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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 Panel: Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Writing: Alternatives to Seduction in Early America (SEA; Deadline 9.1.14)
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Writing: Alternatives to Seduction in Early America CFP for a Legacy-sponsored panel at the Society of Early Americanists (SEA) Conference in Chicago, June 18-21, 2015 Seduction has provided a powerful lens for thinking about gender and early American women’s writing. This is particularly true for early American novels, but models of sexual predation,…
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CFP: LEGACY special issue: “Recovering Alice Dunbar-Nelson for the 21st Century” (journal issue; Deadline 9.30.14)
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Readers needed for SSAWW 2015 Awards (Respond by 6.1.14)
From SSAWW VP for Development Kristin Jacobson: I am seeking volunteers to read for SSAWW’s 2015 Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award: 5 readers Book Award: 3 readers Edition Award: 3 readers If you already volunteered to serve (I have two volunteers in my records), I have sent you an individual email for confirmation about your availability.…
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This week: SSAWW Panels and Business Meeting at ALA on 5/22
If you’re heading to ALA in Washington, D.C., this week, don’t forget to attend the SSAWW Panels and Business Meeting on Thursday, May 22. Session 1-B POLITICAL AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS Thursday, May 22, 2014: 9:00–10:20am Co-Chairs: Kristin Allukian, University of Florida and Kristin Jacobson, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey 1. “‘people + place…
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Call for a Complete Panel for SSAWW’s Guaranteed Panel at the Western Literature Association’s Conference (Deadline: 6.1.14)
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CFP: “Colored Conventions in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age” (Deadline: 6.15.14)
CFP: “Colored Conventions in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age” April 24-26, 2015, University of Delaware and the Delaware Historical Society http://coloredconventions.org/cfp-colored-conventions-in-the-nineteenth-century-and-the-digital-age Beginning in 1830 and continuing past the Civil War, once captive and free African Americans came together in national and state political conventions to strategize about how to achieve legal, labor and…
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CFP: Edith Wharton Society Session at SAMLA 2014 (Deadline: 6.9.14)
Edith Wharton Society Session at SAMLA 2014 (Atlanta, GA, November 7-9, 2014) Sustaining Humanity: The Abundance of Edith Wharton The Edith Wharton Society invites papers that engage with this year’s SAMLA conference theme: “Sustainability and the Humanities.” The concept of sustainability in Edith Wharton’s writings has a multiplicity of meanings. During this centenary of World…
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CFP: Saving the World: Girlhood and Evangelicalism in the Nineteenth Century (Essay Collection; Deadline 7.15.14)
CFP: Saving the World: Girlhood and Evangelicalism in the Nineteenth Century Deadline for Proposals: July 15, 2014 We are interested in exploring how texts that are written for girls, or represent girls, participate in the work of reform through an evangelical agenda. This collection seeks to contribute to the burgeoning field of childhood studies in…
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CFP: SCSSAWW Panel The Subversive in the American Sentimental Novel (PAMLA; Deadline: 5.15.14)
The Southern California Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SCSSAWW) is actively soliciting papers for the panel below: Panel: The Subversive in the American Sentimental Novel Conference: PMLA: 112th Annual Conference – Riverside Convention Center, Riverside, California , Friday, October 31 – Sunday, November 2, 2014 Full name of sponsoring organization of panel: Southern California Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SCSSAWW) SCSSAWW seeks recent work on subversive…
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Encyclopedia of American Studies Goes Open Access
Encyclopedia of American Studies Goes Open Access by Monique Laney In an effort to provide researchers with an alternative source of information, the Encyclopedia of American Studies (EAS) has adopted an open access policy. Scholars and others studying American culture and society can now search the extensive database at http://eas-ref.press.jhu.edu free of charge. “The field of…
