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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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Mentoring Breakfast Discussion Tables – August Update
Dear Conference Attendees, The SSAWW 2015 Mentoring Breakfast is for everyone – there is something of interest for SSAWWers at all stages of their careers. We have put together a wide range of topics, mostly growing out of suggestions by SSAWW members, and are very pleased to be continuing this tradition at SSAWW. Please come…
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Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes: Harriet Beecher Stowe Society Up and Coming Scholar Award
Harriet Beecher Stowe Society Up and Coming Scholar Award The Stowe Society would like to recognize graduate students who are currently working on scholarship on Harriet Beecher Stowe. If you are a graduate student who plans to present on Stowe at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference (November 2015), we are…
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Legacy News: Summar C. Sparks joins as Editorial Assistant
Legacy is happy to announce that Summar C. Sparks has joined us as our new Editorial Assistant. As we speak, Ms. Sparks is preparing to defend her dissertation, “Bound by Paper: Nineteenth-Century Southern Editors and Their Northern Connections,” at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She brings experience working as an Assistant Editor at College English, and we are very happy to have…
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North-American Literature and the Environment/Eco-Humanities (California State University, East Bay)
OAA Position Number: 16-17 ENGL-NORTHAMLIT-ENVIRONMENT-TT THE UNIVERSITY: California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) is known for award-winning programs, expert instruction, a diverse student body of over 14,000 students, and a choice of more than 100 career-focused fields of study. The Almanac of Higher Education’s 2013-14 rankings of four-year public universities recently ranked Cal State East…
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Administrative Assistant Professor-Women’s Literature (Newcomb College Institute of Tulane University)
The Newcomb College Institute of Tulane University seeks an Administrative Assistant Professor to take responsibility for a portfolio of research and program planning relating to women’s literature and the promotion of a culture of reading among university women. Core job responsibilities include developing, planning, and teaching in a summer institute at Tulane on women’s literature;…
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Multiethnic American Literature (California State University, East Bay)
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FULL-TIME TENURE-TRACK, OAA Position No. 16-17 ENGL-MULTIETHNICAMLIT-TT, Multiethnic American Literature THE UNIVERSITY: California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) is known for award-winning programs, expert instruction, a diverse student body of over 14,000 students, and a choice of more than 100 career-focused fields of study. The Almanac of Higher Education’s 2013-14 rankings of…
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CFP: International Girls Studies Association at the University of East Anglia (Deadline: 8.25.15)
Over the past few years, there has been an increasing concern about the prevalence of uptalk, vocal fry, and other markers of so-called Valley Girl-speak among young women across America. Some pundits question the individuality, confidence, believability, professionalism, and hirability of women who adopt these vocal patterns. Others object to them on aesthetic grounds, complaining…
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Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes: Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship at AAS (10.15.15)
Scholars who are no more than three years beyond receipt of the doctorate are invited to apply for the 2016-17 Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship, a year-long residential fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. The purpose of the post-dissertation fellowship is to provide the recipient with time and resources to extend research and/or to revise the dissertation…
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Visiting Assistant Professor (Hollins University)
The English Department at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of English. This is a full-time, visiting faculty position with a three-year appointment beginning July 2016. The ideal candidate will be a generalist with strength in American literature before 1900. Desirable areas of interest include children’s and young adult…
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SSAWW News: SSAWW Announces New President, Professor DoVeanna Fulton
Dear All I am very pleased and excited to announce that DoVeanna Fulton, the distingused Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Houston-Downtown has been elected the new President of SSAWW, as from January 1 2016. DoVeanna was elected unopposed. I should like to welcome her to the Presidency that I am…
