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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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Awards: CFP EDIS Undergraduate Scholarship Award (Deadline: 6.30.2026)
EDIS Undergraduate Scholarship Award 2026 The Emily Dickinson International Society is pleased to sponsor a prize for undergraduate work on Emily Dickinson. Our goal is to encourage, recognize, and publicize outstanding scholarship among undergraduate students. Students whose work was created for any undergraduate course, and touches on any aspect of Dickinson, are eligible to submit.…
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CFP: Joint Symposium – Catharine Sedgwick Society and Lydia Maria Child Society (Extended Deadline: 2.20.2026)
CALL FOR PAPERSfor a joint symposium to be hosted by theCatharine Maria Sedgwick Society and Lydia Maria Child SocietyWilliamsburg, VirginiaJune 24-27, 2026 (Extended deadline for proposals: February 20, 2026) The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Lydia Maria Child Society invite proposals for a joint symposium to be held on the campus of the College of William…
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Award: Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography Annual Essay Prize (Deadline: 3.1.2026)
SoFCB Essay Prize 2026 The Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) is pleased to announce its annual Essay Prize for 2026, to be awarded to a scholarly article that exemplifies the Society’s mission of advancing the study of texts, images, and artifacts as material objects through capacious, interdisciplinary scholarship. The $500 prize seeks to recognize innovative…
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Pedagogy Initiative: “I Will Teach It For You” – Margaret Fuller Society and Partners (open call)
Dear SSAWW colleagues– Professor Eagan Dean and I are pleased to launch a mutual aid teaching exchange called “I Will Teach It for You”–as part of a broader collective project in support of free inquiry. I can’t describe it any better than Eagan, so let me whet your interest with the first paragraph of his beautiful call:…
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CFP: MLA 2027 Special Session “Serendipity in the Archives” (Deadline: 3.15.2026)
Dear colleagues, I am organizing an MLA 2027 special session titled “Serendipity in the Archives,” which may be of interest to some Victoria members. Abstracts (250 words) are invited on surprising finds or accidental encounters in textual and material archives and their implications for illuminating gaps in scholarship. Biography and author studies, literary studies, and…
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CFP: Margaret Fuller Society at MLA (Deadline: 3.20.26)
Please consider submitting your work for the Margaret Fuller Society’s panel at the 2027 MLA Conference. “Feminist and Anti-Racist Citation” sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society Modern Language Association 2027 | January 7–10, 2027, Los Angeles Citation—in the form of abundant allusions, quotations, footnotes, or other in-text discussions—is a hallmark of Margaret Fuller’s writing. Honoring this…
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CFP: Catharine Sedgwick Society at ALA 2026 (two sessions) Deadline: 1.26.2026
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society solicits proposals for two sessions to be presented at the 2026 American Literature Association Conference. The conference will take place May 20-23 at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois. 1. Writing the American Revolution: Literary Representations from Sedgwick to the Present Marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,…
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CFP: “Progressivism and Literary Entrepreneurship” in Women’s Writing at ALA 2026 (Deadline: 1.10.2026)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS “Progressivism and Literary Entrepreneurship: Limits and Possibilities for Women Writers in the Antebellum US” American Literature Association conference, Chicago IL May 20-23, 2026 In an 1851 letter to Horace Greeley soliciting support for a projected feminist newspaper she would call The Egeria, Elizabeth Oakes Smith inadvertently mentioned her hope to budget enough…
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CFP: Margaret Fuller Society at ALA 2026 (Deadline: 1.26.2024)
Margaret Fuller Society’s ALA 2026 CFP. “Teaching In Difficult Times” sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society American Literature Association 2026 | May 20–23, 2026, Chicago The Margaret Fuller Society invites proposals for a panel at ALA 2026 about teaching in difficult times. As we head into the spring 2026 semester—the mid-point in an academic year…
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CFP: SSAWW at ALA 2026 (Deadline Approaching: 1.10.2026)
Call for Papers Society for the Study of American Women Writers American Literature Association, 37th Annual Conference, May 20-23, 2026 SSAWW at 25: Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures The Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) invites paper proposals for a panel that builds on our 2025 conference theme, “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures.” Submissions are…
