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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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Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English with a focus on Race and Ethnic Studies (Binghamton University)
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English with a focus on Race and Ethnic Studies The Department of English, General Literature, and Rhetoric at Binghamton University seeks candidates who specialize in race/ethnicity in a global, transnational, or comparative context. We welcome candidates who engage with the theories, methods, and archives of reading literature and culture within transnational,…
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Head of Department of English, Purdue University.
We invite applications and nominations for the position of Head of the Department of English at Purdue University. The undergraduate English major consists of five tracks; the graduate programs in English include 5 master’s degrees, an MFA, and Ph.D. Faculty are also involved in such interdisciplinary programs as African American Studies, American Studies, Comparative Literature,…
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Assistant Professor of African-American literature (William Paterson University)
William Paterson University invites applications with specialization in African-American literature for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of English. The successful candidate will teach a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in African-American literature, as well as other literature courses and offerings in the University Core Curriculum. Commitment to teaching…
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CFP for SSAWW 2015 (11.1.14)
Lives Welded and Woven: Women Writers and American Arts & Crafts (Deadline: 11.1.14) 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…
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CFP for ALA 2015 – Emily Dickinson International Society
Call for Papers (Deadline: 01.15.15) Emily Dickinson International Society Emily Dickinson International Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2015. The topic for the first panel is ‘Dickinson and the Non-Human’ and the topic for the second is ‘Dickinson’s Afterlives’. Panel 1: ‘Dickinson and the Non-Human’ We…
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CFP for SSAWW 2015 Panel: Rhyme as Liminal Space in Nineteenth Century Poetry (Deadline: Jan. 1, 2015)
CFP for a panel on rhyme in nineteenth century poetry for next fall’s SSAWW conference. CFP: Rhyme as Liminal Space in Nineteenth Century Poetry (Deadline: Jan. 1, 2015) Nineteenth century poetry is overwhelmingly driven by its rhymes, yet it is also overwhelmingly maligned for them. Very often, the kinds of rhymes in these poems are…
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CFP: “Mapping Back” (INCS; Deadline 10.25.14
I’m organizing a pedagogy roundtable (tentatively titled “Mapping Back”) for the 2015 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) conference, which is going to be held in Atlanta on April 16-19. If you use maps and/or mapping technologies in your classrooms dealing with any aspect of the nineteenth century, please consider sending a 200-250 word proposal my way. …
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CFP: Society for American Travel Writing (ALA; Deadline 12.15.14)
SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING Where I Went, What I Ate: Travel Writing and Food From features on local and global cuisine in magazines like Food & Wine and Saveur to travel-based cookbooks, food-based guidebooks, and personal blogs peppered with photos of last night’s dinner, our media is saturated with accounts of where people went…
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SSAWW 2015 Panel CFP: Harriet Beecher Stowe Society at SSAWW 2015
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society invites participants for its upcoming panel at the SSAWW 2015 Conference: Between Feeling Unsettled and Feeling Right: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Targeted Liminality CFP for Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, PA, November 4-8, 2015 Sponsored by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society In The American Porch: An Informal…
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African American Literature and Studies of Race & Ethnicity – Assistant Professor – Old Dominion University
English: African American Literature and Studies of Race & Ethnicity – The Department of English at Old Dominion University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment to teach undergraduate, M.A., and doctoral courses in an interdisciplinary English Ph.D. program. Required: Ph.D. in English or closely related field by August 15, 2015; evidence of effective teaching and…
