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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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SSAWW Election Committee – Seeking Nominations for 2 officer positions
Dear Colleagues: The SSAWW is seeking nominations for two officer positions: Vice President, Membership and Finances Vice President, Development Please consider nominating yourself and/or deserving colleagues (nominees must be current SSAWW members). These positions are not elected offices according to the SSAWW constitution but appointed positions by the executive committee and advisory board, so there…
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CFP: Women’s Friendships in 20th- and 21st-century Literature Culture (Deadline for abstract: 4.1.2019)
Call for Papers: Women’s Friendships in 20th- and 21st-century Literature and Culture We are seeking scholarly essays (7000-9000 words) for an edited book collection on portrayals of women’s friendship in 20th- and 21st-century American literature and culture. While much scholarship on women’s literature has addressed motherhood, sisterhood, and sexual relationships, less has focused on women’s…
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Call for Nominations: Lydia Maria Child Social Justice Award (Deadline: 4.1.2019)
Call for Nominations: Lydia Maria Child Social Justice Award In keeping with our society’s goal of honoring and continuing Lydia Maria Child’s vision of and work toward social justice, the Lydia Maria Child Society is pleased to offer three awards recognizing scholarship, pedagogy, creative work, and/or activism that furthers social change: one for faculty, independent…
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CFP: MLA 2020 – Recovery from the Margins a Digital Poster Session (Deadline: 3.15.2019)
CFP: Recovery from the Margins a Digital Poster Session MLA 2020, Seattle, WA Well-funded digital archives have energized the field of scholarly editing, yet the recovery of texts by women and people of color has suffered setbacks since the 1990s; in effect, the revitalization of marginal figures has been hampered by a canon that privileges…
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CFP: MLA 2020 Early American
CFP: Early American Forum at MLA 2020, Seattle, Wa American Settler Colonialisms Settler colonialism transformed American ecologies, lifeways, cultural exchange, and aesthetic forms. How can this concept in indigenous, environmental, and CRT reorient American studies? Please send 250-word abstracts to Monique Allewaert (allewaert@wisc.edu) by March 15 Vast Early America How does “Vast Early America,”…
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CFP: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society at ALA (Extended Deadline: 1.29.2019)
CFP: New Approaches to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society American Literature Association (ALA), 30th Annual Conference, May 23-25, 2019 Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s life and work intersect a universe of historical discourses: a testament to Gilman’s rapacious reading habit, sweeping interdisciplinary curiosity, and to her sustained engagement with pressing contemporary issues, scientific discoveries, and progressive remedies embraced…
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CFP for Graduate Studies: Beyond the Margins – A Graduate Journal of Literary Scholarship (Deadline: 2.28.2019)
CFP: Beyond the Margins. A Graduate Journal of Literary Scholarship University of New Orleans Beyond the Margins is a new annual, open access, blind peer-reviewed journal, housed at the University of New Orleans, dedicated to furthering diversity in academia through the publication of graduate student scholarship in the field of English, with a focus on…
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SSAWW Texas Regional Study Group (RSVP by 2.1.2019)
SSAWW Texas Regional Study Group The Spring 2019 meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group is fast approaching! We will be gathering on February 23, 2019 at the University of North Texas in Denton, hosted by John Edward Martin and Angie Calcaterra. The common reading will be Effie M. Moore’s Alone by the Sea: The…
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New Books: Chicago and the Main of American Modernism
Author: Michelle E. Moore Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 Chicago and the Making of American Modernism is the first full-length study of the vexed relationship between America’s great modernist writers and the nation’s “second city.” Michelle E. Moore explores the ways…
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CFP: Lydia Maria Child Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.20.2019)
REMINDER: 20 JAN. 2019 DEADLINE! CFP: Lydia Maria Child Society American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA 23–26 May 2019 at the Westin Copley Place (URL: https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/) The Lydia Maria Child Society welcomes proposals for a panel co-organized with the Louisa May Alcott Society and for a social-justice pedagogy roundtable! Notorious Women, Sensational Texts: The Lives, Writings,…
