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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-Medical Women in 19th-Century American Literature
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Special Issue: Medical Women in 19th-Century American Literature This special issue of Arizona Quarterly seeks essays that engage with literature containing medical women or women in the sciences in 19th-century America. In the midst of a controversy between William Lloyd Garrison and the Gynecological Society…
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Short-Term Library Grant Announcement, Dillard Russell Library’s Special Collections (Deadline: 4.2.2018)
CFP: Short-term Library Research Grants Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia, offers short-term Library Research Grants every year to scholars and students whose work would benefit from access to materials in Ina Dillard Russell Library’s Special Collections. Strengths of the collections include Milledgeville/Baldwin County history and culture, (local/regional) women’s history, and Georgia College history. Special Collections houses the…
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CFP: Witches and “Nasty Women”: Unruly Tongues in American Literature at ALA (Deadline 12.30.2017)
CALL FOR PAPERS: FOR A PANEL at the American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 24-27, 2018 Witches and “Nasty Women”: Unruly Tongues in American Literature This panel seeks papers which explore the concept of the “nasty woman” and/or the “witch” as a proto-feminist in American literature. As Martha Cutter has argued, “an unruly tongue”…
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Job Posting: TT Assistant Professor specializing in Black Studies (Texas A&M University-San Antonio)
Please see the job listing below for a tenure-track position in Black Studies (open to all periods). We would appreciate your help in spreading the word. The full posting can be found at: employment.tamusahr.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=52032 Assistant Professor of English The College of Arts and Sciences at Texas A&M University-San Antonio invites applications for a tenure-track, Assistant…
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Call For Nominations: Women’s Caucus of the Modern Languages (Deadline 12.11.2017)
The Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages welcomes submissions for its annual awards. The 2017 Florence Howe Award Each year, the Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship recognizes two outstanding essays by feminist scholars, one from the field of English and one from a foreign language. Each recipient receives $250 and is honored at an…
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CFP: Research Support Grant, Maine Women Writers Collection (Deadline 12.01.2017)
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 our…
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CFP: The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and the Edith Wharton Society at ALA (Deadline: 1.5.2018)
CALL FOR PAPERS AMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION MAY 24-27, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO, CA The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and the Edith Wharton Society 1) Comparative Approaches to Fitzgerald and Wharton The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and the Edith Wharton Society are collaborating to organize a panel on the two writers at the American Literature Association’s 2018…
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Job Posting: Culturally Engaged Digital Humanities/Digital Rhetorics Assistant Professor Position, Michigan State University
We’re hiring! Culturally-engaged digital humanities. Join us! The Department of Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures (WRAC) at Michigan State University seeks a colleague in Culturally Engaged Digital Humanities/ Digital Rhetorics at the rank of Assistant Professor to join our department – an innovative, inclusive community that encourages intellectual and cultural diversity dedicated to preparing excellent…
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CFP: Louisa May Alcott Society Roundtable at ALA (Deadline: 1.19.2018)
CALL FOR PAPERS Roundtable: Louisa May Alcott Society American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 24-27, 2018 The Newness of Little Women When it initially appeared in 1868, Little Women broke new ground. Fresh, lively, and distinctly American, in the eyes of its first reviewers, the novel offered up singular depictions of young women…
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CFP: The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society at ALA and Graduate Student Paper Award (Deadline 12.31.2017 and 12.15.2017)
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society seeks proposals of approximately 250 words on any aspect of Stowe’s life and writing. Please send proposals and a brief cv to LuElla D’Amico at ldamico@uiwtx.edu before December 31, 2017 Harriet Beecher Stowe Up and Coming Scholar Award–ALA The Stowe Society would like to recognize graduate students who are currently working on scholarship…
