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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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Regional Study Groups: Southern California SSAWW Sessions at PAMLA
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 112th Annual Conference – Riverside Convention Center, California Friday, October 31 – Sunday, November 2, 2014 Sessions Sponsored by the Southern California Society for the Study of American Women Writers www.pamla.org Session 4: Friday 3:45-5:15pm 4-01 – A Discussion of Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave…
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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities (Tulane University)
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities The English Department of the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University invites applications for a one-year position (possibly renewable for a second year) as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, beginning July 1, 2015, for the academic year 2015-2016. Candidates must have received the PhD by June 30,…
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New Books: Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Poetry
Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Poetry edited by Karen L. Kilcup and Angela Sorby https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/over-river-and-through-wood Over the River and Through the Wood is the first and only collection of its kind, offering readers an unequaled view of the quality and diversity of nineteenth-century American children’s poetry. Most…
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CFP: Dickinson Institute (Deadline 1.15.15)
Call for Papers: Dickinson Institute On Friday, August 7, 2015, the Emily Dickinson International Society will sponsor a critical institute in conjunction with its Annual Meeting. The Institute provides an opportunity for participants to workshop critical essays and conference papers with established Dickinson scholars. The topic for this year¹s meeting is “Dickinson in her Elements.”…
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CFP: Transatlantic Studies Association 14th Annual Conference (Deadline 12.1.14)
Transatlantic Studies Association 14th Annual Conference Roosevelt Study Center Middelburg, The Netherlands 6 – 8 July 2015 Keynote Lectures: Jessica Gienow-Hecht (Free University, Berlin) Inderjeet Parmar (City University, London) Plenary Roundtable: The Transatlantic Paradigm Reconsidered
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New Books: Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism, Edited by Jana Argersinger and Phyllis Cole
Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism Edited by Jana Argersinger and Phyllis Cole University of Georgia Press http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/toward_a_female_genealogy_of_transcendentalism The first large-scale, collaborative study of women’s voices and their vital role in the American transcendentalist movement. Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and…
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Assistant Professor of English (Messiah College)
Assistant Professor of English The Department of English in the School of the Humanities at Messiah College invites applications for an Assistant Professor of English to begin August 2015. Position Summary: The Messiah College English Department invites applications for a full-time, term-tenure track Assistant Professor of English with a specialization in American literature. Ability to…
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New Books: Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781-1924 by Karen L. Kilcup
Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781-1924 Karen L. Kilcup http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/fallen_forests/ How women writers made powerful emotional, ethical, and spiritual appeals for environmental awareness and transformation In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, “Man’s warfare on the trees is terrible.” Like Sigourney many American women of her day engaged with such issues as…
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CFP: American Writers in Exile (Anthology; Abstracts by 11.10.14; Completed Essays Deadline 1.19.15)
Critical Insights: American Writers in Exile We seek essays of 5,000 to 6,000 words for an anthology that explores the work of some of the more popular and/or influential American writers in exile. While we understand the term “exile” to refer typically to American writers who have either been forced to leave the United States…
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CFP Panel for SSAWW 2015: RSAP Session on Ethnic American Women and Illustrated Periodicals (Deadline 12.5.14)
CFP: Ethnic American Women and Illustrated Periodicals The Research Society for American Periodicals invites submissions for a conference session of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), November 4-8, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In keeping with the conference theme “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” the panel considers periodicals as the “liminal” or threshold…
