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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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Virtual Event: American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life (9.28.2023 at 6:00 pm ET)
I’m delighted to invite you to a free online event celebrating my new book, American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life. This reading and discussion is co-hosted by the University of New England’s School of Social Work and the Maine Women Writers Collection, and will…
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SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books – October 26, 2023 5:00 – 6:00 PM ET (Virtual Event)
Join SSAWW on Thursday, October 26, for the next exciting event in our SSAWW Reads series! Register below. The Society for the Study of American Women Writers announces the next event in our series SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books, featuring Kimberly Blockett and Shirley Moody-Turner talking with Joycelyn Moody about two new titles, focusing on what they can tell…
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Lydia Maria Child Society: New Book Conversation with Justine Murison and Kristin Allukian (Virtual Event: 10.12.2023 at 7:00 pm)
Please join the Lydia Maria Child Society for a New Book Conversation with Justine Murison and Kristin Allukian. Justine will discuss her book, Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). Kristin will discuss her book, Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature: Economic Insights of American Women Writers, 1852-1869 (University of Georgia Press, 2023). Both authors will highlight the role…
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CFP: ALA Symposium, “Wildness and Wilderness” Oct. 26-28 (still accepting proposals)
Dear colleagues, I’m writing to let you know that we’re still accepting proposals for this ALA Symposium, Oct 26-28, in Santa Fe: https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-symposia/ While the deadline is listed as Sep 15, I believe there’s some flexibility there. Just reach out to one of the conference directors. Please consider joining us; it’s a lovely location…
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Save the Date – SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books (Thursday, October 26, at 5:00 pm ET (2:00 pm PT)
Save the Date! The next SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books event will take place Thursday, October 26, at 5:00 p.m. ET (2:00 p.m. PT). Join us for a conversation with Kimberly Blockett and Shirley Moody-Turner, moderated by Joycelyn Moody, about their recent publications: Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and…
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CFP: A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Nineteenth Century (Deadline: Expressions of Interest 10.01.2023)
The editors of A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Nineteenth Century (1800-1900) invite proposals for chapter contributions that approach the history of trans experience in the nineteenth century. Submissions which attend to decolonization, imperialism, the Global South, transnational comparison, and/or geopolitical influences are especially welcome. We also seek submissions engaging models of the…
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Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group – Saturday, October 7, 2023
The next meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group will be on Saturday October 7, 2023 at the University of Texas Austin, hosted by Gretchen Murphy. The common reading will be Annie Nathan Meyer’s Helen Brent, M.D. (1892), edited by Stephanie Peebles Tavera (Hastings College Press, 2020). Dr. Peebles Tavera will be a special…
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CFP: Margaret Fuller Society at C19 Conference 2024 (Deadline: 8.26.2023)
Margaret Fuller Society Call for Proposals C19 Conference, 14–16 March 2024 “Refusing Foreclosures and Endings: 19C Women Writers’ Defiance, Persistence, and Resilience” The Margaret Fuller Society seeks to form a panel for the March 2024 C19 conference in Pasadena, CA. We invite abstracts of no more than 250 words that engage with Fuller and/or other…
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CFP: Legacy Forum, Short Essays on Alcott’s novel Work (Deadline: 10.1.2023)
Legacy Forum In honor of the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott’s novel Work (1873) we invite short essays (2,000 to 3,000 words) that reflect on the intersections of labor, precarity, and organizing in nineteenth-century American women’s writing for an upcoming forum in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Drafted and pitched as a…
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CFP: Black Writing Networks at C19 2024 (Deadline: 8.18.2023)
Call for papers for a panel at C 19 2024: Black Writing Networks The organizers (Faith Barrett, Duquesne University; April Logan, Salisbury University; and Elissa Zellinger, Texas Tech University) seek proposals of 250-300 words as well as a 250-300 word biographical note, describing the scholarly work of potential panelists. Proposals from graduate students are especially welcome. …
