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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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Deadline (9/1): “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West” (Studies in the Novel)
Call For Papers – Studies in the Novel Special Issue: “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West” Deadline for submissions: 9/1/2016 Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West,” guest edited by Sigrid Anderson Cordell (University of Michigan)…
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CFP: Gender Studies in the Library
Gender Studies in the Library: Case Studies, Programming, Outreach Book Publisher: McFarland Carol Smallwood, co-editor. Library’s Role in Supporting Financial Literacy for Patrons (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); public library administrator, special, school librarian. Lura Sanborn, co-editor. Women, Work, and the Web, contributor, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015); public, academic, school librarian. One or two chapters sought…
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CFP: Catharine Sedgwick Society Symposium 2017 (Deadline 11.30.16)
“Where and When: Evolving Concepts of Place, Space, and Time in the Writings of Sedgwick and Her Contemporaries” Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Sedgwick’s death in 1867 and The 20th Anniversary of the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society June 7-10, 2017 — The Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, Massachusetts From her first novel, A New-England Tale; or…
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Assistant or Associate Professor of American Studies (USC)
Job Posting Details: http://jobs.usc.edu:80/postings/71540
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SSAWW Spring 2016 Newsletter now available
The Spring 2016 SSAWW Newsletter is available here: SSAWW 17-1 Spring 2016 Please welcome our new officers as of July 31, 2016: Officers President: DoVeanna S. Fulton, University of Houston-Downtown, fultond@uhd.edu (single term) (term ends 2018). Vice President of Organizational Matters: Sabrina Starnaman, University of Texas at Dallas Leslie Allison, Temple University leslie.allison@temple.edu (single term; 2017)…
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New Books: Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay: An Annotated Edition. Edited by Timothy F. Jackson, with an Introduction by Holly Peppe
Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay: An Annotated Edition Edited by Timothy F. Jackson, with an Introduction by Holly Peppe Yale University Press, 2016. http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300213966/selected-poems-edna-st-vincent-millay In this authoritative volume, Timothy F. Jackson has compiled and annotated a new selection that represents the full range of her published work alongside previously unpublished manuscript excerpts, poems,…
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New Books: Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence by Stephanie J. Fitzgerald
Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence. Stephanie J. Fitzgerald Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015 http://www.unmpress.com/books.php?ID=20000000005449 Winner of the 2015 Woodcraft Circle Honor and Award for Best Academic Book and just recently, the Beatrice Medicine Award for Scholarship in American Indian Studies (awarded by the Native American Literature Symposium).
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New Books: Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations Beyond Sympathy by Melanie V. Dawson
Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations Beyond Sympathy Melanie V. Dawson University of Michigan Press, 2015 https://www.press.umich.edu/8148231/emotional_reinventions Focusing on representational approaches to emotion during the years of American literary realism’s dominance and in the works of such authors as Edith Wharton, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, W. D. Howells, Charles Chesnutt, and others, Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations Beyond Sympathy contends that…
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New Books: Mary Austin, Santa Lucia: A Common Story (1908). Introduction by Maribel Morales
Mary Austin, Santa Lucia: A Common Story (1908) Introduction by Maribel Morales Hastings College Press, 2016 Set in a small college town in California, Mary Austin’s 1908 novel Santa Lucia explores the limited options available to women in early 20th century America. Focusing on the married lives of three young women—William Caldwell, Serena Lindley, and…
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New Books: Dividing the Reservation: Alice C. Fletcher’s Nez Perce Allotment Diaries and Letters, 1889 – 1892 by Nicole Tonkovich
Dividing the Reservation: Alice C. Fletcher’s Nez Perce Allotment Diaries and Letters, 1889 – 1892 Nicole Tonkovich Washington State University Press, 2016 http://wsupress.wsu.edu/new-titles.html#DividingtheRes Alice Cunningham Fletcher was both formidable and remarkable. A pioneering ethnologist who penetrated occupations dominated by men, she was the first woman to hold an endowed chair at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of American…
