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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 for Edited Collection: Scripting the Past in the Present: Early America and Contemporary Culture (Proposal Deadline: 9.3.2021)
Scripting the Past in the Present: Early America and Contemporary Culture Edited Collection Editors: Patrick M. Erben and Rebecca L. Harrison Proposal Deadline: September 3, 2021 The editors seek critical and pedagogical essays for a book collection that critically examines the reverberations and re-scripting of early America (its literature, history, art, politics, religion, material culture, public…
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CFP (2 panels): Scripting the Past in the Present Early America and Contemporary Culture SAMLA (Deadline: 7.30.2021)
Scripting the Past in the Present: Early America and Contemporary Culture SAMLA 93, November 4-6, 2021 (Atlanta, GA) Patrick M. Erben and Rebecca L. Harrison, University of West Georgia __________________________________________ For many present-day readers, early American literature seems a nexus of far removed, boring, stodgy, and simply no longer relevant texts, ideas, authors, and tropes.…
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Reminder – Join/Renew your SSAWW Membership TODAY for 2021 Triennial Conference
Just a quick reminder that if you are participating in the 2021 SSAWW Conference, today is the deadline to join/renew your SSAWW membership. If you are waiting on department or university funds or are otherwise delayed in renewing your membership by today’s deadline, please reach out to Dr. Christine Grogan, VP of Membership and Finance. …
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2021 SSAWW Conference Registration – Now Open
Registration for the 2021 SSAWW Conference is now open! A draft of the conference program will be available in early June for planning purposes. In the coming weeks we will also have additional details on hotel reservations and graduate student travel awards. Visit our conference page to find out more information about the conference and…
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New Book: Newspaper Confessions
Author: Julie Golia Newspaper Confessions A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age Oxford University Press, 2021 What can century-old advice columns tell us about the Internet today? This book reveals the little-known history of advice columns in American newspapers and the virtual communities they created among their readers. Imagine a community of people…
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Reminder: 2021 SSAWW Conference – Upcoming Deadlines
UPCOMING DEADLINES April 12 Confirm or submit any special requests for AV by emailing ssaww.conferences@gmail.com. AV REQUESTS CANNOT BE SUBMITTED AFTER THIS DEADLINE April 12 Confirm receipt of your acceptance by completing the survey (link sent with acceptance letter) June 1 Pay or Renew you SSAWW 2021 Membership Dues September 1 Register for the conference…
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CFP: Association for Documentary Editing at MLA 2022 (Extended Deadline: 3.27.2021)
Association for Documentary Editing Call for Papers: Editing Outside the Walls Modern Language Association Convention 6 – 9 January 2022 Washington, D.C New DEADLINE for ABSTRACTS: 27 March 2021 Scholarly editing has grown in scope and diversified into many fields of practice in recent years, including numerous intellectual projects in a variety of settings outside the traditional domains…
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Recovery Hub for American Women Writers (Extended Deadline: 3.31.2021)
The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers is extending its call for peer reviewed and cultivated projects through March 31. 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,…
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CFP: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society at ALA (virtual panel) Deadline: 3.29.2021
American Literature Association, 32nd Annual Conference, July 7-11, 2021 CFP for VIRTUAL PANEL: Open Call Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society This panel broadly invites papers on any aspect of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s work. The session will be completely virtual and pre-recorded via Zoom. Please submit a 250-500 word abstract and a CV no later than March…
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CFP: Late-19th and Early-20th Century American Forum at MLA 2022 (2 panels, 1 roundtable) Deadline: 3.22.2021
The Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American forum would like to invite SSAWW members to submit proposals for two panels and one roundtable we are sponsoring for the MLA 2022 Convention, to be held in Washington DC from January 6-9 2022. We have extended the deadline for all submissions to March 22. Antifa before Fascism Papers tracing…
