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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: A Harmonizing Assignment: Affective Labor and Modernist Writing by and about Women (MSA; Deadline 5.8.14)
A Harmonizing Assignment: Affective Labor and Modernist Writing by and about Women This proposed panel for MSA 16 (Pittsburgh, PA November 6-9) seeks papers that take up “affective labor” as a heuristic device for exploring modernist literary representations by and about women. Considered a subset of “Immaterial Labor,” the term “Affective Labor” has come into…
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SSAWW Conference 2015 Update
We are pleased to confirm Ana Castillo as the keynote speaker at the 2015 conference In novels, short stories, poems, and essays, Ana Castillo explores what Ibis Gomez-Vega has called “those segments of the American population often separated by class, economics, gender, and sexual orientation.” Castillo’s works transcend these boundaries of politics, class, and gender,…
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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)
Call for a Complete Panel for SSAWW’s Guaranteed Panel at the Western Literature Association’s Conference SSAWW invites submissions of a complete panel for the WLA conference in Victoria, BC (5-8 November 2014). Please submit your complete panel by June 1, 2014, following the attached guidelines from WLA, to Kristin Jacobson (jacobsok@stockton.edu). If more than one…
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CFP: Black Periodical Studies (Journal Issue; Deadline 8.30.14)
Call for Papers for a special issue of American Periodicals Black Periodical Studies Guest Editors Eric Gardner and Joycelyn Moody The Fall 2015 issue of American Periodicals will be devoted to texts exploring the field of Black periodical studies and/or exploring issues in/of Black periodicals across the centuries, from Freedom’s Journal to Vibe and beyond. …
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SSAWW Lifetime Membership Link
The correct link for the SSAWW Lifetime Membership should be as follows: http://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/membership/ (or just click on the Membership tab in the navigation bar).
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SSAWW Welcomes Two New Affiliates
SSAWW is pleased to welcome two new affiliate societies: African American Literature and Culture Society http://aalcs.marygrove.edu/ Shirley Moody-Turner, vice-president 28 Burrowes Building; Penn State University, University Park, PA 16803 scm18@psu.edu Society for American Travel Writing Melanie K. Scriptunas 76 E. Cortland Ave., Fresno, CA 93704 mscript@udel.edu Current list of all affiliate societies: http://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/membership/affiliates/
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Spring 2015 SSAWW Newsletter now available
The Spring 2015 SSAWW Newsletter is now available at our web site: http://www.ssaww.org or via direct link at http://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ssaww15-1.pdf. Thanks to all of you who sent materials and to Jordan Von Cannon for her assistance with the newsletter.
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Grants and Fellowships: Danky Fellowship (Deadline 5.1.14)
Danky Fellowship Application Information The Danky Fellowship provides $1000 in funds for one individual planning a trip to carry out research using the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society (please see details of the collections at (http://www.wisconsinhistory.org). Grant money may be used for travel to the WHS, costs of copying pertinent archival resources, and living…
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Two Invitations from SSAWW: Institutional Home & Post-1945 Journal
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW): Invitations to tender The Society for the Study of American Women Writers is a long-established and prestigious learned society. It has in recent years grown quite rapidly and now has over 400 members. Further growth looks probable. This is leading the Society to revisit its existing…
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CFP: LEGACY special issue: “Recovering Alice Dunbar-Nelson for the 21st Century” (journal issue; Deadline 9.30.14)
Special issue, “Recovering Alice Dunbar-Nelson for the 21st Century” Guest Editors: Sandra Zagarell, Katherine Adams, Caroline Gebhard Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers solicits papers for a special issue devoted to writing by Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Best known today as the author of regionalist short fiction set in her native New Orleans, Dunbar-Nelson was also an essayist,…
