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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: Edith Wharton Review “Notes On…”
Edith Wharton Review Announcing: “Notes On…” for the Edith Wharton Review (the official refereed journal of the Edith Wharton Society) Broadening the journal’s practice of including shorter essays alongside full-length scholarly articles, the Edith Wharton Review introduces a regular, ongoing section that aims to give greater visibility to shorter, less formal commentary while also expanding…
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CFP: The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath (Proposals Due: 5.1.2024)
Call for Papers: The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath This call for papers invites submission to The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath, edited by Janet Badia, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, and Emily Van Duyne. The collection, now under contract, will be a new addition to the Routledge Literature Companions series—highly regarded, field-defining volumes that showcase exciting areas…
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Call for ALA Reporter: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Panels
Planning to attend the American Literature Association conference in May 2024? The Sedgwick Society will reimburse the ALA conference registration fee for one CMSS member to cover and report on the Sedgwick Society sessions for our Fall 2024 newsletter. Please email Emily.VanDette@fredonia.edu to express interest or for more details.
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Call for student papers: Emily Dickinson Undergraduate Scholarship Award (Deadline: 6.30.2024)
EDIS Undergraduate Scholarship Award 2024 The Emily Dickinson International Society is pleased to sponsor a prize for undergraduate work on Emily Dickinson. Our goal is to encourage, recognize, and publicize outstanding scholarship among undergraduate students. Students whose work was created for any undergraduate course, and touches on any aspect of Dickinson, are eligible to submit.…
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Virtual Event: “Learning from Legacies of Phillis Wheatley Peters” 5:30 pm CT/6:30 pm ET – April 17th, 2024
Dear SSAWW members, As we continue to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the publication of Phillis Wheatley Peters’ Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, I want to invite you to an exciting virtual event on April 17, 6:30-8 pm ET. This is an interactive discussion in which K-12 and college teachers will present and…
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Virtual Event: “Scholarly Editing: Fostering Communities of Recovery” April 4th and April 8th (registration required)
Please consider joining “Scholarly Editing: Fostering Communities of Recovery,” a two-part webinar series hosted by eLaboratories and presented by Dr. Noelle Baker, Dr. Raquel Baker, Bianca Swift, and the Artist Marcia X that will explore the community building work of Scholarly Editing. The first part will be held on April 4 at 11:00 AM EDT, and the…
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New Book: Reading Madeleine L’Engle Ecopsychology in Children’s and Adolescent Literature by Heidi A. Lawrence
Author: Heidi A. Lawrence Reading Madeleine L’Engle: Ecopsychology in Children’s and Adolescent Literature Routledge – 2023 (e-book edition available) Using a critical lens derived from ecopsychology and its praxis, ecotherapy, this book explores the relationships Madeleine L’Engle develops for her characters in a selection of the novels from her three Time, Austin family, and O’Keefe…
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CFP Edited Collection: Dreaming of Christmas (Proposal Deadline: 5.1.2024)
Dreaming of Christmas: Rediscovering the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Christmas Story Throughout the nineteenth century the Christmas story was a key driver of the publishing industry on both sides of the Atlantic. Christmas editions of magazines and newspapers, saturated with seasonal stories, sold more copies than at any other time of the year. Editors competed for the…
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CFP: Margaret Fuller Society at MLA 2025 (Deadline: 3.22.2024)
“Imperfect Women Writers” sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society Modern Language Association 2025 | January 9–12, 2025, New Orleans In Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, the editors cite an anonymous correspondent of Fuller’s, who writes, “Margaret was one of the few persons who looked upon life as an art, and every person not merely as…
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CFP: Special Session at MLA 2025 (Deadline: 3.18.2024)
CFP: “Monuments and Racial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry” I am seeking papers for a proposed Special Session at the 2025 MLA Convention in New Orleans, January 9-12. Please see the description below. If you’re interested, please email a 200-word paper proposal and a 100-word biography detailing your expertise and scholarship to me at elissa.zellinger@ttu.edu by…
