Call for Lifetime Achievement Award - SSAWW 2025 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 and to further SSAWW’s goals to broaden knowledge among academics as well as the general public about American women writers, past and present. As we begin preparations for the 2025 SSAWW conference in Philadelphia, this is a call for submissions for our 2025 SSAWW Awards. Lifetime Achievement Award: The Karen Dandurand Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded every conference year at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers’ conference to recognize a scholar’s career achievement in the study of American women writers. (fb)

Call for Papers: Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century at C19 2026 Willa Cather is most often examined within the context of the twentieth-century, but scholars have long considered the relevance of nineteenth-century American literature and culture to her work. Recent scholarship in this area includes several issues of Cather Studies (vol. 10, “Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century”; vol. (fb)