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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: Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women’s Writing by Donna M. Campbell
Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women’s Writing Donna M. Campbell Athens: University of Georgia Press, September 2016 http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/index/bitter_tastes Challenging the conventional understandings of literary naturalism defined primarily through its male writers, Donna M. Campbell examines the ways in which American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction and redefined its principles for their…
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New Articles (Spring and Summer 2016)
New Articles (Spring and Summer 2016) Bannett, Nina. “Reclaiming Sentimentalism in Edith Wharton’s Summer.” The Edith Wharton Review, 31.1-2 (2015): 29-56. Blockett. Kimberly. “Disrupting Print: Emigration, the Press, and Narrative Subjectivity in the British Preaching and Writing of Zilpha Elaw, 1840-1860s.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (Fall 2015) 40 (3): 94-109. Drizou, Myrto.…
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New Books: The Moral Economies of American Authorship: Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace by Susan M. Ryan
The Moral Economies of American Authorship: Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace Susan M. Ryan Oxford University Press, 2016 Investigates the moral authority of authorship in nineteenth-century America, focusing on the ways in which authorial character circulated as a kind of literary property Surveys the circulation of authors’ moral currency across a wide range…
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New Books: Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism by J. Samaine Lockwood
J. Samaine Lockwood University of North Carolina Press, 2015 http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/13263.html In this thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century America, J. Samaine Lockwood offers an important new interpretation of the literary movement known as American regionalism. Lockwood argues that regionalism in New England was part of a widespread woman-dominated effort to rewrite history. Lockwood demonstrates that New England…
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Assistant Professor of Early and 19th-Century American Literature (Ball State)
Ball State University’s Department of English is accepting applications for a permanent, full-time, tenure track faculty position as Assistant Professor of Early and 19th-Century American Literature. Major responsibilities: Teaching and developing undergraduate and graduate courses in the candidate’s area(s) of specialization; teaching a wide range of courses in English as appropriate to the candidate’s expertise;…
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CFP: A Collection of Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (Abstracts due 9.16.16)
CFP: A Collection of Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Essays are sought for an edited collection focused on the life and work of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, to be submitted to the University of Georgia Press. As surprising as it may seem given Hopkins’s significance as novelist, editor, and public intellectual, the only collection of critical…
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Reminder: CFP for SSAWW in Bordeaux; Panel Proposals due 6.30.16
Reminder: Deadline for Panel Proposals for SSAWW Bordeaux 2017 is 6.30.16 Panel Proposal Calls for Papers: https://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/?s=bordeaux&submit= Border Crossings:Translation, Migration, & Gender in the Americas, the Transatlantic, & the Transpacific Society for the Study of American Women Writers & Université Bordeaux Montaigne Dates: 5th – 8th July 2017 Venue: Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France Conference director: Stéphanie…
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CFP: Feminist Studies “Doctoral Degrees in Women’s/ Gender/ Sexuality Studies: Taking Stock” (8.15.16)
Deadline Extended for Call for Papers: “Doctoral Degrees in Women’s/ Gender/ Sexuality Studies: Taking Stock” Scholars in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies have long been self-reflexive about what it means to become institutionalized within the academy. Feminist Studies articles have charted this institutionalization throughout the history of the field, and especially when doctoral programs were…
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CFP: Second International Conference of the Intercontinental Crosscurrents Network
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) Call for…
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CFP: Islanded (for Bordeaux SSAWW Conference)
CFP: Islanded Seeking papers for the following panel to be proposed for the SSAWW conference in July 2017 in Bordeaux Deadline: June 25, 2016 In recent years, a number of recovered texts have brought female characters and authors into conversations about transatlantic and transpacific movements in general, and about islands in particular. From the anonymously…
