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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: Saving the World: Girlhood and Evangelicalism in the 19th Century (Proposal Deadline: 9.1.14)
CFP: Saving the World: Girlhood and Evangelicalism in the 19th Century Deadline for Proposals: Sept 1, 2014 We are looking for essays to round out our collection. In particular, we are interested in essays that engage: · animal studies · issues of race, especially children’s abolitionist literature · formal female education (e.g. Sunday schools, common…
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CFP:Reconceptualizing the Turn into the Twentieth Century: Critical Essays on American Literary History (Essay Collection; Abstract deadline 9.15.14)
Call for Papers Reconceptualizing the Turn into the Twentieth Century: Critical Essays on American Literary History Despite the substantial reconceptualization of the field of American literature in recent decades, century-based constructs typically remain in place throughout the field, particularly in relation to “nineteenth-century American literature” versus “twentieth-century American literature.” Courses are taught, textbooks sold, and…
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CFP: Studies in the Novel (Journal; Ongoing call)
Studies in the Novel, an international scholarly journal in its 46th year, is actively seeking article submissions focused on nineteenth-century American novels for its quarterly issues. All submissions should be sent through our online system (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sitn). Please send any questions or editorial correspondence to Tim Boswell, Managing Editor, at studiesinthenovel@unt.edu.
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Updated Job Posting: African American Literature at Bard College (Deadline 11.15.14)
Bard College African American Literature, tenure-track, fall 2015 The Division of Languages & Literature invites applications for a full-time, tenure-line appointment in African-American literature, rank open. We are looking for an exceptional scholar and teacher whose writing and research interests are focused on African-American literature and whose work potentially intersects with American and Atlantic history,…
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CFP: Edith Wharton Review (deadline: on-going)
CFP: Edith Wharton Review (deadline: on-going). The Edith Wharton Review, a peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed journal is currently seeking submissions. The journal is committed to rigorous study not only of Edith Wharton, but on Wharton in the context of other authors, and on Wharton in relation to late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century culture more generally. It publishes traditional criticism,…
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CFP: Indigenous Children’s Literature (Journal issue; Deadline 7.1.15)
Call for Papers: Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature invites contributions for a special issue exploring Indigenous Children’s Literature from around the world. Taking our cue from studies like Clare Bradford’s germinal Unsettling Narratives, which examines First Nations’ issues in texts by Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, this issue welcomes articles that focus on texts for children…
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Job Posting: African American Literature at Bard College (Deadline: 9.30.14)
From Chronicle Vitae The Division of Languages & Literature at Bard College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-line appointment in African-American literature, rank open (candidates at the assistant, associate, and full professor levels are encouraged to apply). We are looking for an exceptional scholar and teacher whose writing and research interests are focused on African-American…
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Study Groups: SSAWW-NW (Pacific Northwest) call for topics for Fall 2014 meeting
Hi, everyone, I’m working on putting together a study group for SSAWW-NW here in the fall in Spokane. Does anyone have any work they’d like to preview or discuss in particular? If not, I can choose something, but I thought I’d open this up just in case. Please reply to ldamico@whitworth.edu. Thanks! LuElla ______________ Dr. LuElla…
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Grants, Prizes, and Fellowships: Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship 2015-16 (Deadline: 10.15.14)
Scholars who are no more than three years beyond receipt of the doctorate are invited to apply for the 2015-16 Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship, a year-long residential fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. The purpose of the post-dissertation fellowship is to provide the recipient with time and resources to extend research and/or to revise the dissertation…
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Notice: Possible Formation of Lydia Maria Child Society
I am writing on behalf of a small group of scholars who are in the very early stages of possibly trying to get a Lydia Maria Child society started. If you are at all interested in being a potential member of this society or contributing in any way, please get in touch with me at…
