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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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2025 SSAWW Conference Extended Deadline and Leadership Announcement
2025 SSAWW Conference Extended Deadline and Leadership Announcement We are living in unprecedented times. Because we read literature, we know that we are not the first to see the world on fire. But literature also shows us that coming together with others can sustain us. SSAWW has always been a community of scholars and teachers,…
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CFP: Eudora Welty Review
Call for Papers: Eudora Welty Review Spring 2026 The Eudora Welty Review invites essays (6,500 to 10,000 words) and notes of general interest (1,500 to 3,500 words) to Welty studies for the Spring 2026 issue. We also introduce a new category of submissions called “provocations.” Provocations are original, non-refereed essays (5000 words max) that are argumentative in nature but do not…
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Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships at TCU
See below for info on a new post-doc opportunity at TCU. Note that most if not all teaching will be in writing studies. Please share widely and contact our department chair (Sharon Weltman) with your questions. Her email is below in the message to the department. TCU is a private secular institution with an historical…
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CFP: Toward a Critical Color Theory; Black American Women’s Writing and Color at 2025 SSAWW (Deadline: 2.25.2025)
Toward a Critical Color Theory; Black American Women’s Writing and Color This roundtable seeks to bring together scholars across rank and place who are thinking at the intersections of color and Black American women’s writing broadly defined. This roundtable encourages interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to Black American women’s writing and the authors’ treatment of color.…
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CFP: Building Networks through Local Communities at SSAWW 2025 (Deadline: 2.21.2025)
The general call for proposals for the 2025 SSAWW conference notes that “As a community, we engage with the creative work of women across the Americas who foster change and build networks that sustain us through difficult times.” This panel seeks to gather scholars researching women writers who use/d their craft to engage their local…
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CFP: Imagining Histories – The Challenges of Working with Early American Women (Deadline: 2.22.2025)
CFP Imagining Histories: The Challenges of Working with Early American Women Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference Philadelphia, November 6-9, 2025 Conference website Since its founding, the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) has been committed to the recovery of the writings of early American women writers. Over time,…
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CFP: Workshop Proposing Trade Editions at 2025 SSAWW (Deadline: 2.24.2025)
CFP for 2025 SSAWW Conference “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW” November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City Workshop Description: Proposing Trade Editions This is a guaranteed special-session workshop that will meet twice at the SSAWW Conference in Philadelphia Nov 6-9, 2025. Given Modern Library’s new Torchbearers series, Penguin’s African American Classics series, and the New…
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CFP: Eudora Welty Review
The Eudora Welty Review invites essays (6,500 to 10,000 words) and notes of general interest (1,500 to 3,500 words) to Welty studies for the Spring 2026 issue. We also introduce a new category of submissions called “provocations.” Provocations are original, non-refereed essays (5000 words max) that are argumentative in nature but do not have the development of…
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CFP: Society of Early Americanists at SSAWW 2025
Please consider submitting a proposal for the Society of Early Americanists (SEA) panel at the 2025 SSAWW Conference, to be held November 6-9 in Philadelphia. Proposals are welcome on any aspect of women’s cultural productions (broadly conceived) in the Americas before 1830. The theme of the conference is “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of…
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CFP: The Witch in American Women’s Writing after 1865 (Deadline: 2.22.2025)
CFP: The Witch in American Women’s Writing after 1865 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference Philadelphia, November 6-9, 2025 Conference website This proposed panel for the 2025 SSAWW conference focuses on women writers’ representation of the witch, a cultural figure imagined to exist on the outskirts of mainstream society while possessing the…
