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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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Postponed – Discussion of the Netflix film of Nella Larsen’s novel
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 — available HERE Dear SSAWW folks, Apologies! We have to postpone the Society for the Study of AmericanWomen Writers’ planned discussion of the film of Nella Larsen’s novelPassing, scheduled…
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SSAWW 2021 Election Results
Greetings, SSAWW members, I hope you have all had a good holiday and that the semester is winding down well for everyone. I write to announce the results of the election for SSAWW officers for 2022–2024. Please join me in congratulating Maria Carla Sanchez, President Patrick Allen, Vice President of Organizational Matters Jordan Von Cannon,…
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CFP: Carson McCullers Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.12.2022)
The Carson McCullers Society ~ Call for Papers Carson McCullers and Social Justice American Literature Association (ALA) Annual Conference / Chicago, IL, May 26-29, 2022 For a proposed session of the 2022 annual meeting of the American Literature Association (ALA), we invite papers that consider the intersections of Carson McCullers’s life and writing with issues…
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Spring 2022 – Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group (February 26, 2022)
Mark your calendars! Assuming that it remains safe to meet in person, the Spring 2022 meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group will take place on Saturday February 26, 2022 at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, hosted by James Finley. The common reading will be Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Gates Ajar (Penguin, 2019), co-edited by…
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Job Posting: Assistant Professor – Black Studies Scholar (Application Review begins January 2022)
Assistant Professor – Black Studies Scholar – University of Alberta AUG Fine Arts & Humanities Competition No. - A105646590 Closing Date - Will remain open until filled. This position is located in Camrose, Alberta. The University of Alberta has committed to diversifying the institution’s professoriate through an inclusive excellence initiative that includes hiring up to eleven Black scholars across…
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Fellowship: 2022 Emily Dickinson International Society Graduate Student Fellowship (Deadline: 1.15.2022)
2022 Emily Dickinson International Society Graduate Student Fellowship The EDIS announces a fellowship award of $2,000 in support of excellence in graduate student scholarship on Emily Dickinson. The project need not be devoted solely to Dickinson, but her work should be a substantial focus. The award may be used for any expense incurred to advance…
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SSAWW – Join us for an online discussion of new film on Nella Larsen’s Passing – 12.13.2021 – POSTPONED
Unfortunately, we must postpone this event until January. A new date/time will be announced on the site when registration opens 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 your reactions, ideas, and questions! We…
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CFP: Special Issue of American Literature: New Citizenship Studies (Deadline: 6.9.2022)
Call for Papers—Special Issue of American Literature: New Citizenship Studies Citizenship remains one of the most pervasive and contested terms in literary and cultural studies. It has been both idealized as the remedy for the struggles of the disenfranchised and challenged as an exclusionary model of belonging built on structural inequalities and subjection. In reassessments of citizenship…
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Call for Submissions: RSAP Article Prize (2020-21) Deadline: 12.15.2021
Research Society for American Periodicals Article Prize 2020-21 http://www.periodicalresearch.org/rsap-article-prize-2020-21/ Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2021 Contact: Tim Lanzendörfer – tlanzend@em.uni-frankfurt.de The Research Society for American Periodicals invites submissions for its 2020-21 Article Prize. The prize is awarded to the best article on the subject of American periodicals published in a peer-reviewed academic journal between January 1,…
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Celebrating Louisa May Alcott – Zoom Event
Celebrating Louisa May Alcott Sunday, November 28, 2021 3:00 p.m. Eastern, 2:00 Central, 1:00 Mountain, 12:00n Pacific Via Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/CelebratingLMA2021 This year’s event will feature talks from Jamie Burgess and Jill Fuller, the creators and hosts of the Let Genius Burn podcast, and Azelina Flint, author of the recently published The Matrilineal Heritage of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti (Routledge…
