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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 for ALA 2017: Pauline E. Hopkins Society Due January 6, 2017
Please consider submitting a proposal for one of the two panels (including one on editors) below. Ellen Gruber Garvey has kindly agreed to act as respondent for the first panel. Thank you. Call for Papers Pauline E. Hopkins Society American Literature Association 28th Annual Conference May 25-28, 2017 Boston, MA The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins…
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CFP: Migration, Diaspora, Circulation and Translation: due Feb 15, 2017
Migration, Diaspora, Circulation and Translation October 5-7, 2017 University College Dublin, Clinton Institute for American Studies Dublin, Ireland A conference sponsored by the Charles Brockden Brown Society (www.brockdenbrownsociety.ucf.edu) Our conference site in Dublin calls to mind issues of migration, immigration, emigration, colonization, revolution, and other changes that result from the movement of people, ideas, and…
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CFP: Volume on Edith Wharton, due Nov 20, 2016
Call for Papers: Critical Insights, Edith Wharton Please see below the call for essays for a forthcoming volume on Edith Wharton. The volume is part of the series Critical Insights (Salem Press) and will appear in fall 2017. More information can be found here: http://www.salempress.com/critical_insights.html Following the guidelines for the series, I seek essays (4000-5000 words)…
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CFP: James Fenimore Cooper and American Women Writers, Due Jan 15, 2017
The James Fenimore Cooper Society will host the following panel at the 28th annual American Literature Association conference, which will take place from May 25-28, 2017, in Boston, MA. Panel 1: James Fenimore Cooper and American Women Writers Contributing to a literary marketplace largely shaped by Cooper’s success as a professional writer, American women writers…
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CFP: ALA Symposium, Regionalism and Place (Deadline 5.15.17)
Call for Papers American Literature Association Symposium September 7-9, 2017 Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, Louisiana Regionalism and Place in American Literature American regional writing, as a literary movement, often has a limited association with a few decades during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. At times, many writers have cringed at being described as…
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CFP: ASLE Conference (Deadline: 12.12.16)
We seek participants for the SSAWW-affiliate panel at the upcoming ASLE conference. Please contact Tina Gianquitto (tinagian@mines.edu) if you are interested in participating in or forming a panel for the conference. Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Twelfth Biennial Conference, June 20 – 24, 2017 Wayne State University…
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CFP: Catharine Sedgwick Society at ALA (Deadline 1.15.17)
As we head toward the 150th anniversary of Catharine Sedgwick’s death and the 20th anniversary of the CMS Society in 2017, we invite proposals for the following panel for ALA 2017: Session #1: TIME, MEMORIALS AND ANNIVERSARIES (3 or 4 15 to 20-minute papers): How is “time” referenced in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s writings? Does her…
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CFP: “Transcendentalist Intersections” (due August 1, 2017)
“Transcendentalist Intersections: Literature, Philosophy, Religion” University of Heidelberg, Germany, July 26 – 29, 2018 Sponsored by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, the Margaret Fuller Society, and the Anglistisches Seminar and Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg At its first meeting in 1836, the Transcendental Club declared an “organ of spiritual…
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Job Position due Nov 15: The Herman Melville Distinguished Professorship in American Literature – University of Kansas
The Herman Melville Distinguished Professorship in American Literature The University of Kansas English Department invites candidates to apply for a newly endowed Herman Melville Distinguished Professorship in American Literature. For this tenured faculty position at the Distinguished Professor level, we seek a prominent senior scholar whose work critically re-engages the writings of one or…
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CFP: Rust and Recovery, ALSE 2017
Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Twelfth Biennial Conference, June 20 – 24, 2017 Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan http://asle2017.clas.wayne.edu In Rust: The Longest War, Jonathan Waldman claims that, for those who “yield to rust, find beauty in rust, capitalize on rust, raise awareness of rust,…
