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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: SSAWW Activism and Reproductive Justice at ALA (2 panels) Deadline: 1.10.2023
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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CFP: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.15.2023)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society Call for Papers The Freeman Society invites proposals on the following topics. Comparative approaches to Freeman and other authors are welcome. Freeman, Animals, and the Nonhuman In 1901, Freeman collected 12 stories about animals and flowers together into a volume, Understudies, that has received some critical attention as Freeman’s first…
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CFP: Museum of Motherhood Yearly Conference (Deadline: 11.30.2022)
Museum of Motherhood Yearly Conference CFP St. Petersburg, Florida & OnlineMarch 24-26, 2023 REPRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPES- Undoing m/otherhood; who has the right to talk about motherhood, who claims that status, and how do we create words, art, and scholarship moving forward? Calling all scholars, sociologists, maternal psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, women’s, sexuality, and gender professors, masculinity studies…
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Virtual Event: Let’s Talk About Books – Engaging Italy: American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks, 11.18.2022 (1:00 PM EST)
Join NMU faculty Lynn Domina as she speaks with author Etta M. Madden discussing her new book, Engaging Italy: American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks. The webinar will occur on Friday, Nov. 18th at 1:00 Eastern time. Registration is required but easy and free: https://nmu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dnXEzUN8QMmJcIvo8AyMvw Zoom Link to Register: https://nmu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dnXEzUN8QMmJcIvo8AyMvw
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New Book: Engaging Italy – American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks by Etta M. Madden
Author: Etta M. Madden Engaging Italy: American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks SUNY Press – 2022 Engaging Italy charts the intertwined lives and writings of three American women in Italy in the 1860s and ’70s—journalist Anne Hampton Brewster (1818–92), orphanage and industrial school founder Emily Bliss Gould (1825–75), and translator Caroline Crane Marsh (1816–1901).…
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TODAY – SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books – November 4 – 12:00 p.m. ET/9:00 a.m. PT (Virtual Event)
We are pleased to announce the second event in our series SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books, featuring Stephanie Peebles Tavera and Rickie-Ann Legleitner talking with Lori Harrison-Kahan about two new titles, focusing on what they can tell us about American women writers. How have women writers used medical fiction and novels of development to…
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Dissertation Fellowship: Middle Tennessee State University’s Diversity Dissertation Fellowship (Supporting Candidates from underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities) – Deadline: 11.11.2022
Middle Tennessee State University’s Diversity Dissertation Fellowship Program. In brief, “MTSU seeks candidates who are committed to innovative teaching and meaningful service. We also seek to attract a culturally and academically diverse faculty who value working with a diverse student body. Candidates for these positions must be members of underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities.” The position advertisement…
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CFP: The Rebecca Harding Davis Society at ALA (2 panels) Deadline: 1.15.2023
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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SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books – November 4 – 12:00 p.m. ET/9:00 a.m. PT (Virtual Event) – This Friday
We are pleased to announce the second event in our series SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books, featuring Stephanie Peebles Tavera and Rickie-Ann Legleitner talking with Lori Harrison-Kahan about two new titles, focusing on what they can tell us about American women writers. How have women writers used medical fiction and novels of development to…
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Call for Reviewers: Edith Wharton Review at MLA (Deadline: 11.30.22)
The Edith Wharton Review seeks reviewers to cover the Edith Wharton Society panels at MLA (San Francisco, January 5-8, 2023) and ALA (Boston, May 25-28, 2023) and any other panels/papers at these conferences focused on Wharton. Reviewers are welcome to take on one or both events. Please send a brief introduction and statement of your…
