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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: Black Women’s Poetry and the Color Line (MLA; 3.15.15)
Black Women’s Poetry and the Color Line Reevaluating relationships between racial politics, aesthetics, and (non)canonicity in African American women’s poetry from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance. Topics might include, but are not limited to: thematic or aesthetic divisions within a poet’s oeuvre and/or in contemporary scholarship, negotiations of audience and/or publishing venues, poetry of social…
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African American Literature Instructor (Nassau Community College)
Job Description: AFRICANA STUDIES: African American Literature Instructor: Teach African American LiteratureRequirements:Minimum: Master’s degree in the discipline. Doctorate preferred. Must have a minimum of two (2) years college teaching experience or equivalent. Must also have had substantial experience with minority organizations, institutions or associations. Additional Information: Accepting applications for FALL 2015 and/or SPRING 2016. – See more at:…
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Conference Announcement: “Colored Conventions in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age” April 24-25, 2015
“Colored Conventions in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age” Hosted at the University of Delaware and the Delaware Historical Society April 24-25, 2015 Registration is now available for the symposium, “Colored Conventions in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age” hosted by The Colored Conventions Project at the University of Delaware on April 24-25,…
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CFP: ALA Symposium on The City and American Literature (Deadline 6.30.15)
Call for Papers: American Literature Association Symposium on The City and American Literature New Orleans, LA September 10-12, 2015 Keynote Speaker: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa ALA symposia provide opportunities for scholars to meet in pleasant settings, present papers, and share ideas and resources. The September 2015 symposium will focus on representations of the city in American literature. We…
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SSAWW 2015 Conference
Thank you to all submitters for the November conference in Philadelphia. We have a wonderful, rich range of submissions and have begun the process of reviewing them. The author society, regional and study group submissions have confirmed spots, and are already indicative of a stimulating and varied program for SSAWW 2015. We will be in…
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CFP: C19 Conference 2016 (Deadline 9.1.15)
CALL FOR PAPERS C19: THE SOCIETY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICANISTS “Unsettling” State College, Pennsylvania March 17-20, 2016 Hosted by Penn State University C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists seeks paper and panel submissions for its fourth biennial conference, which will take place March 17-20, 2016 at the Nittany Lion Inn at Penn State University in State…
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CFP: Adrienne Rich (Journal issue; Deadline 4.30.15)
Women’s Studies Journal CFP American poet Adrienne Rich died on March 27, 2012. The response, nationally and internationally, to this loss was immediate and speaks to her place and import in American literature and culture. As Katha Pollit wrote, “The death of Adrienne Rich marks not only the end of a long and transcendent literary…
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Humanities Faculty (Bard Early College)
Bard Early Colleges are founded on the belief that many high-school age students are eager and ready for the intellectual challenges of a college education. Bard Early Colleges act on this belief by providing younger scholars with a tuition-free, credit-bearing college course of study in the liberal arts and sciences following the 9th and 10th…
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LECTURER (BTB) IN ENGLISH (NUI Galway)
Applications are invited for a full-time permanent lectureship in English. The appointee will teach and research in the area of English-language fiction and/or poetry of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She or he will also be expected to contribute to our teaching in the area of North American literature, and to one or more of…
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1-year Leave Replacement (GRINNELL COLLEGE)
GRINNELL COLLEGE. 1-year leave replacement position in the Department of English (specializing in 20th– and 21st-Century American Literature). Assistant Professor (Ph.D.) preferred; Instructor (ABD) possible. The teaching schedule of five courses over two semesters will include three 100-level Literary Analysis courses (ENG 120), one 200-level course in 20th– and 21st-century American literature (ENG 231), and…
