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Conference News Calls for Papers SSAWW Sessions and Business Meeting at ALA 2011 From SSAWW President Deb Clarke: I'd like to invite the membership of SSAWW-along with any interested potential members-to attend our Business Meeting on Saturday, May 28, 2-3:20 in the Empire Room (7th floor). We'll get updates on membership, finances, our Facebook page, and the on-line newsletter. We'll also discuss issues relating to our 2012 conference, including the theme, "Citizenship and Belonging." We'd like to hear from the membership what features of previous conferences they've found most useful as well as ways to continue to attract new members. Thursday, May 26, 2011 Session 2-E American Women Writers to Know: Early and 19 th -Century American Women Writers (Marriott Exeter) Organized by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Chair: María Sánchez, University of North Carolina-Greensboro 1. “Victoria Earle Matthews: Making Literature During the Woman‘s Era,” Kerstin Rudolph, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2. “Not a Laughing Matter: Parody as Feminist Humor and Resistance in Phoebe Cary,” Elizabeth Petrino, Fairfield University 3. “Beyond Anti-Tom: Caroline Lee Hentz‘s Ernest Linwood,” Emily E. VanDette, SUNY Fredonia Session 4-D American Women Writers to Know II: 20 th and 21 st -Century American Women Writers (Marriott Exeter) Organized by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Chair: Kristin J. Jacobson, Stockton College 1. “Fannie Hurst and the Standardization of Middle-Class Culture,”Mary Unger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2. “’A Contest of Wills’: Reconsidering Male Dominion in Dorothy West‘s The Living Is Easy,” Allison P. Palumbo, University of Kentucky 3. “The Other 9/11 Novels: Claire Messud‘s The Emperor’s Children and Critical Reception of Women‘s 9/11 Fiction,” Lee Ann Glowzenski, Duquesne University Saturday, May 28, 2011 Session 19-M Business Meeting: Society for the Study of American Women Writers (Empire Room 7th Floor)
Save the Date! The next SSAWW Conference will be held on October 10-13, 2012, at the Westin Tabor Center in downtown Denver, Colorado. Conference Theme: "Citizenship and Belonging"
The fourth SSAWW conference was held on October 21-24, 2009, at the Sheraton Society Hill in Philadelphia, the site of the 2006 conference. Final Conference Schedule for SSAWW 2009
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