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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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New Books: Knowing, Seeing, Being: Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and the American Typological Tradition Jennifer L. Leader
Knowing, Seeing, Being: Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and the American Typological Tradition Jennifer L. Leader Amherst: U of Massachusetts Press, 2016 http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/knowing-seeing-being#sthash.lfDQNRzZ.dpuf In Knowing, Seeing, Being, Jennifer L. Leader argues that Edwards, the nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson, and the twentieth-century poet Marianne Moore share a heretofore underrecognized set of religious and philosophical preoccupations.…
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New Books: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, ed. Christine Miller
Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them Christine Miller Harvard University Press, 2016 http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737969 Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them is a major new edition of Dickinson’s verse intended for the scholar, student, and general reader. This is the only edition of Dickinson’s complete poems to distinguish in easy visual form the approximately 1,100…
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New Books: Westerns: A Women’s History by Victoria Lamont
Westerns: A Women’s History Victoria Lamont Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016 At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s History debunks this myth once and for all by…
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New Books: Dickinson in Her Own Time Editors: Jane Donahue Eberwein, Stephanie Farrar, and Cristanne Miller
Dickinson in Her Own Time Editors: Jane Donahue Eberwein, Stephanie Farrar, and Cristanne Miller University of Iowa Press, 2016 http://www.uiowapress.org/books/2015-fall/dickinson-her-own-time.htm Featuring both well-known documents and material printed or collected here for the first time, this book offers a broad range of writings that convey impressions of Dickinson in her own time and for the first…
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New Books: A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry. Edited by Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides
A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry Edited by Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides Cambridge University Press, 2016 (Cover art not available) http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/american-literature/history-nineteenth-century-american-womens-poetry?format=HB A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry is the first book to construct a coherent history of the field and focus entirely on women’s poetry of the period. With contributions from some…
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New Books: Parental Incarceration: Personal Accounts and Developmental Impact. Denise Johnston and Megan Sullivan, eds.
Parental Incarceration: Personal Accounts and Developmental Impact Denise Johnston and Megan Sullivan, eds. New York and London: Routledge, 2016. https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138183223 Parental Incarceration makes available personal stories by adults who have had the childhood experience of parental incarceration. These stories, as well as the most updated information on research practice, help readers better understand the complex…
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New Books: Critical Insights: Louisa May Alcott. Ed. Greg Eiselein and Anne Phillips
Critical Insights: Louisa May Alcott Ed. Greg Eiselein and Anne Phillips Salem Press, 2016 A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Louisa May Alcott and the critical discussions surrounding her work. http://www.salempress.com/press_titles.html?book=432 A 19th century American novelist of the transcendentalist school, Louisa May Alcott is most renowned for Little Women, a coming-of-age…
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CFP: Second International Conference of the Intercontinental Crosscurrents Network The Dynamics of Power: Inclusion and Exclusion in Women’s Networks during the Long Nineteenth Century (8.15.16)
Second International Conference of the Intercontinental Crosscurrents Network The Dynamics of Power: Inclusion and Exclusion in Women’s Networks during the Long Nineteenth Century Venue: Institute of Arts and Humanities, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal Date: Nov. 3 – 5, 2016 Convener: Department of English and North-American Studies (DEINA) and the Centre for Humanistic Studies (CEHUM)…
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New Books: Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton. Ed. Mary Chapman
Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton. Ed. Mary Chapman http://www.mqup.ca/becoming-sui-sin-far-products-9780773547223.php The Press pre-ordering price (20% off $34.95) is in Canadian dollars and hence an additional 25% off the US price! Becoming Sui Sin Far collects and contextualizes seventy of Eaton’s early works, most of which have not…
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New Books: The Redemption of Narrative: Terry Tempest Williams and Her Vision of the West by Jan Whitt
The Redemption of Narrative: Terry Tempest Williams and Her Vision of the West Jan Whitt Mercer University Press, 2016 Author and environmental activist Terry Tempest Williams argues that a lack of connection to the land is the direct result of our failure to care intimately about one another. A Mormon and a believer in the…
