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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: Kate Chopin International Society (ALA; Deadline 1.10.15)
The Kate Chopin International Society is seeking individual proposals for two sponsored panels at the 2015 American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA, May 21-24, 2014. The first panel, a roundtable on “Teaching Kate Chopin in Different Contexts,” seeks short (seven-to eight-minute) papers/remarks that address either teaching Chopin juxtaposed with works/genres or in courses with…
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CFP: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society for SSAWW 2015 (Deadline 12.15.14)
CFP for SSAWW 2015: Married and Single Life in Sedgwick’s Writing (Deadline: 12.15.14) The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society seeks proposals for a panel on the question of marriage vs. single life in Sedgwick’s writings for the SSAWW Conference in Philadelphia, Nov. 4-8, 2015. This panel topic honors the 2015 publication of Deborah Gussman’s new edition…
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Assistant Professor, American Literature to 1800 (Texas Tech University )
Texas Tech University seeks an Assistant Professor with a specialization in American Literature to 1800. Tenure-track. 2/2 load guaranteed during first two years; then 3/3 with opportunities for reduction to 3/2. Ph.D. required. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses, provide service to the department, the college, and the university as necessary, and…
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Postdoctoral Fellowships (Rutgers University)
The Department of English at Rutgers University, which has a long history of scholarship and teaching in African American Literature and Literature of the African Diaspora, announces two Postdoctoral Fellowships for scholars pursuing research in these fields.
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR – AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO
Columbia College Chicago is an urban institution of approximately 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students emphasizing arts, media, and communications in a liberal arts setting. The Department of English invites applications for a tenure-track position in African American literature beginning August 2015. Desired secondary areas of expertise include multi-ethnic US studies, and African literature and literatures…
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CFP SSAWW Conference: “Lydia Maria Child and Social Change”
Call for Papers: The Lydia Maria Child Society invites proposals for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference to be held November 4-8, 2015 in Philadelphia, PA. “Lydia Maria Child and Social Change” Much of Child’s work addresses, if not directly calls for, social change. In engaging with the status of women,…
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Assistant Professor of English (Mars Hill University)
The English program in the Department of Language and Literature at Mars Hill University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of English position, to begin in August 2015. The successful candidate for the position will be a specialist in Appalachian literature.
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New Books: Serial Memoir: Archiving American Lives by Nicole Stamant
Serial Memoir: Archiving American Lives by Nicole Stamant http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/serial-memoir-nicole-stamant/?K=9781137410320 Serial Memoir: Archiving American Lives interrogates the presentation of subjectivity in serial memoir, arguing that seriality not only influences the way we read and understand contemporary autobiographical texts, it also changes our approach. In serial memoir, multiple versions of selfhood create an archive for the author because…
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Assistant Professor of post-1865 American literature (University of North Alabama)
English: The English department at the University of North Alabama is seeking an Assistant Professor of post-1865 American literature (to include the 21st century). An emphasis in poetry and drama is particularly desired, and we welcome candidates with a secondary expertise in one or more of the following: critical theory, African American literature, gender studies,…
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CFP SSAWW Panel Update: Lives Welded and Woven: Women Writers and American Arts & Crafts (Updated Deadline: 11.15.14)
Lives Welded and Woven: Women Writers and American Arts & Crafts (Deadline: 11.15.14) The 2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference (Philadelphia, PA, November 4-8, 2015) Addressing the conference theme of “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel will explore the lives and work of women writers and activists whose socio-political vision found…
