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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: NeMLA Approaches to the Gaze in American Literature and Culture (Deadline: 9.30.2019)
“New Approaches to the Gaze in American Literature and Culture” Since Laura Mulvey’s seminal essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,”appeared in 1975, explorations of and variations on gaze theory have continued to appear, addressing almost every possible angle of vision: the male gaze, the female gaze, the imperial gaze, the oppositional gaze, the tourist gaze,…
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Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group – Fall 2019 Meeting
The Fall 2019 meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group will take place on Saturday October 12, 2019 at Texas Tech University, hosted by Elissa Zellinger. The common reading will be Iola Leroy by Frances E. W. Harper, edited by Koritha Mitchell (Broadview, 2018), and Dr. Mitchell will be present as a special guest…
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CFP: The Carson McCullers Society at ALA 2020 (Deadline: 1.12.2020)
ALA 2020 CFP (San Diego, CA; May 21-24, 2020) The Carson McCullers Society is pleased to announce an open call for panel papers on any topic related to the life and works of Carson McCullers for one of two guaranteed panels at the American Literature Association (ALA) conference in San Diego, California, on May 21-24,…
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CFP: Beyond Borders, Bars, and Binaries, SSSL, (Deadline: 10.5.2019)
CFP: Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL) 2020, April 2-5, 2020 Fayetteville, AR Call for Proposals: Beyond Borders, Bars, and Binaries in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing In recent years Jesmyn Ward’s workhas received significant critical attention for its stark depiction of race, class, and gender dynamics through Bois Sauvage, microcosm of a…
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CFP: Antebellum City Texts, NeMLA conference (Deadline: 9.30.2019)
Call for Papers, for a panel at the next NeMLA conference, in Boston, March 5-8, 2020. NeMLA’s theme this year will be:”Shaping and Sharing Identities: Spaces, Places, Languages, and Cultures” This is an accepted session. Antebellum City Texts: Print Culture and Emergent U.S. Metropolitan Spaces This panel will feature current research on pre-Civil War…
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A Tribute: Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
These thoughts were shared by our SSAWW members following Toni Morrison’s passing. I am deeply sadden to learn that Toni Morrison passed away last night and so am sad at the loss of such a gifted writer, thinker, and cultural producer. Someone whose words have changed lives. Morrison’s work enriched our lives, made the invisible visible, forced us to…
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New Books: Transatlantic Footholds: Turn-of-the-Century American Women Writers and British Reviewers
Author: Stephanie Palmer Transatlantic Footholds: Turn-of-the-Century American Women Writers and British Reviewers Routledge 2019 Transatlantic Footholds: Turn-of-the-Century American Women Writers and British Reviewers analyses British reviews of American women fiction writers, essayists and poets between the periods of literary domesticity and modernism. The book demonstrates that a variety of American women writers were intelligently read in…
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Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
NPR Obituaries “Toni Morrison, Whose Soaring Novels Were Rooted In Black Lives, Dies At 88” As we mourn the loss of Toni Morrison, let’s honor her memory by sharing some words about her. A Tribute to Toni Morrison Share your thoughts through the link above, and we’ll gather your responses and post them in their…
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CFP: Women Afrofuturists for the 2020 CLA Conference (Deadline: 9.1.19)
The Society for the Study of American Women Writers will sponsor a panel or roundtable at the 2020 College Literature Association Conference. The conference theme is Afrofuturism: Diasporic Visions. The conference will be hosted by the University of Memphis and will take place in Memphis on April 1-4, 2020. Proposals for papers, a panel, or…
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CFP: “Invisible” Labor and the Business of Print, C19 Conference, (Deadline: 8.19.19)
CFP:“Invisible” Labor and the Business of Print in C19 This proposed panel investigates conceptions of labor and business in commercial publishing, focusing on the (in)visibility of the working people, practices, and spaces that supported literary production in the long nineteenth century. How was the nature and value of such labor imagined? To what extent does…
