ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 (ISSN 2157-7129) is an open access, interactive, scholarly journal, launched in 2011 by the Aphra Behn Society. The journal is supported by the University of South Florida Tampa Library. As a global open-access journal, ABO has and will continue to prioritize the concerns of women and gender in an inclusive context. That means we work toward understanding historic structures of racism, colonialism, and sexism and promote work to dismantle the damaging cultural inheritances. We welcome the writing of scholars and teachers from around the world who share this vision and wish to contribute to our platform or adopt the work already in circulation to help them with their research and teaching. For further guidance, see our sidebar links.
Current Issue: Volume 15, Issue 1 (2025) Summer
Scholarship
The Untold Love Story of Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun
Anaclara Castro-Santana
The Maternal Icon in Eleanor Sleath's The Orphan of the Rhine
Esmeralda Orndorff and Joanne E. Myers
Pedagogy Special Issue
Introduction: Concise Collection on Teaching the Works of Phillis Wheatley Peters
Mona Narain and Sarah Ruffing Robbins
Reimagining the Single-Author Seminar: Teaching Wheatley Peters, Milton, and the Master’s Discourse
Kate Ozment
Reading Phillis Wheatley’s Catastrophist Poetics: Heroic Couplets and Environmental Justice
Katarina O'Briain
Reviews
A Review of Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein
Ashley Bender
A Review of Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce
Annette Hulbert
A Review of Mary Beth Harris's A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century
Megan A. Woodworth
Announcement
Indigenous Language Guidelines and Resources
Shelby Johnson, Katarina O'Briain, and Willow White
Notes and Discoveries
Phillis Wheatley Peters’s British Publicity Campaign
Susan Carlile
Editors
- Editor
- Laura Runge
- Managing Editor
- Kelly Plante
- Scholarship Editor
- Mona Narain
- Pedagogy Editor
- Tiffany Potter
- Digital Humanities Editor
- Nicole Infanta Keller
- Book Review Editor
- Nicolle Jordan
- Lead Copy Editor
- Elizabeth Ford
