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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: Edith Wharton’s New York, Edith Wharton Society Conference (Deadline: 8.1.2019)
Edith Wharton’s New York: A Conference Sponsored by the Edith Wharton Society New Yorker Hotel June 17th-20th 2020 Please join the Edith Wharton Society for its upcoming conference marking the centennial anniversary of the publication of Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, The Age of Innocence. We will celebrate this momentous year in New York, the…
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CFP: Women’s Resistance to Feminism(s) in the United States since the 19th century (CP Conference Aix-Marseille University, France) Deadline: 10.15.2019
CFP Conference Aix-Marseille University, FranceApril 3-4, 2020Women’s Resistance to Feminism(s) in the United States since the 19th century From the 1911 National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage to Phyllis Schlafly’s “STOP-ERA” campaign in the 1980s and governor Kay Ivey’s recent signing into law of House Bill 314 criminalizing abortion in Alabama, women have played a prominent…
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CFP: Carson McCullers Society MSA 2020 (Deadline: 1.5.2020)
CFP: Carson McCullers Society MSA 2020 (Deadline January 5, 2020)Call for papers for two-part roundtable at the next MSA meeting in Brooklyn, New York, October 22-25, 2020. MSA 2020: Southern Modernist Women Writers and the Topographies of the StreetThe Carson McCullers Society is soliciting abstracts for a two-part roundtable series on southern modernist women writers…
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CFP: Carson McCullers Society (Deadline: 10.1.2019)
CFP: Carson McCullers Society SSSL 2020 (Deadline October 1, 2019) Call for papers for two panels at the next SSSL meeting, University of Arkansas, April 2 to 5, 2020. Carson McCullers and the Borderless South In conjunction with the biennial Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL) conference theme of “how borders, binaries, and bars operate…
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New Books: Women Adapting: Bringing Three Serials of the Roaring Twenties to Stage and Screen
Author: Bethany Wood Women Adapting: Bringing Three Serials of the Roaring Twenties to Stage and Screen University of Iowa Press, 2019 Women Adapting examines three well-known stories that debuted as women’s magazine serials: Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, and Edna Ferber’s Show Boat. Through meticulous archival research, this study traces how each…
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New Books: American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics, and the Italian Tour, 1824-62
Author: Brigitte Bailey American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics, and the Italian Tour, 1824-62 Edinburgh University Press, 2018 American Travel Literature analyzes tourist writings about Italy from 1824 to 1862 to explain what roles transatlantic travel, aesthetic response and the genre of tourist writing played in the formation of the United States. The Italian tour and its…
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CFP: Antebellum City Texts NeMLA (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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CFP: Consumption and the Literary Cookbook A Call for Papers for an Edited Collection (Deadline: 1.5.2020)
In the 1960s, long before there was Julie & Julia, an aspiring writer named Nora Ephron cooked her way through the holy trinity of cookbooks: Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Michael Field’s Cooking School, and Craig Claiborne’s New York Times Cook Book. In a New Yorker column from 2006, titled “Serial Monogamy:…
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CFP: Walls as Tropes of Separation and Contact in American Literature at the 25th AISNA Biennial Conference (Deadline: 6.15.2019)
The 25th AISNA Biennial Conference: ‘Gate(d) Ways. Enclosures, Breaches and Mobilities Across U.S. Boundaries and Beyond’ The conference takes place in Ragusa, Sicily with the Università degli Studi di Catania from September 26th to the 28th. All the information can be found in the link below: http://www.sdslingue.unict.it/it/content/call-papers-1 Panel: Walls as Tropes of Separation and Contact…
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CFP: Emily Dickinson Society at SAMLA (Deadline: 6.15.2019)
CFP: Emily Dickinson Society at SAMLA November 15-17, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia The Emily Dickinson International Society invites proposals that explore any aspect of Emily Dickinson’s language. We welcome creative works as well as projects by graduate students. We believe Dickinson’s work aligns especially well with the theme of this year’s SAMLA, which celebrates “languages,…
