Gina M. Luria Walker is a professor of women’s studies at The New School. An intellectual historian, Walker is best known for her work on late-18th-to-early-19th century English feminist intellectual Mary Hays, whose 1803 work Female Biography inspired Walker’s academic interest in the biographies of historical women.

Born Gina Luria in Brooklyn, New York, in 1942, Luria received her B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University before receiving her Ph.D. in 18th century literature from New York University in 1972 for her dissertation on Mary Hays. In 1976, she edited the reprints of 44 volumes of selected writing by 18th-to-19th century English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and members of her circle for Garland Publishing. After teaching at Northwestern University and Rutgers University, and working as a real estate consultant, she married her second husband, Chauncey Walker, in 1989. In 1993 Walker was hired by The New School’s Adult Division, and ran the “Conversations About Women” special program, a series of panels and lectures on women’s issues, with a special focus on women’s writing and women writers, until the series’ end in 1995. By 1998 she was made chair of the social sciences department of the university's Adult Division.

In 2009, Walker created the Female Biography Project, a group of scholars attempting to investigate and revise the entries of Mary Hay’s original Female Biography. Once this updated edition was published in 2013, the Female Biography Project became Project Continua, an online archive of biographies of historical women. In 2022, this again changed its name to The New Historia.

As of 2024, Walker is a professor of women's studies in the Schools of Public Engagement (SPE), a division of The New School.

Sources:

Ellen Moors, “Vindicating Mary Wollstonecraft". The New York Review of Books, February 19. 1976. Accessed July 16, 2024, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1976/02/19/vindicating-mary-wollstonecraft/

“Gina Luria Weds Chauncey Walker”. The New York Times, July 10, 1989. Accessed July 16, 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/10/style/gina-luria-weds-chauncey-walker.html

Gina Luria Walker. “Core Convictions: Women, Epistemological Authority, and the Canon”. Lecture. Temple University, Philadelphia. March 17, 2018. Accessed July 16, 2024, https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTXim2Pk7tm9JgRAmEvwuN14z31iIZmMLB16FI6Jw78y7PmMMiKOx2K8NUMDkaZ_Oop_zIOrpuqMP3i/pub

New School Office of Communications (1994). Conversations about Women series. George Calderaro New School Office of Communications records (NS.03.01.03, Box 4, Folder 47), The New School Archives and Special Collections.

The New School (1992). New School Bulletin 1993 Spring Vol. 50 No. 4 [course catalog]. New School Course Catalog Collection. New School Archives and Special Collections. https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/NS050101_ns1993sp