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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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Virtual Event: Let’s Talk Books at NMU
Colleagues, I’ve begun a new series of monthly webinars, Let’s Talk Books at NMU, featuring scholars with recently published books. This month, I’ll be talking with Gail Okawa, author of Remembering Our Grandfather’s Exile: U.S. Imprisonment of Hawai’i’s Japanese in World War II. The webinar will be Friday, Feb. 18 at 1:00 eastern time. I’d…
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CFP: NEH Summer Institute “Transcendentalism and Social Reform” (Deadline: 3.1.2022)
The March 1 deadline draws near to apply for the NEH Summer Institute on “Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Activism and Community Engagement in the Age of Thoreau,” to be held over two weeks in Concord, Massachusetts, June 26 — July 9, 2022. For complete details, including application instructions, visit https://thoreausocietyneh2022.org/. Thank you, Sandy Petrulionis Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of English…
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Reminder WEDNESDAY: Recovery Hub for American Women Writers – Virtual Networking/Tech Hours – 2.9.2022 (Join via Zoom)
The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers supports projects recovering the work of women writers by providing digital access to forgotten or neglected texts and/or extending them with network mapping, spatial analysis, multimedia storytelling, innovative contextualization, and the distant reading of massive datasets. The Hub’s project team is excited to begin offering tech hours once…
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Judith Fetterley’s Library – Books in need of loving homes! (Deadline: 2.28.2022)
Judith Fetterley is letting go of some singles and doubles from her personal library. Please read her message below and peruse the list of titles. If you are interested in one or more, please submit this form with your requests by February 28th, 2022. We will operate under first come first served and prioritize graduate…
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Letter to SSAWW Members – Sandra Zagarell, SSAWW President 2018-2021
January 28, 2022 Dear SSAWW members, Warm good wishes for a healthy, safe and enjoyable 2022. I’m writing to thank you for these past three years as SSAWW President (2018-2021) and for all the support and energy you have given to SSAWW. This has been a challenging and exciting time for SSAWW. The 2018-2021 officers…
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CFP: Social Justice Pedagogy Roundtable, The Lydia Maria Child Society (Deadline: 1.29.2022)
Social Justice Pedagogy Roundtable The Lydia Maria Child Society seeks participants for a roundtable on pedagogy, social justice, and American literature. Considering contemporary social justice concerns ranging from the Black Lives Matter movement to climate disasters, persistent gender inequities, xenophobia, access to healthcare, and income gaps made all too apparent by the impacts of the pandemic,…
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Recovery Hub for American Women Writers – Virtual Networking/Tech Hours – 2.9.2022 (Join via Zoom)
The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers supports projects recovering the work of women writers by providing digital access to forgotten or neglected texts and/or extending them with network mapping, spatial analysis, multimedia storytelling, innovative contextualization, and the distant reading of massive datasets. The Hub’s project team is excited to begin offering tech hours once…
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Short-term Fellowship: Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Deadline: 5.1.2022)
The James P. Danky Fellowships In honor of Jim Danky’s long service to print culture scholarship, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Historical Society, is offering two short-term research fellowship awards for 2022-2023. The Danky Fellowships provide $1000 per individual for expenses while…
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CFP: Individual Proposals for ALA 2022 Chicago (Deadline: 1.30.2022)
This is a reminder that individual proposals for the next American Literature Association Conference are due January 30th. Please email them to me at pettyL@rhodes.edu. The conference will take place in person May 26-29, 2022 at the Palmer House in Chicago. More information can be found here: Feel free to email me with any questions.…
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SSAWW – Join us for an online discussion of new film on Nella Larsen’s Passing – TOMORROW – 1.13.2022
We are excited to announce a new date for this event. If you previously registered, you MUST register again to receive the updated meeting invite link. SSAWW is delighted to announce a new online event – an informal discussion of the new film of Nella Larsen’s novel Passing, which you can find on Netflix. Bring…
