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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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SSAWW & Recovery Hub – Five FREE Digital Humanities Memberships for Graduate Students (first come, first served!)
The Society for the Study of American Women Writers is sponsoring five free one-year graduate student memberships to the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers: https://recoveryhub.siue.edu/ If you are interested in starting a digital project but don’t know where to begin, this could be the perfect opportunity for you! Your annual membership will include up to…
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Recovery Hub for American Women Writers – Spring 2023 Info Session – 3.16.2023 3:30 pm ET/2:30 pm CT
Are you interested in the Recovery Hub’s services but not sure where to start? Join us on March 16 at 2:30 pm Central to celebrate the Recovery Hub’s new grant, which will support further development of the Hub’s services, and learn about our work! We’ll discuss the Recovery Hub’s mission and services, and there will…
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NEH Institute: “Willa Cather: Place and Archive” Application Deadline: TODAY
“Willa Cather: Place and Archive,” an NEH Institute for Higher Education Faculty to be held in Lincoln and Red Cloud, Nebraska, from July 16 to 28, 2023. Come out to the Great Plains this summer and immerse yourself in Cather-related places and archives! Applications are due TODAY by 11:59 PACIFIC TIME. That gives those of…
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Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group – Spring Meeting, March 25, 2023
The Spring 2023 meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group will be on Saturday March 25, 2023 at Texas Women’s University in Denton, TX, hosted by Brian Fehler. Our common reading will be the new collection of Zora Neale Hurston’s short fiction, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem…
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CFP: 2024 MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions (Deadlines: 3.17.2023 and 3.19.2023)
Teaching Scholarly Editions What do effective approaches to teaching scholarly editions look like? What hallmarks or features of a scholarly edition are necessary or desirable for success in the classroom? Work featuring underrepresented writers encouraged. Abstract; brief bio. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 17 March 2023 Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Indiana U–Purdue U Columbus (juligood@iu.edu ) The Future…
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NEH Institute – Willa Cather: Place and Archive (Applications Due: 3.3.2023)
Members of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers may be interested in Willa Cather: Place and Archive, a two-week NEH Institute for Higher Education Faculty from 16 July to 28 July 2023, directed by Melissa J. Homestead, Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and director of the Cather Project. Twenty-five…
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CFP: Celebrating Mark Twain at MLA 2024 (Deadline: 3.24.2023)
Call for Papers: Celebrating Mark Twain The Mark Twain Circle invites 250-350 word proposals for 20-minute presentations at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia January 4-7. Topics may address any theme or work(s) in Mark Twain’s long life and career, but papers responding to the convention theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow,” are particularly welcome, considering…
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New Book: New Perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman edited by Stephanie Palmer, Myrto Drizou, Cécile Roudeau
Editors: Stephanie Palmer, Myrto Drizou, Cécile Roudeau New Perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Reading with and against the Grain Edinburgh University Press – Hardcover 2023 SAVE with the Discount Code: NEW30 New research on Freeman’s fiction that challenge and expand earlier feminist readings of the female realm Freeman is best known today for her…
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CFP: Students in the Archives: Archival Pedagogy in Practice (Proposal Deadline: 3.17.2023)
Call for Proposals: “Students in the Archives: Archival Pedagogy in Practice” Heather Fox (Eastern Kentucky University) & Amanda Stuckey (Central Penn College) Since archivist Ken Osborne’s 1980’s call to integrate archival sources in the classroom,educators have sought to connect how we research and how we teach. “Students in the Archives: Archival Pedagogy in Practice” seeks…
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CFP: Edith Wharton Society at MLA (Deadline: 6.30.2023)
Edith Wharton Society Call for Papers Modern Language Association Conference Philadelphia, PA January 4-7, 2024 Edith Wharton and Celebration The EWS invites proposals on any form of celebration in Wharton’s work (music; performance; dance; emotion; dis/enchantment; play; commemoration; recovery; communal sentiment; rituals of joy and sorrow, e.g., weddings, funerals). Please submit titled proposals (approx. 350 words)…
