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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: Pauline Hopkins Society Scholar Award (Deadline 04.15.2017)
2017 – Pauline Hopkins Scholar Award The Pauline Hopkins Society (http://www.paulinehopkinssociety.org) is pleased to announce its second bi-annual competition for the best essay or book chapter on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins published between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2016. If you have published an essay or chapter that discusses Hopkins and/or her work, we invite…
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Call for Graduate Student Writers “The Year in Conferences”: ASLE (Deadline 03.31.2017)
ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture is seeking participants to cover the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment convention in Detroit this June for its annual “The Year in Conferences” feature. The ASLE team will cover panels of interest to ESQ‘s readers. This project is an excellent opportunity for scholarly collaboration and professionalization.…
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CFP: Rural Women in North America, essay collection (Deadline: 03.31.17)
We invite abstracts for a proposed collection of critical essays focused on historical and contemporary representations of rural women in North America. We are interested in interdisciplinary topics and theoretical approaches that help provide new understandings of the lives and experiences of rural women. We are seeking contributors from English, American studies, history, women’s and…
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CFP: Transformations of Gertrude Stein (MLA 2018)
CFP: Transformations of Gertrude Stein (MLA 2018) This panel takes its title from Marianne DeKoven’s introduction to Modern Fiction Studies’ special issue on Gertrude Stein, and seeks new perspectives on Stein’s work, life and celebrity. “Cases no longer need to be made for Stein’s importance,” DeKoven observed in 1996; “she has become a figure of…
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CFP: Feminist Pedagogy in Digital Spaces: An Electronic Roundtable (Deadline 3.10.17)
CFP: Feminist Pedagogy in Digital Spaces: An Electronic Roundtable Organized by the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession MLA Convention, New York City, January 4-7, 2018 (proposals due March 10) Digital spaces present a number of challenges to feminist discourses: platforms such as Twitter suffer from design affordances that amplify trolling and…
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Edith Wharton Society – Member-at-Large Executive Board Positions
The Edith Wharton Society seeks to fill up to two Member-at-Large positions on its Executive Board for the 2017-19 term. If you are interested in serving, please send your name and a brief biographical statement (one paragraph) to the EWS Secretary, Jennifer Haytock, at jhaytock@brockport.edu by March 30, 2017. We will hold elections after that…
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CFP: Callaloo Special Issue (Deadline 08.01.2017)
Callaloo invites papers for a special issue devoted to the life and work of the late poet, fiction writer, playwright, and scholar, Sherley Anne Williams, guest edited by Wendy W. Walters (Emerson College). Project Description: Sherley Anne Williams was a talented author/scholar, publishing in many genres. Her novel, Dessa Rose,preceded Toni Morrison’s Beloved by one…
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CFP: 2018 Margaret Fuller Society MLA panel (due March 20)
Call for Papers for the 2018 Margaret Fuller Society panel at the Modern Language Association convention, January 4-7, 2018 in New York City: MARGARET FULLER: NEW CRITICAL APPROACHES. Such as: Gender fluidity; Queer Theory; Environmental Criticism; Affect and Public Feeling; Transnational mobility; Critical Race Studies; New Feminist Materialism; the New Aesthetics. 250-500 word abstract and short vita…
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CFP: Migration, Diaspora, Circulation, and Translation, due Feb 15, 2017
CALL FOR PAPERS Migration, Diaspora, Circulation and Translation October 5-7, 2017 University College Dublin, Clinton Institute for American Studies Dublin, Ireland A conference sponsored by the Charles Brockden Brown Society (www.brockdenbrownsociety.ucf.edu) Our conference site in Dublin calls to mind issues of migration, immigration, emigration, colonization, revolution, and other changes that result from the movement…
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CFP Final Call: Catharine Sedgwick Society at ALA (Deadline 1.15.17)
As we head toward the 150th anniversary of Catharine Sedgwick’s death and the 20th anniversary of the CMS Society in 2017, we invite proposals for the following panel for ALA 2017: Session #1: TIME, MEMORIALS AND ANNIVERSARIES (3 or 4 15 to 20-minute papers): How is “time” referenced in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s writings? Does her…
