[edit] Biographical sketch

Theodore Robinson's Girl at Piano (c.1887)

My name is Adrianne Wadewitz and I am a graduate student at Indiana University specializing in eighteenth-century British literature. Currently, I am writing a dissertation on the self and sensibility in eighteenth-century children's literature. As it is currently the entire focus of my life, I will give a brief sketch of it below.

My dissertation argues, broadly, that women writers at the end of the eighteenth century took advantage of the emerging genre of children’s literature to promote a version of subjectivity that challenged the dominant Lockean and Rousseauvian models. Highlighting the role of shared suffering in the formation of selfhood, women writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith and Maria Edgeworth fashioned a “sympathetic self” through a reimagination of the discourse of sensibility. Their new discourse emphasized the unbounded nature of subjectivity and the importance of benevolence in both the child and adult self. Significantly, such a self applied to both sexes and opened up a sphere of political action for the child.

Partially because of my work here, the digital humanities has become a developing interest of mine and I have presented academic papers on Wikipedia.

Apart from literature and history (which are integrally tied together for me), some of my hobbies include playing classical piano (I've studied for 25 years) and reading popular science books.

I have an alternate account for WP:NEWT - User:Enlightenment1789.

[edit] Wikium vitae

I have contributed a few images to Wikimedia Commons, such as this one of the Sheesh Gumbad tomb in the Lodhi Gardens.

I made my first edit to Wikipedia on 18 July 2004. Currently, I am an active reviewer at Featured article candidates and occasionally at Peer Review and Good article nominations. I particularly enjoy reviewing literature articles, since that is my area of expertise, and science articles to ensure their accessibility to the general public. If you would like me to review your article, please leave a message on my talk page and I will give it a careful and thoughtful review. I will also respond to specific copy editing requests.

I would specifically like to thank Kaldari who helped initiate a wiki-newbie on Mary Wollstonecraft and encouraged me to take it to FAC. I would also like to thank the following editors for their insightful contributions to projects I have worked on: Opabinia regalis, lquilter, qp10qp, WillowW, scribblingwoman, AnonEMouse, Markus Poessel, Outriggr, Scartol, Roger Davies, Ruhrfisch, Maria, Moni3, Brianboulton, Xover, Simmaren, Ealdgyth, Elcobbola, Laser brain, Shoemaker's Holiday, Durova, Cirt, and Casliber. I would also like to thank Jeeny who polished up many images for me. I wish that there were more Wikipedia editors such as these and that I could work with them more often.

• DYK contributions that I have made
  
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• Awards that have been kindly bestowed upon me
• WP:WBFAN

[edit] Current projects

If you would like to collaborate on any of these projects, please leave a message on my talk page.

To do Places to help Acquire sound clips (Mozart in Italy, poets reading their poetry) Academy Short plagiarism article Jane Austen (with Simmaren) Jane Austen Janeite Jane Austen work page Juvenilia (Austen) draft Family of Jane Austen draft Style of Jane Austen draft Styles and themes of Jane Austen Mary Shelley featured topic List of works by Mary Shelley Frankenstein (Laser brain) Mathilda (qp10qp) Valperga The Last Man The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck Lodore Falkner

Contemporary literature GA-fest The Eyre Affair The Alienist The Book of Lost Things Back burner History of English grammars Mary Astell (with Kaldari) Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Troilus and Criseyde (with Peter cohen) Antoine Lavoisier (with mav) Epilepsy (see Epilepsy collaboration page) Awadewit's FAC prep list Good article nomination Copy edit Peer review Copy edit Be sure article adheres to WP:MOS Check all image descriptions Proofread Check all citations (page ranges, commas, lost citations, etc.) Check all links to make sure they go to the right articles Read article aloud one last time Nominate for FAC!

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My list of future projects became so long that I have moved it off of this page.

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