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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: Margaret Fuller Society Panels (including Fuller/Alcott) at ALA (1.20.15)
The Margaret Fuller Society invites proposals for two panels for the 2015 American Literature Association Conference (Boston 21-24 May) I. Margaret Fuller: Toward a New Genealogy of Genius The Romantic critical discourse of “genius,” as Christine Battersby documents in Gender and Genius, developed through the exclusion of women and served to promote only a…
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Assistant Professor African-American Literature and History and Theory of Race in Literature (University of Toledo)
The University of Toledo Department of English Language and Literature invites applications for a tenure-track, assistant professor position in African-American literature and History and Theory of Race in Literature to begin August 2015. The successful candidate must have a strong grounding in African-American Literature and expertise in broader issues surrounding race in American literature and…
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CFP: Critical Insights: The Harlem Renaissance (Essay Collection: Abstracts by 12.31.14)
Critical Insights: The Harlem Renaissance under contract with Salem Press In the course of African-American cultural history, the Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro movement, has proven one of the most influential in shaping and directing black artistic expression. For this collection, Critical Insights: The Harlem Renaissance, we seek a series of essays…
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Assistant Professor of American Literature and Composition (Shawnee State University)
The Department of English and Humanities at Shawnee State University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in American Literature and Composition beginning August, 2015. Shawnee State University is the regional state university for South-Central Ohio. It is a primarily undergraduate, four-year public university with limited graduate degree programs. Enrollment is approximately 4,400 students.…
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Assistant Professor (Minnesota State University, Mankato)
The English Department at Minnesota State University, Mankato seeks a specialist in American literature with a multicultural emphasis (for example African-American, Asian-American, Latino/a, and/or Native American literatures). Responsibilities include teaching a variety of courses at the introductory, upper-level, and graduate levels, including at least one semester of the American literature survey (the year-long sequence is…
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U.S. Studies Online #Bookhour: Tuesday 25th November, Marilynne Robinson’s Lila
Subject: “U.S. Studies Online #Bookhour: Tuesday 25th November, Marilynne Robinson’s Lila” Body: “The Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher network for the British Association for American Studies, U.S. Studies Online, is hosting a new online, real-time book group on twitter under the hashtag #bookhour.
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Assistant Professor of 19th Century American Literature at Seton Hall University
Position Available: Assistant Professor of 19th Century American Literature The English Department at Seton Hall University invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century American Literature with an emphasis on the post-bellum period and an additional expertise in either media studies or transatlantic studies, to begin August 2015. The standard teaching load for faculty who are research and service…
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New Books: The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion by Claudia Stokes
The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion Claudia Stokes http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15292.html View table of contents “Claudia Stokes presents a more textured account and provocatively mixed assessment of the sentimental tradition of American women’s letters than we have yet encountered.”—Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University “This is an excellent book—well researched, innovative, and beautifully written. Claudia…
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CFP SSAWW 2015 Proposed Panel: “A Self in Relation”: 20th Century American Women Writers Imagine and Write Female “Family” Relations (Deadline: 12.15.14)
CFP: “A Self in Relation”: 20th Century American Women Writers Imagine and Write Female “Family” Relations Panel Description: In her groundbreaking text The Reproduction of Mothering (1978) feminist psychoanalytic theorist Nancy Chodorow explores how women “come into being as a self […] in relation to our primary others.” In Chodorow’s schema, the “primary other” for…
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Assistant professor of African American literature (Virginia Commonwealth University)
The Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University seeks a tenure-eligible assistant professor of African American literature after 1900. The successful candidate will be required to have an established research agenda and a clear potential for external funding, and potential for scholarship or creative expression to complement and expand existing expertise in the department. The…
