The Woolson Society sponsors three opportunities for scholars to present papers on Woolson and her relationship to her contemporaries. The Society hosts panels at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers and the American Literature Association. Calls for papers are also posted on the University of Pennsylvania’s CFP site.

2025 Woolson Society Conference

Since 1995, the Society has hosted conferences devoted to Woolson’s work at different locations that were important to Woolson and her writing.  The next meeting will be in April 2025 at The Glidden House in Cleveland, Ohio. More information will be posted on this website as it becomes available.

Conference questions? kathleen-diffley@uiowa.edu.

Constance Fenimore Woolson Society Programs

• 2022: “Woolson and Her Contemporaries”
• 2019: “Making Her Presence Felt in the World”
• 2017: “Writing the New South: Woolson and Her Contemporaries”
• 2015: “The Domestic and the National in Woolson”
• 2013: “Witnessing and Remembering Civil Wars”
• 2011: “Georgraphies of Space: (Dis)location and Travel in Woolson and Contemporaries”
• 2009: “Region, History, Environment: Woolson and Her Contemporaries Write the Natural World”
• 2007: “Post Bellum Sojurns: The American South”
• 2004: “Defamiliarizing Woolson”
• 2002: “Reconstructing the American South: Woolson and Her Contemporaries:
• 2000: “Writing Accross Time and Region: The Western Reserve”
• 1998: “Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Nineteenth-Century America”
• 1996: “Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Nineteenth Century”
• 1995: “Constance Fenimore Woolson Celebration”