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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: Digital Humanities in Charlotte Perkins Gilman Scholarship (Deadline EXTENDED: 1.24.2020)
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society is seeking submissions to a panel at the annual ALA conference in San Diego (May 21-24, 2020). Digital Humanities in Charlotte Perkins Gilman Scholarship The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society invites papers to discuss new approaches to the digital in Gilman research and discovery. Digital humanities, as an emerging subfield in literary studies, can be considered an innovative…
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CFP: SSAWW at 2020 ALA (2 panels) Deadline: 1.15.2020
Call for Papers: Society for the Study of American Women Writers at the 2020 American Literature Association conference SSAWW will sponsor two panels at the 2020 American Literature Association Conference, one on “Toni Morrison and Her Legacy” and one on “Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage.” “Toni Morrison and Her Legacy” The profound loss of a defining…
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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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CFP: Book Chapter Proposals – Emerging Strategies for Public Education Reform (Deadlines: proposals 1.31.202, final chapters 6.15.2020)
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Emerging Strategies for Public Education Reform, a book edited by Marquis Carter Grant(Grand Canyon University) Synopsis This enhanced version of Equity, Equality, and Reform will revisit current trends and issues in contemporary public education. There will also be opportunities for contributors to highlight emerging topics that have a significant impact on…
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CFP: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.17.2020)
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society is seeking submissions to a panel at the annual ALA conference in San Diego (May 21-24, 2020). Digital Humanities in Charlotte Perkins Gilman Scholarship The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society invites papers to discuss new approaches to the digital in Gilman research and discovery. Digital humanities, as an emerging subfield in literary studies, can be considered an innovative…
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CFP: SSAWW at 2020 ALA (2 panels) Deadline: 1.15.2020
Call for Papers: Society for the Study of American Women Writers at the 2020 American Literature Association conference SSAWW will sponsor two panels at the 2020 American Literature Association Conference, one on “Toni Morrison and Her Legacy” and one on “Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage.” “Toni Morrison and Her Legacy” The profound loss of a defining…
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CFP: Un/Tethered Cather on the Cusp of the 1920s, June 4-6, 2020 (Deadline: 2.1.2020)
For Cather and for the nation, the dawn of the 1920s was a tumultuous time, marked by new freedoms and new entanglements. The Great War had ended and women had won the right to vote, but 1919’s Red Summer and Palmer Raids signalled lingering social discord. Into this unsettled world, Willa Cather brought out Youth…
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New Books: Faraway Women and the “Atlantic Monthly” by Cathryn Halverson
Author: Cathryn Halverson Faraway Women and the “Atlantic Monthly” University of Massachusetts Press, 2019 In the first decades of the twentieth century, famed Atlantic Monthly editor Ellery Sedgwick chose to publish a group of nontraditional writers he later referred to as “Faraway Women,” working-class authors living in the western United States far from his base…
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CFP: Margaret Fuller Society at ALA, two sessions (Deadline: 1.15.2020)
The Margaret Fuller Society welcomes proposals for two sessions at the 31st annual conference of the ALA in San Diego, CA from May 21-24, 2020. 1) Traveling with Margaret Fuller In her article titled “Books of Travel”, Margaret Fuller declares that “innumerable as are the books of travel now into every region of the world,…
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CFP: Emily Dickinson International Society (Deadline: 1.31.2020)
“‘Stratford on Avon’ – accept us all!”— Dickinson and Shakespeare 2020 Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS) Annual Meeting William Shakespeare was Emily Dickinson’s favorite writer and her letters abound with references to him and his works. Dickinson’s allusions to Shakespeare’s writings evidence his pervasive presence in her life but also signal his ubiquitous place in…
