• 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: Proposed Panel at SSAWW 2015: Bodies of Bondage: Environments in Women’s Neo-Captivity Narratives (Deadline 11.1.14)

    CFP for Proposed Panel at Society for the Study of American Women Writers Bodies of Bondage: Environments in Women’s Neo-Captivity Narratives With the conference theme in mind, this panel will consider the liminal spaces and hybrid lives of women in neo-captivity narratives, a term that addresses the broad implications of the captivities about which women…

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  • Job Posting: University of Cincinnati

    University of Cincinnati ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH (214UC7474) The University of Cincinnati is currently accepting applications for an Assistant Professor of English. Assistant Professor – tenure track faculty responsibilities include teaching 12-credit hours for two semesters and availability for both day and evening classes unless otherwise indicated, ongoing scholarship/research, service to the department, college, university,…

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  • CFP: Proposed Panel for SSAWW 2015: Lives Welded and Woven: Women Writers and American Arts & Crafts (Deadline 11.1.14)

    Lives Welded and Woven: Women Writers and American Arts & Crafts 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 expression both…

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  • CFP: TRANSFORMATIONS: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy TEACHING DISABILITY (Journal Issue; Deadline 8.15.14)

    CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE, TEACHING DISABILITY TRANSFORMATIONS: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy Deadline: August 15, 2014 Sarah Chinn, Guest Editor  The editors seek articles (5,000-10,000 words) and media essays (overviews on books, film, video, performance, art, music, websites, etc. 3,000 to 5,000 words), and items for the “Material Culture of Teaching”…

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  • SSAWW 2015 Conference Submission Guidelines

    SSAWW 2015 Conference (Philadelphia, PA, November 4-8, 2015) Submission Guidelines Due date for all proposals: Friday, February 13, 2015 Abstract length: 250-300 words Submission is electronic. Please submit individual proposals and completed panel proposals to ssaww2015.submit@gmail.com, both attached in Word or rtf, and pasted into the body of the message. The conference organizers welcome and…

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  • CFP: SSAWW 2015 Triennial Conference (Deadline: 2.13.15)

    SSAWW Triennial Conference November 4-8, 2015 Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA Call for Proposals Due Date: Friday, February 13, 2015 for all proposals.  Please submit individual proposals and completed panel proposals to ssaww2015.submit@gmail.com , both attached in Word or rtf, and pasted into the body of the message. Please see the complete submission guidelines posted on…

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  • Grants, Prizes, and Fellowships: Emily Dickinson International Society Scholar in Amherst Award, 2015 (Deadline: 1.15.15)

    Emily Dickinson International Society Scholar in Amherst Award, 2015 EDIS invites applications for the 2015 Scholar in Amherst Program that supports exciting new research on Dickinson. The award of $2,000 may be used for expenses related to that research such as travel, accommodations, a rental car, or reproduction fees. Upon completion of their research, recipients…

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  • CFP: Jack London and Women (Deadline: 7.10.14)

    CFP: Jack London and Women Jack London Society Symposium Berkeley, California October 29-November 2, 2014 http://jacklondonsociety.org/ With a reputation resting on adventure tales such as The Call of the Wild and The Sea-Wolf,  Jack London is not the first author who comes to mind when thinking of American women writers. Yet London wrote courageous female…

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  • CFP: The Domestic and the National in Woolson and Her Contemporaries (Deadline: 8.15.14)

    The Domestic and the National in Woolson and Her Contemporaries Eleventh Biennial Conference of the Constance Fenimore Woolson Society  Washington, D.C. Feb. 19-21, 2014 Keynote Speaker: Allison Booth In honor of this year’s conference venue, the nation’s capital, the Constance Fenimore Woolson Society invites proposals on any aspect of  the domestic or national in Woolson’s…

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  • CFP (Extended Deadline): Spring 2015 Special Issue of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review: “Women, Work, and Hawthorne” (Journal Issue; Deadline: 8.15.14)

    CFP: Spring 2015 Special Issue of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review: “Women, Work, and Hawthorne” Extended Deadline: August 15, 2014 “It is odd enough, that the kind of labor which falls to the lot of women is just that which chiefly distinguishes artificial life—the life of degenerated mortals—from the life of Paradise. Eve had no dinner-pot, and no…

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