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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 welcomes five new affiliate societies
SSAWW is pleased to welcome five new affiliate societies: Katherine Anne Porter Society: Contact Person: Beth AlvarezMailing Address: Hornbake Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742Web address: http://www.kaportersociety.org/Email: alvarez@umd.edu Western Literature Association Contact Person: Sabine BarcattaMailing Address: PO Box 6815, Logan UT 84341Web address: www.westernlit.orgWLA Blog address: westlit.wordpress.comEmail: info@westernlit.org OR wlaoperations@gmail.com The H.D. International Society Contact…
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CFP: H.D. International Society (Modernist Studies Association; Deadline 4.20.14)
The H.D. International Society invites paper abstracts for a proposed panel for the Modernist Studies Association conference (Pittsburgh, Nov. 6-9, 2014), “Modernist Women after The Career of that Struggle: New Scholarship on H.D. and Her Circle.” In recognition of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s position as keynote speaker for the 2014 conference, the H.D. International Society calls…
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If you have items you¹d like to see in the Spring 2014 SSAWW Newsletter, please send them to me at ssaww.web@gmail.com by March 25 or use the form below. If you’re sending in a notice of a new book or article (and please do send these!), it would be helpful if you could include a link to…
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SSAWW Panels at ALA 2014
We are happy to announce the SSAWW panels for the 2014 ALA Conference in Washington, D.C. Below, please find the complete listings of our two panels: Digital American Women Writers and Political American Women Writers. Many thanks go to our readers who helped select the papers for each of the panels: Emily Van Dette, LuElla…
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CFP from SSAWW: Domestic (Horror) Stories: Women Writers of the American Cold War Period (MLA; Deadline 3.22.14)
Domestic (Horror) Stories: Women Writers of the American Cold War Period Special Session proposed by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers for MLA in January 2015. The Cold War period in America is typically remembered as a time in which women were returned to the domestic sphere en masse. This panel solicits…
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CFP: Emily Dickinson Panels (MLA; Deadline 3.15.14)
Emily Dickinson Panels at MLA 2015 1. Sounding Dickinson We seek papers on Dickinson’s engagements with contemporary soundscapes; her meditations on sound; and the sonic properties of her writings. Possible topics include voices, noise, song, hearing, listening, rhyme, rhythm, etc. Please send 300-word abstracts by March 15th to Eliza Richards (ecr@email.unc.edu). 2. New Work…
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CFP: Disabled Slaves in American Literature (MLA; 3.10.14)
CFP for MLA 2015 Disabled slaves figure repeatedly in nineteenth-century American literature. What do their representations tell us about disability, race, and slavery in the long 19th-century? 250 word abstracts/CV by 10 March 2014; George Gordon-Smith (george.gordon-smith@emory.edu) and Heather Chacon (heather.chacon@uky.edu).
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CFP: “Women, Work, and Hawthorne” (Journal Issue; Deadline 7.15.14)
Call for Papers Spring 2015 Special Issue of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review: “Women, Work, and Hawthorne” “It is odd enough, that the kind of labor which falls to the lot of women is just that which chiefly distinguishes artificial life—the life of degenerated mortals—from the life of Paradise. Eve had no dinner-pot, and no clothes…
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CFP: Diaries and Diary Fiction (MLA; Deadline 3.15.14)
CFP: Diaries and Diary Fiction (MLA 2015 panel) How do “actual” and fictional diaries challenge conventional notions of authorship, audience, reception, plot? Diverse literary traditions, time periods, genres welcome. 250 word abstract and brief CV by 15 March 2014 to Desiree Henderson (dhenderson@uta.edu).
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CFP: Edith Wharton and Sex (MLA; Deadline 3.15.14)
CFP: Edith Wharton and Sex (MLA; Deadline 3.15.14) Wharton and SexAllied Organization: Edith Wharton Society How does Wharton engage with sex? Presentations might consider the following: sexuality repressed or suffused; sex queer, illicit, adulterous, illegitimate, or incestuous; and/or sexology. 250-word abstracts and CVs by 15 March 2014; Emily Orlando (eorlando@fairfield.edu). Posted 16 January 2014.
