This artist book exhibition was designed by upper-level English and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGSX) students during the fall 2025 semester in Professor Jennifer Cognard-Black's seminar called "Woman Word: Women Writing Novels" -- a course in which students study novels by female-identified writers from 1688 to the present day alongside feminist, womanist, queer and intersectional literary scholarship. Each artist book within the "Wild Woman Works" exhibition is based on one of the novels the students studied in Woman Word, representing the original author, the text itself and the student's own engagement with that book. Each artist book is a unique object, meant to challenge traditional ideas of what a book may be while also inviting viewers to rethink how novels are containers for ideas, places, politics, bodies, power, and magic. The "Wild Woman Works" exhibition is on display across from the Circulation Desk in the Hilda C. Landers Library through Thursday, Jan. 29.
