• 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 Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books – TOMORROW – March 8, 2022, 6:00 pm EST (Virtual Event)

    Please register in advance for this meeting, and the Zoom link will be emailed to you:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctcOygqTMuGdYA3tkfxt5LlaipQVIRvaRu The Society for the Study of American Women Writers announces the inaugural event in our series SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books, featuring Jennifer Putzi and Claudia Stokes talking with Arielle Zibrak about two new titles,…

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  • Virtual Event(s): Recovery Hub for American Women Writers – March 16th, April 6th, and May 4th

    Thanks to all who joined us for our first Recovery Hub tech hour! Based on that conversation, we’ve developed a schedule of themed tech hours for the Spring 2022 semester. These tech hours will be led by Recovery Hub team members and explore different dimensions of digital recovery. While these have guiding themes and will…

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  • CFP: “Bearing Untold Stories” Hybrid Symposium on May 31st, 2022 (Deadline: 4.1.2022)

    The Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University is hosting hybrid symposium, “Bearing Untold Stories”, on forgotten women on 31st May. The symposium will showcase scholarship on the lives and works of women recovered from any time-period, and will also feature creative work that celebrates the lives of forgotten women in the…

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  • CFP: Special Issue of EJAS/European Journal of American Studies Laura E. Richards’ Children’s Poems (Deadline: 3.31.2022)

    Call for Papers— Special Issue EJAS / European Journal of American StudiesLaura E. Richards’ Children’s Poems Co-edited by Etti Gordon Ginzburg (Oranim College, Israel) andVerena Laschinger (University of Erfurt, Germany)Contact email: yeginz@gmail.com and verena.laschinger@uni-erfurt.de Deadline for abstract submissions: March 31, 2022Deadline for final paper submissions: November 30, 2022The special issue is scheduled to appear in EJAS No. 4/2024 There…

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  • Fellowship: 2022 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship (Deadline: 3.4.2022)

    The deadline for the 2022 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship is March 4, 2022.  2022 Fellowship Application Form This competitive fellowship of $5,000 will be offered for research conducted in summer 2022. The stipend may be used to cover travel, housing, and other expenses during the recipient’s two-week stay in Jackson, Mississippi.  Additional information, including the…

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  • CFP: Emily Dickinson International Society at MLA 2023 (Deadline: 3.10.2022)

    Call for papers for the 2023 MLA Conventionan allied organization session sponsored by the Emily Dickinson International Society Emily Dickinson in Her Time and Ours We are interested in lively proposals on any aspect of Dickinson’s historical and contemporary resonance. Please send 250 word abstracts and a short bio to vrpollak@wustl.edu. Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 10 March…

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  • CFP: Margaret Fuller Society at MLA 2023 (Deadline: 3.15.2022)

    The Margaret Fuller Society would be pleased to receive proposals from SSAWW folks for our guaranteed MLA session (see CFP below). ************** CFP for the 2023 MLA Convention in San Francisco, 5-9 January Margaret Fuller Society TITLE: Conditions of Exile in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond What forms have the experience and idea of exile…

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  • Virtual Event – Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group, February 26, 2022

    We are very pleased to provide a final schedule of events for the upcoming — and now VIRTUAL — meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group. Because this event will take place on Zoom, we hope that many members of the SSAWW community will be able to join us. Knowing that it’s a long…

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  • Published in the Pandemic: Recent Books by Texas Scholars on 19th-century US Women’s Writing (February 26, 2022, 4:00 – 5:00 pm CST)

    We are pleased to invite you to join us for: Published in the Pandemic: Recent Books by Texas Scholars on Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women’s Writing Sponsored by the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group Saturday, Feb. 26 4-5pm CST RSVP to james.finley@tamusa.com to receive the Zoom link Featured authors: LuElla D’Amico, ed. (with Robin Caldwallader) Reading Transatlantic…

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  • SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books – March 8, 2022, 6:00 pm EST

    Please register in advance for this meeting, and the Zoom link will be emailed to you:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctcOygqTMuGdYA3tkfxt5LlaipQVIRvaRu The Society for the Study of American Women Writers announces the inaugural event in our series SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books, featuring Jennifer Putzi and Claudia Stokes talking with Arielle Zibrak about two new titles,…

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