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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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SSAWW 2015: Paid Opportunity for Graduate Students at SSAWW Conference
Hello, The SSAWW Conference committee is looking for graduate students to work the registration desk during the conference. Please see below: Are you a graduate student looking for a way to be more involved in the SSAWW conference? The SSAWW Conference committee is seeking graduate students attending the conference who are willing to work the…
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Assistant Professor African American Literature (Santa Clara University)
The English Department at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit, Catholic university, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in African American Literature, to begin fall 2016. Possible areas of specialization include but are not limited to 19th century, 20th century, or contemporary African American literature, cultural studies, genre or performance studies, and/or transnational approaches…
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Rutgers University-New Brunswick, School of Arts & Sciences, Center For Cultural Analysis (CCA) 2016-2017 CCA Postdoctoral Fellowship
In 2016-17, CCA will sponsor two external post-doctoral fellowships with awards of $45,000. CCA also awards non-funded associate fellowships. All fellows will have access to the Center’s resources during the tenure of the fellowship and will be expected to participate in and to present their work to the Center seminars, which meet regularly throughout the…
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CFP: ALA Symposium: Frontiers and Borders in American Literature (Deadline 10.15.15)
American Literature Association Symposium Frontiers and Borders in American Literature February 25-27, 2016 Sheraton Gunter Hotel San Antonio, TX Proposals are welcome for papers and panels on a range of topics related to varied conceptions of the frontier and American borderlands, including but not limited to nineteenth and twentieth-century narratives of the frontier, Western literature,…
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CFP: Minor Voices? When Major Literary Authors Write for Children (International Conference; deadline 9.30.15)
Minor Voices? When Major Literary Authors Write for Children International Conference University Bordeaux Montaigne, France 18-19 March 2016 As part of the research project entitled Power in Minor Mode, the research group CLIMAS (Cultures et Littératures des Mondes Anglophones) is holding a two-day symposium on writers who cross the boundary from adult to children’s…
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Conference 2015 Update – Adding to your conference registration order; getting a receipt
For those who want to add an item to their registration after they’ve already registered, please do the following: Click on the link to the registration site: https://uw-whitewater-web.ungerboeck.com/reg/reg_p1_form.aspx?oc=10&ct=FULLREG&eventid=5836 Click on “no” to the Thursday evening reception (it’s full), click on the feature you want to add (such as Graduate Student lunch), and click “continue” at…
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Assistant Professor (Bowdoin College)
Bowdoin College invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the level of assistant professor in the Department of English to begin in July, 2016. Specialization may be in any subfield of modern and/or contemporary American Literature. Teaching load is two courses per semester. The successful candidate will have a compelling research agenda and demonstrate an interest…
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Assistant Professor in African American Literature and Culture (Williams College)
The Williams College Department of English seeks to appoint a fulltime, tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in African American literature and culture. In addition to offering courses on African American topics, this professor would be expected to contribute courses reflecting additional scholarly interests. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research in African American literature makes…
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CFP: MELUS Call for Papers for Special Issue Teaching Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States: Pedagogy in Anxious Times
MELUS Call for Papers for Special Issue Teaching Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States: Pedagogy in Anxious Times Guest Editors: Cristina Stanciu and Anastasia Lin The 2005 MELUS special issue “Pedagogy, Praxis, and Politics” raised a number of questions about the theoretical implications of pedagogical practices in the multi-ethnic literature classroom. From the state of…
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Assistant Professor English American Literature (University of Wisconsin Green Bay)
The department of Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay seeks applicants for a tenure-track position. This position will teach a broad array of undergraduate English and Humanities courses at all levels including advanced courses in American literature. Primary area of specialization is American literature. Applicants with a secondary specialization in early American…
