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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: 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference (Deadline 3.1.2024)
Cather and the Readerly Imagination In her own time as in ours, Willa Cather’s books created vibrant and varied communities of readers. Cather’s literary works detail numerous acts of reading, and she herself was an avid reader with an acute awareness of the reading public. The 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference seeks to celebrate and…
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Call for Proposals: The Elizabeth Oakes Society Travel Scholarship (Deadline: 1.31.2024)
Call for Proposals: The Elizabeth Oakes Smith Travel Scholarship, 2024 The Elizabeth Oakes Smith Society invites proposals from scholars interested in incorporating the life and work of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806-1893) into their projects. With the expanding EOS website, the appearance of Elizabeth Oakes Smith: Selected Writings, Volume I in March 2023, the availability of…
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CFP: Elizabeth Oakes Smith Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.15.2024)
CFP: American Literature Association Conference, May 2024: Elizabeth Oakes Smith in Relation Due date: Jan 15, 2024 Contact: Timothy H. Scherman, t-scherman@neiu.edu A recent blog post on the Oakes Smith Society’s website* asks us to reconsider Nina Baym’s dismissal of Oakes Smith in Women’s Fiction (1978, 1993), where Baym described Oakes Smith as “not a…
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CFP: Lydia Maria Child Society (2 panels) at ALA 2024 (Deadline: 1.15.2024)
The Lydia Maria Child Society is issuing two CFPs for ALA 2024: American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, IL23–26 May 2024 at The Palmer House Hiltonhttps://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/ 1. Social Justice Pedagogy Roundtable The Lydia Maria Child Society seeks participants for a roundtable on pedagogy, social justice, and American literature. Considering contemporary social justice concerns ranging from…
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CFP: ASLE 2024 Symposium: Green Fire (Deadline 1.26.2024)
ASLE 2024 Symposium: Green Fire University of North FloridaMay 16-19, 2024 Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction Call for Individual and Pre-formed Panel Proposals The concept of energy has a history that long pre-dates any dreams of resource extraction or electrification. Cultures around the world have viewed different energies, plural, as living forces. Depending on the…
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CFP: “Spiritualism Reconjured” A Legacy special issue guest edited by Ashley Reed (Deadline: 8.1.2024)
“Spiritualism Reconjured” A Legacy special issue guest edited by Ashley Reed Deadline: August 1, 2024 Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers seeks essays devoted to the study of women’s writing by, for, and about members of the nineteenth-century Spiritualist movement. Spiritualism was a wildly popular religious practice that burst onto the American scene in…
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SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books – THURSDAY, October 26, 2023 5:00 – 6:00 PM ET (Virtual Event)
Join SSAWW on Thursday, October 26, for the next exciting event in our SSAWW Reads series! Register below. The Society for the Study of American Women Writers announces the next event in our series SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books, featuring Kimberly Blockett and Shirley Moody-Turner talking with Joycelyn Moody about two new titles, focusing on what they can tell…
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CFP: Louisa May Alcott Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.15.2024)
The Louisa May Alcott Society is sponsoring three panels for the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held May 23-26, 2024, at The Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe, Chicago, IL 60603. Session 1: Democracy and Gender in Alcott and Whitman This session aims to pull together critical reflections on Walt…
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Job Posting: Tenured Professor and Chair, University of Alabama at Birmingham (Deadline: 12.1.2023)
Please consider applying for our open position in English for a Tenured Professor and Chair. Here is a link to the job ad, and the text is pasted below. Please also feel free to share this information with anyone who might be interested. University of Alabama at Birmingham School/College: College of Arts and Sciences Assignment CategoryFull-Time…
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CFP: Edith Wharton Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.10.2024)
American Literature Association 35th Annual Conference May 23-26 2024 The Palmer House Hilton17 East Monroe StreetChicago, IL 60603 CFP Edith Wharton and Emotion The Edith Wharton Society invites papers that explore Wharton’s engagement with emotion/feelings/affect in her works. Panelists are encouraged to consider the role of emotion in her writing on design, gardens, and travel as…
