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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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New Books: Thinking Outside the Book by Augusta Rohrbach
Thinking Outside the Book AUGUSTA ROHRBACH http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/thinking-outside-book In Thinking Outside the Book, Augusta Rohrbach works through the increasing convergences between digital humanities and literary studies to explore the meaning and primacy of the book as a literary, material, and cultural artifact. Rohrbach assembles a rather unlikely cohort of nineteenth-century women writers—Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sojourner Truth,…
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CFP: ASAIL at SSAWW 2015 (Deadline 11.30.14)
CFP ASAIL Panel at SSAWW 2015 (Deadline: 11.30.2014) Contact email: Cari.Carpenter@mail.wvu.edu ASAIL will host one panel at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference (October 2015, Philadelphia). The panel topic is relatively open, but papers should focus on American Indian women writers. Please send a 250-word abstract and a brief cv (1-2 pages) to…
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Tenure-track Assitant Professor of English in African American literature (Armstrong State University)
Nature of Work Tenure-track Assitant Professor of English in African American literature to begin August 2015. Essential Duties Armstrong State University seeks a skilled teacher and promising scholar to teach courses in African American literature, American literature, and African Diasporic literatures, as well as composition and introductory literature. The position also includes active involvement in…
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American Literature After 1900 Assistant Professor
The Department of English at the University of Houston invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in American literature after 1900. The ideal candidate will have a strong record of research, scholarship, and teaching excellence. Applicants are invited to identify additional areas of research and teaching expertise. The Department of English is a large, dynamic…
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VISITING SCHOLAR IN LITERATURE—SUMMER 2015 DOEL REED CENTER FOR THE ARTS TAOS, NEW MEXICO
VISITING SCHOLAR IN LITERATURE—SUMMER 2015 DOEL REED CENTER FOR THE ARTS TAOS, NEW MEXICO The Doel Reed Center for the Arts in Taos, NM invites applications for the 2015 Jim and Linda Burke Visiting Scholar or Writer in modern or contemporary literature and/or the arts of New Mexico or the Southwest for one week during…
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CFP: MELUS Panel ““New Ways to Conceptualize Diasporic and Migrant Subjectivities: Re-Departing to Re-Arrive” (Deadline 12.1.14)
RE-DEPARTURES PANEL FOR MELUS 2015 (Proposals due December 1, 2014) Call for panelists: “New Ways to Conceptualize Diasporic and Migrant Subjectivities: Re-Departing to Re-Arrive” Proposed Panel for the Annual MELUS Conference 2015 Athens, GA, April 9 – 12, 2015 In When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics (1991), feminist, post-colonial theorist Trinh T.…
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CFP SSAWW 2015 Panel: On the Boundary between Public and Private: Rethinking Willa Cather’s Letters (12.15.14)
On the Boundary between Public and Private: Rethinking Willa Cather’s Letters The Cather Foundation solicits proposals on topics related to Cather’s letters for a panel at the Society for the Studies of American Women Writers conference in Philadelphia November 4–8, 2015. For many years, biographers and critics who consulted Willa Cather’s letters could refer to…
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SSAWW 2015 Conference: Call for Reviewers
Dear SSAWWers, Plans are well underway for the 2015 conference. We are excited about the response, continuing successful initiatives from past conferences, and hoping to introduce a few additional events such as a syllabus exchange. Right now we are starting to organize the review process for submissions, and are asking for volunteer reviewers for the…
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Assistant Professor of American Literature (Springfield College)
Springfield College invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of American Literature in the Department of Humanities. The College is seeking candidates with experience teaching pre-Civil War American literature with additional expertise in diverse literatures and film studies. A strong commitment to equity, diversity and student success is required. Responsibilities include teaching four…
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CFP: Constance Fenimore Woolson Society, SSAWW 2015 (Deadline 1.1.2015)
Constance Fenimore Woolson Society Call For Papers: Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference, Philadelphia PA, 2015 “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…
