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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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CFP: Afterlives of Early and Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers (Deadline: 2.20.2025)
CFP: Afterlives of Early and Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Deadline: 2/20/2025 2025 SSAWW Conference Nov. 6-9 Philadelphia, PA Early and nineteenth-century American women writers are hardly a thing of the past. Contemporary readers encounter them again and again in the twenty-first century, as writers and artists reanimate both these earlier works and the lives of…
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19th Century American Women Writers Reading Group – March 28-29th, 2025 at William & Mary
Dear Members of the 19th Century American Women Writers Reading Group: We are pleased to be hosting the group meeting at William & Mary on Saturday, March 29th! Details are in this letter. Responses to the questionnaire will assist with planning, but you should feel free to attend even if you don’t fill out the…
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CFP: Women’s Extra-Literary Writing in Digital Forms – Recovery Hub at SSAWW (Deadline: 2.21.2025)
Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2025 Conference | 6–9 November 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania CFP: Women’s Extra-Literary Writing in Digital Forms Since its founding, the SSAWW has celebrated the ways in which women’s texts are often extra-literary and can include commonplace books, scrapbooks, cookbooks, prophecies, jotted scraps, and other genres. For this…
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CFP: Women, Health, and the Epistolary at SSAWW (Deadline: 2.21.2025)
Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2025 Conference | 6–9 November 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania CFP: Women, Health, and the Epistolary The December 1856 issue of The Merchant’s Magazine and Commercial Review described the mail in strikingly embodied terms, as “the blood of the country, which resembles the arterial and venous circulation of…
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SSAWW Texas Regional Study Group (RSVP Deadline: 2.4.2025) in-person and virtual option for afternoon group
Dear colleagues, It’s not too late to join us for the meeting described below! Please RSVP by Feb. 4. We are also adding a hybrid option, so let Stephanie know if you would like to join the afternoon study group by Zoom. Sincerely, Theresa Gaul The Spring 2025 meeting of the Texas Regional Study Group…
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CFP: L.M. Montgomery 17th Biennial International Conference
The L.M. Montgomery Institute’s 17th Biennial International ConferenceUniversity of Prince Edward Island,24-28 June 2026 “It seemed to open such dizzying possibilities of change.” — L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs “All she really wanted, or seemed to want, was to…see that as few changes as possible came into existence there.”— L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat “Is it really…
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Job Posting: TT Assistant Professor in African, African American, and African Diasporic Literature (UNC-Greensboro)
African, African American, and African Diasporic Literature Search, 2024-2025 Position Authorization # 998100 The English Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in African, African American, and African Diasporic literature, to begin August 1, 2025. We welcome applicants who conduct research in any area of…
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CFP: Margaret Fuller Society at SSAWW 2025 (Deadline: 2.21.2025)
Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2025 Conference | 6–9 November 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “A Conversation about Coalition Building: The Role of Women Author Societies in Times of Political Crisis” organized by the Margaret Fuller Society In 2025, in the spirit of Margaret Fuller’s nineteenth-century “conversations” and on the 25th anniversary of the…
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CFP: Catharine Sedgwick Society – 2 Panels at SSAWW (Deadline: 2.20.2025)
Call for Papers (CFP): Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society 2025 Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Conference Letters from Abroad by Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Others The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society invites paper proposals for a panel at the 2025 Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Conference, to be held…
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CFP: Willa Cather and Gender Panel at SSAWW (Deadline: 2.23.2025)
On behalf of the Willa Cather Foundation, I am seeking proposals for a panel on Willa Cather and Gender at the SSAWW Conference in Philadelphia from November 5-9, 2025. September 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Cather’s novel The Professor’s House, which, like a number of her novels, is told almost exclusively…
