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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: Special Issue of The Emily Dickinson Journal (Deadline: 1.15.2020)
Call For Submissions: Special Issue of The Emily Dickinson Journal International Dickinson: Scholarship in English Translation Because English is the dominant language in Dickinson studies, scholarship published in other languages is often overlooked. With the goal of promoting scholarly dialogue across languages and cultures, we invite submissions for a special issue of The Emily Dickinson…
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New Books: Trixy, a novel, edited by Emily E. VanDette
Edited by: Emily E. VanDette Novel by: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Trixy Northwestern University Press, 2019 This book is available in print and digital formats: http://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/trixy Order the paperback edition of this title at a 25% discount on our website! Code: NUP19 From the Northwestern University Press website: “Trixy is a 1904 novel by the best-selling…
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CFP: Kate Chopin International Society at ALA (two panels) (Deadline: 1.15.2020)
The Kate Chopin International Society is seeking individual proposals for two sponsored panels at the 2020 American Literature Association conference in San Diego, California, May 21–24, 2020. The first panel, a roundtable on “Teaching Kate Chopin,” seeks short (seven- to eight-minute) papers/remarks that address an aspect of or strategy for teaching Chopin’s life or work.…
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CFP: Louisa May Alcott Society at ALA (two panels) (Deadline: 1.17.2020)
CFP: Louisa May Alcott Society American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, CA, May 21-24, 2020 Teaching Alcott: Alcott in Proximity to Other American Realists, Regionalists, Romantics In college-level American literature anthologies, Louisa May Alcott enjoys an eclectic reputation. Her writings may appear in context with those of other Civil War or Realist writers or be…
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CFP: American Elegy, Now, ALA American Poetry Association (Deadline: 11.1.2019)
Call for Papers: “American Elegy, Now” If the English elegy consoles through aesthetic substitution (Sacks), and the modern elegy resists consolation and persists in melancholy or rage (Ramazani), then what forms of memory and mourning avail contemporary American elegists? In this moment of heightened division, instability, and violence, how might elegy answer—or fail—the exigencies of life and death in contemporary America? We…
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CFP: SSSL Rebecca Harding Davis Panel (Deadline: 10.12.2019)
CFP: SSSL Rebecca Harding Davis Panel Borderlands, Boundaries, and Contested Spaces in the Writings of Rebecca Harding Davis This panel examines the representation of borders and boundaries— geographical, moral, social, political, racial, psychological, philosophical, etc. — in the works of Rebecca Harding Davis. From contested spaces to complex constructions of identity beyond the usual North/South…
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New: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Black Studies at TCU
TCU’s Department of English is thrilled to share information about a new Postdoctoral Fellowship in Black Studies (African American literatures, Africana literatures, and/or Cultural Rhetorics). Details about the position are here. The Postdoctoral Fellow will be joining English faculty working in Black Studies, including Carmen Kynard, who joined the department as the Lillian Radford Chair of…
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CFP: Carson McCullers Society “Borders, Binaries, and Bars” for SSSL (Deadline Extended: 10.10.2019)
**DEADLINE EXTENSION TO OCT 10!** Borders, Binaries, and Bars in the Works of Carson McCullers — The Carson McCullers Society seeks paper proposals on any topic related to the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL) 2020 conference theme of “how borders, binaries, and bars operate in lived experience as well as in intellectual…
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CFP: The Barbara L. Packer Fellowship for Transcendentalist Scholarship (Deadline 1.15.2020)
The Barbara L. Packer Fellowship is named for Barbara Lee Packer (1947-2010), who taught with great distinction for thirty years in the UCLA English department. Her publications, most notably Emerson’s Fall (1982) and her lengthy essay on the Transcendentalist movement in the Cambridge History of American Literature (1995), reprinted as The Transcendentalists by the University of Georgia Press (2007), continue to be…
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CFP: NeMLA “Ages and Stages: Women in the Academy Revisited” (Deadline 9.30.2019)
CFP for NeMLA Convention 2020 (March 5-8; Boston) “Ages and Stages: Women in the Academy, Revisited” Although much has changed in the academy in recent decades, many struggles related to gender and the “traditional notions” of the roles women fulfill and the roles men fulfill in the academy have remained strikingly rigid, to the detriment…
