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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 for 2015 Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance” (1.15.15)
2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference Panel Proposal/Call for Papers “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance” Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminality and hybridity in dramatic texts during the period now known…
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CFP for SSAWW 2015 Panels: “A Self in Relation”: 20th Century American Women Writers Imagine and Write Female “Family” Relations (12.15.14)
CFP: “A Self in Relation”: 20th Century American Women Writers Imagine and Write Female “Family” Relations Panel Description: In her groundbreaking text The Reproduction of Mothering (1978) feminist psychoanalytic theorist Nancy Chodorow explores how women “come into being as a self […] in relation to our primary others.” In Chodorow’s schema, the “primary other” for…
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CFP for SSAWW 2015 Panel: Marriage and Single Life in Catharine Sedgwick’s Writings (12.31.14)
Marriage and Single Life in Catharine Sedgwick’s Writings The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society seeks proposals for a panel on the question of marriage vs. single life in Sedgwick’s writings for the SSAWW Conference in Philadelphia, Nov. 4-8, 2015. This panel topic honors the 2015 publication of Deborah Gussman’s new edition of Sedgwick’s final novel, Married…
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CFP for SSAWW 2015: Caroline M. Kirkland Revisited (Deadline: 1.15.15)
CFP for SSAWW 2015: Caroline M. Kirkland Revisited (Deadline: 1.15.15) Caroline M. Kirkland has been credited as a pioneering realist. Her writings about life in Michigan in the 1830s and 1840s provided some of the first realistic accounts of the frontier. She was an important literary journalist, an active social reformer, an outspoken abolitionist, and…
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CFP Proposed Panel for SSAWW 2015: “Lydia Maria Child and Social Change” (1.14.15)
Call for Papers: The Lydia Maria Child Society invites proposals for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference to be held November 4-8, 2015 in Philadelphia, PA. “Lydia Maria Child and Social Change” Much of Child’s work addresses, if not directly calls for, social change. In engaging with the status of women,…
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CFP SSAWW 2015 Proposed Panel: Teaching American Women Writers with Digital Tools, Platforms, and Projects (Deadline 12.15.14)
Teaching American Women Writers with Digital Tools, Platforms, and Projects This roundtable will showcase how scholars have used digital tools and platforms to teach the work of American women writers. Projects and assignments at all levels of technological complexity are welcome: anything from individual assignments using Twitter, Pinterest, or other online tools to digital editions…
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CFP SSAWW 2015 Panel: Women Writers and the Law: Liminal Moments for 19th-century American Women (1.5.15)
Call for Papers for SSAWW Philadelphia, November 4-8, 2015 Sponsored by the Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Study Group Women Writers and the Law: Liminal Moments for 19th-century American Women The nineteenth century was a period of intense questioning of the law, both on a federal level and among the states. Women found themselves in a…
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CFP SSAWW 2015 Panel: Authorship as Hybridity: Women, Writing, and Representation in Early America (1.15.14)
Authorship as Hybridity: Women, Writing, and Representation in Early America The Society of Early Americanists invites submissions for its upcoming panel at the triennial meeting of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, November 4-8, 2015, in Philadelphia. Given the conference theme of “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” we seek papers that address issues…
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Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes: Massachusetts Historical Society Research Fellowships (Deadline 1.15.15 and various)
Massachusetts Historical Society Research Fellowships Reminder: The deadline for MHS-NEH support is January 15, 2015! The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer more than three dozen research fellowships for the academic year 2015-2016, including two MHS-NEH Long-term Fellowships made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Their stipend, governed by an NEH…
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CFP: WLA Panel at SSAWW Conference (Deadline 1.20.15)
CFP: WLA Panel at SSAWW Conference Deadline: January 20, 2015 The Western Literature Association invites submissions for its upcoming panel at the triennial meeting of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, November 4-8, 2015 in Philadelphia. In response to the SSAWW conference theme of “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” we welcome papers that…
