, to building up ideas in the presence and on the shoulders of distant others, and to making room for future generations to build up anew and to stand on her shoulders in turn.

This lecture was originally delivered on 11/09/2024 at the third biannual EUTERPE Doctoral School, held at Central European University in Vienna, Austria.

The episode transcript can be accessed here.

This episode is part of the EUTERPE podcast Library on European Literatures and Genders from a Transnational Perspective.

The podcast is powered by the European Union, UKRI, and the Central European University Library.

Grant Agreement: 101073012 EUTERPE HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01 Project.

For more information about the EUTERPE project please refer to the official project webpage https://www.euterpeproject.eu/, or follow us on Instagram @euterpe_project_ or Facebook at EUTERPE Doctoral Network Project.

This episode was edited by Evangeline Scarpulla.

Thank you to Alexander Walker for the music and to Alice Flinta for the voice over.

Thank you also to Ninutsa Nadirashvili and Kris Orszaghova for designing the podcast covers.