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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: Defiance and Forbearance in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman at ALA 2021 (Deadline: 2.12.2021)
Defiance and Forbearance in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and her Contemporaries Ever since her work was recovered by feminist critics and granted the attention it deserves, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman has been identified with tales of defiance, from Sarah Penn’s moving the family out of their dilapidated home into the sumptuous barn in “The Revolt…
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CFP: Sounding Off: Audio Ecologies in/and American Women’s Writing (SSAWW) EXTENDED Deadline: 2.15.2021
CFP: Sounding Off: Audio Ecologies in/and American Women’s Writing (panel being organized for SSAWW Nov. 4-7, 2021) This panel explores productions/adaptations of and responses to American women’s writing in audio form including audiobooks, podcasts, audio dramas, archival recordings, and so forth. Papers may address topics such as: sound studies approaches to literary analysis; the popularity,…
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CFP: Evelyn Scott Society at SSAWW 2021 (Deadline: 1.15.2021)
2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Hotel, Baltimore, MD November 4-7, 2021 Conference theme | American Women Writers: Ecologies, Survival, Change The Evelyn Scott Society invites abstracts of 1-2 pages on the American writer Evelyn Scott (1893-1963). Papers may focus on any of her works (novels, short stories, memoir, poetry, young adult literature),…
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CFP: 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference (Deadline: 2.1.2021)
CFP: 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference “American Women Writers: Ecologies, Survival, Change” November 4-7th, 2021 Baltimore, Maryland For the 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference in Baltimore, we invite proposals on the topic of “American Women Writers: Ecologies, Survival, Change.” Proposals are welcome on subjects from early American literature to the literature of the present. Proposals might engage…
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Call for Graduate Students – Year in Conferences: MLA 2021 (Deadline: 11.25.2020)
Calling graduate student writers for “The Year in Conferences: MLA 2021″: ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture is seeking participants to cover the Modern Language Association virtual convention from January 7-10 for its annual “The Year in Conferences” feature. The MLA team will cover panels of interest to ESQ‘s readers. This project is an excellent opportunity for scholarly collaboration and professionalization.…
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CFP: Mattie Griffith Antebellum Antislavery for SSAWW 2021 (Deadline: 12.20.2020)
For the forthcoming SSAWW 2021 conference, we are assembling a panel centered on antebellum antislavery novelist and poet Mattie Griffith. Papers for this panel can consider any facet of Griffith’s literary and activist work, or contextualize Griffith within U.S. women’s or Kentucky abolitionist writing. Current panelists’ papers center on Griffith’s examinations of reading and activism in…
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Reminder: Panel Discussion Mid-Century Maine Women Writers – Tonight, 5:00-7:00 pm
The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England, along with our partner, the University of Maine Augusta, invites you to attend a panel discussion on Mid-Century Maine Women Writers. This event is part of a project at the University of Maine at Augusta, “Maine’s Mid-Century Moment,” which is funded by the National Endowment…
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Call for Applications: MA in English Research Assistantship (Deadline: 12.5.2020)
M.A. in English Research Assistantship at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Willa Cather Studies Please pass this information along to seniors or recent graduates who may be interested! The Willa Cather Project and the Willa Cather Archive are pleased to offer one Research Assistantship to an incoming MA student in English at the University of…
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Job Posting: TT Assistant Professor in New Southern Studies (Deadline: 12.4.2020)
Position in New Southern Studies Wofford College’s Department of English Language and Literature seeks applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in New Southern Studies with a subfield in one of the following: Critical Race Theory, Afro-Latinx Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Queer Souths, Afro-diasporic, Black Feminism, or Black Cinema/Media Studies. We are particularly interested…
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CFP: 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference (EXTENDED Deadline: 3.8.2021)
CFP: 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference “American Women Writers: Ecologies, Survival, Change” November 4-7th, 2021 Baltimore, Maryland For the 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference in Baltimore, we invite proposals on the topic of “American Women Writers: Ecologies, Survival, Change.” Proposals are welcome on subjects from early American literature to the literature of the present. Proposals might engage…
