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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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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers: 30th Anniversary Issue
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers observes its 30th anniversary with the publication of issue 31.1 (Spring 2014) http://legacywomenwriters.org ISSUE CONTENTS “Finding Place to Speak: Sarah Winnemucca’s Rhetorical Practices in Disciplinary Spaces” by Rosalyn Collings Eves Approaches to Recovering Early Women Conference presentations from recent Legacy-sponsored panels “States of Recollection: How Seventeenth-Century Women Thought about Recovery and…
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Message from SSAWW President Richard Ellis: USSO Blog Post Authors Sought (Deadline: 9.30.14)
SSAWW has been invited to contribute to a blog hosted by United States Studies Online (USSO: http://usstudiesonline.com/blog-3/). It will involve the creation of 8-10 blog posts of 700-1200 words each. In terms of theme, USSO argues these blogs can be broad or more specific. SSAWW seeks posts that represent the field of American Women’s writing…
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New Books: Between the Novel and the News The Emergence of American Women’s Writing
Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women’s Writing Sari Edelstein http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-4759.xml?q= While American literary history has long acknowledged the profound influence of journalism on canonical male writers, Sari Edelstein argues that American women writers were also influenced by a dynamic relationship with the mainstream press. From the early republic through the turn…
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New Books: Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823
Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823 Catharine Brown Edited and with an introduction by Theresa Strouth Gaul University of Nebraska Press https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Cherokee-Sister,675763.aspx Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Series Read an Excerpt (pdf) Catharine Brown (1800?–1823) became Brainerd Mission School’s first Cherokee convert to Christianity, a missionary teacher, and the first Native American…
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Grants and Fellowships: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (Deadline 10.1.14)
https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000834443-01?cid=ja With the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dartmouth is pleased to accept applications for two postdoctoral fellowship in the humanities and humanistic social sciences from Fall 2015 to the end of Spring 2017. These fellowships foster the academic careers of scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees, by permitting them…
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New Books: Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism
Sacramental Shopping Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism Sarah Way Sherman http://www.upne.com/1611684223.html Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies University of New Hampshire Press Illuminates modern consumer culture and its challenges to American identity and values in two classic novels Written a generation apart and rarely treated together by scholars, Little Women…
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New Books: Rose Elizabeth Cleveland: First Lady and Literary Scholar
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland: First Lady and Literary Scholar Sirpa Salenius Palgrave Macmillan (New York) http://us.macmillan.com/roseelizabethcleveland/SirpaSalenius Rose Elizabeth Cleveland was the First Lady of the United States for nearly two years assisting her brother, President Grover Cleveland. Lesser known, she was also a literary scholar, novelist, and a poet who published works that empowered women. She…
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New Books: Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism
Making Noise, Making News Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism Mary Chapman http://global.oup.com/academic/product/making-noise-making-news-9780199988297;jsessionid=60682F5D6578A436DAA299D1FB7FF200?cc=ca&lang=en For most people, the US suffrage campaign is encapsulated in images of orators such as the tightly coifed Susan B. Anthony, the wimpled Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others who hectored for women’s rights throughout the nineteenth century. The campaign to secure the…
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CFP: SAMLA Affiliated Group Session – The Emily Dickinson International Society (Deadline: 6.20.14)
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association conferenceAtlanta, Georgia, November 7-9, 2014Affiliated Group Session – The Emily Dickinson International Society Poetic SustainabilityThe Emily Dickinson International Society invites creative and scholarly presentations investigating how the work of Emily Dickinson explores, accepts, and rejects the ideas of ecocriticism and radical homemaking. How does her work portray the value of…
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CFP: Elizabeth Bishop’s Questions of Travel: Fifty Years After (Deadline: 12.15.14)
CALL FOR PAPERS An international conference on Elizabeth Bishop’s writing hosted by the University of Sheffield Elizabeth Bishop’s Questions of Travel: Fifty Years After 25-27 June 2015, Sheffield, UK Confirmed plenary speakers: Professor Stephen Burt (Harvard University), Professor Deryn Rees-Jones (University of Liverpool) and Professor Linda Anderson (Newcastle University) To mark the fiftieth anniversary of…
