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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 Conference Update
Dear SSAWW conference participants, Here is an updated draft schedule: SSAWW 2015 Draft Schedule, August Please once again check your participation days/times since we have made some changes and configured some panels anew. For those of you chairing, some of the presenters on your panel may vary from when you signed on to chair so please…
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Assistant Professor (Albany State University)
The individual filling the position will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in English or American Literature and Composition, with an average teaching load of twelve hours per semester, serve on department and university committees, participate in university functions and perform other duties as assigned. Training and Experience: Applicants for the position should possess a Doctorate…
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New Books: Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture by Eric Gardner
Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture Eric Gardner Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-print-unbound-9780190237097?cc=us&lang=en& Black Print Unbound explores the development of the Christian Recorder during and just after the American Civil War. As a study of the African Methodist Episcopal Church’s official newspaper and so of a periodical of national reach…
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Tenure Track Assistant Professor, African American Literature University of San Francisco
Job Summary: The English Department at the University of San Francisco invites applications for a tenure-track position in African-American literature. While the specialization within the field of African-American literature is open, we are particularly interested in expertise in transnational, hemispheric and diasporic issues. Job Responsibilities: Candidates should be able to teach and develop introductory and…
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Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes: Newberry Library Fellowships (11.15.15 and 12.15.15)
The Newberry Library is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2016-2017 academic year! Newberry Library Fellowships provide support to researchers who wish to use our collection. We promise intriguing and often rare materials from our world-class collections; a lively, interdisciplinary community of researchers; individual consultations with curators, librarians, and other scholars; and an array of…
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Student Travel Awards Donations for SSAWW 2015
If you are able, please consider making a donation to our graduate student travel fund. We all know that funding is tight at many schools and most of our graduate students are really struggling to make ends meet. Any amount you can donate will make a difference. Remember, your donations are tax deductible. And you’ll…
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CFP: Fabricating Truths: African-American Women and Clothing in the 19th Century (C19; 8.28.15)
Fabricating Truths: African-American Women and Clothing in the 19th Century Proposed Panel for the c19 conference From runaway slave notices identifying the details of women’s clothing to Elizabeth Keckley’s depictions of dressmaking in Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868), clothing figures prominently in portrayals of…
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CFP: Dickinson’s Environments (ESQ Special Issue)
CFP: ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Special Issue: Dickinson’s Environments Paul Crumbley, Guest Editor Ecocritical approaches especially welcomed. Appropriate “environments” may include but are not limited to: geographical, ecological, scientific, artistic, literary, musical, cultural, historical, philosophical, theological, poltical. Review of manuscripts begins immediately. Final deadline: June 1, 2016. Submission Guidelines: For this special…
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CFP: Embodied Readings: Child Readers and Children in Literature (Edited Collection; 11.30.15)
Call for Papers Embodied Readings: Child Readers and Children in Literature Roxanne Harde and Lydia Kokkola (Eds.) Submissions are invited for chapters on the theme of the embodied child in relation to children’s literature and other media. The collection will reflect the growing interest in the embodied nature of child both as the reader or consumer…
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New “Chat with an Editor” Feature at the SSAWW Conference in Philadelphia
Do you have questions about any aspect of publishing in a scholarly journal? Would you like an editor to look over the abstract and/or introduction to an article you’re thinking of sending out to a journal? Would you like advice about turning a dissertation chapter into a publishable article? Throughout the conference, we’ll have editors…
