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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: “Recovering Laura Curtis Bullard and Early Suffragist Literature” at SSAWW 2018 (Deadline 1.31.2018)
CFP for SSAWW 2018: Recovering Laura Curtis Bullard and Early Suffragist Literature (Panel Deadline: 1.31.2018) Deadline: January 31, 2018 Contact: Brooke A. Opel, Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University—Bloomington Email: bopel@indiana.edu CFP: Recovering Laura Curtis Bullard and Early Suffragist Literature We invite paper proposals for a panel entitled “Recovering Laura Curtis Bullard and Early Suffragist Literature” at…
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CFP: “Recovering May Alcott Nieriker’s Life and Work” (Registration Deadline- 6.15.2018)
One-Day Conference: “Recovering May Alcott Nieriker’s Life and Work” Conference Website: https://mayalcottnieriker.com/conference-programme Registration Deadline: June 15, 2018 The CFP for the one-day conference “Recovering May Alcott Nieriker’s Life and Work” is below. Funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council “CHASE” consortium of universities from the East of England (including the universities of Essex and…
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CFP: “Environmental Narratives of Resistance and Recovery” ASLE at SSAWW (Deadline 2.14.2018)
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)-Sponsored panel at SSAWW Deadline: February 14 Contact: Tina Gianquitto, Associate Professor, Colorado School of Mines Email: tinagian@mines.edu Phone: 303-709-0981 Environmental Narratives of Resistance and Recovery Women writers have long used various narrative forms to record their perceptions of, resistance to, and recovery from environmental degradation. We propose a panel…
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CFP: Practices and Theories of Literary Influence in American Women’s Writing at SSAWW 2018 (Deadline 2.8.2018)
CFP: Practices and Theories of Literary Influence in American Women’s Writing at SSAWW 2018 Deadline 2/8/18 This proposed panel seeks to explore American women writers’ engagement with literary precedents and theories of literary influence. How do artistic influences function in the work of American women writers? Is identifying literary influence or precedent, particularly between women…
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CFP: Lydia Maria Child Society at ALA (Deadline extended: 1.25.2018)
CFP: Lydia Maria Child Society American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA 24 – 27 May 2018 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero (URL: americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/) The Lydia Maria Child Society welcomes proposals for a roundtable and for an open-topic panel at the annual American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA, at the…
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CFP: “Politics and Poetics in Contemporary Poetry: Visibility, Anger, Bodies, and Resistance” at SSAWW (Deadline 2.9.2018)
“Politics and Poetics in Contemporary Poetry: Visibility, Anger, Bodies and Resistance” Deadline 2.9.2018 Please email, to Dr. Alice Rutkowski (rutkowsk@geneseo.edu), by Fri Feb 9 an attached Word document that includes: 1) title of paper with 250-300 word abstract 2) contact information 3) a brief bio statement (no longer than 60 words) and 4) any a/v…
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CFP for SSAWW: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society, “Recovering Gilman for the 21st Century” (Panel Deadline: 1.31.2018)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society: Recovering Gilman for the 21st Century The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society invites proposals for a panel on “Recovering Gilman for the 21st Century” for the SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference in Denver, Colorado (November 7-11, 2018). This panel will explore how recovery provides new contexts and frameworks for analyzing and teaching Gilman’s…
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Job Posting: TT Assistant Professor – University of Tulsa (Review begins 2.15.2018)
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH –TENURE TRACK HENRY KENDALL COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The University of Tulsa seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English whose research interests include 19th Century American literature and culture and may range well beyond the period. We also seek research interests in multi-ethnic, African-American, indigenous, gender/LGBTQ+, and/or diasporic studies. PhD is required at…
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CFP: Constance Fenimore Woolson Society at ALA (Deadline extended to 1.15.2018)
The Constance Fenimore Woolson Society is extending the deadline for proposals for the ALA 2018 conference in San Francisco to January 15, 2018. Please feel free to send along any and all proposals that you feel would fit our “disappearing women” panel for both Woolson and/or her contemporaries. I have pasted the current CFP below:…
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CFP: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society at ALA (Deadline 1.15.2018)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Call for Papers American Literature Association Conference San Francisco, CA May 24-27, 2018 SESSION 1: Roundtable: Sedgwick and American Enchantment The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society calls for 5-7 scholars to participate in a roundtable discussion of Michelle Sizemore’s recently published American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World (Oxford…
