• 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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  • Call for Readers: 2018 SSAWW Awards (Volunteer Deadline: 8.18.2017)

    Request for Readers for the 2018 SSAWW Awards Volunteer Deadline: August 18, 2017 The Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) was founded in 2000 in order to promote the study of American women writers through research, teaching, and publication. In support of that mission, the three awards were established in 2011 to…

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  • Call for Nominations: 2018 SSAWW Awards

    2018 SSAWW Awards The Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) was founded in 2000 in order to promote the study of American women writers through research, teaching, and publication. In support of that mission, the three awards were established in 2011 to honor the work and legacies of the Society’s founding members…

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  • CFP: Digital Poster Session Editorship as Collaboration: Patterns of Practice in Multi-Ethnic Periodicals (Due 10.02.2017)

    CFP: Digital Poster Session Editorship as Collaboration: Patterns of Practice in Multi-Ethnic Periodicals April 27-28, 2018 at the American Antiquarian Society Worcester, MA While scholars increasingly recognize the impact of periodicals on social, political, and aesthetic histories, few have explored the range of editorial and collaborative practices that animate their creation and circulation. Invoking editorship…

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  • CFPs: C19 Conference “Climate” – March 22-25, 2018 (Albuquerque, NM)

    CALL FOR PAPERS AND SEMINAR PAPERS CFP: Genealogies of Homonationalism Homonationalism has typically been used to name a late-twentieth and twenty-first century phenomenon in which gay and lesbian rights discourse has achieved power, in part, by donning the rhetoric of U.S. exceptionalism. Yet Jasbir Puar’s 2013 re-articulation of homonationalism as a “facet of modernity and…

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  • CFP: Emily Dickinson Society (Deadline 6.20.2017)

    Emily Dickinson and pop culture in Atlanta! Please consider participating in the EDIS panel at this year’s SAMLA, and feel free to share the CFP below with anyone who might be interested. SAMLA is a very friendly conference, and submissions from graduate students are encouraged. South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 3-5, 2017…

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  • SSAWW Business Meeting, May 26th, 2017 ALA

    There will be a business meeting for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers at the American Literature Association Annual Meeting in Boston, MA, Friday, May 26, Session 11-K, 2:10-3:30pm.  The agenda is below.  If you are attending the conference, please join us for this meeting. Society for the Study of American Women…

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  • CFP: C19 Podcast Episodes (Deadline 06.16.2017)

    Call for Proposals: C19 Podcast Episodes   C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists is pleased to announce the launch of an official C19 podcast. The podcast will be a stage for public scholarship on American literature, history, and culture that can engage an audience of C19 members, students, alt-ac professionals, researchers, teachers, librarians, enthusiasts, the public,…

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  • Lydia Maria Child Society – ALA 2017 Boston

    Lydia Maria Child Society Activities during ALA 2017 We welcome you to the ALA in Boston and hope that you’ll be able to take part in one or more of our activities! Friday, May 26:  Walking tour of Medford, MA, and Medford Historical Society and Museum Dr. Kyna Hamill, of the School of Theatre at…

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  • CFP: Transformations: Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy (Deadline: 05.31.2017)

    CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR TRANSFORMATIONS: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy Deadline: May 31, 2017        All Topics Welcome Guest Editor: Jason Martinek  Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy opens the gates for this issue to jargon-free pedagogy-related articles on all topics. Transformations is a peer-reviewed journal which invites college teachers to…

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  • SSAWW Annual Business Meeting at ALA in Boston, MA (Friday, May 26, 2017)

    SSAWW Annual Business Meeting The Society for the Study of American Women Writers invites members to attend its annual business meeting at the 28th Annual Conference on American Literature organized by the ALA in Boston, MA.  The SSAWW business meeting is scheduled for Friday, May 26, 2017, 2:10-3:30pm, Session 11-K.    If you are attending ALA,…

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