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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: Special Issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies (Deadline: Proposals by 4.1.14)
Call for Papers//Special Issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies//Pat Parker and Judy Grahn: Where Would I Be Without You? 2016 will mark the fortieth anniversary of the only spoken word album produced by Olivia Records, Where Would I Be Without You? Featuring the poems of Judy Grahn and Pat Parker, Where Would I Be Without You? introduced Grahn and…
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CFP Update: Dickinson Institute (Deadline Extended: 2.1.2014)
Call for Papers: Dickinson Institute On Friday, August 8th, 2014, the EDIS “Dickinson Institute” will be held in Amherst, Massachusetts. The topic is “Emily Dickinson and New England Writers.” Individuals doing work on Dickinson’s relationship to other writers of her region should send 250-word abstracts of a paper to Elizabeth Petrino (EPetrino@fairfield.edu) and Alexandra Socarides…
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CFP Update: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Symposium Great Excursions: Travel and the Antebellum Literary Imagination (Deadline: 2.1.14)
Great Excursions: Travel and the Antebellum Literary Imagination; June 5-8, 2014; St. Louis, MO A symposium sponsored by the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society June 5-8, 2014 Hilton St. Louis Downtown, St. Louis, MO Much of Catharine Sedgwick’s writing features an excursion of some kind, but none as fantastic in both scale and scope as her…
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CFP: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society’s Roundtable (ALA; 1.25.14)
Call for Participants: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society’s Roundtable for ALA 2014 in Washington, D.C. Catharine Sedgwick in/and Washington, D.C.: A Roundtable Conversation At least once in her lifetime, Catharine Maria Sedgwick traveled to Washington D.C. During her first known trip to the capital in January 1831, she visited the Supreme Court and the legislature,…
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Legacy: Legacy’s latest issue, 30.2 (Fall 2013)
From Susan Tomlinson on SSAWW-L and http://legacywomenwriters.org/: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers announces the publication of our latest issue, 30.2 (Fall 2013) Featuring A special subsection on Cross-Racial Collaborations and Challenges in Feminist Literary Studies A newly recovered story by Kate Chopin, “Her First Party” (1905) ISSUE CONTENTS Touching Liberty, Transforming Academe: Cross-Racial Collaborations and…
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SSAWW Announcements: Updates to Membership Directory now available
The updated version of the SSAWW Membership Directory is now available: http://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/membership/directory/ If you would like to make additions or corrections, please contact SSAWW Vice President for Membership Heidi Hanrahan at hhanraha@shepherd.edu.
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Grants and Fellowships: AAS (1.15.14) and Manuscript Society (For graduate students; 2.14.14)
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) invites applications for its 2014-15 visiting academic fellowships. At least three AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships will be awarded for periods extending from four to twelve months. Long-term fellowships are intended for scholars beyond the doctorate; senior and mid-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. Over thirty short-term fellowships…
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CFP: Collected ALA Calls for Papers (Deadlines: Various dates in January)
CFP: SSAWW Panels at ALA 2014 (Washington, D.C. May 22-25, 2014) 4 January 2014 Deadline CFP Update: Society for American Travel Writing (ALA; Deadline Extended to 1.15.14) CFP: Shirley Jackson: Beyond the Gothic (ALA; Deadline 1.20.14). CFP: New Approaches to H.D. and/or Her Circle (ALA; Deadline 1.15.2014) CFP: Kay Boyle at 25 (ALA; Deadline: 1.15.2014) CFP: Approaching Margaret Fuller (ALA;…
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CFP: How the ‘Big Data’ Viewpoint is Reshaping the Humanities (Deadline: 2.15.14)
Dartmouth’s Leslie Humanities Center and Neukom Institute for Computational Science invite proposals for participants in a conference Oct. 5-6, 2014, “How the ‘Big Data’ Viewpoint is Reshaping the Humanities.” Digital Humanities (formerly Humanities Computing) is a wide and expanding field that explores where computational methodologies and humanistic inquiry might intersect, and in doing so fundamentally…
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CFP Update: Society for American Travel Writing (ALA; Deadline Extended to 1.15.14)
The Society for American Travel Writing will host two sessions at the American Literature Association’s 25th Annual Conference, 22-25 May 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Scholars of American travel writing and practicing travel writers are particularly encouraged to submit proposals. Panel 1: Travel Writing in the Age of…
