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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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Assistant Professor of English and Writing (University of Tampa)
Assistant Professor of English and Writing The Department of English and Writing in the College of Arts and Letters at The University of Tampa invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in 20th and 21st century Hemispheric American Studies beginning in August 2015. The desirable area of expertise is American…
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Assistant Professor American Literature (Metropolitan State University)
Metropolitan State University and the Department of Literature and Language invites applications for a tenure track, probationary position in American Literature at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin fall 2015. The faculty member will teach up to 21 semester credits per year, including courses in American literature, in multidisciplinary humanities, and in methods of…
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Updated SSAWW Member Directory
VP for Membership Heidi Hanrahan has sent the new Membership Directory, which is posted here: http://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/membership/directory/
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Fall 2014 SSAWW Newsletter Now Available
The Fall 2014 SSAWW Newsletter is now available on the Newsletter page and here: ssaww15-2Fall14
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Call for Papers: Centennial Study of My Ántonia, 2-page proposals due 1 February 2015
Call for Papers: Centennial Study of My Ántonia, 2-page proposals due 1 February 2015 Proposals are sought for a collection that will offer readers an in-depth study of the 100-year life and legacy of My Ántonia, in the context of up-to-date research. The collection intends to situate My Ántonia in its original sociocultural and literary…
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CFP: HERA 2015 Conference
Beyond the Binary (See HERA’s website for an expanded description.) www.h-e-r-a.org/ In keeping with HERA’s mission of promoting the study of the humanities across a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplines, we invite presentations for the 2015 conference. The wide range of disciplines and areas of study for the conference include but are not limited…
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CFP: Girl Talk: The Influence of Girls’ Series Fiction on American Popular Culture (Essay Collection; Deadline for abstracts 10.5.14)
CFP: Girl Talk: The Influence of Girls’ Series Fiction on American Popular Culture Since the mid nineteenth century, American girls have had books written especially for them, often featuring the same characters who begin to feel like their friends, enemies, and overall substitute social cliques. From the perfect, golden-haired Christian in Martha Finley’s nineteenth-century Elsie…
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CFP: The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World (ALA; Deadline 1.15.15)
The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World welcomes proposals for an open topic session at the American Literature Association’s 26th Annual Conference. The conference will be held in May, 2015 at the Copley Westin in Boston, MA. For further information about the conference, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org. We welcome proposals that…
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SSAWW 2015 Panel CFP: Rebecca Harding Davis and her World (Deadline 1.15.15)
SSAWW 2015 The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and her World will organize a session at the triennial meeting of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers to be in held November 4-8, 2015 in Philadelphia. In keeping with the conference theme of “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” we are particularly…
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SSAWW 2015 Panel CFP: Doing Recovery in the 21st Century: A Legacy Features Panel (Deadline 11.15.14)
Doing Recovery in the 21st Century: A Legacy Features Panel (Deadline 11.15.14) An SSAWW 2015 Conference Guaranteed Panel This panel honors the role of Legacy Features—including Profiles, Reprints, and From the Archives—as a key venue for publishing recovery projects on American women writers. What does recovery look like in the 21st century, when many of…
