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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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Call for Technical Editor – Scholarly Editing (Nominations Due: 5.29.2020)
Call for Technical Editor The Association for Documentary Editing is reviving the premier journal Scholarly Editing. The following is its new mission statement:Scholarly Editing is an open-access journal committed to the development and advancement of all aspects of textual editing, including documentary editing. The content published in the journal includes essays, micro editions, reviews of print and…
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CFP: Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook (EXTENDED Deadline: 5.15.2020)
CFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook *Given the ongoing disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are extending the deadline to MAY 15, 2020. We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This handbook will include…
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CFP: Carson McCullers Society (Extended Deadline)
CFP – deadline extended to March 15th “Southern Modernist Women Writers and the Streets”Modernist Studies Association conference; Brooklyn, NY; October 22-25, 2020 In keeping with the Modernist Studies Association 2020 conference theme of the “streets,” the Carson McCullers Society is pleased to organize a roundtable discussion series about southern modernist women writers and the streets.…
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Deadline approaching: 2020 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship (Deadline: 2.28.2020)
There is still time to submit an application for the 2020 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship. This competitive fellowship of $2,000 will be offered for research conducted in summer 2020. The deadline for applications is February 28, 2020. The application form and additional information are available on the MDAH website at http://www.mdah.ms.gov/welty/resources/welty-fellowship.php. David M. Pilcher Director,…
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CFP: Edith Wharton Review Special Issue (Deadline: 8.31.2020)
The Age of Innocence at 100 The Edith Wharton Review invites submissions for a Special Issue celebrating the centenary of The Age of Innocence. We welcome essays on any aspect of Wharton’s acclaimed novel, from the historical to the queer, from the architectural to the gastronomic. We are especially interested in essays that interpret The Age of Innocence in relation…
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New Book: Modern Sentimentalism by Lisa Mendelman
Author: Lisa Mendelman Modern Sentimentalism: Affect, Irony, and Female Authorship in Interwar America Oxford University Press, 2020 Modern Sentimentalism examines how American female novelists reinvented sentimentalism in the modernist period. Taking up icons such as the New Woman, the flapper, the free lover, the New Negro woman, and the divorcée, the book argues that these figures embody aspects of…
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Library Company of Philadelphia – NEW FELLOWSHIP (Deadline: 3.1.2020)
The Davida T. Deutsch / American Trust for the British Library/ Library Company of Philadelphia fellowship supports a research project drawing on the collections of both the British Library (in any of its departments) and the Library Company. The fellow will be in residence at each library for at least two weeks (not necessarily consecutive) and will…
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CFP: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Symposium June 2020 (EXTENDED Deadline: 2.24.2020)
Revolutionary Legacies: The Ninth Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Symposium June 24-27, 2020 Union College, Schenectady, New York The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society invites submissions for its ninth symposium, titled Revolutionary Legacies. The Symposium will take place June 24-27 on the beautiful campus of Union College in Schenectady, New York, and will honor both the Sedgwick family’s…
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CFP: “Gender/Power/Twain” The Mark Twain Circle of America at MLA 2021 (EXTENDED Deadline: 3.23.2020)
Conference: MLA 2021 Panel CFP Allied Organization: The Mark Twain Circle of America Title: “Gender/Power/Twain” The year 2020 saw the centennials of both woman suffrage in the U.S. and the canonization of Joan of Arc in the Catholic world. In recognition of those events, the Mark Twain Circle solicits papers for a session on Mark Twain…
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CFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook (Abstract Deadline: 3.15.2020)
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice issues as they play out across and through literature. Essays may consider any period, genre,…
