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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 for SSAWW 2015 Proposed Panel: Women in Urban Spaces (January 31, 2015)
Women in Urban Spaces (January 31, 2015) Call for papers for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers November 4-8, 2015, Philadelphia Inspired by the conference theme of “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” as well as our setting in Philadelphia, this panel will examine the possibilities for—and potential threats to—liminality and hybridity that emerge…
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CFP for SSAWW 2015 Panel Proposal: “Constance Fenimore Woolson: Geographic Borders, Social Crossings” (Deadline Extended to 1.16.15)
Deadline Extended: “Constance Fenimore Woolson: Geographic Borders, Social Crossings” The Constance Fenimore Woolson Society invites paper submissions for the CFW Society’s panel at the SSAWW Triennial Conference in Philadelphia, PA 2015. In keeping with SSAWW’s conference theme of “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel will explore Woolson’s liminal status as regionalist, international traveler, and genre-crossing…
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CFP for Proposed SSAWW Roundtable: Teaching American Women Writers with Digital Tools, Platforms, and Projects (Extended Deadline: 1.15.15)
Teaching American Women Writers with Digital Tools, Platforms, and Projects This roundtable will showcase how scholars have used digital tools and platforms to teach the work of American women writers. Projects and assignments at all levels of technological complexity are welcome: anything from individual assignments using Twitter, Pinterest, or other online tools to digital editions…
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CFP: Rebecca Harding Davis panels at SSAWW and ALA (1.15.15)
Reminder: CFP Davis session at ALA 2015 The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World welcomes proposals for an open topic session at the American Literature Association’s 26th Annual Conference. The conference will be held in May, 2015 at the Copley Westin in Boston, MA. For further information about the conference, please…
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New Books: Critical Insights: Virginia Woolf & 20th Century Women Writers
This new collection contains essays on Woolf and some American women writers, such as Sylvia Plath and Toni Morrison. http://www.salempress.com/press_titles.html?book=126 Critical Insights: Virginia Woolf & 20th Century Women Writers introduces readers to the major turning points that occurred during this revolutionary time period. The essays in this volume showcase the multivalent nature of Woolf’s life…
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CFP: Women Writers and Author Societies: Proposed Roundtable at ALA (May 21-24, 2015)
Women Writers and Author Societies: Proposed Roundtable at ALA (May 21-24, 2015) This roundtable proposes to examine the impact of author societies on the field of nineteenth-century American women’s writing. While a number of prominent women writers now have author societies devoted to them (Alcott, Chopin, Davis, Dickinson, Fuller, Gilman, Hopkins, Sedgwick, Stowe, Wharton, Woolson,…
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New Books: Rebecca Rush’s Kelroy (1812) Introduction by Karen A. Weyler
Early American Reprints announces the publication of Rebecca Rush’s Kelroy (1812) Introduction by Karen A. Weyler This novel represents the third to be republished by Early American Reprints, the first being Martha Meredith Read’s Margaretta (1807), the second Tabitha Gilman Tenney’s Female Quixotism (1801). Early American Reprints, founded in 2012, is a not-nearly-for-profit, small-run publisher housed…
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Call for Nominations: SSAWW President and VP for Publications
From Koritha Mitchell, SSAWW Nominations Chair: A friendly reminder: nominations and self-nominations by January 31. All details below ———- Forwarded message ———- Dear SSAWW colleagues: The time has come to begin the process for replacing officers whose terms are up at the end of 2015/start of 2016. Holding elections now will provide an opportunity for…
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Assistant Professor in American Literature (Oakland University)
The Department of English at Oakland University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in American Literature to begin August 15, 2015. We seek a candidate with primary specialization in transnational American studies of the late 19th century and/or early 20th century; expertise in transatlantic as well as hemispheric and borderlands studies are welcome.
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Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes: Newberry Library Fellowship Opportunities (1.15.15)
Newberry Library Fellowship in the Humanities If you study the humanities, the Newberry has something for you! Newberry Library Fellowships provide assistance to researchers who wish to use our collection. We promise you intriguing and often rare materials; a lively, interdisciplinary community of researchers; individual consultations on your research with staff curators, librarians, and other…
