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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: ASECS panel “Historical Reenactment, Living History, and Public History: Theorizing Generative Intersections between Tourists, Communities and Scholars” (Deadline: 9/15/13)
“Historical Reenactment, Living History, and Public History: Theorizing Generative Intersections between Tourists, Communities and Scholars” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting (ASECS) Williamsburg, VA March 20-22, 2014 This panel will explore methodologies and theories concerning public history’s relationship with the academy. It seeks to explore generative intersections between scholars of early American studies/the long…
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Job posting: Tenure-track position in 19th-century American Literature at U Colorado Boulder (10/11/13)
The University of Colorado Boulder Department of English announces a tenure-track position in nineteenth-century American literature, to begin Fall 2014. PhD in hand by August 2014 is required for appointment as assistant professor. The normal teaching load is 2/2, and includes undergraduate English-major courses and graduate courses. Junior faculty members receive pre-tenure research leave support.…
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CFP: Eudora Welty Society CFP/Southern Studies Conference (Deadline: 9/30/13)
Eudora Welty Society CFPSouthern Studies ConferenceAuburn University-MontgomeryFebruary 7-8, 2014 Welty & The Art of Travel Throughout her adult life, Welty traveled widely, soaking in art and history and circulating in a number of intellectual circles afforded by her adventures, especially those in New York and abroad. These experiences of independence and revelation outside of…
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Woodress Research Grants (Deadline: 12/18/2013)
Woodress Research Grants (2014) The Cather Project of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announces the availability of two Research Grants for visiting scholars. These grants provide financial support for scholars to travel to and reside in Lincoln, NE, for four consecutive weeks, in order to conduct research on Willa Cather using Cather resources in Nebraska and…
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SSAWW Midatlantic Study Group Meeting 9/21
The next meeting of the Midatlantic Study Group will take place on Sat. 21 Sept. in downtown Washington, D.C. Our afternoon (1:30-4:30) discussion will focus on the writings of Victoria Woodhull, and will be led by Cari Carpenter of West Virginia University, editor of Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and Eugenics (U…
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The Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2015 Awards
2015 Awards The Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2015 Awards The Society for the Study of American Women Writers was founded in 2000 to promote the study of American women writers through research, teaching, and publication. The following three awards were established in 2011 to honor the work and legacies of the Society’s…
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New Graduate Assistant Kristin Allukian
Please welcome SSAWW’s new Graduate Assistant to the VP of Development, Kristin Allukian. She will be working with Kristin Jacobson to build and maintain our Facebook and Twitter accounts as well as help organize the 2014 ALA panels. #SSAWW
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CFP: HERA Annual Conference (Deadline: 10/24/13)
Call for Papers: HERA Humanities Education and Research Association Annual Conference, February 27- March 1, 2014 Washington D.C. Humane, Inhumane, Human In keeping with HERA’s mission of promoting the study of the humanities across a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplines, we invite presentations for the 2014 conference. The wide range of disciplines and areas of…
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Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group
The next two meetings of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group are as follows: FALL 2013: Saturday October 12, 2013 at Weatherford College (outside DFW), hosted by Sarah Lock. The common reading will be Laura Curtis Bullard’s Christine, or Women’s Trials and Triumphs (1856), which fictionalizes the experiences of an early woman’s rights leader. We’ll…
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2014-15 Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society (10.15.13)
Application materials are now available for the 2014-15 Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. Scholars who are no more than three years beyond receipt of the doctorate are eligible to apply for this year-long residential fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society to revise their dissertation for publication. The purpose of the Hench Fellowship…
