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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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SSAWW Panels at ALA 2015
We are happy to announce the SSAWW panels for the 2015 ALA Conference in Boston, MA. Below, please find the complete listings of our two panels: “Liminal Spaces in American Women’s Writing” and “Hybrid Lives in American Women’s Writings.” We will update the SSAWW community with panel dates and times once ALA confirms them. Many…
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New SSAWW Affiliate: Lydia Maria Child Society
From Kristin Jacobson: SSAWW is pleased to welcome a new affiliate society: Lydia Maria Child Society Contact Person: Sarah Olivier, University of Denver Mailing Address: 3304 Perry Street, Denver, CO 80212 Join Listserv: https://listserv.du.edu/mailman/listinfo/lmchild-society. Email: solivier82@gmail.com Current list of all affiliate societies: http://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/membership/affiliates/
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Native American Literature Assistant or Associate Professor (South Dakota State University)
Native American Literature Assistant or Associate Professor, English Department, South Dakota State University. Tenure-track (9-month) Assistant or Associate Professor of English to each courses in Native American Literature and Creative Writing. For a full listing of the responsibilities and qualifications, and to apply, visit https://YourFuture.sdbor.edu, search for the position, and follow the electronic application process.…
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Call for Nominations: SSAWW President and VP for Publications
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CFP for SSAWW 2015: Liminal Bodies (2/6/15)
CFP for SSAWW 2015: Liminal Bodies (2/6/15) How have women writers imagined liminal forms of embodiment and/ or liminal bodily experiences (ambiguously raced, sexed or gendered bodies, anomalous bodies, pregnancy and/or childbirth, death, embodied minds, knowledgeable bodies, supernatural encounters, pleasure, pain, the permeable boundary between health and illness, disability, abjection, intersubjectivity, transcendence). Submissions on all…
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Assistant professor in early-American Literature to 1900 (Graceland University)
The English department at Graceland University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in early-American Literature to 1900 beginning August 2015. Ability to teach linguistics or comparative literature a plus. Ph.D. required by August 2015. The 4/4 teaching load includes composition, core English courses, and topics courses based on the candidate’s secondary interests that can…
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Reminder: CFP Davis session at SSAWW 2015 (Deadline extended to 1.23.15)
Reminder: CFP Davis session at SSAWW 2015 The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and her World will organize a session at the triennial meeting of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers to be in held November 4-8, 2015 in Philadelphia. In keeping with the conference theme of “Liminal Spaces,…
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CFP: Edith Wharton and the Fin de Siècle (MLA 2016; Deadline 3.15.15)
Call for Papers: Edith Wharton and the Fin de Siècle (MLA in Austin, TX, 2016; Deadline 3.15.15) The Edith Wharton Society invites papers addressing Wharton’s relationship to the fin de siècle. Presentations might address Wharton’s engagements with decadence, aestheticism, realism and/or naturalism, the bachelor dandy, the femme fatale, the New Woman, degeneration, vampirism, hysteria, art…
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Assistant/Associate Professor, Writing & Literature, MFA Writing Programs California College of the Arts
POSITION SUMMARY: CCA is seeking applicants for a full-time, tenure-track assistant or associate professor in modern or contemporary American literature with an interest in world literature and expertise in creative writing (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or cross-genre), to begin August 2015. Course load is 2/3.
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CFP for SSAWW 2015: Rejoining the Conversation: Oakes Smith’s The Western Captive (2.5.15)
CFP for SSAWW 2015: Rejoining the Conversation: Oakes Smith’s The Western Captive Over the past decade, assorted published essays and conference papers focusing on Elizabeth Oakes Smith have added to our understanding of her life and career, and her inclusion (by Susan Belasco) in the Bedford Anthology of American Literature in 2007 has made her work newly available for…
