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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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SSAWW Membership Directory with Research Interests Now Available
The Membership Directory has been updated to reflect members’ research interests as well as their membership status. http://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/membership/directory/ Thanks to SSAWW Vice President for Membership and Finances Heidi Hanrahan for supplying this information. If you would like to be included but are not yet listed, please contact her at hhanraha@shepherd.edu.
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CFP: Shirley Jackson: Beyond the Gothic (ALA; Deadline 1.20.14).
Shirley Jackson: Beyond the Gothic (ALA; Deadline 1.20.14). Shirley Jackson was a prolific writer, writing in a variety of genres, publishing in a plethora of venues, and addressing many different audiences. Yet, too often, scholarship has been limited to a discussion of her contribution to the gothic. This panel seeks new interpretations of Shirley…
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Grants and Fellowships: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Digital Humanities Northeastern University (Deadline: 1.1.2014)
Dean’s Postdoctoral FellowshipWomen’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Digital Humanities Northeastern University The Northeastern University Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; the Northeastern NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks; and the Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities announce a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 1, 2014. Specialization may be in any area of social sciences or humanities, with a clear…
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Grants and Fellowships: American Culture at Washington University in St. Louis (Deadline: 1.13.2014)
Postdoctoral Fellowships The Program in American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for two (2) distinct postdoctoral opportunities: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Inequality and Identity and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Family and Intimate Relations. For more information, see the detailed listings linked above as well as our “How to Apply” page and the Frequently Asked Questions page. Please direct…
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CFP: New Approaches to H.D. and/or Her Circle (ALA; Deadline 1.15.2014)
The H.D. International Society will be sponsoring a panel at the American Literature Association conference, May 22-25, 2014, in Washington, DC, “New Approaches to H.D. and/or Her Circle.” The genre focus or methodology of proposed papers is open. Please send a brief paper abstract (250 words) along with a biography/CV to Rebecca Walsh, rawalsh@ncsu.edu, no…
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SSAWW Announcements: Graduate Student Assistants
Dear SSAWW Colleagues: Before 2013 slips away, I wanted to share that we have a full slate of graduate students supporting our officers. Each graduate student position has a place on the Advisory Board, and these terms will conclude at the 2015 conference. We are pleased to welcome and more formally congratulate Leslie Allison, Martha…
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CFP: Kay Boyle at 25 (ALA; Deadline: 1.15.2014)
The Kay Boyle Society panel session at the American Literature Association 25th Annual Conference May 22-25, 2014 Hyatt Washington on Capitol Hill 400 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Washington D.C. 20001 Kay Boyle at 25 For the 25th anniversary of the ALA, the Kay Boyle Society invites contributions on early Kay Boyle, a topic deserving close…
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CFP: Approaching Margaret Fuller (ALA; Deadline 1.20.2014)
American Literature Association, 25th Annual Conference, May 22-25, 2014Washington D.C. CALL FOR PAPERS Approaching Margaret Fuller: Revisiting Critical Traditions/ Envisioning New Directions The Margaret Fuller Society invites proposals for 20-minute talks that reflect on any aspect of the history of Fuller criticism and/or on new approaches for future study. Send 1-page proposals by 20 January to: Charlene Avallone <avallone@lava.net>
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CFP: Gloria Naylor: Contemporary Critical Analyses (Deadline 5.30.2014)
CFP: Gloria Naylor: Contemporary Critical Analyses Abstracts: 1 page, 250 words Deadline: 30 May 2014 Sharon A. Lewis, Montclair State UniversityAma Wattley, Pace University lewiss@mail.montclair.edu awattley@pace.edu We invite essays that read Gloria Naylor’s novels as explorations into intersections of race, gender and class, and as critiques of capitalism and other systematic or individual inequities. This collection will…
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New Books: Faye Halpern, Sentimental Readers, and Ferda Asya, Writers in Europe: 1850 to the Present
Sentimental Readers: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of a Disparaged Rhetoric. U of Iowa Press, 2013. Faye Halpern How could novels like Uncle Tom’s Cabin change the hearts and minds of thousands of mid-nineteenth-century readers, yet make so many modern readers cringe at their over-the-top, tear-filled scenes? Sentimental Readers explains why sentimental rhetoric was so compelling to readers of that earlier…
