Thread by @SuneAuken

In the spirit of the #InternationalWomensDay here's a thread of blogposts I have done over the years with eminent women of genre research holding center stage. All but one are "random" as gender-political statements. They are simply me being impressed by my female colleagues. 1/

I'll pick them up chronologically from my blog. When I first started blogging I had to pay my dues to the best genre blog around. 2/

copenhagengenre.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-be…

Then, I wanted to suggest a set of reading texts in genre research for literary PhDs. Eight texts; five by eminent women. The spread mirrors the field just fine. 3/

copenhagengenre.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-be…

Later I felt like writing a piece about high-impact studies. I picked THE dominant text in the field, Carolyn Miller's "Genre as Social Action" (1984). Specialists will know that there's really no competition here. 4/

copenhagengenre.blogspot.com/2017/04/when-d…

Up next, a blog post about the apology as genre. The primary conversation partner simply had to be the author of the best genre blog around (see tweet 2). 5/

copenhagengenre.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-pa…

Later, an important volume of high-impact studies in genre research was published and I gave it a hat-tip. The editors were - unsurprisingly - two core researchers in the field, both women. 6/

copenhagengenre.blogspot.com/2018/05/landma…

Up next, the "political" piece mentioned earlier. The only one, I think, where gender came to play a major role in itself. It discusses the eminent women of genre research. It really wasn't terribly revolutionary. It just stated plain facts. 7/

copenhagengenre.blogspot.com/2018/05/eminen…

A good friend in Bible Studies wrote a brilliant book about sacred eating as a genre. I wrote a blog post about it. The most fun you can get out of a hurting tummy - ever. 8/

copenhagengenre.blogspot.com/2019/09/sacred…

Finally, last year I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to a discussion between two of the aforementioned eminent women. I was more than happy to oblige. Here's an exuberant blog post I wrote when the discussion was published. 9/

copenhagengenre.blogspot.com/2020/08/caroly…

So happy #InternationalWomensDay. It really - really really- doesn't hurt to be around smart women. I am a much better researcher for it. 10/10