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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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Call for Editors – Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association of Documentary Editing (Application deadline: 9.30.2023)
Call for Editors Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing Summer 2023 Dear Colleagues, As the Editors in Chief of Scholarly Editing, we write to issue a call for editors and other recovery practitioners. Scholarly Editing seeks to develop and advance all aspects of textual and documentary editing, including the recovery of…
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New Book: Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction The World is a Welter by Margarida Cadima
Author: Margarida Cadima Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction The World is a Welter Anthem Press – 2023 This book sets forth how the “greening” of Wharton’s private and public writings contributes to exciting strands in cultural geography and recent postcolonial theory: for example, biological and political constructions of citizenship, mobility, race, and nation; hospitality…
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New Book: American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life by Jennifer Lunden
Author: Jennifer Lunden American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life Harper Academic – 2023 A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story…
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Call for submissions: Willa Cather’s New York Intersections (Deadline: 2.1.2024)
Call for submissions: Willa Cather’s New York Intersections Submissions are invited for volume 16 of Cather Studies, to be published by the University of Nebraska Press. The theme for the volume will be “Willa Cather’s New York Intersections.” Submissions may address New York City as Cather knew it but also the metropolis that was present…
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Call for applications: Maine Women Writers Collection (Deadline: 9.1.2023)
The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England invites applications for our Research Support Grant Program for research on site during the 2024 calendar year. Application deadline: 1 Sept. 2023. MWWC Research Support Grants are intended for faculty, independent researchers, and graduate students at the dissertation stage who are actively pursuing research that requires…
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Call for “The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters” Online Collection
Dear colleagues, We write with an invitation to add your voice to the collection of resources we are building for the website anchoring “The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters” initiative, here: https://wheatleypetersproject.weebly.com/. We hope you have been connecting to the project already, whether by attending one of our numerous online events or by…
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SSAWW Virtual Event – Research Resource Exchange (June 19th, 1:30 – 2:30 pm ET on Zoom)
Come to an online SSAWW-sponsored resource information exchange session! Bring one or more open access research resources to share links for and explain, or come just to ask and listen. We’ll begin by giving a brief (no more than 1 minute) intro to ourselves and a research project in progress. If it’s relevant, tell about…
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CFP: Trans Studies and Julia Ward Howe’s “Laurence” 20 Years Later at C19 (Deadline 7.15.2023)
CFP: C19 2024 (Pasadena, CA, March 14-16 2024) “Will you finish your story?”: Trans Studies and Julia Ward Howe’s “Laurence” 20 Years Later Panel Organizers: Eagan Dean (Rutgers New Brunswick) and Kadin Henningsen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Respondent: Dr. Karen Sanchez-Eppler (Amherst College) This panel marks the 20th anniversary of the print publication of…
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CFP: Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society at SAMLA (Roundtable participants)
The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society seeks proposals for a roundtable discussion at the next meeting of SAMLA, held in Atlanta from November 9-11, 2023. The theme of this year’s SAMLA is “The Future of Literature and Language Studies.” With this theme in mind, our roundtable is titled “What Does the Future Look Like for Single-Author…
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Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting – Amherst, MA July 21-23, 2023 (Registration open)
The Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting “Clasp Hemispheres, and Homes” will be held in Amherst, Massachusetts July 21-23, 2023 jointly presented with the Emily Dickinson Museum. Registration is open and the full program of events is available HERE. Come join us in Amherst! Any questions please contact edismeeting@emilydickinsonmuseum.org Program Committee Emily Dickinson International Society
