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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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SSAWW 2015 Panel: On the Boundary between Public and Private: Rethinking Willa Cather’s Letters (DEADLINE EXTENDED January 15, 2015)
On the Boundary between Public and Private: Rethinking Willa Cather’s Letters (DEADLINE EXTENDED January 15, 2015) The Cather Foundation solicits proposals on topics related to Cather’s letters for a panel at the Society for the Studies of American Women Writers conference in Philadelphia November 4-8, 2015. For many years, biographers and critics who consulted Willa Cather’s…
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CFP: Lydia Maria Child at ALA (1.1.15)
The Lydia Maria Child Society is in the early stages of development. If you would like to be involved, join our listserv at https://listserv.du.edu/mailman/listinfo/lmchild-society. Call for Papers: The Lydia Maria Child Society invites proposals for the annual ALA Conference to be held May 21-24, 2015 in Boston, MA. “Lydia Maria Child and Her Contemporaries” Given the…
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CFP for SSAWW 2015: Texas Regional Study Group: “Written By Herself”: Dialogue in African American Women’s Self-Writing (January 20, 2015)
“Written By Herself”: Dialogue in African American Women’s Self-Writing CFP: Texas Regional SSAWW group at SSAWW Conference, November 4-8, 2015 in Philadelphia, PA Deadline: January 20, 2015 The Texas Regional SSAWW group invited scholars to submit abstracts for its panel at the SSAWW Conference. We welcome abstracts about doing scholarly work on the self-writing of…
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CFP for SSAWW 2015 Panel: 20th-Century Women Writers and the Natural World (1.12.15)
20th-Century Women Writers and the Natural World Call for papers for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2015 Conference November 4-8, 2015, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania In the latter part of the twentieth-century, ecofeminists posited the parallel between the subjugation of women and the commodification and exploitation of the natural world. In a similar…
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CFP for SSAWW 2015 Panel: Women of the Harlem Renaissance (1.15.15)
Traditionally, women writers of the Harlem Renaissance era from Nella Larsen to Jessie Redmon Fauset to Marita Bonner, among others, have been under-represented in criticism both past and present. The concept of the New Negro, after all, was gendered male, excluding the value role that women writers would play in not only challenging the pervasive…
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SSAWW Study Groups: Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group (RSVP by 1.28.15)
The Spring 2015 meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group will take place on February 28, 2015 at University of Houston-Downtown, hosted by DoVeanna Fulton. The common reading will be Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge (1838), edited by Joycelyn Moody (West Virginia UP 2014) and Dr. Moody will be a special guest participant. * RSVP…
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From Koritha Mitchell: SSAWW call for nominations (President, VP for Publications; Deadline 1.31.15)
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Roundtable: Young Adult Women’s Literature and Boundary Blurring (Deadline: January 15, 2015)
Roundtable: Young Adult Women’s Literature and Boundary Blurring (DeadlineJanuary 15, 2015) Call for Papers for SSAWW Conference November 4-8, 2015, Philadelphia This roundtable, Young Adult Women’s Literature and Boundary Blurring, explores how teen or YA literature by American women writers occupies liminal spaces and blurs boundaries. Like the teen, YA literature exists in a state of flux.…
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CFP SSAWW 2015 Panel Proposal: What is a woman writer? (1.30.15)
CFP: What is a woman writer? SSAWW 2015 – Philadelphia, PA Abstract submissions due to Julia Dauer (jdauer@wisc.edu) by January 30, 2015 As attention to the book as an object continues to thrive in literary studies, questions about who counts as a women writer take on new dimensions. This panel invites papers considering “women writers”…
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Humanities Writ Large Visiting Faculty Fellow (Duke University in North Carolina)
Duke University is seeking proposals for the 2015-16 academic year for faculty members from Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCUs to participate in a comprehensive effort to redefine the role of the humanities in undergraduate education. Recipients of this fellowship must engage with one or more research and/or teaching projects while at Duke. These Fellowships are…
