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SSAWW Mentorship Match Program
The SSAWW Graduate Student Caucus is excited to announce a new cycle for our Mentorship Match Program. This program pairs dissertating graduate students with a faculty mentor who will read and provide feedback on two chapters of their dissertation during the 2026-2027 academic year. The program concludes with a series of online panels in Spring 2027 in…
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Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Call for Proposals We invite proposals for a virtual symposium on February 19–20, 2027, focused on archival preservation, digital publication, and community collaboration in projects that relate to African, African American, and Diaspora studies. We seek proposals for individual 15-minute presentations or panels consisting of 3–4 presentations (15 minutes each) that focus on ways that…
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Catharine Sedgwick Society – Call for Officer Nominations
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society is seeking officer nominations for our upcoming election this year. The CMS Society is open to anyone with an interest in Sedgwick’s life and works. Please see below for information about officer nominations and membership updates. CMSS Election Year We will be holding elections this fall for all Executive Board member…
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Seeking proposals for ASLE panel: Emily Dickinson’s Wonderful / Magical / Terrible / Miraculous / Exquisite / Tenderest Extents
The 2027 biennial conference of Association for the Study of Literature and Environment is scheduled for June 22-24 at the University of Maryland in College Park. The conference theme is: “Territory: Terra, Terroir, Terror.” Members of the Emily Dickinson International Society plan to propose the following panel, to which SSAWW members may be interested in contributing. Please send paper proposals of 300 words or…
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Event, “Crosscurrents: Indigenous Women’s Archives”
The Society for the Study of American Women Writers is excited to present our upcoming virtual event, “Crosscurrents: Indigenous Women’s Archives” on Friday, November 13th, from 12PM – 1 PM CDT / 1PM – 2PM EST. SSAWW’s Crosscurrents Series creates a space for intellectual exchange by exploring innovative directions in specific fields of literary and…
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Research Fellowship at the Emily Dickinson Museum
The Emily Dickinson Museum seeks a Research Fellow for a 9-month, 30 hour week term appointment to conduct original primary-source research to provide evidence for the Museum to document and interpret the domestic conditions that afforded Emily Dickinson the opportunity to compose a large body of poetic and epistolary work. This research project parallels the restoration…
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New Book: Students in the Archives: Pedagogy in Practice, edited by Heather Fox and Amanda Stuckey
Students in the Archives: Pedagogy in Practice Editors: Heather Fox and Amanda Stuckey Contributors: Melissa Adams-Campbell, Stephanie-Renee Anckle, Amy Branam Armiento, James Blakely, Stephanie M. Blalock, Meghan H. Bryant, Sanjana Chowdhury Cohn, Jean Lee Cole, Milton Dawson, Lindsay DiCuirci, L. E. Eames, Belle Eist, Megan Feifer, Ahlan Filstrup, Julia Gaffield, Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Geneva M. Gano,…
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CFP: “We Wish to Plead Our Own Cause”: Black Women, Gender, and the Black Press, Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW)-Sponsored Panel, The Black Press at 200, Howard University, Washington, D. C., March 17-18, 2027
In March 1827, Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper in the United States, famously declared, “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.” Across the two centuries that followed, Black newspapers, magazines, and periodicals have served as crucial sites through which Black women articulated political demands, crafted literary identities, challenged racial…
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Call for Proposals: Special Issue on Pauline E. Hopkins for New England Quarterly
In 1900, the Boston-based Colored American Magazine launched its inaugural issue, convinced of the “immediate need of a Race Journal, otherwise than our current local periodicals.” Within a year, Hopkins’s zeal would direct much of the publication. She quickly became the magazine’s best-known literary contributor and one of the few Black women editors from the era. Hopkins…
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[Recording] Strategies for Securing Support: Writing Fellowship and Grant Applications
For many scholars, late summer is a critical time for finalizing materials, requesting letters, and assembling a targeted list of funding opportunities. How do different funding structures (residential, non-residential, short-term, long-term) align with scholarly project stages? How do you develop a compelling, feasible, and well-grounded proposal for competitive fellowships? From figuring out what fellowships are…
