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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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Edith Wharton Society – Research Prizes and Awards (inc. undergrad) Deadline: 6.30.2023
The Elsa Nettels Prize for a Beginning Scholar This award, formerly known as the “Edith Wharton Society Prize for a Beginning Scholar,” established in 2005, recognizes the best unpublished essay on Edith Wharton’s work by a beginning scholar, advanced graduate student, independent scholar, or faculty member who has held a full-time appointment for four or…
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Recovery Hub: Call for Digital Projects – Cultivation Grant (Priority Deadline: 2.28.2023)
Thanks to the generous support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Advancement Grant, the Recovery Hub is again accepting applications for project cultivation this year! Apply here! https://recoveryhub.siue.edu/cultivation/ Projects eligible for support include digital editions of letters, books, short fiction, and other texts as well as experimental projects that explore mapping, visualization, and…
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CFP: Special Issue of American Literary Realism, Regionalism and Indigeneity (Proposals Due: 5.1.2023)
Special Issue of American Literary Realism, Regionalism and Indigeneity Topic: America the Beautiful? Regionalism and Indigeneity Rather than Francis Scott Key’s homage to battle, there are some who believe Katharine Lee Bates’s words celebrating the distinct natural beauty of North America would make a better tribute as national anthem. In 1893 Bates was inspired by her…
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Fellowship: 2023 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship (Deadline: 3.3.2023)
There is still time to submit an application for the 2023 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship. This competitive fellowship of $5,000 will be offered to a graduate student to conduct research in the summer of 2023. The stipend may be used to cover travel, housing, and other expenses during the recipient’s two-week stay in Jackson, Mississippi.…
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CFP: The Rebecca Harding Davis Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.29.2023)
The Rebecca Harding Davis Society welcomes proposals for two sessions at the next meeting of the American Literature Association. The conference will be held May 25-28, 2023 in Boston, MA. New Directions in Davis Scholarship (2 panels) We are interested in proposals that engage in any aspect of Davis’s work. We particularly encourage proposals that…
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CFP: Willa Cather Foundation at ALA Roundtable – “Contextualizing Willa Cather” (Deadline: 1.26.2023)
The Willa Cather Foundation seeks proposals for a roundtable at the 34th annual conference of the American Literature Association, held in Boston from May 25-28, 2023. Please note that the ALA permits attendees both to present a paper and participate in a roundtable. The roundtable, “Contextualizing Willa Cather,” will be comprised of either four or five brief (8-10 minute) presentations dealing with some aspect…
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CFP: SSAWW Activism and Reproductive Justice at ALA (2 panels) EXTENDED Deadline: 1.17.2023
Call for Papers: Society for the Study of American Women Writers will have two panels at the 2023 American Literature Association conference in Boston, May 25-29. We welcome proposals on topics related to those themes: Activist Women Writers and Women Writers and Reproductive Justice. Activist Women Writers and Their Works: Women writers have been activists…
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Edith Wharton’s Birthday – Virtual Event (1.23.2023 at 12:00 pm EST)
The Edith Wharton Society and the Transatlantic Literary Women (TLW) are joining forces to celebrate Edith Wharton’s birthday week with an exciting talk by renowned Wharton scholar Prof. Donna Campbell (Washington State University). Prof. Campbell’s talk, “All the Phases/Faces of Lily Bart: The House of Mirth from Manuscript to Novel to Play” will be held on Zoom…
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CFP: Edith Wharton Society at ALA (Extended Deadline: 1.20.2022)
Edith Wharton Society Call for Papers American Literature Association (ALA) Conference 2022 May 26-29 (Chicago, IL) ———- Panel One: Bodies and Mobility in Wharton and Her Contemporaries The Edith Wharton Society invites papers that explore how Wharton and her contemporaries represent bodies and mobility in their work. Panelists are especially encouraged to consider comparative analyses…
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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…
