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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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Job Posting: TT-position in African American Literature, Trinity University (11.18.2022)
The English Department at Trinity University seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor withexpertise in African American literature to teach upper-division seminars and conduct scholarlyresearch in that field. Other teaching responsibilities will include surveys of U.S. literature,introductions to literary study, First-Year Experience courses, and other courses in Pathways,Trinity University’s interdisciplinary general education program. We invite…
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CFP: Resilience through Genre Meshing and Remixing, NeMLA (Deadline: 9.30.2022)
CFP: Resilience through Genre Meshing and Remixing, NeMLA Convention, March 23-26, 2023 Resilience through Genre Remixing and Meshing in Post-1945 Literature and Film Co-chairs: Liliana Naydan (Pennsylvania State University) and Melissa Strong (Community College of Philadelphia) 54th NeMLA Annual Convention March 23-26, 2023, Niagara Falls, NY In Contemporary Drift (2017), Theodore Martin suggests that genres “explain…
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19th-century American Women Writers Study Group at Amherst College (RSVP by 9.23.2022)
The Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Study Group will meet October 7-8, 2022, at Amherst College to visit the remarkable collections of the Kim-Wait/Eisenberg Native American Literature Collection and discuss selected works by Indigenous women: a Native American slave narrative by T’tc~tsa/Lucy Young, a Wailaki (California) woman legally captured and sold over and over again in the early 1860s who recounted her narrative under…
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CFP: Dissident Feminisms – Inaugural bell hooks center Symposium (Deadline: 9.15.2022)
Dissident Feminisms CFP Sponsored by the bell hooks center and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Berea College June 16th-18th, 2023 Berea College Berea, KY bell hooks’s life and works engage in feminist thought and action that disrupts hegemonic systems of domination, including the cultural norms that hold these systems in place.…
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society – Call for nominations
Call for Nominees: Upcoming Elections – Nominations due by Friday, 11 Nov. 2022 We will be holding elections this November for all Executive Board member positions, and we strongly encourage self-nominations. Participation on the Sedgwick Society board is not only personally rewarding, but also an excellent way to expand your service to the profession at…
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Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group – Saturday, October 1st, 2022
Please mark your calendars and make plans to attend! The Fall 2022 meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group will be on Saturday October 1, 2022 at the University of Texas Dallas, hosted by Dr. Ashley Barnes. Our common reading will be Texas: The Great Theft, by Carmen Boullosa, a highly acclaimed contemporary Mexican…
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CFP: Research Support Grant at The Maine Women Writers Collection (Deadline: 9.1.2022)
The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England is excited to resume our Research Support Grant Program for 2022-23. We therefore invite proposals for research on site during the 2023 calendar year. Application deadline: 1 Sept. 2022. MWWC Research Support Grants are intended for faculty, independent researchers, and graduate students at the dissertation…
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CFP: Deadline Extended – LIT Special Issue: Intersectional Feminism and Barriers to Representation at the Turn of the Century (New Deadline: 8.31.2022)
LIT Special Issue CFP: Intersectional Feminism and Barriers to Representation at the Turn of the Century EXTENDED DEADLINE: August 31, 2022 Full name / name of organization: LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory Contact email: litjourn@yahoo.com “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place…
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CFP – ALA Fall 2022 Symposium – Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society – Deadline: 9.1.2022
American Literature Association – Fall 2022 Symposium “The Historical Imagination in American Literature” October 27-29, 2022 Drury Plaza Hotel in Santa Fe, NM The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society is seeking papers for a panel at this year’s American Literature Association’s Fall Symposium: “The Historical Imagination in American Literature.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prolific writer,…
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CFP: Expanding the Canon: Essays on the Minor Books of Louisa May Alcott (Deadline: 11.1.2022)
Call For Papers Expanding the Canon: Essays on the Minor Books of Louisa May Alcott (working title) by Lauren Hehmeyer (co-editor of The Forgotten Alcott: The Literary Life and Artistic Legacy of May Alcott Nieriker) and Monika Elbert (co-editor of American Women’s Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic) for a proposed edited collection: Deadline for abstract submission: November 1, 2022. Please limit your abstract to 350…
