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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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Special Issue: “Harriet Prescott Spofford: The Home, the Nation, and the Wilderness”
The latest edition of the European Journal of American Studies [EJAS 14-3 (2019)] is a special issue: “Harriet Prescott Spofford: The Home, the Nation, and the Wilderness,” edited by Stéphanie Durrans, with an introduction and nine essays on various aspects of Spofford’s work. EJAS is the peer-reviewed, open access journal of the European Association for…
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CFP: Rebecca Harding Davis Society at ALA (2 Sessions) Deadline: 1.17.2020
The Rebecca Harding Davis Society welcomes proposals for two sessions at the next meeting of the American Literature Association. The conference will be held May 21-24, 2020 in San Diego, CA. New Directions in Davis Scholarship (2 panels) We are interested in proposals that engage in any aspect of Davis’s work. We particularly encourage proposals…
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Call for Applications: Nebraska Cather Collaborative Research Grants for Willa Cather Scholarship (2020)
The Cather Project of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) English Department, in cooperation with the Cather Archive of the UNL Libraries and the National Willa Cather Center (NWCC) in Red Cloud, announces the availability of research grants for visiting scholars. These grants provide financial support for scholars to travel to and reside in Nebraska for…
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CFP: Catharine Sedgwick Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.15.2020)
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society seeks proposals for a roundtable and a panel to take place at the American Literature Association Conference in San Diego, CA, May 21-24, 2020 A Roundtable on Jeffrey Insko’s History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society calls for 5-7 scholars to participate in…
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Calling Graduate Student Writers: “The Year in Conferences: MLA” (Deadline: 11.20.2019)
Calling graduate student writers for “The Year in Conferences: MLA”: ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture is seeking participants to cover the Modern Language Association convention in Seattle this January for its annual “The Year in Conferences” feature. The MLA team will cover panels of interest to ESQ‘s readers. This project is an excellent opportunity for scholarly collaboration and professionalization. YiC…
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CFP: Stowe Society at ALA and Up and Coming Scholar Award (Deadline: 1.6.2020)
Call for Papers Harriet Beecher Stowe Society American Literature Association 2020 Deadline for Submissions: January 6, 2020 San Diego, CA May 21-24, 2020 Harriet Beecher Stowe Call for Papers The Stowe Society invites papers on any aspect of Stowe’s life and writings. Please email abstracts of 250-300 words and a brief CV to LuElla D’Amico at ldamico@uiwtx.edu by January 5, 2020. Presenters must be members of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society. Information…
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CFP: Mapping Black Women’s Lives, Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (Deadline Extended: 1.15.2020)
Call for Papers for a Special Issue: Spring 2021 Deadline Extended: 15 January 2020 Mapping Black Women’s Lives For this special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, we seek papers that employ diverse and/or interdisciplinary methodologies to recover and situate (geographically and theoretically) Black female lives throughout the African diaspora. How do we write with and against…
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Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group: Save the Date
The Spring 2020 meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group will take place on Saturday February 29, 2020 at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, hosted by Sarah Salter. The common reading will be Leonor Villegas de Magnón’s The Rebel, an autobiographyoriginally written in Spanish in the 1920s but unpublished until Arte Publico’s editions in 1994/2004.…
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CFP: Fuller and Alcott Societies at the Thoreau Gathering (Deadline: 11.27.2019)
Call for Papers: Woman Questions: Margaret Fuller and Louisa May Alcott in Their Time In this year of the centennial of women’s suffrage in the US, the Fuller and Alcott Societies invite your participation in the Thoreau Gathering (July 8-12, 2020 in Concord, MA). Our focus will be on gender as part of the Gathering’s…
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CFP: Lydia Maria Child Society at ALA (two calls Deadline: 1.19 and 1.20.2020)
CFP: Lydia Maria Child Society American Literature Association Conference in San Diego, CA 21–24 May, 2020 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt (URL: https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/) 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…
