-
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…
-
Legacy/SSAWW: A Response to Bailey’s #ReclaimHerName – Panel discussion
When: Friday, 8.28.2020 4:00 pm EST RSVP and Register for the event HERE
-
Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society – Summer Webinars (July 31st, August 14th, and August 28th)
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society announces a series of webinars featuring new works of Sedgwick scholarship. Invited scholars will discuss their recent monographs and address Sedgwick, her career, and her place in contemporary literary studies. Webinars are open to the public but registration is required; click the links below to register for each individual event.…
-
CFP: The Legacy of Julia Ward Howe (June 11-12, 2021)
“To learn, to teach, to serve, to enjoy”: The Legacy of Julia Ward Howe To celebrate the 150th anniversary of our founding by Julia Ward Howe, the Saturday Morning Club will host a dinner and keynote address by Professor Megan Marshall on Friday evening, June 11, 2021, and a one-day symposium of papers on Saturday,…
-
Save the Date: 2021 SSAWW Triennial Conference
SSAWW 2021 Triennial Conference in Baltimore, Maryland Conference Theme American Women Writers: Ecologies, Survival, Change November 3-7, 2021 | Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Additional information will be shared on our site in the coming months with the call for papers made available at the end of August.
-
SSAWW Statement of Support
Dear Colleagues, The Society for the Study of American Women Writers joins with the academic community to express our heartbreak and our outrage at the acts of racist violence and police brutality being perpetrated against Black and people of color in many areas of the nation. We recognize that this type of violence is not…
-
CFP: SEASECS 2021
CFP: SEASECS 2021 “Oceans Rise, Empires Fall: Tidal Shifts in the Eighteenth Century” February 18-20, 2021 in Ft. Myers, Florida Session Proposal Deadline: 6.15.2020 (Individual Papers and Fully-formed Panels Deadline: 10.15.2020) The 47th meeting of The Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS) will take place February 18-20, 2021 in Ft. Myers, Florida, a historically…
-
Chat with a Legacy Editor
As has recently been reported, the COVID-19 epidemic has had a dramatic impact on women’s research productivity, measured in part by drops in their journal submissions. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers relies on the work of women–as researchers, authors, consultants, board members, and editors. We recognize that the effects of social distancing are affecting women’s…
-
CFP: SSAWW at the Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference (Deadline: 6.5.2020)
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) panel at the Society of Early Americanists (SEA) Biennial Conference, planned to be held at Emory University on March 3-7, 2021. Proposals are welcome on any aspect of women’s cultural productions (broadly conceived) in the Americas before 1830. By June 5, please send me your: abstract…
-
New Book: The American Adrenaline Narrative
Author: Kristin J. Jacobson The American Adrenaline Narrative University of Georgia Press, 2020 The American Adrenaline Narrative considers the nature of perilous outdoor adventure tales, their gendered biases, and how they simultaneously promote and hinder ecological sustainability. To explore these themes, Kristin J. Jacobson defines and compares adrenaline narratives by a range of American authors…
-
New Book: Love and Depth in the American Novel
Author: Ashley C. Barnes Love and Depth in the American Novel from Stowe to James University of Virginia Press, 2020 Love and Depth in the American Novel seeks to change how we think about the American love story and how we imagine the love of literature. By examining classics of nineteenth-century American literature, Ashley Barnes…
