Jordan Von Cannon

In advance of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2025 Conference in Philadelphia, SSAWW and SSAWW’s Graduate Student Caucus are co-hosting three online panels, showcasing the exciting work of our dissertating graduate student members. Join us for the following three online panels in April to learn more about their research and their experience in SSAWW’s Mentorship Match Program, which pairs dissertating graduate students with a faculty member for one academic year.

  • Panel 1: Wednesday, April 2 at 12pm Eastern, featuring
    • Susannah Sharpless (Cornell) on “The Terraqueous Romantic: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Between Land and Sea”; Dr. Melissa Gniadek (University of Toronto), mentor and respondent 
    • Courtney Murray (Penn State) on “The Hold: Black Femme Formations of Space, Text, and Being in the Long Nineteenth Century”; Dr. Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin-Madison), mentor and respondent
  • Panel 2: Wednesday, April 9 at 12pm Eastern, featuring
    • Holly Wiegand (Boston University) on “Bold Devotion: Female Religious Authority and Transatlantic 19th-Century Fiction”; Dr. Ashley Reed (Virginia Tech), mentor and respondent
    • Darby Witek (University of Delaware) on “‘THIS SIDE UP WITH CARE’: Reading American Racial Thought in the Myth and Memory of the Underground Railroad, 1845-1905”; Dr. Elissa Zellinger (Texas Tech), mentor and respondent 
  • Panel 3: Wednesday, April 23 at 12pm Eastern, featuring
    • Ariel Little (University of British Columbia); Dr. Stephanie Peebles Tavera (Texas A&M-Central), mentor and respondent 
    • Anna McAnnally (University of Missouri-Columbia) on “Unserious Adaptation: Fan Culture and Adaptation in Retellings of Little Women”; Dr. Alexandra Edward (Texas Christian University), mentor and respondent 
    • Madeline Olley (Syracuse University) on “Marble Bodies: Statues, Gender, Race, and Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature”; Dr. Elizabeth Duquette (Gettysburg College (emerita) and Reed College (visiting scholar)), mentor and respondent

To attend one or more of these panels, please register to receive a Zoom link here. We look forward to seeing you at these panels to learn more about our graduate students’ amazing work and to get ready for the upcoming SSAWW conference!

Best,

Jennifer Putzi and Alice Martin