Additional details forthcoming.
SSAWW 2025 Conference – Save the Date Nov. 6-9, 2025
SSAWW Announcements
Save the Date – SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books (Thursday, October 26, at 5:00 pm ET (2:00 pm PT)
Save the Date!
The next SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books event will take place Thursday, October 26, at 5:00 p.m. ET (2:00 p.m. PT).
Join us for a conversation with Kimberly Blockett and Shirley Moody-Turner, moderated by Joycelyn Moody, about their recent publications: Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw (edited by Kimberly D. Blockett) and The Portable Anna Julia Cooper (edited by Shirley Moody-Turner).
More information to come!
SSAWW Virtual Event – Research Resource Exchange (June 19th, 1:30 – 2:30 pm ET on Zoom)
Come to an online SSAWW-sponsored resource information exchange session! Bring one or more open access research resources to share links for and explain, or come just to ask and listen. We’ll begin by giving a brief (no more than 1 minute) intro to ourselves and a research project in progress. If it’s relevant, tell about something you’re seeking. Then we’ll move on to resource exchanges and reveals, adding links in a google doc.
This event grows out of a stimulating lunchtime discussion at the Northeast 19c Women Writers’ Study Group this spring where people were excited to learn about new open access-online projects they could use for their research, and even the hard-to-find backdoor into making better use of Hathi Trust texts. There may be resources you don’t even know you don’t know about! Ask and share.
And if you’d like to join some type of online writing group, bring that desire too – we’ll see if we can pull one together.
Register for the event (https://forms.gle/a3b6iESSbJEQGLD66) and join us Monday, June 19, 1:30-2:30pm.
SSAWW & Recovery Hub – Five FREE Digital Humanities Memberships for Graduate Students (first come, first served!)
The Society for the Study of American Women Writers is sponsoring five free one-year graduate student memberships to the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers:
https://recoveryhub.siue.edu/
If you are interested in starting a digital project but don’t know where to begin, this could be the perfect opportunity for you! Your annual membership will include up to five, hour-long appointments throughout the year with the Hub’s group of trained consultants.
The Recovery Hub helps early-stage projects find their footing, offers peer review, and makes affiliated projects available for classrooms and communities. The Hub fosters collaboration, mentorship, and community-building among women working in the digital humanities while seeking feminist and decolonial approaches to the creation, curation, design, sharing, and archiving of digital content. They mentor practitioners in the field of digital recovery, including students, K-12 teachers, librarians, archivists, and scholars of all kinds. Their mission is to diversify the field of literary study. They hub aims to support the work of BIPOC scholars and for at least 50% of affiliated projects to recover Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and LGBTQI+ stories, texts, experiences, and voices.
The SSAWW’s memberships will be awarded on a first-come-first-serve basis. Please email recoveryhub@siue.edu with your name, email, and institution, if you are interested.
CFP: SSAWW Activism and Reproductive Justice at ALA (2 panels) EXTENDED Deadline: 1.17.2023
Call for Papers: Society for the Study of American Women Writers will have two panels at the 2023 American Literature Association conference in Boston, May 25-29.
We welcome proposals on topics related to those themes: Activist Women Writers and Women Writers and Reproductive Justice.
Activist Women Writers and Their Works:
Women writers have been activists in many movements. We welcome papers that discuss their activism both within and outside their writing, and that find connections between their writing and their activism. “Writing” may be construed broadly to consider their nonliterary political activist writing such as pamphlets, leaflets, blogs, and tweets. Activism might include work for (or against) political causes or candidates, and for racial, ethnic, and sexual communities. Papers might consider what other activists their writing allied them with, activist publications, what written forms their activism has taken, and recovery work through an activist lens. How have they put their activism into action beyond print?
Women Writers and Reproductive Justice:
The Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision undermining the right to abortion has brought new attention to writers who have taken up what we might now call reproductive justice issues. Such reproductive justice issues as abortion, control of one’s fertility, and both access to sterilization and battles against forced sterilization have made their way into fiction, essays, plays, poems, memoir, and other written forms. Individual writers and women’s collectives have gathered and published personal narratives to bring attention to these issues, and to positions inflected by race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, and class and other identities in relationship to them. We welcome papers that draw attention to forgotten texts, and offer new ways to read older texts.
