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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: THE “POETESS” IRL: The World, Work, and Performances of Nineteenth-Century Women Poets (C19; Deadline 8.25.15)
THE “POETESS” IRL: The World, Work, and Performances of Nineteenth-Century Women Poets What was the nineteenth-century woman poet like in real life? This panel seeks to unsettle current definitions by attending to her performing/reforming body and the work she did in the material world. Women’s studies, transatlantic scholarship, and “poetess” studies agree that women poets…
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Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes: 2017 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship (Deadline 3.1.2016)
The University of Chicago Press and Signs are pleased to announce the competition for the 2017 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. Named in honor of the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist scholars. The Catharine Stimpson…
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Book Exhibit at SSAWW Conference 2015
The program committee needs your help in ensuring that your publications will be on display at the conference in November. We have arranged with The Scholar’s Choice to manage the combined book exhibit. Please contact your publisher as indicated in The Scholar’s Choice instructions below: “Any members interested in having their book displayed at…
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Visiting Faculty (Part-Time) Miami University – Middletown Campus in Ohio
Miami University’s Regional Campuses (Hamilton, Middletown, with some course offerings at the Voice of America Learning Center) seek Visiting Faculty: to teach on a per-course basis during the academic year; some summer teaching available depending on enrollments and course demand; course assignments are made on a semester basis. Subject areas of greatest interest at this time include: Composition…
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SSAWW 2015 Conference Hotel Updates
Hotel Updates: while our conference hotel block is sold out, even after negotiating for extra rooms, rooms at higher prices remain available at the Sheraton Society Hill. http://www.sheratonphiladelphiasocietyhill.com/ But here are some very good alternatives within close proximity to the Sheraton, and we urge conference participants to book now while rooms at these reasonable prices…
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CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West (C19; Deadline 8.16.15)
CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University http://c19conference.org This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and Krista Comer has shown, there is considerable…
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Update on Conference Hotel
The Society Hill is now sold out on all nights. If you need to cancel some nights, please notify Rita (rbode@trentu.ca) before you cancel with the hotel, since cancelled rooms do not automatically go back into our room block, but, once cancelled, are put back into the general supply. If we know about rooms becoming…
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Correct conference registration link:
https://uw-whitewater-web.ungerboeck.com/reg/reg_p1_form.aspx?oc=10&ct=FULLREG&eventid=5836
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SSAWW 2015 Conference Reminder of Early Registration deadline and Hotel Update
The deadline for early registration for the conference is July 31s registration site: https://uw-whitewater-web.ungerboeck.com/reg/reg_p1_form.aspx?oc=10&ct=FULLREG&eventid=5836 (corrected) Hotel rooms for Wednesday (especially) and Saturday night are very limited, but there are still lots of rooms remaining for Thursday and Friday nights at the conference rate. On the link to hotel registration, a note in red comes up…
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Assistant Professor – African American Studies (Western Kentucky University)
Job Description: The African American Studies Program in the Department of Diversity and Community Studies at Western Kentucky University seeks applications for a tenure track appointment at the Assistant Professor level in African Diaspora literatures, with specialization in nineteenth and twentieth century African American literature and popular culture. The successful candidate will teach core courses…
