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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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Visiting Assistant Professor (Eureka College)
Position— a one-year position as Visiting Assistant Professor of American Literature starting Fall 2015. The successful candidate may also be eligible to apply for a possible tenure track position that is pending approval to begin Fall of 2016. The College— Eureka is a small residential liberal arts college located in rural Illinois. Eureka currently has…
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New Books: A Kiss from Thermopylae: Emily Dickinson and the Law by James R. Guthrie
A Kiss from Thermopylae: Emily Dickinson and the Law James R. Guthrie University of Iowa, 2015 Born into a family of attorneys, Dickinson absorbed law at home. She employed legal terms and concepts regularly in her writings, and her metaphors grounded in law derive much of their expressive power from a comparatively sophisticated lay knowledge…
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New Books: Married or Single? by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, ed. and introd. Deborah Gussman
Married or Single? Catharine Maria Sedgwick Edited and with an introduction by Deborah Gussman University of Nebraska Press Married or Single?, published in 1857, was Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s final novel and a fitting climax to the career of one of antebellum America’s first and most successful woman writers. Insisting on women’s right to choose whether…
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New Books: Teaching Transatlanticism: Resources for Teaching Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Print Culture, edited by Linda K. Hughes and Sarah R. Robbins
Teaching Transatlanticism: Resources for Teaching Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Print Culture Linda K. Hughes and Sarah R. Robbins, eds. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. The 18 chapters in this book outline conceptual approaches to the field and provide practical resources for teaching, ranging from ideas for individual class sessions to full syllabi and curricular frameworks. The book…
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New Books: Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory by Barbara McCaskill
Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory Barbara McCaskill University of Georgia Press How William and Ellen Craft’s escape from slavery, their activism, and press accounts figured during the antislavery movement of the mid-1800s and Reconstruction. Reviews “Barbara McCaskill’s new book should be read by everyone interested in the spectacular…
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New Books: The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories by Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Edited by Caroline Woidat
The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories, written by Elizabeth Oakes Smith Edited by Caroline Woidat Broadview Editions This edition recovers Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s successful 1842 novel The Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumseh with many of Oakes’s Smith’s other writings about Native Americans, including short stories, legends, autobiographical and biographical sketches. The Western…
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New Books: Performatively Speaking: Speech and Action in Antebellum American Literature by Debra J. Rosenthal
Performatively Speaking: Speech and Action in Antebellum American Literature Debra J. Rosenthal University of Virginia Press In Performatively Speaking, Debra Rosenthal draws on speech act theory to open up the current critical conversation about antebellum American fiction and culture and to explore what happens when writers use words not just to represent action but to…
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New Books: Miles of Stare by Michelle Kohler
Miles of Stare: Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in 19th-C America Michelle Kohler University of Alabama Press Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American transcendentalists. Tracing this metaphorical conflict…
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Visiting Assistant Professor (William Patterson U)
William Paterson University invites applications for a One Year Full-Time Visiting Assistant Professor appointment with a specialization in Modernist Literature for the 2015-2016 academic year. We seek a candidate to teach British and American Modernist Literature courses, drama, and general education literature or composition courses. Relevant teaching experience and publications required. Ph.D. preferred;…
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SSAWW 2015 Conference Update
Conference Update – June 3, 2015 Thank you to everyone who submitted to the conference call; our reviewers and the program committee had to make some difficult decisions among many fine submissions. We look forward to a rich and creative program. We are currently working on the draft conference schedule which we hope to post…
