• 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: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society at ALA 2019 (Deadline: 1.15.2019)

    CALL FOR PAPERS – Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society 2019 American Literature Association Conference, May 23-26, 2019, Westin Copley Hotel, Boston, MA Send 200 word abstracts to Lisa West, lisa.west@drake.edu by January 15, 2019. Catharine Maria Sedgwick and the Gothic or Supernatural While Sedgwick is associated with Federalist politics, reason, republican sensibility, and moral leadership, her…

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  • CFP: Dissent of the Governed, c18 and c21 – Charles Brockden Brown Society (Deadline: 2.15.2019)

    CALL FOR PAPERS Dissent of the Governed, c18 and c21 October 3-5, 2019 University of Kentucky – Lexington, Kentucky A conference sponsored by the Charles Brockden Brown Society (www.brockdenbrownsociety.ucf.edu) While the long-eighteenth century gave rise to “the consent of the governed” as a principle of legitimate government, this period also witnessed inventive forms of dissent by…

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  • CFP: Constance Fenimore Woolson Society, 13th Biennial Conference (Deadline: 10.28.2018)

    Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Constance Fenimore Woolson Society  Constance Fenimore Woolson: Making Her Presence Felt in the World  Rollins College Winter Park, Florida April 4-7, 2019 We welcome papers on any topic related to Woolson’s life and work, as well as the life and work of her contemporaries.  Feel free to extend consideration to…

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  • Call for Graduate Students: “Year in Conferences-MLA” (Deadline 9.20.2018)

    Call for Graduate Students: “The Year in Conferences MLA” ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture is seeking participants to cover the Modern Language Association convention in Chicago this January for its annual “The Year in Conferences” feature. The MLA team will cover panels of interest to ESQ‘s readers.  This project is an excellent opportunity for scholarly collaboration and…

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  • CFP: American Literature – Early and 19th-C at CEA 2019 (Deadline: 11.01.2018)

    Call for Papers, American Literature: Early and 19th-Century, at CEA 2019 March 28-30, 2019 | New Orleans, Louisiana Astor Crowne Plaza 739 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 | Phone: (504) 962-0500 The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on American Literature: Early and 19th-Centuryfor our 50th…

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  • CFP: Research Support Grant Program, Maine Women Writers Collection (Deadline: 12.01.2018)

    Call for Proposals: Research Support Grant Program, Maine Women Writers Collection The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England in Portland, Maine solicits applications for our Research Support Grant Program, intended for faculty members, independent researchers, and graduate students at the dissertation stage who are actively pursuing research that requires, or would benefit from, access to…

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  • SSAWW Announcement: Call for Nominations (Deadline 10.01.2018)

    SSAWW Announcement Call for Nominations For the 2018 SSAWW Triennial Conference, the SSAWW Executive Committee is pleased to issue this call for nominations for the 2018 election of SSAWW Officers. To facilitate a transparent and democratic process, the election balloting will be conducted using social media conference technology to ensure all current members have the…

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  • New Books: Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women’s Literature Thresholds in Women’s Writing (2015 SSAWW Conference)

    Editors:  Kristin J. Jacobson, Kristin Allukian,  Rickie-Anne Legleitner, and Leslie Allison Liminality, Hyrbridity, & American Women’s Literature: Thresholds in Women’s Writing Palgrave Macmillan, 2018     This book is available in print and digital formats: https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319738505#aboutBook This collection grows out of the 2015 SSAWW Conference and is dedicated to the Society for the Study of American…

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  • Job Posting: Assistant Professor in American Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech (Deadline: 10.15.2018)

    Job Posting: Assistant Professor of Race in American Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech Please circulate this ad widely. The Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech is highly interdisciplinary, and qualified candidates in any humanities or social science field will be considered. The Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech announces a…

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  • Reminders: 2018 SSAWW Triennial Conference

    2018 SSAWW Triennial Conference Reminders Conference Registration   Conference and Area Hotel Information (those interested in finding a roommate for the conference should feel free to use the SSAWW Facebook page or the SSAWW-L email group). Exciting Conference Events – Spots still available! Artist Workshop Sign-up “Chat with an Editor” Sign-up Mock Interview Sessions Sign-up  

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