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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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New Book: Arranging Stories: Framing Social Commentary in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers
Author: Heather A. Fox Arranging Stories: Framing Social Commentary in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers University Press of Mississippi, 2022 Description Between the 1880s and the 1940s, opportunities for southern white women writers increased dramatically, bolstered by readers’ demands for southern stories in northern periodicals. Confined by magazine requirements and social expectations, writers…
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CFP: Wharton and Ecology, Special Issue of EWR (Deadline: 9.15.2022)
On behalf of the Edith Wharton Review: Wharton and Ecology Special Issue of the Edith Wharton Review Call for Papers Guest editors Melanie Dawson and Jennifer Haytock seek contributions for a special issue of the Edith Wharton Review focusing on “Wharton and Ecology.” Essays may cover any aspect of Wharton’s writing about the natural world,…
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CFP: Hawthorne and the environment, Hawthorne and nature (Special Issue, NHR, Spring 2023)
CFP Hawthorne and the Environment, Hawthorne and Nature: I’ve posted this on other websites but am interested in finding contributors who will focus on women and nature connected to Hawthorne’s life and works: as, for example, the Alcotts and Hawthorne in Concord, Margaret Fuller and her views of nature as connected to Hawthorne’s (e.g. in…
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Chat with an Editor – Council of Editors of Learned Journals, Monday 6.27.2022
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) invites early-career scholars to sign up for a 20-minute 1:1 Zoom meeting with a journal editor on Monday, June 27, 2022, 12:00-2:00pm EST. Chat with an Editor is an opportunity for authors to receive free editorial mentoring and have their publishing-related questions answered by editors who are…
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Call for Submissions: Emerging Scholars and Article Prize (Deadline: 7.1.2022)
The following calls for submissions from the Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) may be of interest to you: Call for Submissions for Emerging Scholars and Article PrizeNineteenth Century Studies Association Emerging Scholars AwardThe work of emerging scholars represents the promise and long-term future of interdisciplinary scholarship in nineteenth-century studies. In recognition of the excellent publications…
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New Book: Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction
Editors: Ferdâ Asya Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 Offers essays that will guide current and new instructors of Wharton’s fiction. Designed to spark new and creative approaches to teaching Wharton’s well-known yet highly complex body of fiction. Brings a number of approaches to Wharton into one volume. This book…
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Margaret Fuller Society at ALA 2022
Please join the Margaret Fuller Society at ALA this Saturday in Chicago for two terrific panels on the under-appreciated, often invisible, work of women editors: Saturday, May 28, 10:00-11:20 Session 15-E Breaking the Editorial Ice: The Work of Women Editors (Salon 7) Organized by the Margaret Fuller SocietyChair: Jana Argersinger, Independent Scholar1. “Labor-Centered Data Creation:…
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Call for Proposals: Maine Women Writers Collection Research Support Grant Program (Deadline: 9.1.2022)
The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England is excited to resume our Research Support Grant Program for 2022-23. We therefore invite proposals for research on site during the 2023 calendar year. Application deadline: 1 Sept. 2022. MWWC Research Support Grants are intended for faculty, independent researchers, and graduate students at the dissertation…
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Hybrid Symposium: Decolonising Women’s Studies (31st May – 21st June)
The Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University is hosting an events series, “Decolonising Women’s Studies” from 31st May – 21st June. This series celebrates the political, literary, spiritual and reformist achievements of women of colour, especially those who are affiliated with other marginalised communities, such as the disabled, or LGBTQ+ communities: Decolonising Women’s…
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Scholarly Editing – Call for contributions (Deadline: 6.1.2022)
Dear colleagues, and with apologies for cross-posting— The editors of Scholarly Editing have extended our deadline for contributions for volume 40 to June 1, 2022 Please consider contributing! In addition to our several sections of the journal, I’d like to highlight “Uncovering and Sustaining the Cultural Record” (see below), as the word count is quite brief (1,250-4,000 words).…
