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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: The Histories and Futures of Stowe at SSAWW (Deadline 2.17.2025)
Call for Papers: The Histories and Futures of Harriet Beecher Stowefor the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, November 6-9, 2025 Sponsored by the Stowe Society Deadline for submissions: February 17, 2025 The SSAWW conference theme, “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures,” is an apt description of the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, a…
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CFP: Trans Studies and the Tomboy (Legacy-sponsored) Deadline: 2.20.2025
Call for Papers: Trans Studies and the Tomboy For the 2025 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference Philadelphia, November 6–9, 2025 Conference Website This Legacy-sponsored, guaranteed panel invites papers examining how trans studies shifts, expands, or complicates scholarship on tomboy representations in nineteenth-century American literature. Existing influential monographs—such as Beverly Lyon Clark’s…
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Volunteers Needed: Call for Reviewers 2025 SSAWW Conference
Call for Reviewers for the 2025 SSAWW Conference in Philadelphia Plans are now well underway for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial conference on the theme of understanding histories and imagining futures. In preparation, we are now asking for volunteers to serve as reviewers for the proposals that we receive for individual paper, panel, and…
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CFP: Bonnie Jo Campbell Society at SSAWW 2025 (Deadline: 2.21.2025)
Call for Papers From the Bonnie Jo Campbell Society For the 2025 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Meeting Website: https://studyamericanwomenwriters.org/events/2025-ssaww-conference/ Philadelphia, November 6-9, 2025 Proposed Session Topic: Bonnie Jo Campbell and … Bonnie Jo Campbell’s 2024 novel The Waters represents the rapid ascent of an important American writer in the early twenty-first century,…
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CFP: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.27.2025)
Call for Papers (CFP): Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society 2025 American Literature Association Conference The 40th Anniversary of Judith Fetterley’s Provisions: A Reader from 19th-Century American Women and Its Enduring Impact The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society invites submissions for a special panel at the 36th Annual American Literature Association (ALA) Conference dedicated to exploring the lasting…
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Collected CFPs for panels and roundtables at SSAWW 2025
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CFP: American Women Writers and the Civic Humanities at SSAWW 2025 (Deadline: 2.7.2025)
CFP: American Women Writers and the Civic Humanities (Deadline: 2/7/2025) 2025 SSAWW Conference Nov. 6-9 Philadelphia, PA Over the past year, initiatives addressing the need for dialogue across difference have sprung up on campuses across the country. While Jonathan Haidt’s “Constructive Dialogue Institute” is perhaps one of the most well-known, numerous others have garnered attention…
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Job Posting: Americanist in Southern Literature and Flannery O’Connor at GCSU (1.20.2025)
We’re hiring an Americanist, with specializations in Southern literature and Flannery O’Connor at GCSU! Deadline for applications has been extended to January 20, 2025. Please pass this along to anyone in your networks who might be interested. Brief description: The English Department at Georgia College and State University is hiring an open rank scholar specializing…
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CFP: “Recovering Stories, Re-Writing/Revising Future Histories” (Deadline: 1.10.2025)
Recovering Stories, Re-Writing/Revising Future Histories In the 2005 article, “A Narrative of the Interesting Origins and (Somewhat) Surprising Developments of African-American Print Culture,” Frances Smith Foster observed that “the definitions and assumptions with which one begins have a significant influence upon the story one finds” (735). Although Foster speaks specifically to African-American print culture, recent…
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Call for Awards – SSAWW 2025 (Deadline: 2.1.2025)
Call for Awards – SSAWW 2025 The Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) was founded in 2000 in order to promote the study of American women writers through research, teaching, and publication. In support of that mission, the three awards were established in 2011 to honor the work and legacies of the…
