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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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Webinar: Revisiting Muriel Rukeyser’s Elegies in Times Like These, February 19-20, 2021
Please consider registering to attend an upcoming webinar on Muriel Rukeyser. A list of speakers and panelists can be found at the link below. The webinar will begin February 19th, 2021 at 11 AM EST. Visit the Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive site below for more information and to register for this exciting event. Webinar:…
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CFPs: Margaret Fuller Society at ALA 2021 (2 Panels) EXTENDED Deadline: 2.23.2021
Margaret Fuller Society—Calls for Papers American Literature Association Conference Boston, July 7–11, 2021 EXTENDED DEADLINE: Proposals due February 23, 2021 CFP 1: Teaching and Practicing Feminism(s) in 2021 Are Margaret Fuller’s feminist visions for social change still valid and contemporary in our age? The 2020 anniversary of women’s suffrage in the US calls attention to…
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2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference – Keynote Speaker – Joyce J. Scott
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Joyce J. Scott will serve as our keynote speaker for the 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference. “I’d like my art to induce people to stop raping, torturing, and shooting each other. I don’t have the ability to end violence, racism, and sexism. But my art can help them look…
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CFP for SSAWW 2021: Harriet Beecher Stowe and her Circle (Deadline: 2.17.2021)
CFP for SSAWW 2021: Harriet Beecher Stowe and her Circle Deadline: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Contact: Allison Speicher, Eastern Connecticut State University Email: speichera@easternct.edu The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society invites paper proposals for the SSAWW 2021 Triennial Conference, to be held on November 4-7, 2021 in Baltimore, Maryland. Submissions can focus on any aspect of Stowe’s work or…
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CFP: Shelter in Place – Lessons on Pandemic Life from 19c American Women Writers & Culture (Deadline: 2.17.2021)
CFP: Shelter in Place: Lessons on Pandemic Life from 19c American Women Writers & Culture at SSAWW 2021 The pandemic has blurred the lines between public and private life as well as the circumstances in which we live, labor, and love. This SSAWW roundtable asks participants to consider what might be gained by giving…
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CFP: Literary Lessons – Louisa May Alcott’s Sensation Stories and Authorial Ecologies (Deadline: 2.15.2021)
CFP: Literary Lessons: Louisa May Alcott’s Sensation Stories and Authorial Ecologies In Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: Collected Thrillers, Madeleine B. Stern describes Alcott as having lived a “double literary life.” How do Louisa May Alcott’s relationships with other writers enrich her fiction, particularly her early “blood-and-thunder” sensation stories (published anonymously or pseudonymously as A.M. Barnard)?…
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Job Posting: TT Assistant Professor pre-1900 Literature of the Americas at Villanova University (Deadline: 3.1.2021)
The Villanova University English Department invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship beginning Fall 2021 in pre-1900 Literature of the Americas to teach courses at the undergraduate and M.A. levels. Villanova is a Catholic university sponsored by the Augustinian order. Diversity and inclusion have been and will continue to be an integral component of Villanova University’s…
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CFP: The 2022 Emily Dickinson International Society Conference (Deadline: 11.1.2021)
Call for Papers The 2022 Emily Dickinson International Society Conference in Seville, “Dickinson and Foreignhood” The Emily Dickinson International Society invites proposals for papers and panels at its international conference “Dickinson and Foreignhood,” scheduled at the College of Philology, University of Seville, Spain, from Tuesday, July 12, to Thursday, July 14, 2022. Because the academic…
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CFP at SSAWW: The Legacies of Exchange by 19th-Century Black Women (Deadline: 2.15.2021)
CFP: The Legacies of Exchange by 19th-Century Black Women at the SSAWW 2021 Conference This panel highlights forms of representation and exchange by black women that look beyond narratives of enslavement. We welcome papers that explore how nineteenth-century black women built networks of kinship and support through forms of correspondence (letters, periodicals, allusions) and materials…
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Recovery Hub for American Women Writers Debut Project Call
Recovery Hub for American Women Writers Call for Pilot Projects–Eligible for Consultation, Cultivation, and Peer Review 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, and the distant…
