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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: Modernist Short Stories Writers Sponsored by the Kay Boyle Society, (Deadline: 6.13.2019)
Modernist Short Stories Writers Sponsored by the Kay Boyle Society The American Short Story: New Considerations New Orleans, Sep. 5-7, 2019 Many modernist writers experimented with the short story genre early in their careers, while reading, publishing and critiquing each other’s work in small magazines. The objective of this panel is to engage in comparative,…
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CFP: Essay Collection on Louise Imogen Guiney (Deadline: 8.15.2019)
Call for Papers: Essay Collection on Louise Imogen Guiney The Vaughan Association announces plans to publish a centenary collection of literary and historical essays to honour the poet, essayist, and literary scholar Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920). The editors hope to print ten to fifteen papers, each about 3000-5000 words in length, that address Guiney’s historical…
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CFP: Reflecting Black: 400 Years of African American Life and History, University of Houston-Downtown Fall Symposium (Deadline: 9.6.2019)
CFP: University of Houston-Downtown Fall Symposium Reflecting Black: 400 Years of African American Life and History Thursday, October 24, 2019 The University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History, Humanities, and Languages, and Center for Critical Race Studies is hosting a Symposium commemorating 400 Years of African American Life and…
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CFP: C19 The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists 6th Biennial Conference (Deadline: 9.2.2019)
CFP: C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists 6th Biennial Conference “Dissent” C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists, seeks submissions for its sixth biennial conference, “Dissent,” to be held on April 2-5, 2020, in Coral Gables, Florida. We invite individual paper, panel, and roundtable proposals on literature and culture in and beyond the United…
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The 1921 Prize in American Literature (Deadline: 9.1.2019)
The 1921 Prize in American Literature The American Literature Society is pleased to invite submissions for the 1921 prize, which is awarded annually for the best article in any field of American literature. The prize is named for the year the organization was initially founded “to promote and diversify the study of American Literature.” Judged…
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CFP: Edith Wharton’s New York; Sponsored by the Edith Wharton Society (Deadline: 8.1.2019)
CFP: 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…
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SSAWW Announcement: Membership Dues Increase Notice (coming June 1st, 2019)
Dear SSAWW Members and Friends, After several discussions and research into our peer organizations, the SSAWW Executive Committee and Advisory Board have voted to increase our membership dues. The increase comes after many years in which dues have remained at their current rate. As we respond to member feedback about a more frequent conference schedule and continue to…
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SSAWW Members – Legacy Journal
As you well know, there are many benefits to being a member of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. One of them, of course, is the ability to subscribe to Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers at a special discounted rate. The first issue of the 2019 volume will be released soon, so…
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CFP: Margaret Fuller’s Ecologies at MLA (Deadline: 3.25.2019)
Call for Papers Modern Language Association Convention Seattle, 9 – 12 January 2020 Deadline for submission: March 25th, 2019 Margaret Fuller’s Ecologies This panel seeks contributions that explore ecology, environment, and the natural world in relation to any aspect of Margaret Fuller’s writings. We also welcome proposals that approach Fuller along with other writers, and…
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SSAWW Triennial Conference Graduate Student Paper Award – Winners Announced
SSAWW Triennial Conference Graduate Student Paper Award Thank you to all who submitted papers for this award and to the SSAWW reviewers who carefully read each submission. Of the twenty-six entries received, the reviewers have awarded the following: 1st Place: Lauren Kimball, Rutgers University 2nd Place: Meagan Solomon, Texas Christian University Honorable Mention: Hannah Champion,…
