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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: SSAWW Panels at ALA 2014 (Washington, D.C. May 22-25, 2014) 4 January 2014 Deadline
SSAWW Panels at ALA 2014 (Washington, D.C. May 22-25, 2014) 4 January 2014 Deadline Society for the Study of American Women Writers Contact email: kallukian@ufl.edu The Society for the Study of American Women Writers will host two panels at the American Literature Association Conference (May 22-25, Washington, D.C.). Panel 1: Digital American Women Writers How…
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Call for Announcements: Fall 2013 SSAWW Newsletter (Deadline: 9.25.13)
If you have items you¹d like to see in the Fall 2013 SSAWW Newsletter, please send them to me at ssaww.web@gmail.com or campbelld@wsu.edu by September 25. –calls for papers for conferences, journal issues, edited collections, and so on –conference announcements –invitations to apply for grants and fellowships –new books by SSAWW members –new articles by…
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Project Announcement from Allison Hedge Coke
Friends, colleagues, supporters, heroes of mine, Please come see my film/media/literature/music project: Red Dust. I am documenting my father’s firsthand oral history of the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression and his leaving for WWII service. At 91, he actually worked during the era specific, as a migrant worked and day laborer in cotton fields at…
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Texas Regional SSAWW Group Meeting 10.12.13 (RSVP by 9.25.13)
The next meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group will be Saturday October 12, 2013 at Weatherford College (outside DFW), hosted by Sarah Lock. The common reading will be Laura Curtis Bullard’s Christine, or Women’s Trials and Triumphs (1856), which fictionalizes the experiences of an early woman’s rights leader. We’ll be reading the 2011…
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Mid-Atlantic Region American Women Writers Study Group Meeting (RSVP by 9.16.13)
Mid-Atlantic Region American Women Writers Study Group Fall Meeting Sept. 21, 2013 Washington, D.C. Victoria Woodhull Our Fall 2013 meeting will focus on the writings of Victoria Woodhull. Cari Carpenter of West Virginia University, editor of Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and Eugenics,will lead the afternoon discussion. In addition, we’ve arranged a morning tour…
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Job Posting: Assistant Professor of U.S. Multiethnic/Native American Literatures (10.25.13)
Assistant Professor of U.S. Multiethnic/Native American Literatures Department of English Western Washington University Bellingham, WA 98225-9055 Department Web Site: http://kerouac.english.wwu.edu/~newenglish/index.php The Department of English invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in U.S. Multiethnic/Native American literatures to begin September 2014. A Ph.D. in English, American Ethnic Studies, or a related field is required by August…
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Legacy announces three new editors (from SSAWW-L)
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers is happy to announce the addition of three new editors to our team. Desiree Henderson, of the University of Texas, Arlington, is our new features editor. As many of you know, Legacy features include Profiles, Reprints, From the Archives, and On Culture, and they embody the journal’s commitment to original, archives-based, and theoretically…
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Early September Calls for Papers: Emily Dickinson, Eudora Welty, ASECS
Conference Calls for Papers Journals, Essay Collections, and Newsletters ASECS (9.15.13) Oxford Journals: Contemporary Women’s Writing Society for the Study of Southern Literature (12.15.13) American Periodicals Inventing the Middlebrow (10.1.13) Emily Dickinson’s Reading Culture (9.15.13) NeMLA: Redefining American History and Identity through the Novels of Toni Morrison (9.30.13) Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic (8.30.13 updated) Female Captivity…
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SSAWW Welcomes New VP for Organizational Matters, Rita Bode
SSAWW welcomes Rita Bode, Associate Professor of English at Trent University, as its new Vice President for Organizational Matters. Dr. Bode is a longtime member of SSAWW; her scholarly interests include 19th- and early 20th-century British and American; 19th-century American women writers, and transatlantic studies; youth literature; novel; and drama. She will be coordinating the next…
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Publication Announcement: Tabitha Gilman Tenney’s Female Quixotism (1801)
Early American Reprints announces the publication of Tabitha Gilman Tenney’s Female Quixotism (1801) Introduction by Mary McAleer Balkun This novel represents the second to be republished by Early American Reprints, the first being Martha Meredith Read’s Margaretta (1807). Early American Reprints, founded in 2012, is a not-nearly-for-profit, small-run publisher housed at St. Mary’s University in San…
