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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 – Pedagogy and the Archives at SSAWW 2021 (Deadline: 1.27.2021)
Roundtable: Pedagogy and the Archives – CFP for SSAWW 2021 In their new article “What We Want Students to Remember: Archival Recovery as a Sustainable Critical Praxis” (2020), Heather Fox and Amanda Stuckey model how teaching with archives can “study its intended function and potential purposes over time can be a form of recovery that…
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SSAWW at ALA 2021 Boston, MA (Deadline: 2.12.2021)
The Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) at ALA 2021 Open Topic The Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) seeks proposals for a guaranteed panel at ALA 2021, July 7 – 11 in Boston, Massachusetts. All proposals on American women writers and their work will be considered, regardless of…
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CFP: Margaret Fuller Society at SSAWW 2021 (EXTENDED Deadline: 2.16.2021)
CFP: Feminism(s) and American Land: Examining Early Feminist Ecologies Through Legacies of White Extractivism (Deadline 2.16.2021) The Margaret Fuller Society is seeking proposals for conference papers examining the intersections of proto-feminism, early conservationism, “frontier” writing, and race. Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, 1843 is remembered for its insightful comparative approach to women’s gender roles…
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CFP: Black Women Writing Nature in the 19th Century at SSAWW 2021 (Deadline EXTENDED: 1.22.2021)
CFP for SSAWW November 2021: Black Women Writing Nature in the 19th Century Deadline Extended: January 22, 2021 In Black Nature, Camille Dungy brings together poems about the natural world from four centuries of African American writing. In Black on Earth: African American Ecoliterary Traditions, Kimberly N. Ruffin emphasizes the range and variety of African…
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CFP: Willa Cather Foundation at SSAWW 2021 (TWO Panels) Deadline 1.22.2021
CFP: Two panels sponsored by the Cather Foundation, “Unsettled Landscapes: Willa Cather and Others” and “Willa Cather and Other American Women Writers: Genealogy, Friendship, Intertextuality, Competition” at SSAWW 2021 (Deadline 1.22.2021) Unsettled Landscapes: Willa Cather and Others Willa Cather’s landscapes and places feature prominently and memorably in her work, as well as in the imaginations…
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CFP: Childhood, Literacy, and Print Ecologies in American Women’s Writing at SSAWW 2021 (Deadline: 1.22.2021)
Childhood, Literacy, and Print Ecologies in American Women’s Writing at SSAWW 2021 To what extent were children imagined into the audiences of nineteenth-century women’s fiction? What sorts of children were included or excluded from the literary cultures of women’s fiction, and to what extent did such fiction respond to, emulate, or reject other mass market…
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CFP: Environmental Literature and Class Politics at SSAWW 2021 (Deadline: 1.18.2021)
Panel: “Environmental Literature and Class Politics”Submission Deadline: January 18, 2021 The conference theme of “Ecologies, Survival, Change” affords a timely opportunity to explore the investment of women’s environmental writing in themes of socioeconomics or class politics. This panel will explore the multiple ways women writers deeply engage both the natural world and issues of class…
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CFP: Fluid Meaning in 19th Century Women’s Writing at SSAWW 2021 (Deadline: 1.22.2021)
CFP for SSAWW 2021: Fluid Meaning in 19th Century Women’s Writing In “The Prospect of Oceanic Studies,” Hester Blum writes that the sea offers a “methodological model for nonlinear or nonplanar thought” which the scholar must address materially and metaphorically, drawing attention to how “the sea was simultaneously workplace, home, passage, penitentiary, and promise.” American…
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CFP: Roundtable: Discovery, Recovery, and Its Responsibilities in the Digital Age (1.18.2021)
CFP: Roundtable: Discovery, Recovery and its Responsibilities in the Digital Age at SSAWW 2021 One can only feel giddy (if not somewhat overwhelmed) by the vast expanse of untapped treasures awaiting in the digital archives. While certainly not a panacea for what Susan Belasco in 2009 observed as academe’s marginalizing infrastructure, digital platforms including library databases…
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CFP: Women Writers of the Progressive Era at SSAWW 2021 (Deadline: 1.18.2021)
CFP for Panel: Women Writers of the Progressive Era at SSAWW 2021 Conference Submission Deadline: January 18, 2021 “Ecologies, Survival, Change” celebrates the many women across the Americas whose creative work fosters survival and envisions change by exploring the systems in which we live, labor and love. Perhaps no group of writers was more clearly…