Even if your topic could fit into either panel, please choose one, and do not submit the same proposal to both panels.
According to ALA rules, no one may present more than one paper at the ALA conference. Individuals may, however, present a paper on one panel, and chair other panels, and/or also present on other roundtable discussions.
The ALA conference will be held in person. The conference organizers do not expect to offer zoom attendance options, so please plan accordingly should your proposal be accepted.
Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, e-mail address, and an abstract of no more than 250 words for a 15-20 minute presentation. Please note if you will have AV requirements. Membership with SSAWW is not required in order to submit a proposal, though all presenters must be current members by May 1, 2023. Proposals should be submitted no later than January 17, 2023 to Ellen Gruber Garvey, Vice President for Development ssaww.vpdevelopment@gmail.com
Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Please use “SSAWW ALA Panel 2023 submission” for the subject line.
The American Literature Association’s 34th annual conference will meet at the Westin Copley Place May 25-28, 2023 (Thursday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend). For further information or specific questions, please consult the ALA website at http://www.americanliteratureassociation.org or
contact the conference director, Professor Olivia Carr Edenfield at carr@georgiasouthern.edu or the Executive Director of the ALA, Professor Alfred Bendixen at ab23@princeton.edu.
Call for SSAWW Reviewers for ALA Panels (please respond by 12.23.22)
Call for Reviewers for SSAWW at ALA
In preparation for ALA, SSAWW is seeking 3-4 volunteers to serve as reviewers for the proposals we receive for our ALA panels. Call for papers available here. The deadline for submissions is January 10, 2023, so reviewers can expect to receive proposals for evaluation shortly thereafter.
Please contact Ellen Gruber Garvey, VP of Development, ssaww.vpdevelopment@gmail.com if you are willing to help in this important process. We will accept volunteers until December 23rd. Your consideration and valuable service to SSAWW is most appreciated.
CFP: SSAWW Activism and Reproductive Justice at ALA (2 panels) Deadline: 1.10.2023
Call for Papers: Society for the Study of American Women Writers will have two panels at the 2023 American Literature Association conference in Boston, May 25-29.
We welcome proposals on topics related to those themes: Activist Women Writers and Women Writers and Reproductive Justice.
Activist Women Writers and Their Works:
Women writers have been activists in many movements. We welcome papers that discuss their activism both within and outside their writing, and that find connections between their writing and their activism. “Writing” may be construed broadly to consider their nonliterary political activist writing such as pamphlets, leaflets, blogs, and tweets. Activism might include work for (or against) political causes or candidates, and for racial, ethnic, and sexual communities. Papers might consider what other activists their writing allied them with, activist publications, what written forms their activism has taken, and recovery work through an activist lens. How have they put their activism into action beyond print?
Women Writers and Reproductive Justice:
The Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision undermining the right to abortion has brought new attention to writers who have taken up what we might now call reproductive justice issues. Such reproductive justice issues as abortion, control of one’s fertility, and both access to sterilization and battles against forced sterilization have made their way into fiction, essays, plays, poems, memoir, and other written forms. Individual writers and women’s collectives have gathered and published personal narratives to bring attention to these issues, and to positions inflected by race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, and class and other identities in relationship to them. We welcome papers that draw attention to forgotten texts, and offer new ways to read older texts.
Even if your topic could fit into either panel, please choose one, and do not submit the same proposal to both panels.
According to ALA rules, no one may present more than one paper at the ALA conference. Individuals may, however, present a paper on one panel, and chair other panels, and/or also present on other roundtable discussions.
The ALA conference will be held in person. The conference organizers do not expect to offer zoom attendance options, so please plan accordingly should your proposal be accepted.
Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, e-mail address, and an abstract of no more than 250 words for a 15-20 minute presentation. Please note if you will have AV requirements. Membership with SSAWW is not required in order to submit a proposal, though all presenters must be current members by May 1, 2023. Proposals should be submitted no later than January 10, 2023 to Ellen Gruber Garvey, Vice President for Development ssaww.vpdevelopment@gmail.com
Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Please use “SSAWW ALA Panel 2023 submission” for the subject line.
The American Literature Association’s 34th annual conference will meet at the Westin Copley Place May 25-28, 2023 (Thursday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend). For further information or specific questions, please consult the ALA website at http://www.americanliteratureassociation.org or
contact the conference director, Professor Olivia Carr Edenfield at carr@georgiasouthern.edu or the Executive Director of the ALA, Professor Alfred Bendixen at ab23@princeton.edu.
TODAY – SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books – November 4 – 12:00 p.m. ET/9:00 a.m. PT (Virtual Event)
We are pleased to announce the second event in our series SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books, featuring Stephanie Peebles Tavera and Rickie-Ann Legleitner talking with Lori Harrison-Kahan about two new titles, focusing on what they can tell us about American women writers.
How have women writers used medical fiction and novels of development to rewrite cultural narratives of gender, sex, race, and disability for greater inclusion? Join Stephanie Peebles Tavera and Rickie-Ann Legleitner as they address this question and discuss how their new books engage with bodies and embodiment, oppositional acts of reinvention, and the relationship between our present moment and the cultural narratives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Stephanie Peebles Tavera, Assistant Professor of English and Bill Yowell Junior Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University-Central Texas, will be discussing (P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship (2022).
Rickie-Ann Legleitner, Interim Executive Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Associate Professor of English Philosophy, and Communication Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, will be discussing Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932: The Artist Embodied (2021).
Lori Harrison-Kahan, Professor of the Practice of English at Boston College, is the editor of The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson (2019).
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlduCgqDgvHd0evokVCJv651h4i7ZNSS-i
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books – November 4 – 12:00 p.m. ET/9:00 a.m. PT (Virtual Event) – This Friday
We are pleased to announce the second event in our series SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books, featuring Stephanie Peebles Tavera and Rickie-Ann Legleitner talking with Lori Harrison-Kahan about two new titles, focusing on what they can tell us about American women writers.
How have women writers used medical fiction and novels of development to rewrite cultural narratives of gender, sex, race, and disability for greater inclusion? Join Stephanie Peebles Tavera and Rickie-Ann Legleitner as they address this question and discuss how their new books engage with bodies and embodiment, oppositional acts of reinvention, and the relationship between our present moment and the cultural narratives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Stephanie Peebles Tavera, Assistant Professor of English and Bill Yowell Junior Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University-Central Texas, will be discussing (P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship (2022).
Rickie-Ann Legleitner, Interim Executive Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Associate Professor of English Philosophy, and Communication Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, will be discussing Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932: The Artist Embodied (2021).
Lori Harrison-Kahan, Professor of the Practice of English at Boston College, is the editor of The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson (2019).
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlduCgqDgvHd0evokVCJv651h4i7ZNSS-i
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books – November 4 – 12:00 p.m. ET/9:00 a.m. PT (Virtual Event)
We are pleased to announce the second event in our series SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books, featuring Stephanie Peebles Tavera and Rickie-Ann Legleitner talking with Lori Harrison-Kahan about two new titles, focusing on what they can tell us about American women writers.
How have women writers used medical fiction and novels of development to rewrite cultural narratives of gender, sex, race, and disability for greater inclusion? Join Stephanie Peebles Tavera and Rickie-Ann Legleitner as they address this question and discuss how their new books engage with bodies and embodiment, oppositional acts of reinvention, and the relationship between our present moment and the cultural narratives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Stephanie Peebles Tavera, Assistant Professor of English and Bill Yowell Junior Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University-Central Texas, will be discussing (P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship (2022).
Rickie-Ann Legleitner, Interim Executive Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Associate Professor of English Philosophy, and Communication Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, will be discussing Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932: The Artist Embodied (2021).
Lori Harrison-Kahan, Professor of the Practice of English at Boston College, is the editor of The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson (2019).
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlduCgqDgvHd0evokVCJv651h4i7ZNSS-i
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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