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SSAWW Mentorship Match Program
The SSAWW Graduate Student Caucus is excited to announce a new cycle for our Mentorship Match Program. This program pairs dissertating graduate students with a faculty mentor who will read and provide feedback on two chapters of their dissertation during the 2026-2027 academic year. The program concludes with a series of online panels in Spring 2027 in…
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CFP: Edith Wharton Society Panels at ALA; Deadline: January 15, 2016
Edith Wharton Society Panels at the 2016 American Literature Association Conference, May 26-29; Deadline: January 15, 2016 Wharton and Religion We invite papers exploring any aspect of religion, spirituality, and the sacred in Wharton’s writing, including the afterlives of religion in gothic, aestheticism, satire, and scientific discourse. How does religion figure within the Wharton imaginary?…
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Assistant Professor-African American Literature (Wake Forest University)
Wake Forest University’s Department of English invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in African American literature. The department is open to candidates working in any historical period from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. We welcome all applicants with a strong grounding in African American literature and race culture. We are especially interested in…
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Grants and Fellowships: Woodress Scholar Archive Research Grants (Deadline 1.15.2016)
Woodress Scholar Archive Research Grants (2016) The Cather Project of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announces the availability of a Research Grant for visiting scholars. This grant provides financial support for scholars to travel to and reside in Lincoln, NE, for four consecutive weeks, in order to conduct research on Willa Cather using Cather resources in…
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CFP: Cather Studies 12: Willa Cather and the Arts (12.18.15)
Call for Papers: Cather Studies 12: Willa Cather and the Arts We invite submissions for Cather Studies 12, a peer-reviewed volume to be published by the University of Nebraska Press. The theme for the volume will be “Willa Cather and the Arts.” Here are some of the themes and issues we hope the volume’s essays…
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CFP: 2017 Berkshire Conference for the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities (deadline 1.15.2016)
CFP: 2017 Berkshire Conference for the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities (deadline 1.15.2016) The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities invites proposals for its 2017 conference “Difficult Conversations: Thinking and Talking about Women, Genders, and Sexualities Inside and Outside the Academy,” which will be at Hofstra University (Long Island, NY),…
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Fall 2015 SSAWW Newsletter Now Available
The Fall 2015 SSAWW Newsletter is now available: SSAWW 16-2 Fall 2015
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CFP: Evelyn Scott Society (ALA; 1.9.16)
27th Annual American Literature Association May 26-29, 2016, San Francisco The Evelyn Scott Society invites abstracts of 1-2 pages on the American writer Evelyn Scott (1893-1963). Papers may focus on any of her works (novels, memoir, poetry, young adult literature), and they may take any contemporary critical approach. We are especially interested in papers that investigate…
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Assistant Professor of 19th-century and African American Literature (St. Anselm College)
The Department of English at Saint Anselm College, a Roman Catholic undergraduate liberal arts college in the Benedictine tradition in Manchester, NH, invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position to begin in August 2016. The successful candidate will demonstrate both scholarly and teaching excellence in nineteenth-century American Literature with a particular emphasis in African-American Literature.…
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Assistant Professor of English (University of Central Oklahoma)
Full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of English for school year 2016/17. Teach four courses per semester including upper-division and master’s-level courses on Ethnic American literature, survey courses on American literature and/or World literature, and first-year composition courses. Ph.D. in English with specialization in African American or Latina(o) literature required. Evidence of teaching excellence required. Complete information…
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Assistant Professor specializing in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (West Virginia U)
The Department of English at West Virginia University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree by August 2016. The successful applicant must demonstrate commitment to and potential for establishing and maintaining a strong record of excellence in research as evidenced…
