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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: Teaching and Pedagogy in Toni Morrison’s Fiction at SSAWW 2021 (EXTENDED Deadline: 2.1.2021)
CFP Roundtable for Teaching and Pedagogy Roundtable: Using The Toni Morrison Book Club in the Teaching of Toni Morrison’s Fiction. Submission Deadline: February 1, 2021 Toni Morrison has been chosen as the conference touchstone for “American Women Writings: Ecologies, Survival, Change” because “her works powerfully remind us that humans, however implicated in damaging structures, can…
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CFP: Catharine Sedgwick Society at 2021 SSAWW (EXTENDED Deadline: 2.15.2021)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society at SSAWW 2021 Gender and Genre in the Long Nineteenth CenturyThe Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society seeks papers that explore intersections of gender and genre in American writing from the early republic through the postbellum period. As women writers increasingly entered the literary marketplace after the American Revolution, they embraced a broad…
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CFP: Critical Insights: Amy Tan (Deadline Proposal: 1.25.2021)
Critical Insights: Amy Tan Call for proposals and papers for a new volume “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 compiling a Critical Insights volume that will point to the nature of some of the…
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CFP: The Binary and Beyond: Imagining the Body in American Women’s Writing (Deadline: 1.25.2021)
The Binary and Beyond: Imagining the Body in American Women’s Writing The human body has been imagined and articulated in literature in dualistic terms of nature and culture, immanence and transcendence, ability and disability, the sacred and profane. This panel seeks to explore the diverse ways in which American women writers have figured the human…
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CFP: Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting (Deadline: 3.1.2021)
ADE Virtual Annual Meeting: Representation and Recovery 24-27 June, and 6, 13, 20 and 27 July 2021 ADE conference organizers have decided to consider the current moment as an opportunity to reexamine the objectives of an annual conference. The events of 2020 highlight a long-standing threat to our multifaceted cultural heritage, including the absence of…
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CFP: Women of the Harlem Renaissance at SSAWW 2021 (Deadline: 1.15.2021)
Women of the Harlem Renaissance Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference, Baltimore, Nov. 4-7, 2021 This panel will explore the multiple ways women participated in the Harlem Renaissance, a period during which women writers were particularly prominent. Paper proposals are welcome on women writing in any genre—novels, stories, poetry, journalism, drama,…
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CFP: The Mark Twain Circle of America at MLA 2022 (Deadline: 3.1.2021)
The Mark Twain Circle of America is calling for proposals for the 2022 MLA, scheduled for January 6-9, in Washington, D.C. Session Title: “Not Your Granddaddy’s Mark Twain” Call: The Mark Twain Circle invites timely, innovative proposals from transdisciplinary approaches. We are interested in discussions that show how Mark Twain’s work reflects social constructions…
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Call for Reviewers: 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference (accepting volunteers until 1.31.2021)
Call for Reviewers for the 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference in Baltimore Plans are now well underway for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial conference on the theme of ecologies, survival, and change. In preparation, we are now asking for volunteers to serve as reviewers for the proposals that we receive for…
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CFP: Society of Early Americanists at SSAWW (Deadline: 1.15.2021)
If you work in early American studies, please consider submitting a proposal for the Society of Early Americanists (SEA) panel at the SSAWW Triennial Conference, planned to be held November 4-7, 2021 in Baltimore. Proposals are welcome on any aspect of women’s cultural productions (broadly conceived) in the Americas before 1830. By January 15, please…
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CFP: Black Women Writing Nature in the 19th Century at SSAWW 2021 (Deadline: 1.15.2021)
CFP for SSAWW 2021: Black Women Writing Nature in the 19th Century 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 American responses to nature: “Although societal…
