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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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African-American Literature, Open Rank University of Notre Dame in Indiana
The University of Notre Dame Department of English invites applicants for a tenure-line position in African-American literature, open rank. Exceptional scholar-teachers in any period, in poetry, prose, or both, are invited to apply. Among the attractions of Notre Dame is a Department of English strongly committed to engaging multiethnic, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to texts…
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CFP: Through Laura’s Eyes: Imagery, Illustrations, and Impressions from the Little House (Deadline 12.5.14)
Call for Proposals “LauraPalooza 2015” Through Laura’s Eyes: Imagery, Illustrations, and Impressions from the Little House The National Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association Conference Sponsored by the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association and South Dakota State University We invite submissions of paper, panel, and workshop proposals for review and possible acceptance…
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Job Posting: African American/African Diaspora Literatures Tenure-Track (Deadline 10.1.14)
African American/African Diaspora Literatures Tenure-Track Position The Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics invites applications for an Assistant Professor in African American and/or African Diaspora literatures. Scholars with comparative, transnational, or transhistorical approaches are especially encouraged to apply. Desirable secondary specializations may include one of the following: Critical Race Studies, Pre-1900 Literatures, Global Anglophone…
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CFP: Convention and Contravention: Vexing Gender in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing (Edited Anthology; Deadline 9.12.14)
Call for proposals for edited anthologyConvention and Contravention: Vexing Gender in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing Editor: Mary Ellen Iatropoulos CFP Deadline: 9/12/14 When existing conditions actively work to suppress women’s expression, how can the female subject assert herself? How does the space between depiction of and satire/critique of gender roles manifest in nineteenth-century women’s writing?…
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New Articles
Amanda Golden, “Anne Sexton’s Modern Library.” Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers’ Libraries: A Handbook. Eds. Richard W. Oram and Joseph Nicholson. Scarecrow Press, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 85-102. Have you recently published an article in a journal, a book chapter, or a new book? Send the information to ssaww.web@gmail.com for posting to the site. Thanks!
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CFP: Alice Munro and the Body (2015 Northeastern MLA, Toronto, April 30-May 3, 2015) (Deadline 9.30.14)
Via Ali Arant: In case some of you also work on Canadian women writers, here is a Call for Papers on Alice Munro for the 2015 Northeastern MLA conference, which will take place in Toronto from April 30-May 3, 2015. Alice Munro and the Body This panel seeks papers on representations of the body in…
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SSAWW 2015 CFP: Proposed panel “Women and Work” (Deadline 1.5.15)
The meaning of “women’s work” has never been stable. While women have consistently engaged with the production of home as well as labor outside the home, their involvement in what Marx conceptualizes as wage-to-labor power exchange did not achieve heightened visibility in U.S. cultures until the nineteenth century. “Women and Work” seeks to explore the…
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Grants and Prizes: The Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) proudly announces its $1000 Book Prize.
The prize will be awarded for the best monograph on American periodicals published by an academic press between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2014. Books will be judged by a peer review of three scholars chosen by the RSAP Advisory Board. The Book Prize will be awarded at the American Literature Association (ALA) conference…
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Consider a SSAWW Lifetime Membership
Many memberships expire in 2014 . . . perhaps it is time to invest in SSAWW’s very affordable lifetime membership: http://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/membership/
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2015-16 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University…
2015-16 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University at…… 2015-16 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University at… 2015-16 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University – See more at: http://ift.tt/YF0CyQ http://wp.me/p3HiUc-kQ http://wp.me/p3HiUc-kS from Society for the Study of American Women Writers http://ift.tt/1sXLDN3…
