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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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Fellowship: 2026 Eudora Welty Research Felloship (Deadline: 3.6.2026)
The Eudora Welty Foundation and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) are delighted to announce the 2026 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship to encourage and support research using the Eudora Welty Collection and related materials at the MDAH. This competitive fellowship of $5,000 will be awarded to one student enrolled in a graduate or doctoral program at an accredited college or university to…
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CFP: Intersections: American Women Writers and Mark Twain (Deadline: 2.1.2026)
CFP: Intersections: American Women Writers and Mark Twain The Elmira Center for Mark Twain Studies will soon send out CFPs for its upcoming Quadrennial conference, scheduled for July 30-August 1, 2026 in Elmira, NY. The Center is actively expanding its interests, and is eager to feature panels coming from related fields. As a member of…
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2025 SSAWW Election Results
Dear SSAWW Members and Friends, We’re excited to announce the results of our most recent election and our new SSAWW Officers for 2026: President: Theresa Strouth Gaul Vice President, Communications: Charline Jao Vice President, Membership and Finances: Stephanie Palmer Vice President, Organizational Matters: Mollie Barnes Vice President, Programming: Nazera Wright Congratulations to our new officers!! With…
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CFP: Madness in Literature (Critical Insights Volume) Proposal Deadline: 1.9.2026
For Critical Insights volume under contract:Madness in LiteratureDEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: January 9, 2026 We invite proposals for a wide-ranging exploration of madness in literature. Madness has beenone of literature’s most enduring motifs. From ancient stories of divine possession and ecstaticvision to Shakespearean unravelings and nineteenth-century asylum narratives, madness has longfunctioned as a lens through which…
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CFP: Women’s Studies Special Issue on Genevieve Taggard (Deadline: 1.15.2026)
Genevieve Taggard: Poet/Feminist/Activist/Teacher Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal Special Issue Guest Editor: Nancy Berke, City University of New York—LaGuardia In 2025 the Women Writing Women’s Lives Biography Seminar affiliated with the Graduate Center of the City University of New York hosted a panel on the American poet Genevieve Taggard (1894-1947). Inspired in part by the publication…
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CFP: Celia Thaxter and her contemporaries (Deadline 1.1.2026)
This is a final call for papers for the first conference devoted to Celia Thaxter and her contemporaries, as well as the interdisciplinary region of the Isles of Shoals, off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire. This gathering will take place on Star Island, at the Shoals, in September of 2026. Call for Papers Among…
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Reminder: 2025 SSAWW Election – Nominees and Vision Statements (Voting open until Dec. 2nd)
Please find below the nominees and vision statements for the 2025 SSAWW Election. The vote is open to all members in good standing, not just those in attendance at the conference. Members will vote online via. link sent to members via WildApricot our online membership system. Voting began at the time of the conference and…
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Call for Collaboration: Project in support of free inquiry and mutual aid
CALL FOR COLLABORATION “We do not propose to remain silent.” (founders of the Antioch Review, 1941) Inspired by the AAC&U’s “Call for Constructive Engagement” and the Big 10’s developing “mutual defense compact,” and drawing from the commitment to justice and free inquiry among our subjects of research, the Margaret Fuller Society, Transcendental Concord, and the Thoreau Society are seeking collaborators in…
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CFP: Conversations: Margaret Fuller Society’s Special Issue on “Protest” (Deadline: 2.28.2026)
Call for Submissions to Conversations: Margaret Fuller Society’s Special Issue on “Protest” The theme of the next issue of Conversations (Vol 6.2) is of the moment: Protest. We ask our contributors to reflect on what protest means both to you and to our forebears of the 19th-century whose thinking laid the groundwork for much of…
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Announcement: Legacy contest for best paper at the SSAWW conference (Deadline: 12.3.2025)
Announcement: Legacy contest for best paper at the SSAWW conference Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers is happy to announce a contest to honor the best papers presented at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers conference (5-9 November 2025) in Philadelphia. Two prizes will be awarded, one for the best paper presented by…
