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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 for NeMLA: The Adolescent Girl in Early 20th Century American Women’s Writing
The Adolescent Girl in Early 20th Century American Women’s Writing This seminar will investigate the shifting figure of the adolescent girl in early 20th century American women’s writing. From 1900-1960, the adolescent girl, as an identity category, underwent huge cultural changes. In the early 1900s, adolescent girlhood was barely acknowledged as a developmental stage,…
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CFP: Other July and August Deadlines
Calls for Papers Journals, Essay Collections, and Newsletters AIZEN (Naturalism) 8.15.2013 Reconsidering Sigourney: Essays on Lydia Sigourney (8.1.13) American Women Writers of Color (8.2.13) updated Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic (8.30.13 updated) Intercontinental Cross-Currents: Women’s (Net-)Works across Europe and the Americas (updated deadline 7.28.13)
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CFP: African American Expression in Print and Digital Culture (Deadline: 1/24/14)
Call For Papers: African American Expression in Print and Digital Culture Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture University of Wisconsin, Madison September 19-21, 2014 Madison, WI Recent scholarship has brought attention to the possibilities of disciplinary intersections of print and digital culture with African American studies. For example, Leon Jackson has suggested numerous…
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CFP: Emily Dickinson’s Reading Culture (Proposal Deadline: 9/15/13)
DEA2: CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR VOLUME 3 (2014) Emily Dickinson’s Reading Culture “For Poets-I have Keats-and Mr and Mrs Browning. For Prose – Mr Ruskin – Sir Thomas Browne – and the Revelations.” —Letter to T. W. Higginson, 25 April 1862 Why should we care what Emily Dickinson really read or about her relationship to…
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NeMLA 2014 CFP – Vexing Gender in 19th-Century American Women’s Writing (Deadline 9/30/13)
NeMLA 2014 CFP – Vexing Gender in 19th-Century American Women’s Writing 45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 3-6, 2014 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania cfp maryiatrop@gmail.com When existing conditions actively work to suppress women’s expression, how can the female subject assert herself? Performing female selfhood becomes a vexed notion in the context of nineteenth-century American…
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CFP: Legacy panel at American Women Writers of Color Conference (Deadline: 7/31/13)
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers will be sponsoring a panel at the upcoming American Women Writers of Color Conference. Panel topic: “The Racialized Private Text” In Legacy 27.1, Lois Brown wrote the following in “Death Defying Testimony: Women’s Private Lives and the Politics of Public Documents”: What constitutes the racialized private text, history,…
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PayPal Option for Membership Renewal Now Available
The PayPal buttons for joining SSAWW or renewing your membership via PayPal or credit card are now available on the Membership page. For those who prefer to pay by check, there is a printable membership form on that page as well. You can check your membership status by going to the Membership Directory.
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CFP: NeMLA 2014 Roundtable Format – “Redefining American History and Identity through the Novels of Toni Morrison” (Deadline: 9/30/13)
CFP for the upcoming NeMLA Convention in Harrisburg, PA: 2014 NeMLA Convention: Roundtable Format – “Redefining American History and Identity through the Novels of Toni Morrison” This roundtable seeks critical and creative treatments of Toni Morrison’s novels as indicative of her efforts to redefine American history and identity through a multiplicity of voices and cultures.…
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Updated CFP Deadline: “Intercontinental Cross-Currents” (Deadline: 7/28/13)
Call for Papers: “Intercontinental Cross-Currents: Women’s (Net-)Works across Europe and the Americas (1789-1939).” Dec. 5-7, 2013, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Germany. We invite abstracts from literary, historical and cultural studies perspectives focusing on the literal and metaphorical networks created and navigated by women from the American Revolution to the onset of the Second World…
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CFP: Critical Collection: Female Captivity and the Autobiographical Impulse (Deadline 11/1/13)
Critical Collection Call for Papers: Female Captivity and the Autobiographical Impulse Emily Hipchen and Rebecca Harrison, University of West Georgia Early American captivity narratives by women were, from the beginning, a form of life writing that engaged and authorized subjective female experiences in the wake of New World colonization. These accounts—the spiritual, secular, propagandistic, and…
