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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: Syllabus/Assignment Exchange for Social Justice Pedagogy at SSAWW (Deadline 2.9.2018)
CFP: Syllabus/Assignment Exchange for Social Justice Pedagogy at SSAWW Organized by the Lydia Maria Child Society The Society for the Study of American Women Writer’s 2018 Triennial Conference: “Resistance and Recovery” November 7-11, The Westin Denver Downtown, Denver, CO The Lydia Maria Child Society seeks participants for a roundtable exchange on pedagogy, social justice, and American…
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CFP: “Micro” Digital Humanities and the Recovery of American Women Writers at SSAWW (Deadline: 2.11.2018)
The “Micro” Digital Humanities and the Recovery of American Women Writers Proposed panel for the SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference. November 7-11, 2018 in Denver, CO. Digital Humanities initiatives continue to dominate the field of literary studies, especially in the way they increase access to women writers and their lesser-known or out of print works. However,…
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CFP: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society at SSAWW (Deadline: 2.10.2018)
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society invites proposals for the following panel at the SSAWW Conference November 7-11, 2018 in Denver: “Resisting Readers and Resisting Narrators within Sedgwick’s Works.” Many of Sedgwick’s popular short writings are didactic in nature, leading readers toward desired, mostly conventional responses. If Judith Fetterley valued the “resisting reader of texts, where can…
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CFP: Edith Wharton’s Geographies at SSAWW (Deadline 2.10.2018)
Edith Wharton’s Geographies The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor at least one guaranteed session at SSAWW, November 7-11, 2018, in Denver, Colorado. The general subject is “Edith Wharton’s Geographies,” but all topics are welcome. How did Edith Wharton conceive of her world in geographic terms? What did she associate with certain regions? What sense of national…
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CFP: Rebecca Harding Davis at SSAWW 2018 (Deadline 2.12.2018)
Rebecca Harding Davis at SSAWW 2018 Deadline for Submissions: February 12, 2018 Full name / Name of organization: The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World Contact Email: sbgray@langston.edu ; ajrovan@mix.wvu.edu The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World welcomes proposals for one session at the SSAWW…
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CFP: Paratext and Authorship in American Women’s Writing at SSAWW, Legacy Panel (Deadline 2.5.2018)
CFP: Paratext and Authorship in American Women’s Writing Deadline: February 5, 2018 Contact: Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts Boston (Legacy.Editor@umb.edu) The editors of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers invite paper proposals for our guaranteed panel at the SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference, to be held in Denver November 7-11, 2018. From the prefatory materials to Ann…
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CFP: Centennial Celebration Cather’s My Ántonia at SSAWW (Deadline Extended 2.8.2018)
Deadline Extended: Feb. 8, 2018 Contact: Melissa J. Homestead, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) (mhomestead2@unl.edu) The Cather Foundation solicits proposals on topics related to Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia for a panel at the Society for the Studies of American Women Writers conference in Denver November 7-11, 2018. 2018 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the 1918 first publication of Cather’s best-known novel, providing an…
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CFP: Resistance and Recovery through Collaborative Teaching Practices at SSAWW (Deadline 2.9.2018)
CFP for SSAWW 2018: “Resistance and Recovery through Collaborative Teaching Practices” Deadline: February 9, 2018 Contact: Amanda Stuckey, York College of Pennsylvania (astuckey1@ycp.edu) and Heather Fox, University of South Florida (heatherfox@mail.usf.edu) In an introduction to a 2017 special issue of American Literature, Carol Batker, Eden Osucha, and Augusta Rohrbach ask how our current political moment…
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CFP: Speaking Her Truth, Power in the Telling, SSAWW 2018 (Deadline: 2.12.2018)
Speaking Her Truth, Power in the Telling: Contemporary Narratives of Women Writing for Healing, Wholeness, and Re-formation of Sociopolitical Understandings of Sexual Violence (SSAWW. Nov. 7-11, 2018, Denver, CO) Nicol Epple/Indiana University of Pennsylvania Deadline for submissions: February 12th 2017 was a year of feminist action: the year began with the national Women’s March in…
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CFP: “Forms of Resistance: Women’s Family Letters of the Early Americas” (Deadline 2.9.2018)
CFP: “Forms of Resistance: Women’s Family Letters of the Early Americas” How do the letters of women of the early Americas, in particular those to family members, reveal ways in which they resisted the various strictures and obstacles that defined their lives? Given the limitations on female authorship, letters were one of the few ways…
