Legacy

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Affiliated with Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Published by University of Nebraska Press.

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Please circulate the following CFP for African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS) Papers and Panels at the ALA 2025 Conference in Boston! Deadline for abstracts is December 15!

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Please join the editorial team at Legacy in welcoming Travis Foster of Villanova University as our new Book Review Editor!

And please let him know if you have a book coming out that you think will be of interest to our readers. His email is [email protected].

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Sign up for a chat with Council of Editors of Learned Journals mentoring coordinator and former Legacy editor Susan Tomlinson about getting your work published! #MLA24

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Don’t miss this year’s Chat with an Editor at #MLA24

Sign up to meet one-on-one with a journal editor right after Friday’s How to Get Published panel (session 203). Find out more about publishing your article!

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Legacy is thrilled to issue a CFP for a special issue on "Spiritualism Reconfigured," edited by Ashley Reed (Virginia Tech). Check it out! https://t.co/EWRZ6ut5l6

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We are excited to announce that Kim D. Hester Williams will be joining Legacy as a Co-Editor this fall! Kim is Professor of English and American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. Please join us in welcoming her!

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39.2 is out! Click here for our Table of Contents: https://t.co/m9z2RDAxqg You can also use this link to access Jennifer Tuttle's profile of African American fiction writer and screenwriter Dora Mitchell, as well as Mitchell's short story, "The Shadowed Witness" (1929). Enjoy!

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Call for Submissions: https://t.co/WV4UO2Xdvw

Visit our website to find out more about this upcoming forum, edited by Max Chapnick (Boston University) and Eagan Dean I(Rutgers)!

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Please join us in congratulating Jennifer Putzi, Legacy's new editor. For 20 years Jenny's work has affirmed the journal's mission, and now her vision will shape its future. We delight in her taking the helm!

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The wait is over: vol. 39, no. 1 is out. Margaret Fuller's physical education, Abby Williams Hill's reservation diaries, Winnifred Eaton's screen secrets, Zelda Fitzgerald's ballet fever, and more!

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Sign up for a session with @profsusan or one of our fabulous @celj_editors colleagues at #MLA23. We look forward to meeting you! @SSAWWrs @UNPjournals

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The #MLA23 Chat with an Editor mentoring sessions are Friday 1/6 and Saturday 1/7 at the convention; virtual meetings, next Monday 1/9. Sign up to discuss your article with an editor and learn how to get it published! @MLAnews @MLAgrads #AcademicTwitter

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Sign up tomorrow for a meeting with our editor @profsusan Friday or Saturday. It's time to demystify peer review and talk about getting your article published!

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#MLA23 Chat with an Editor mentoring sessions will be in person Friday and Saturday; virtual meetings Monday 1/9. Sign up to discuss the publication process and your work with a journal editor. Watch this space for the sign-up link tomorrow AM! @MLAnews @MLAgrads #AcademicTwitter

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We'll be there, so be sure to sign up. Let's chat about the journal, peer review, and your project!

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Watch this space for news about the #MLA23 Chat with an Editor meetings in San Francisco on Jan 7th and 8th and the virtual meetings on Monday, Jan 9th.

The sign-up for individual chats w/journal editors goes live next Monday. Come tell us about your work! @MLAnews @MLAgrads

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Project Muse may be a bit sluggish today because everyone is downloading the fabulous @Early_Am_Lit special issue on Phillis Wheatley, guest-edited by Tara Bynum, @BrigField, and Cassander Smith. Congratulations, colleagues and friends!

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SPECIAL ISSUE 57.3 is OUT NOW! We can't wait for you to check out "Dear Sister: Phillis Wheatley's Futures." See what's featured below.

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@Squirreltimes What a painful loss, Elissa. We are so sorry. xoxo

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Sedgwick's object relations, cont'd.

@MarkBKelley’s “Pirates, Bloodhounds, and White Heirs: Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Fictions of Haiti” explores her depictions of a Haiti “too vital to repress yet too revolutionary to praise.” @ProjectMUSE @UNPjournals
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Are you teaching Harriet Jacobs's *Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl* this semester? Don't miss @g3rrity Sean Gerrity's article in our latest issue!
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Very excited to have an article out in @LegacyWmenWrite’s latest issue!

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Lisa Botshon reintroduces us to the bestselling rustication memoir *We Took to the Woods* and reveals the secret of Maine chic in “Louise Dickinson Rich’s Middlebrow House in the Big Woods.” @ProjectMUSE @UNPjournals @MEWomenWriters
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Did you love Vinnie in #Dickinson? There's so much more in Stephanie Farrar's “The Other Dickinson Sister: Lavinia’s Experimental Poetry,” including the first reprint of "Poems by Miss Lavinia Dickinson," courtesy of @HoughtonLib. @ProjectMUSE @UNPjournals
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Huge congratulations and thanks to our outgoing Features editor Brigitte Fielder @BrigField, the new coeditor with Sarah Chinn @sarahechinn of @J19Americanists!

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We are thrilled to welcome Eric Gardner (@SVSU) as our new Features editor! Eric's 2020 profile of Barbara Pope and two of Pope's stories are free for all @ProjectMUSE:

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