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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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CFP: Woolson Society Conference (Deadline extended to 9.1.14)
The deadline for proposals for the Woolson Society conference in D.C. in February has been extended until September 1. (If you really want to come but need more time, let me know. It’s a busy time of year, I realize.) The Domestic and the National in Woolson and Her ContemporariesEleventh Biennial Conference of the Constance…
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Regional Study Groups: Pacific Northwest Meeting on 10.18.14 (Respond by 9.24.14)
You are invited to the Fall 2014 meeting of the Northwest Region SSAWW Study Group, which will take place at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA. The meeting will be on Saturday, October 18th from 12:30-3:30pm, and lunch will be provided by the Whitworth English Department and the Weyerhaeuser Center for Christian Faith and Learning. We…
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Regional Study Groups: Pacific Northwest
(Note: See also http://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/study-groups-ssaww-nw-pacific-northwest-call-for-topics-for-fall-2014-meeting/) If anyone is interested in reinvigorating the Pacific Northwest SSAWW Study Group, would you please contact me offline at Sharon.harris@uconn.edu<mailto:Sharon.harris@uconn.edu>? I would be particularly interested in looking at newly recovered/discovered works and the latest critical studies; an emphasis on Pacific Northwest writers for some of the sessions would be interesting as…
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CFP: Shirley Jackson & Garlic in Fiction: (Still) Beyond the Gothic (Deadline 8.30.14)
Shirley Jackson & Garlic in Fiction: (Still) Beyond the Gothic Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 February 26-28, 2015 This panel seeks to continue the conversation begun at the “Shirley Jackson: Beyond the Gothic” panel at the American Literature Association Conference in May 2014 in Washington, DC. With so much renewed attention in…
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Legacy Panel at SEA/OIEHC in Chicago (Deadline: 9.1.14)
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Writing: Alternatives to Seduction in Early America CFP for a Legacy-sponsored panel at the SEA/OIEAHC Conference in Chicago, June 18-21, 2015 Seduction has provided a powerful lens for thinking about gender and early American women’s writing. This is particularly true for early American novels, but models of sexual predation, transgressive desire, and titillated-moralistic…
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Regional Study Groups: Texas (Meeting 10.4.14)
The next meetings of the Texas Regional Study Group will be: October 4, 2014 at University of Texas Arlington, hosted by Desiree Henderson. The common reading will be Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823, edited by Theresa Strouth Gaul (Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers, U Nebraska UP, 2014). Dr. Gaul will…
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CFP: Gilman and the Archive (Deadline 12.15.14)
The Sixth International Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conference Gilman and the Archive June 12-14, 2015 Schlesinger Library, Cambridge, MA The Sixth International Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conference will take place in June 2015 at the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Schlesinger holds a rich collection of…
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Job Posting: African American Literature at California State University – Fullerton (Deadline: 10.1.14)
California State University – Fullerton 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…
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Job posting: Assistant Professor, US Women Writers, Texas State University
Assistant Professor, US Women Writers, Texas State University Position Description Tenure-track assistant professor, specialty in women writers of the United States. Successful applicant expected to maintain active record of publication and to teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in area of specialization. Teaching assignment will include core English courses, such as first-year composition and/or introductory…
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Legacy announces Jean Marie Lutes as new Book Review Editor
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers is happy to announce that Jean Marie Lutes of Villanova University will join us in January 2015 as our new Book Review Editor, at the time that our current Book Review Editor Sari Edelstein’s term expires. Sari will continue in the post until December of this year, so please…
