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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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New Book in Paperback: Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies by Elizabeth C. Wright with Introduction by Emily E. VanDette and Afterword by Laurie Lounsberry Meehan
Author: Elizabeth C. Wright Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies SUNY Press – Hardcover 2022, Paperback 2023 SAVE with the Discount Code: XNIP123 In her 1860 book Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies, Elizabeth C. Wright weaves together environmental philosophy, lyrical nature writing, and social consciousness. A graduate of Alfred University, Wright was an activist for women’s…
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CFP: 2023 Dickinson Critical Institute in Amherst (Deadline: 2.1.2023)
Call for Papers: 2023 Dickinson Critical Institute in Amherst Graduate students and early career scholars (who have received their degrees in the last eight years) are invited to apply to the Dickinson Critical Institute to take place 1-5 PM on Thursday July 20, 2023, in Amherst, Massachusetts on the day before the Emily Dickinson International…
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Call for Submissions: The Margaret Fuller Society Racial Justice Teaching Award (Deadline: 4.10.2023)
Announcing The Margaret Fuller Society Racial Justice Teaching Award: Teaching to Racial Justice with Margaret Fuller The Committee on Racial Justice of the Margaret Fuller Society welcomes entries that We especially encourage entries that engage critical race theory. We welcome submissions from both members and non-members of the Society, and urge graduate students to consider…
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Job Posting: TT Assistant Professor in Global Writing (Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Language, & Culture) at York College – CUNY
FACULTY VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT The Department of English at York College, a senior 4-year college of the City University of New York, invites applications for a tenure track assistant professor specializing in Global Writing, with a primary specialization in Anglopbone Caribbean Literature, Language, & Culture, beginning Fall 2023. The candidate must demonstrate a commitment to a…
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Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group – Spring 2023 Meeting
The Spring 2023 meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group will be on Saturday March 25, 2023 at Texas Women’s University in Denton, TX, hosted by Brian Fehler. Our common reading will be the new collection of Zora Neale Hurston’s short fiction, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem…
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CFP: 18th International Willa Cather Seminar (Deadline: 2.1.2023)
“Bright and Beautiful and Alive”: Willa Cather’s New York Intersections 18th International Cather Seminar June 21-23, 2023 The New School | New York, NY Despite her dominant association with the Great Plains, Willa Cather lived most of her life in New York City (1906-1947), first in Greenwich Village and later, after she had risen to…
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Call for SSAWW Reviewers for ALA Panels (please respond by 12.23.22)
Call for Reviewers for SSAWW at ALA In preparation for ALA, SSAWW is seeking 3-4 volunteers to serve as reviewers for the proposals we receive for our ALA panels. Call for papers available here. The deadline for submissions is January 10, 2023, so reviewers can expect to receive proposals for evaluation shortly thereafter. Please contact…
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CFP: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.15.2023)
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society solicits proposals for two panels to be presented at the 2023 American Literature Association Conference. The conference will take place May 25-28 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. The society seeks papers on the topic of mental illness and mental health in early national and antebellum America. We…
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CFP: Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting (Deadline: 1.9.2023)
EDIS Annual Meeting Amherst, July 21-23 2023 Call for Papers “Clasp Hemispheres, and Homes” The Emily Dickinson International Society invites proposals for papers to be given at the Annual Meeting to be held in…
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CFP: Social Justice Pedagogy Roundtable, Lydia Maria Child Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.20.2023)
CFP: Social Justice Pedagogy Roundtable, Lydia Maria Child Society American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA25–28 May 2023 at the Westin Copley Place (https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/) 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 the Black Lives Matter…
