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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 Update: Great Excursions: Travel and the Antebellum Literary Imagination (Deadline: 2.21.14)
Updated Call for Papers: Great Excursions: Travel and the Antebellum Literary Imagination A symposium sponsored by the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Deadline for Proposals Extended to Feb. 21Hilton St. Louis Downtown, St. Louis, MOJune 5-8, 2014 In honor of Sedgwick’s 225th birthday and her 1854 Midwestern trip (the farthest west she ever traveled), the Catharine…
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CFP Update: Food and Utopia (Journal issue; 4.30.14)
Call for Papers: Food and Utopia Utopian Studies, the interdisciplinary journal of the Society for Utopian Studies, seeks essays for a special issue on utopian foodways, broadly conceived. Essays which employ or revise theories of utopia and/or food practices of the last decade are especially welcome. Topics might include, but are not limited to: Food…
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Job Posting: Assistant Professor of English – English Education at Washington State University (Deadline: 2.26.14)
Assistant Professor of English – English Education The Department of English at Washington State University in Pullman, WA seeks a full-time, permanent, tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in English Education, starting August 2014. A Carnegie RU/VH university, WSU has one of the largest and most distinctive teacher preparation programs in the state. Minimum qualifications include Ph.D.…
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ACLS Public Fellows Competition for Recent Ph.D.s (Deadline: 3.19.14)
ACLS Public Fellows Competition for Recent Ph.D.s http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellowscomp/ ACLS invites applications for the fourth competition of the Public Fellows program. This year, the program will place 20 recent PhDs from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows will participate in the substantive…
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SSAWW Conference 2015
We are happy to confirm the dates of the 2015 conference: Nov 4-8, at the Sheraton Philadelphia Society Hill Hotel where several of our previous conferences have been held. We have negotiated a rate of $179.00 a night. Please save the date and make the conference part of your plans. We look forward to another stimulating and exciting conference. News…
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Grants and Fellowships: Special Collections Library at Penn State (Deadline: 2.28.14)
The Eberly Family Special Collections Library on the University Park campus of Penn State has opened applications for travel awards of $1,500 for researchers whose work would benefit from access to the collections held at Penn State. Researchers must live MORE than 100 miles from Penn State University Park, and use the collections between June…
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SSAWW Announcements: Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group (RSVP: 2.3.14)
The next Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group meetings will be held on Saturday March 1, 2014 at the University of Texas San Antonio, hosted by Joycelyn Moody. The common reading will be Jane Edna Hunter’s autobiography A Nickel and a Prayer (1940), edited by Rhondda Robinson Thomas, and recently reprinted as part of the West…
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Summer Seminar: American Visual Culture at AAS (Deadline: 3.21.14)
The Center for historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) at the American Antiquarian Society encourages and facilitates the use and understanding of popular images by scholars in a variety of disciplines including American studies, history, art and architectural history, English, gender studies, literature, religion, theatre, and environmental studies. The 2014 Summer Seminar, The Art of Science…
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CFP: Evaluating Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig in the 21st Century (ALA; Deadline 1.27.14)
Following is a CFP for a Proposed Panel for the Upcoming ALA Conference; apologies for the quick turn around time. Evaluating Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig in the 21st Century Since its rediscovery in the early 1980s, Our Nig; or, Sketches in the Life of a Free Black has received a great deal of critical…
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CFP: Pacific Northwest Literary Regionalism (MLA; Deadline 3.1.14)
CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Session Proposal for the MLA Convention 2015 in Vancouver, BC Pacific Northwest Literary Regionalism This panel will focus on Pacific Northwest literatures (with the Pacific Northwest region broadly defined to include works from Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, Idaho, and Alaska). Proposals are encouraged from a wide range of approaches and periods including…
