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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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New Books: Selected Writings of Ella Higginson: Inventing Pacific Northwest Literature Edited and with an introduction by Laura Laffrado
Selected Writings of Ella Higginson: Inventing Pacific Northwest Literature Edited and with an introduction by Laura Laffrado The first prominent literary author from the Pacific Northwest, Ella Rhoads Higginson (1862?-1940) has been largely forgotten as a key American writer. During the turn from the nineteenth century into the twentieth century, readers across the nation were…
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Updated Membership Directory Now Available
The most recent version of the SSAWW Membership Directory is now available here: https://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/membership/directory/ Since you’ll need to be an SSAWW member to present at the SSAWW conference in November, you can check your membership at that link. Thanks to VP for Membership Heidi Hanrahan for making this information available.
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Henry Rutgers Term Professorship in Hispanic and Latin@ Studies
Rutgers University – New Brunswick seeks a candidate to fill the Henry Rutgers Term Professorship in Hispanic and Latin@ Studies at the advanced assistant or associate professor levels.
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SSAWW-DH listserv for Digital Humanities discussions of American Women Writers
Because of the tremendous response to our initial inquiry about a DH discussion, we’ve decided to change course a bit. Because we had intended this to simply be a venue for conversation about DH projects, we are afraid this number of participants would be unwieldy. In its place, we have created (thanks to Donna Campbell)…
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re: SSAWW 2015, please remember . . .
All conference participants must be SSAWW members. SSAWW treasurer, Heidi Hanrahan, has asked that we remind all conference participants that SSAWW membership registration is in addition to the conference registration. Conference registration does not provide SSAWW membership. Here is the conference registration site again: https://uw-whitewater-web.ungerboeck.com/reg/reg_p1_form.aspx?oc=10&ct=FULLREG&eventid=5836 And here is the SSAWW membership page: https://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/membership/ Questions about…
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SSAWW 2015 Conference – Draft Schedule, and Information on Conference Registration, and Hotel Reservations
Dear SSAWW conference participants, The draft schedule is now available: SSAWW 2015 Draft Schedule, August 26th We are in the process of assigning panel chairs, and may be in further touch about chairing. Thanks to those of you who have already indicated a willingness to chair. We look forward with pleasure to November – to seeing…
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CFP: Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference (Deadline11.15.15)
Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference Boston, March 10‐12, 2016 The South in the North Taking place for the first time in a non-Southern venue, SSSL’s conference next year in Boston will focus on challenges to and reconfigurations of North/South binaries in regional, national, hemispheric, and transatlantic literary and cultural studies. The foundation…
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New Books: African American Travel Narratives from Abroad: Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow by Gary Totten
African American Travel Narratives from Abroad: Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow Gary Totten University of Massachusetts Press http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/african-american-travel-narratives-abroad#sthash.0yYYWC6q.dpuf In this book, Gary Totten examines the global travel narratives of a diverse set of African American writers, including Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, Matthew Henson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Zora…
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New Books: Apocalyptic Sentimentalism Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature by Kevin Pelletier
Apocalyptic Sentimentalism Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature Kevin Pelletier University of Georgia Press http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/apocalyptic_sentimentalism Focusing on a range of important antislavery figures, including David Walker, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism illustrates how antislavery discourse worked to redefine violence and vengeance as the ultimate expression (rather than…
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New Books: The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891, by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Edited by Cari M. Carpenter and Carolyn Sorisio
The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891 Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins Edited by Cari M. Carpenter and Carolyn Sorisio University of Nebraska Press http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Newspaper-Warrior,676064.aspx Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Northern Paiute) has long been recognized as an important nineteenth-century American Indian activist and writer. Yet her acclaimed performances and speaking tours across the United States,…
