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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: Taylor Swift as/and Literature (Deadline: 2.14.2022)
Please consider submitting a proposal to the edited collection Taylor Swift as/and Literature Taylor Swift, one of the best-known musical artists of her generation, has left an indelible mark on popular culture and the collective consciousness. Although Swift is a perennial subject in the media, cast in both a positive and a negative light, few professional…
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CFP: Legacy Award for Best Paper at the 2021 SSAWW Conference (Deadline: 11.15.2021)
Dear Colleagues, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers announces a contest to honor the best papers presented at the 2021 meeting of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference in Baltimore. Two prizes will be awarded, one for the best paper presented by a graduate student, and one for the best…
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CFP: Edith Wharton Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.10.2022)
Edith Wharton Society Call for Papers American Literature Association (ALA) Conference 2022 May 26-29 (Chicago, IL) ———- Panel One: Bodies and Mobility in Wharton and Her Contemporaries The Edith Wharton Society invites papers that explore how Wharton and her contemporaries represent bodies and mobility in their work. Panelists are especially encouraged to consider comparative analyses…
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CFP: 67th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, June 2-4, 2022, Red Cloud Nebraska
Call for Papers, 67th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, June 2-4, 2022, Red Cloud Nebraska In 1922, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., published Willa Cather’s fifth novel, One of Ours. Despite Cather’s attempts to head off negative responses, reviews of One of Ours were decidedly mixed, with key critics such as H.L. Mencken deriding it as…
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#SSAWW2021 – “Chat with an Editor” and “Chat with a Digital Humanist” (open to virtual and in-person attendees — spots still available)
Hello everyone! There are still some lots remaining for “Chat with an Editor” sessions tomorrow and the “Chat with a Digital Humanist” sponsored by the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers. If you’d like to see what’s available, you’ll find the links below. At the 2021 SSAWW Conference, we will have the opportunity for…
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#SSAWW2021 – Open Dinner – Little Havana – Thursday Night
Don’t forget to sign up for the open dinner tomorrow at Little Havana (1325 Key Hwy, 1/2 mi walk from hotel). To accommodate the greatest number of people, we are asking people to sign up for one of 2 shifts (these will be combined if fewer than 60 total attendees sign up). Early shift is…
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#SSAWW2021 – Virtual Attendees and the Virtual Mentoring Breakfasts in Whova
Just a quick note that all virtual attendees are welcome to attend the virtual Mentoring Breakfasts on Zoom Thursday and Friday morning (whether you registered to attend a mentoring breakfast originally or not). The Zoom links will be added to the Whova Agenda today, so please feel free to join and chat with in-person conference…
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#SSAWW2021 – Last minute reminders for in-person attendees
What to bring to Baltimore We’re excited to see you in Baltimore! Here are some things to consider when packing: Face masks (review SSAWW Covid-19 Code of Conduct) A/V connectors for Mac products (if connecting to the hotel’s A/V for presentations) Earbuds/Headphones to join Zoom sessions Vintage SSAWW Lanyard (from SSAWW 2018, 2015, 2012, or earlier–Bring…
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#SSAWW2021 – “Chat with an Editor” Sign-up now available (virtual options for virtual and in-person attendees)
For the 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference, we are pleased to once again offer the widely popular “Chat with an Editor” feature, including editors from American Periodicals, College Literature, Edinburgh University Press, ESQ, J19, Legacy, and MELUS, who will be hosting fifteen-minute one-on-one virtual consultations to answer questions about the publication process, to review abstracts for…
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CFP: Two Centuries of Sedgwick Symposium – The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society (Deadline: 12.15.2021)
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society invites submissions for its ninth symposium, Two Centuries of Sedgwick, celebrating the bicentennial anniversary of the beginning of Sedgwick’s professional writing career in 1822. The symposium will be held June 8-11, 2022, at the Red Lion Inn in Sedgwick’s picturesque hometown of Stockbridge, Massachusetts—just down the street from the Sedgwick family’s historic home.…
