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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: Request for Specific Proposals – SSAWW Triennial Conference (Deadline 3.16.2018)
Request for Specific Proposals: SSAWW Triennial Conference (due Friday, March 16, 2018) Reviewers have completed their evaluations of the many wonderful proposals that we have received for the 2018 SSAWW Triennial Conference in Denver, and the majority of status notifications have been sent to panel chairs (for pre-formed panels and roundtables) and to individual participants…
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New Books: Iola Leroy, edited by Koritha Mitchell
Edited by: Koritha Mitchell Novel by Frances E. W. Harper Iola Leroy; or Shadows Uplifted Broadview Press, 2018 This book is available in print and digital formats: https://broadviewpress.com/product/iola-leroy/#tab-description Frances Harper’s fourth novel follows the life of the beautiful, light-skinned Iola Leroy to tell the story of black families in slavery, during the Civil War, and after Emancipation.…
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CFP: Transatlantic Girlhood in Nineteenth-Century Literature Collection (Deadline: 6.30.2018)
CFP: Transatlantic Girlhood in Nineteenth-Century Literature Collection Although often dubbed “domestic” novelists, nineteenth-century women writers often featured girl protagonists who travelled, and much of the time this travel wasn’t relegated to a local or even national scale. Rather, like Amy in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, fictional girls on both sides of the Atlantic often journeyed abroad,…
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CFP: Transnationalism and Modern American Women Writers – E-rea (Deadline 5.15.2018)
Call for submission: Transnationalism and Modern American Women Writers Keywords: American modernist women writers; Border-Crossing; Modernity; Transnationalism; Middlebrow This volume of essays, which will be published in the December 2018 issue of the webjournal E- rea (http://journals.openedition.org/erea/?lang=en), discusses a broad spectrum of writing by American women who engaged with modernity and national border-crossing in ways that…
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CFP: Rediscovering Disability & Resisting Ableism at SSAWW (Deadline 2.28.2018)
CFP: Rediscovering Disability & Resisting Ableism at SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference How does disability intersect with gender, race, class and/or sexuality in lives and work of women writers? One presentation on this panel will discuss a feminist disability studies reading of mood disorders in Louisa May Alcott’s first published novel Moods (1865). Seeking 2-3 additional…
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CFP: SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference (Extended Deadline: 3.2.2018)
CFP for the SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference in Denver, Colorado Conference Theme: “Resistance and Recovery across the Americas” November 7-11, 2018 | The Westin Denver Downtown Extended Deadline: March 2, 2018 From Anne Hutchinson to Phillis Wheatley to the Crunk Feminist Collective, American women writers have historically engaged in resistance in their creative/activist works, pushing…
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CFP: Stowe’s Resistance, Resisting Stowe for SSAWW 2018 (Extended Deadline 2.13.2018)
CFP for SSAWW 2018: Stowe’s Resistance, Resisting Stowe EXTENDED Deadline: February 13, 2018 Contact: Allison Speicher, Eastern Connecticut State University Email: speichera@easternct.edu The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society invites paper proposals for the SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference, to be held in Denver, Colorado November 7-11, 2018. This panel will focus on the complexity of Stowe’s legacy,…
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CFP: Rediscovering and Recovering Women Writers from American Periodicals at SSAWW 2018 (Deadline 2.15.2018)
CFP: Rediscovering and Recovering Women Writers from American Periodicals at SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference As more periodicals from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are digitized and made available in online databases, many forgotten or neglected women writers are becoming visible again. One paper on this panel will examine abolitionist novels published in the nineteenth…
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Keynote Speaker – Staceyann Chin, SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference
Keynote Speaker – Staceyann Chin SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference Friday, november 9th 2018, 3:00 pm The westin denver downtown (followed by book signing and reception) Staceyann Chin – “Jamaican-Born, Brooklyn-Living, Woman-Loving, Writer/Poet, Political Activist, and Performance Artist. Single Mama” – is the Keynote Speaker for the SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference on “Resistance and Recovery Across…
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CFP: Poetic Persona and Public Address at SSAWW 2018, Deadline (2.13.2018)
CFP: Poetic Persona and Public Address at SSAWW 2018 This panel will examine the construction and contestation of female poetic personas in the early republic and nineteenth century. I’m seeking papers that examine iterations of the female poetic self — as an author represented herself, or as others represented her in letters, biographical and critical profiles,…
