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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: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Symposium June 2020 (Deadline: 2.17.2020)
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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Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group – Spring 2020 meeting (Saturday, Feb 29)
The Spring 2020 meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group is coming up soon: Saturday February 29 at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, hosted by Sarah Salter. The common reading will be Leonor Villegas de Magnón’s The Rebel, an autobiography originally written in Spanish in the 1920s but unpublished until Arte Publico’s editions in 1994/2004.…
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CFP: Louisa May Alcott Society at ALA (Deadline EXTENDED: 1.27.2020)
CFP: Louisa May Alcott SocietyAmerican Literature Association Conference, San Diego, CA, May 21-24, 2020 Deadline extended to Monday, January 27th, 2020 Alcott and Adaptation For over a century, Louisa May Alcott’s writings have been adapted in many ways—for stage, radio, television, and film. As scholars such as Beverly Lyon Clark, Elizabeth Keyser, Elise Hooper, and others…
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CFP: Special Issue of ESQ “Lydia Sigourney and Her Contemporaries” (Deadline: 3.15.2020)
Call for papers for a special issue of ESQ to explore the work of Lydia Sigourney and Her Contemporaries. This issue will be devoted to essays addressing the question of Sigourney within the context of her contemporaries. We welcome new essays discussing her work in the context of other major authors or exploring her role…
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CFP: Pauline E. Hopkins Society (Deadline: 1.25.2020)
Call for Papers Pauline E. Hopkins Society American Literature Association 31th Annual Conference May 21-24, 2020 San Diego, CA Pauline E. Hopkins and Social Justice In an historic vote on December 19, 2018, the US Senate unanimously passed the Justice for Lynching Act (jointly proposed by Democratic Senators Cory Booker, NJ, and Kamala Harris, CA),…
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CFP: Catharine Sedgwick Society at ALA (Deadline EXTENDED: 1.23.2020)
Panel: Nonhuman Life in Early America The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society invites papers on the subject of nonhuman life in early America. This panel will consider forms of nonhuman life in early America as they appear in the work of Sedgwick and her contemporaries. Papers might address (but are not limited to):• nonhuman animals, whether domestic…
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CFP: Rebecca Harding Davis Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.17.2020)
The Davis Society welcomes proposals for one or two sessions highlighting new directions in Davis scholarship at the next meeting of the American Literature Association. The conference will be held May 21-24, 2020 in San Diego, CA. For more information, visit the American Literature Association’s website at: https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ We are interested in proposals that engage in…
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CFP: Lydia Maria Child at ALA (Deadline EXTENDED: 1.25.2020)
The Lydia Maria Child Society welcomes proposals for a social-justice pedagogy roundtable and an open-topic panel! Social-Justice Pedagogy Roundtable The Lydia Maria Child Society seeks participants for a roundtable on pedagogy, social justice, and American literature. Considering contemporary social justice concerns ranging from the Black Lives Matter movement to the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy to persistent gender…
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CFP: Carson McCullers Society at ALA, MSA, and Outstanding Paper Award (3 calls)
Open call for panel papers – Carson McCullers Society American Literature Association (ALA) Conference; San Diego, CA; May 21-24, 2020 The Carson McCullers Society is pleased to announce an open call for papers on any topic related to the life and works of Carson McCullers for a guaranteed panel at the American Literature Association (ALA)…
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2020 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship
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,…
