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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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Updates to the New Articles Page
Don’t forget to send your new book and article announcements to ssaww.web@gmail.com. From the New Articles page: Long, Lisa. “A New Midwesternism in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” Twentieth-Century Literature 49.2 (Spring 2013): 87-108. Long, Lisa. “Physics and Faith in the Works of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 42.3 (Summer 2013): 359-83.…
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CFP: Research Society for American Periodicals (ALA; Deadlines 12.15.13, 1.10.2014)
CFP: Research Society for American Periodicals at the ALA by Beverly Tomek Research Society for American Periodicals at the American Literature Association May 22-25, 2014 Washington, D.C. Call for Papers RSAP seeks proposals for the American Literature Association’s 25th Annual Conference, 22-25 May 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C.…
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Article Prize: FIFTH ANNUAL PROQUEST/RSAP ESSAY PRIZE (Deadline: 12.13.13)
Announcing the Fifth Annual Proquest/RSAP Essay Prize Deadline: December 13, 2013 Proquest and the Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) proudly announce the 5th annual $1000 article prize. The prize will be awarded for the best article on American periodicals by a pre-tenure or independent scholar published in a peer-reviewed academic journal with a publication…
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Legacy Plenary Session at American Women Writers of Color Conference
Cross-posted from Legacy’s site at http://legacywomenwriters.org: Legacy is honored to sponsor a special plenary session at the American Women Writers of Color Conference Hosted by Salisbury University November 1-3, 2013 Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel, Ocean City, MD The “Racialized Private Text” and African American Women’s Archives Saturday, Nov. 2, 1:30-3:00 p.m. Chair: Jennifer S. Tuttle, Legacy Editor “’And…
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Emily Dickinson archive news from around the web
An interview with Marta Werner, co-editor of The Gorgeous Nothings, at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/246768: I do not see how she arranges and stab-binds the gatherings of poems we call fascicles, or how she archives them, whether with other bound gatherings only, or intermixed with loose sheets and fragments. I do not see how, or even if, she distinguishes among…
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Book Prize: Susan Koppelman Award/ Feminist Studies in Popular Culture (Deadline: 12.16.2013)
2013 Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular Culture The 2013 Susan Koppelman Award is sponsored by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. The Award Winner will be announced at the 2014 PCA/ACA annual convention at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, April 16-19,…
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CFP: Kate Chopin International Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.10.2014)
The Kate Chopin International Society is seeking individual proposals for two sponsored panels at the 2014 American Literature Association conference in Washington, D.C., May 22-25, 2014. The first panel, a roundtable on “Teaching Kate Chopin in Different Contexts,” seeks short (seven-to eight-minute) papers/remarks that address either teaching Chopin juxtaposed with works/genres or in courses…
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Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group Meeting (3.1.2014)
The Spring 2014 Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group meetings will be Saturday March 1, 2014 at 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 Virginia UP…
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Job Posting: Pre-1900 American Literature and African American/Minority Literature (Deadline: 11.1.13)
Assistant Professor of English Illinois Wesleyan University The English Department at Illinois Wesleyan University seeks applicants for an Assistant Professor position specializing in pre-1900 American literature and African-American or another minority literature. This tenure-track position, to begin 2014-15, entails teaching six courses annually in literature and general education, including first-year writing. Ph.D. required (completed…
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Grants and Fellowships: Massachusetts Historical Society (Deadline: various)
The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer more than three dozen research fellowships for the academic year 2014-2015, including two MHS-NEH Long-term Fellowships made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Their stipend, governed by an NEH formula, will be $4,200 per month for a minimum of four months and a maximum…
