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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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Katherine Anne Porter Research Award (Deadline 1.30.2025)
Now Accepting Applications for the Katherine Anne Porter Research Award Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Maryland (UMD) invites applications for the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Research Award! The Katherine Anne Porter Research Award provides up to $2000 to support research in the Katherine Anne Porter papers and related holdings in Special Collections and University…
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CFP: “Kristeva’s Powers of Horror at 45” at the NeMLA, March 6-9, 2025 (Deadline 9.30.2024)
Dear Colleagues, I invite you to submit a proposal for this session for the NeMLA conference, March 6-9, 2025, in Philadelphia, PA. The deadline is midnight Sept. 30 (EST), and proposals must be submitted via the NeMLA portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21039. Mary Balkun, Seton Hall University “Kristeva’s Powers of Horror at 45” Julia Kristeva’s landmark essay, Powers…
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Virtual Event: Reading Poems with People – A Muriel Rukeyser Reading Group
A Muriel Rukeyser Reading Group “‘The Way In’: Muriel Rukeyser, The Speed of Darkness, and Poetry of the 1960s” Wednesday, October 9, 12-1:30pm, Eastern Time Zone, at: Zoom Link: https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/93519475200?pwd=UOzxhTPk9nqZWugotH7e3qCBDCp7O6.1 This first meeting of our new reading group is organized and facilitated by Trudi Witonsky and Craig Werner and focuses on Rukeyser’s 1968 collection of poems,…
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CFP: Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference (Deadline: 10.25.2024)
Dear SSAWW friends, Please consider submitting a proposal for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers panel at the Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists (SEA), which will be held at the University of Notre Dame on June 5-8, 2025. Proposals are welcome on any aspect of women’s cultural productions (broadly…
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CFP: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society at ALA 2025 (Deadline: 12.2.2024)
The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society will sponsor a panel at the 36th AnnualConference of the American Literature Association, May 21- 24, 2025, at the WestinCopley Place in Boston, MA. Our focus this year will be “Freeman’s Historicisms.” TheSociety welcomes submissions related to this topic, including proposals that bringFreeman’s work into substantive conversation with that…
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CFP: 14th Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists (Deadline: 10.31.2024)
The Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists, a SSAWW-affiliated organization, will convene on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, 5-8 June 2025. Along with wide-ranging panels on various early Americanist topics, the conference will include: Keynote Presentations from Sara E. Johnson (Literature, UC San Diego; author of Encyclopédie Noire: The…
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Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group – Fall mtg postponed
We regret to announce that our planned Fall 2024 meeting has been postponed to a future date (TBA). But, we are happy to announce the Spring 2025 meeting, which will be on Saturday February 8, 2025 at Texas A&M Kingsville, hosted by Stephanie Peebles Tavera. The common reading will be A Marsh Island by Sarah Orne Jewett,edited…
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Study Group: Northeast 19C American Women Writers Study Group – Saturday, Oct. 5th (RSVP)
Join the Northeast 19C American Women Writers Study Group in Ithaca, New York, on Saturday October 5th for a discussion of nineteenth-century African American women’s diaries with Jennifer Putzi (William & Mary). The meeting will be hosted by Shirley Samuels (Cornell University). Readings for the discussion and details about travel and lodging can be found here.…
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Reminder: Call for Applications: Digital Media Editor for Legacy (Deadline: 9.1.2024)
Digital Media Editor for Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Call for Applications, due 1 September 2024 Join the editorial team at Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers as a Digital Media Editor! Founded in 1984, Legacy is the only journal to focus specifically on American women writers from the seventeenth through the…
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CFP: Eudora Welty International Conference (Deadline: 10.15.2024)
The Eudora Welty Society is excited to post the following CFP for the 2025 Eudora Welty International Conference. Eudora Welty International Conference “That’s for the future to say”: Eudora Welty in the 21st Century Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, April 9-13, 2025 The relationship between a text and its audiences is ever evolving. Noted for keenly…
