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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: Charlotte Perkins Gilman at ALA (Deadline: 1.26.2019)
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…
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CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly (Deadline: 3.1.2019)
INHERITANCE Spring 2020 Issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly (WSQ) Guest Editors: Maria Rice Bellamy, College of Staten Island, City University of New York Karen Weingarten, Queens College, City University of New York Priority Submission Deadline: March 1, 2019 To inherit is to receive, to gain, to be left with more. The term “inheritance” first brings to mind…
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CFP Edited Collection on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (Abstract Deadline: 4.15.2019)
Reading with and against the Grain: New Perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Editors: Stephanie Palmer (Nottingham Trent University, UK, President of the Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society), Myrto Drizou (Boğaziçi University, Turkey), Cécile Roudeau (Université Paris-Diderot, France) Mary E. Wilkins Freeman is perhaps best known, read and taught today as the author of short…
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CFP: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.15.2019)
CALL FOR PAPERS – Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society 2019 American Literature Association Conference, May 23-26, 2019, Westin Copley Hotel, Boston, MA Send 200 word abstracts to Lisa West, lisa.west@drake.edu by January 15, 2019. Catharine Maria Sedgwick and the Gothic or Supernatural While Sedgwick is associated with Federalist politics, reason, republican sensibility, and moral leadership, her…
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CFP: Dissent of the Governed, c18 and c21 sponsored by the Charles Brockden Brown Society (Deadline: 2.15.2019)
CALL FOR PAPERS Dissent of the Governed, c18 and c21 October 3-5, 2019 University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky A conference sponsored by the Charles Brockden Brown Society (www.brockdenbrownsociety.ucf.edu) While the long-eighteenth century gave rise to “the consent of the governed” as a principle of legitimate government, this period also witnessed inventive forms of dissent by many who…
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CFP: Constance Fenimore Woolson Society at ALA 2019 (Deadline: 1.25.2019)
CFP: New Directions in Woolson Scholarship at ALA 2019 The Constance Fenimore Woolson Society welcomes proposals for a session at the next meeting of the American Literature Association, to be be held May 23-26, 2019, in Boston, MA. We welcome proposals that engage any aspect of Woolson’s work, from “Rodman the Keeper” or “Miss Grief” to lesser-known works, such as Jupiter…
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CFP: Margaret Fuller Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.19.2019)
The Margaret Fuller Society at ALA (Boston, May 23-26, 2019) Deadline for submissions: Saturday, January 19, 2019 1) Margaret Fuller’s Languages In the “Preface by the Translator” that Margaret Fuller penned for her translation of Goethe’s Tasso, she states: “There are difficulties attending the translation of German works into English which might baffle one much more skillful…
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CFP: SSAWW at ALA (New Deadline: 1.11.2019)
Call for Papers: SSAWW at the American Literature Association Conference The American Literature Association will host its thirtieth annual conference from May 23-26, 2019, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. As we continue to both promote and advance the study of American women writers, SSAWW will once again organize panels for this exciting and…
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SSAWW Election Results
SSAWW Election Results Term 2019-2021 Congratulations to the newly elected officers for the term of 2019-2021: SSAWW President: Dr. Sandra Zagarell SSAWW VP of Organizational Matters: Dr. María Carla Sánchez SSAWW VP of Publications: Dr. Jordan L. Von Cannon Please join me in wishing this leadership team success in the future progress and growth of the…
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2018 Triennial Conference Survey – Please Complete (survey closes TOMORROW)
If you attended the SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference, please complete the survey below. We’re gathering information for the SSAWW Officers and Advisory Board for future SSAWW conferences. All responses will remain anonymous. SURVEY CLOSES – TUESDAY 12/18/2018 SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference Attendee Survey Thank you
