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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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Assistant Prof-Mark Twain Studies and Am Literature (Elmira College)
Elmira College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Mark Twain Studies & American Literature to begin in July of 2015. Responsibilities include: Teaching specialized courses on Mark Twain, intermediate American Literature surveys, upper level courses in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature, participating in the colleges interdisciplinary freshman studies program, and advising…
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Visiting Faculty Position in the Department of English (Illinois College )
Illinois College invites applications for a visiting assistant professor or instructor of English with a specialization in multicultural literature for the Fall 2015 semester. Candidates whose teaching and research focuses on African-American literature are especially encouraged to apply.
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CFP for SSAWW 2015 – When Species Meet in Women’s Writing- Deadline: 2.11.15
CFP: SSAWW Conference Nov. 4-8, 2015 Deadline: 02.11.15 When Species Meet in Women’s Writing (Panel) “Silence is perhaps / the sound of spiders breathing” (Lisel Mueller) We are looking for papers that explore cross-species encounters in women’s writing. We understand species as a broad category, including humans and other animals, but also gods, monsters, bacteria,…
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CFP: Special Issue of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature (Journal Issue)
Call for Papers Special Issue of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature Women, Girls, and Young Adult Literature We invite manuscripts that examine women and girls as characters, creators, and consumers of young adult novels, poems, comic books, and other written materials oriented primarily to a youth or adolescent audience. These articles should be engaged with…
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Emily Dickinson International Society at MLA (3.1.15)
The Emily Dickinson International Society invites submissions for the following two sessions at next year’s MLA Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas: 1. Allied organization guaranteed session: Lyrical Ecologies Submission requirements: 300-words abstracts, short cvs Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2015 Description: Presentations engaging the circulation of Dickinson’s writings through human communities, or of non-human entities…
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SSAWW 2015: Workshop Proposal for the SSAWW Conference Nov. 4-8, 2015
Workshop Proposal for the SSAWW Conference Nov. 4-8, 2015 When Species Meet in Women’s Writing (Panel) “Silence is perhaps / the sound of spiders breathing” (Lisel Mueller) We are looking for papers that explore cross-species encounters in women’s writing. We understand species as a broad category, including humans and other animals, but also gods, monsters,…
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CFP for SSAWW 2015: Arab American Women: Representation, Reception and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Literature by Women (2.10.15)
This panel welcomes papers that examine how Arab American women are represented in women’s writing and in particular how Arab American women authors subvert, negotiate or overturn ethnic and gender stereotypes. Some of the issues that could be examined include: the role an author’s ethnicity plays in depicting Arab American women; audience’s reception and expectations…
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CFP for SSAWW 2015: Perspectives on The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield (2.11.15)
CFP for SSAWW 2015: Perspectives on The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield Sponsoring organization: Southern California Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SCSSAWW), SSAWW regional group Contact email: Denise_MacNeil@redlands.edu Call: Since its reemergence in the late 1990s, The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield has received…
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CFP: Workshop Proposal for the SSAWW Conference Nov. 4-8, 2015 (2.11.15)
Workshop Proposal for the SSAWW Conference Nov. 4-8, 2015 When Species Meet in Women?s Writing (Panel) “Silence is perhaps / the sound of spiders breathing” (Lisel Mueller) We are looking for papers that explore cross-species encounters in women?s writing. We understand species as a broad category, including humans and other animals, but also gods, monsters,…
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Visiting Professor (MIT)
The Literature Faculty at MIT seeks to hire a visiting assistant professor for the year 2015-16, specializing in 20th century and contemporary American or Anglophone literature and film. Candidates must hold a completed PhD by July 1, 2015.
