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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: Roundtable on Race, Religion, and Archives at MLA 2022 (Deadline EXTENDED: 3.22.2021)
2022 Convention of the Modern Language Association: Washington, D.C. CFP: Roundtable on Race, Religion, and Archives [3/22 extended deadline] We invite topics that explore the relationships between race, religion, and archives for an approved session of the Religion and Literature Forum of the MLA. We welcome interdisciplinary work at the intersections of critical race theory,…
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CFP: Legacy-sponsored panel at SSAWW (Deadline: 3.29.2021)
This CFP is for a pre-approved, Legacy-sponsored panel for the SSAWW 2021 Triennial Conference, to be held November 4-7 in Baltimore, Maryland. At a time when many literary scholars are wondering how our work can more directly contribute to struggles for justice and survival, it makes sense to ask how the writers we study answered that question…
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CFP: Essays for Edited Collection on the works of Amy Tan (Abstract Deadline: 3.31.2021)
Essays for Edited Collection on the works of Amy Tan Abstract Due: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 Critical Insights: Amy Tan “Writing is an extreme privilege but it’s also a gift. It’s a gift to yourself and it’s a gift of giving a story to someone.” We are seeking original essays for a collection that explores…
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SSAWW 2021 – Lifetime Achievement Award Nominations – Extended Deadline: 3.15.2021
Lifetime Achievement Award: The Karen Dandurand Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded every three years at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers’ conference to recognize a scholar’s career achievement in the study of American women writers. The award recognizes the individual’s commitment to the field, as demonstrated in her/his/their teaching, mentoring of students,…
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SSAWW 2021 Triennial Conference – Deadline Extended: March 8, 2021
SSAWW 2021 Conference November 4-7, 2021 Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland American Women Writers: Ecologies, Survival, Change DEADLINE: March 8, 2021 Questions about the conference – email ssaww.conferences@gmail.com Please visit our conference page for the CFP, submission guidelines, and keynote speaker announcement. We have extended the deadline until March 8th, 2021.
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Join the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group – February 27th, 2021 (first virtual meeting)
This Spring, the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group will hold our first virtual meeting. We will gather via Zoom on Saturday February 27th, 2021 from 1-3pm CST, hosted by LuElla D’Amico (University of Incarnate Word, San Antonio TX). Our common reading is the first Honey Bunch novel by Helen Louise Thorndyke, Honey Bunch: Just a…
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CFP: Margaret Fuller Society Roundtable at MLA 2022 – Deadline: 3.20.2021
“Mattering in the 19th C and Beyond: US Transcendentalisms, Racism, and Repair” Roundtable organized by the Margaret Fuller Society MLA 2022: Washington, DC, 6 to 9 January Submission deadline: 20 March 2021 How do race, racism, and anti-racism operate among US transcendentalists? What alternative vocabularies and theoretical models have their Black contemporaries and later Black…
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Call for Contributions: Special Section of Scholarly Editing – (Deadline: 4.30.2021)
Call for Contributions: Special Section of Scholarly Editing, Issue 39–Uncovering and Sustaining the Cultural Record Editing primary sources for publication has extensive origins in multiple disciplines, as is evident from the membership of the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE), which includes both historians and literary scholars in the United States and abroad. As we revive…
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Submissions: 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference (EXTENDED Deadline: 3.8.2021)
Submissions for the 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference Please send your submissions as PDFs to ssaww.conferences@gmail.com EXTENDED Deadline: March 8, 2021 Individual paper proposals: Interested participants will be asked to provide a tentative paper title as well as a proposal of approximately 250 to 300 words with your name and email. Pre-formed panel proposals: Interested participants…
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SSAWW 2021 Conference – CFP Deadline: 2.22.2021
SSAWW 2021 Conference November 4-7, 2021 Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland View the full CFP, calls for panels and roundtables, and submission details HERE View the call for SSAWW Awards HERE – EXTENDED Deadline 2.22.2021 American Women Writers: Ecologies, Survival, Change “Ecologies, Survival, Change” celebrates the many women across the Americas whose creative work fosters…
