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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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Grants and Fellowships: Winterthur Research Fellowship Program (Deadline: 1.15.2014)
Winterthur Research Fellowship Program Application Due Date January 15, 2014 Winterthur, a public museum, library, and garden supporting the advanced study of American art, culture, and history, announces its Research Fellowship Program for 2014–15. Winterthur offers an extensive program of short- and long-term fellowships open to academic, independent, and museum scholars, including advanced graduate students,…
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Portraits of American Women Writers Appearing in Print before 1861
At The Library Company, Portraits of American Women Writers Appearing in Print before 1861 http://www.librarycompany.org/women/portraits/gallery.htm Below: Portrait of Caroline M. Congdon: http://www.librarycompany.org/women/portraits/congdon.htm
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Emily Dickinson’s Music Binder Digitized
From Ellen Gruber Garvey on SSAWW-L: I just learned of a recently digitized Emily Dickinson resource that may interest SSAWWers. .Harvard has digitized ED’s music binder — sheet music that she collected and played on the piano. Here’s a link to a blog description of it: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/houghton/2013/09/05/emily-dickinsons-music-book-edr-469/ and the digitized binder: http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/46653089
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CFP: “I Want Something to Do”: Alcott, Whitman, and Nursing in the Nation’s Capital (ALA; Deadline 1.20.14)
“I Want Something to Do”: Alcott, Whitman, and Nursing in the Nation’s Capital (Jointly sponsored by the Louisa May Alcott Society and Walt Whitman Studies Association) This session will examine the wartime experiences of two author-nurses whose writings about their care for the wounded in Washington, DC during the Civil War proved central to Americans’…
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SSAWW Fall 2013 Newsletter now available
The Fall 2013 issue of the SSAWW Newsletter is now available at http://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/membership/newsletter/ Direct link: ssaww14-2
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CFP: Teaching and Religion (Journal issue; Deadline 11.15.13)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE,TEACHING and RELIGION TRANSFORMATIONS: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy Deadline: November 15, 2013 The editors seek articles (5,000-10,000 words) and media essays (overviews on books, film, video, performance, art, music, websites, etc. 3,000 to 5,000 words), and items for the “Material Culture of Teaching” section, that…
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CFP: Making Motherhood Visible: (Re-)Writing Narratives of Contemporary Mothers (Deadline: 11.15.13)
CALL FOR PAPERS “Making Motherhood Visible: (Re-)Writing Narratives of Contemporary Mothers” March 7-8, 2014, New York City Keynote Speaker: Andrea O’Reilly Deadline for Submissions: November 15, 2013 Drawing on Andrea O’Reilly’s and Barbara Katz Rothman’s notions of patriarchal motherhood, the Museum of Motherhood asks, what factors, past and present, inform our new ways of understanding motherhood, fatherhood, and notions…
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CFP: Emily Dickinson International Society at ALA 2014 (Deadline: 1.1.2014)
Emily Dickinson International Society at ALA 2014 The 2014 American Literature Association Annual Conference(ALA) will be held in Washington, D.C., May 22-25, 2014. The Emily Dickinson International Society will sponsor two sessions at the ALA: 1) Transatlantic Dickinson We welcome papers that consider Dickinson as a writer whose life and work question the convention of…
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CFP: Fat Studies Panel at SWPACA (Deadline: 11.1.13)
Fat Studies is coming to the 35th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference. Join us, please. http://southwestpca.org/conference/ Proposals in the area of Fat Studies are being accepted for the 2014 Southwest PCA/ACA Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico (February 19-22, 2014, Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center). We welcome papers, presentations, panels and roundtables from academics,…
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CFP: Great Excursions: Travel and the Antebellum Literary Imagination (Catharine Maria Sedgwick Symposium; Deadline 2.1.2014)
Great Excursions: Travel and the Antebellum Literary Imagination 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 “Great Excursion to the Falls of St.…
