• 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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  • 2021 SSAWW Conference Reminders – Last Day for Early Conference Registration Rate and Graduate Student Travel Awards

    We have a few very important reminders for 2021 SSAWW Conference Attendees 9/30 – TODAY is the last day to register for the 2021 SSAWW Conference at the lower rate. Registration rates jump after today, so please make sure you register for the conference — Register NOW to receive the lower rate. 10/1 – TOMORROW…

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  • 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference Deadlines – 9/27 and 9/30

    There are two important conference deadlines this week: 9/27 TODAY – Please respond to your panel chairs about your presentation format for the conference. Thank you to all the panel chairs who have collected responses and submitted the details using the online form. 9/30 – Deadline for EARLY 2021 SSAWW Conference Registration — Register NOW…

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  • Letter to SSAWW Members – 2021 Triennial Conference Update

    September 13, 2021 Dear SSAWW Members, It is my pleasure to announce that we will be holding our 2021 conference in-person, as planned, from Nov. 4 to 7 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Baltimore. As you know, our conference theme is “American Women Writers: Ecologies, Survival, Change.” The theme seemed generative when we developed…

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  • 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference – Covid-19 Code of Conduct

    SSAWW COVID-19 Statement of Conduct To ensure that our conference is as safe as possible, and in keeping with CDC guidelines to slow the transmission of COVID-19, the Society for the Study of American Women Writers will work to protect not only its members but  the most vulnerable people,  including the immunocompromised, the elderly, the very young, and…

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  • 2021 SSAWW Conference – Baltimore MD – COVID-19 Dashboard

    Please visit the links below for the latest updates and information cases and policies related to Covid-19 in Baltimore, MD Baltimore City Dashboard https://coronavirus.baltimorecity.gov/ From The Baltimore Sun https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/ https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-ci-concert-venues-proof-vaccination-20210813-yppdcafnazbcngg33i3ysetl3u-story.html

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  • CFP: Technology and Carson McCullers, SSSL 2022 Hybrid Conference (Deadline: 9.13.2021)

    Technology and Carson McCullers Session Proposal for the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL) 2022 Hybrid Conference February 17-20, 2022, Atlanta, GA Contact:paula.rawlins@yale.edu The Carson McCullers Society invites proposals for presentations related to technology as imagined through the works and influence of Carson McCullers. From Miss Amelia experimenting with medical tinctures in The Ballad…

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  • Job Posting: Assistant Professor in 20th- and 21st-century African American Literature, University of Tennessee

    The University of Tennessee English Department seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in 20th- and 21st-century African American literature, with a particular interest in fiction. We welcome candidates with expertise in specializations such as (but not limited to) film/media studies, transatlantic studies, and digital humanities. Excellence in research and teaching is required. PhD in hand…

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  • CFP: 2022 Dickinson Critical Institute in Seville (Deadline: 11.1.2021)

    Call for Papers: 2022 Dickinson Critical Institute in Seville Graduate students and early career scholars (who have received their degrees in the last eight years) are invited to apply to the Dickinson Critical Institute to take place from 2:30 to 6:00 pm July 11, 2022, as a part of the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS)…

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  • CFP: Colloquy with Lindsay DiCuirci on “Colonial Revivals” (Deadline: 9.17.2021)

    CFP: Couple of seats are available on this colloquywith Lindsay DiCuirci on Colonial Revivals:The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books, atthe next ASECS conference (Baltimore, March 31-April 2022)   Rather than presenting a paper, each participant in this interdisciplinary roundtable, including Lindsay DiCuirci, author of Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books — recipient…

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  • Call for Applications: The Oakes Smith/Maine Women Writers Fellowship (Deadline: 10.1.2021)

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