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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/Associate Professor (Lindenwood University, Belleville)
English: Location: Lindenwood University, Belleville, Ill. Start Date: Applications accepted immediately. Closing Date: Open until filled, but applications received by February 15, 2015 will be given priority consideration. The English department at Lindenwood University-Belleville invites applications for the appointment of a full-time, annually renewable assistant or associate professor of English with specialties in rhetoric/composition and…
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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers is happy to announce the publication of issue 31.2
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers is happy to announce the publication of issue 31.2 now available in print and on Project Muse. SSAWW members may be especially interested in the tributes to Sharon M. Harris, founder and first president of the SSAWW. CONTENTS Tributes to Sharon M. Harris “Sharon Harris: Scholar, Mentor, Friend”…
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Director of the School of Transborder Studies (Arizona State University)
Arizona State University invites applications for the position of Director of the School of Transborder Studies (STS) with a concurrent appointment as tenured Professor. Appointment will be located on the Tempe campus with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2015. Salary and start-up will be competitive and commensurate with qualifications.
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CFP SSAWW Panel Proposal: Drawn from the Archive: Reorienting Landscapes at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1.15.15)
Drawn from the Archive: Reorienting Landscapes at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Call for Papers: SSAWW Conference 2015 Taking up the conference theme of “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel will investigate work produced by women in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century for whom human interaction with the landscape…
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CFP: SSAWW Panel Proposal on The Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers (1.15.15)
The Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers Call for papers for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers November 4-8, 2015, Philadelphia This panel will look at the politics of women’s humor and its potential power of transgression and transformation. Women’s humor can be seen as an indirect form of social protest and…
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CFP: Constance Fenimore Woolson Society at ALA (Deadline 1.15.15)
CALL FOR PAPERS: Constance Fenimore Woolson Society American Literature Association Conference Boston, May 21-24, 2015 The Constance Fenimore Woolson Society invites proposals for a session at the annual conference of the American Literature Association to be held May 21-24, 2015 in Boston, MA. We are interested in proposals that touch on any aspect of Woolson’s short…
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CFP for SSAWW 2015 Roundtable: Young Adult Fiction and Boundary Blurring (Deadline January 15, 2015)
Roundtable: Young Adult Women’s Literature and Boundary Blurring (Deadline January 15, 2015) Call for Papers for SSAWW Conference November 4-8, 2015, Philadelphia This roundtable, Young Adult Women’s Literature and Boundary Blurring, explores how teen or YA literature by American women writers occupies liminal spaces and blurs boundaries. Like the teen, YA literature exists in a…
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CFP: SSAWW to Guest Edit Blog Series on American Women Writers for U.S. Studies Online (2.15.15)
CFP: SSAWW to Guest Edit Blog Series on American Women Writers for U.S. Studies Online SSAWW is extending the CFP deadline to February 15, 2015 for blog submissions that will contribute to U.S. Studies Online (USSO). It will involve the creation of 8-10 blog posts on American women writers of 700-1200 words each. Graduate students…
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New SSAWW Panels Posted
Due to an email problem on our (SSAWW) end, there was a delay in posting a number of calls for papers for proposed SSAWW 2015 panels, so if you’re reading this on Facebook, Twitter, or the SSAWW site right now, please do check out the new list of panel proposals. The calls for papers are…
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CFP for SSAWW 2015 Panel: “Catching the Spirit”: Women’s Reading, Writing and Reform during the Long Nineteenth Century (Deadline January 1, 2015)
“Catching the Spirit”: Women’s Reading, Writing and Reform during the Long Nineteenth Century (Deadline January 1, 2015) Thanks to the pioneering work of a generation of women’s historians – Anne Boylan, Mary Kelley, Carolyn J. Lawes, Anne Firor Scott, and others – scholars now know a great deal more about the scope and variety of…
