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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: American Women Making History at SSAWW Deadline (2.13.2018)
Call for Proposals for SSAWW 2018 Panel Proposal: “American Women Making History” Description: Seeking two-three additional papers and a Chair. With the decentering of the “book” in literary studies, and the decentering of the published “author” in the study of American women writers, scholars are increasingly turning their attention to the other genres of literary…
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CFP: Edited collection Understanding the Short Fiction of Carson McCullers (Deadline 3.15.2018)
CFP: Edited collection Understanding the Short Fiction of Carson McCullers Proposed submissions are requested for an edited collection of essays tentatively titled Understanding the Short Fiction of Carson McCullers. This collection will contribute to current scholarship by 1. Analyzing lesser-known short texts by McCullers, and 2. Examining (or reexamining) McCullers’ short texts using current contemporary perspectives. Potential…
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CFPs for Panels at SSAWW 2018 in Denver, CO
CFPs for Individual Panels from the following Societies and Individuals if you would like to have one added please email Jordan Von Cannon at ssaww.vppublications@gmail.com: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society – CFP (Deadline 1.31.2018) Evelyn Scott Society – CFP (Deadline 1.31.2018) Recovering Laura Curtis Bullard and Early Suffragist Literature – CFP (Deadline 1.31.2018) Legacy Panel, Paratext and…
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CFP: In the Company of Margaret Fuller: Unexpected Genealogies of Feminism at SSAWW (Deadline 2.10.2018)
CFP: In the Company of Margaret Fuller: Unexpected Genealogies of Feminism SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference in Denver, Colorado Conference Theme: “Resistance and Recovery across the Americas” November 7-11, 2018 | The Westin Denver Downtown Deadline for submissions: February 10, 2018; contact email: sonia.diloreto@unito.it In the Company of Margaret Fuller: Unexpected Genealogies of Feminism A large part of the scholarship…
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CFP: Committee on the Status of Women at MLA 2019, Chicago, IL (Deadline: 3.2.2018)
CFP: Committee on the Status of Women at MLA 2019, Chicago, IL Committee on the Status of Women’s guaranteed session at the 2019 MLA in Chicago, IL. The official call is below. MLA limits CFPs to 35 words, but please email me off list if you have any questions about the panel. We encourage anyone…
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CFP: Uncovering Recovery: The Therapeutic as Resistance in American Women’s Writing at SSAWW 2018, (Deadline: 2.9.2018)
CFP: Uncovering Recovery: The Therapeutic as Resistance in American Women’s Writing at SSAWW 2018 In the over twenty years since Judith Herman published Trauma and Recovery (1997), many have argued effectively that the very writing of memoirs and telling of pain through fiction creates a sense of agency and serve as an act of resistance. However, literary studies’ emphasis on narrative’s relationship to processing…
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CFP: Fleshly Resistance: Women Writing the Body in the Contemporary American Memoir at SSAWW Triennial Conference (Deadline 2.9.2018)
CFP: Fleshly Resistance: Women Writing the Body in the Contemporary American Memoir at SSAWW Triennial Conference The memoir has enjoyed immense popularity in recent years, continually reaching the tops of bestseller lists. In particular, women writers have pushed the genre in provocative, sometimes painful, ways, especially when it comes to articulating experiences of the lived…
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New Books: Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements by Abigail G. H. Manzella
Abigail G. H. Manzella Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements The Ohio State University Press, 2018. The book is available in hardback, paper, and digital editions: https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814213582.html Migrating Fictions analyzes the role of race, gender, and citizenship in the major internal displacements of the twentieth century in history and in narrative. Surveying the particular tactics…
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CFP: Women’s Friendships in 20th- and 21st-century Literature and Culture at SSAWW (Deadline 2.5.2018)
CFP: Women’s Friendships in 20th– and 21st-century Literature and Culture We are seeking one additional paper for a proposed panel on cultural portrayals of women’s friendship for the SSAWW Conference in Denver, CO November 7-11, 2018. While much scholarship on women’s literature has addressed motherhood and sexual relationships, less has focused on women’s friendships. Friendship itself…
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CFP: Troubling Hospitality in 19th-Century American Women’s Writing at SSAWW (Deadline 2.10.2018)
CFP: Troubling Hospitality in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing Proposed panel for the SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference. November 7-11, 2018 in Denver, CO. In the famous “The Quaker Settlement” chapter of Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the Halliday family extends hospitality to George, Eliza, and Harry Harris. Through the simple act of serving breakfast, the Hallidays engage…
