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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: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Novel (ALA; Deadline 12.15.13)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Novel American Literature Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, May 22-25, 2014 Panel Organizer: Peter Betjemann, Oregon State University In 1899, Charlotte Perkins Gilman declared that her writing wouldn’t “stop to be bothered with characters.” Disavowing the “careful analysis and disentangling of individual” peculiarities, Gilman asserted that her work would instead…
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CFP: Food and Utopia (Journal Issue; Deadline 4.30.2014)
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 listing: American Literature 1865-1945 at Colgate U (11.15.13)
The Department of English at Colgate University invites applications for a tenure-track position, beginning fall 2014, in American Fiction 1865-1945. Completion of the Ph.D. is expected prior to or shortly after the date of hire. Teaching assignment of five courses per year includes introductory courses in American literature and advanced courses in the candidate’s area(s)…
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CFP: The Society for the Study of Southern Literature Biennial Conference (Deadline: 12.15.13)
Call for Proposals: The Society for the Study of Southern Literature Biennial Conference March 27-29, 2014 Arlington, Virginia Featured Speakers: Monique Truong, Jace Weaver Opening-Night Plenary Panel: Keith Cartwright, Sharon Holland, Pippa Holloway, Jay Watson OTHER SOUTHS: APPROACHES, ALLIANCES, ANTAGONISMS In her keynote address at the 2012 SSSL conference, Barbara Ladd discussed numerous recent sea changes…
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CFP: Representations of, by, and for Women: The Gendered Politics of Art (Journal Issue; Deadline 1.6.2014)
Call for Papers: Essays and Book Reviews Studies in the Humanities (Volume 41, issues 1-2) Guest Editor: Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University-Purdue University at Columbus, juligood@iupuc.edu About the Journal: Studies in the Humanities was founded in 1969 and has been published by Indiana University of Pennsylvania since 1975. The scope of the…
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SSAWW on LinkedIn
You can now find SSAWW on LinkedIn. There is a space for discussions as well as job postings. You can also link this group to your LinkedIn profile. Join this open group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Society-Study-American-Women-Writers-5170802?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
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Emily Dickinson Resource
(Excerpted from C19) Mike Kelly at Amherst has compiled a linked list of their Dickinson manuscipt holdings (online images, freely available!!) for those poems that appear in the Norton Anthology of Poetry, 5th ed. Also includes links to manuscripts available from the Boston Public Library. https://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/holdings/edickinson/teaching-with-dickinson PDF version of list available on the above page as…
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CFP: 20th Century Women’s Writing and the Capital(s) of Recuperation (ACLA; Deadline 11.1.13)
Call for Papers: 20th Century Women’s Writing and the Capital(s) of Recuperation ACLA Annual Conference March 20-23rd, 2014 at New York University “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” Muriel Rukeyser’s often-cited sentiment unfortunately resonates as strongly today as it did in 1968. In this seminar,…
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Maine Women Writers Collection Research Support Grant Program, 2013-14 (Deadline: 12.2.13)
Call for Applications: Maine Women Writers Collection Research Support Grant Program, 2013-14 The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England in Portland, Maine solicits applications for its Research Support Grant Program. These grants are intended for faculty members, independent researchers, and graduate students at the dissertation stage who are actively pursuing research that requires…
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Kislak Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas (Deadline: 10.15.13)
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is currently accepting applications for the Kislak Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas. This paid research opportunity is a post-doctoral fellowship for advanced research based on items from the Kislak Collection, a major collection of rare books, manuscripts,…
