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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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Graduate Student Fellowship: 2023 Emily Dickinson International Society (Deadline: 1.15.23)
2023 Emily Dickinson International Society Graduate Student Fellowship The EDIS announces a fellowship award of $2,000 in support of excellence in graduate student scholarship on Emily Dickinson. The project need not be devoted solely to Dickinson, but her work should be a substantial focus. The award may be used for any expense incurred to advance…
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Job Posting: TT Assistant Professor in Modernism(s) at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Job Listing Assistant Professor in Modernism(s) Tenure Track https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/242687 Application deadline: 11/19/2022 Position Information: Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit: The Department of English and Comparative Literature (ECL) boast a 225-year history. Current course offerings present a diversity of approaches to the study, production, and appreciation of literary and non-literary texts. We pursue a four-fold…
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Workshop in the History of Material Texts – Dr. Tara Bynum “Phillis Wheatley Passes an Evening with Someone Else’s Husband” (Virtual Event) 10.17.2022 – Tonight
A reminder about the next meeting of the Workshop in the History of Material Texts on Monday, October 17th, at 5:15 PM Eastern Time. We will convene in the Class of 1978 Pavilion, on the sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. You can also join us online via this link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/94914204988?pwd=MlM1cXNxaDJwUU1SQnNqUHFHOHI5dz09 We will be welcoming Tara Bynum…
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Call for Editor: Peer-Reviewed Journal “Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History” (Deadline: 12.1.2022)
Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, the peer-reviewed journal of the Reception Study Society, is inviting applications for one of its two general editor positions. Published annually by Penn State University Press, Reception presents a forum for scholarly and critical research-based articles in audience and reception studies in literary criticism, cultural and media studies, and the…
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SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books – November 4 – 12:00 p.m. ET/9:00 a.m. PT (Virtual Event)
We are pleased to announce the second event in our series SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books, featuring Stephanie Peebles Tavera and Rickie-Ann Legleitner talking with Lori Harrison-Kahan about two new titles, focusing on what they can tell us about American women writers. How have women writers used medical fiction and novels of development to…
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CFP: SSAWW at the Society of Early Americanists (Deadline: 10.28.2022)
Dear SSAWW friends, As you look toward the upcoming year, please consider submitting a proposal for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) panel at the Society of Early Americanists (SEA) Biennial Conference on the campus of the University of Maryland and in various locations in Washington DC on June 8-11, 2023.…
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New Book: A Companion to The Works of Elizabeth Strout by Katherine Montwieler
Author: Katherine Montwieler A Companion to The Works of Elizabeth Strout Ohio University Press – Swallow Press, 2022 Including an exclusive interview with bestselling American novelist Elizabeth Strout, this groundbreaking study will engage literature scholars and general readers alike. Written in accessible language, this book is the first to offer a sustained analysis of Elizabeth…
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CFP: NeMLA 2023: Women Writers of the Americas and Fearless Speech (Deadline: 9.30.2022)
CFP: NeMLA 2023, March 23-26, Niagara Falls, NY Women Writers of the Americas and Fearless Speech In a series of lectures delivered in fall 1983 at UC Berkeley, which were recorded and then published in 2001 as Fearless Speech, Michel Foucault explored the concept of parrhesia in early Greek literature and philosophy. The lectures consider…
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CFP: Ghostbusters – A Companion, edited collection (Deadline: open until filled)
Ghostbusters – A Companion Deadline for submissions: Open until filled Simon Bacon, series editor; Cathleen Allyn Conway, collection editor; Peter Lang, Oxford contact email: conwaycat@gmail.com Call for Papers: Ghostbusters – A Companion The release of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the fourth installment coming almost 40 years after the original Ghostbusters film, prompts inquiry into this beloved and oftentimes…
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CFP: New Directions in Indigenous Book History (virtual symposium) – Deadline (10.31.2022)
New Directions in Indigenous Book History Call for papers for a one-day virtual symposium to be held on Friday, March 24, 2023 Deadline for abstracts: October 31, 2022 After the ten-year anniversary of Phillip Round’s Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663–1880 (2010) and at the twentieth anniversary of Louise Erdrich’s Books…
