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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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Visiting Assistant Professor of Literary Studies (The New School in New York)
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School invites applications for a one-year visiting position as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literary Studies with a start date of Fall 2016. Lang’s Literary Studies curriculum features discussion-based seminars that consider the written word from both critical and creative perspectives. Faculty utilize innovative methods to…
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CFP: Legacy at the SSAWW conference in Bordeaux (Deadline: 6.25.16)
CFP: SSAWW conference in Bordeaux, France Deadline: June 25th, 2016 Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers solicits proposals for a guaranteed panel at the SSAWW conference in Bordeaux, France, July 5-8, 2017. Extending the conference CFP, with its keywords such as “transnationalism,” “translation,” and “transatlantic,” we add the term “transgender.” Concepts of movement and…
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CFP: Roundtable Proposals for Bordeaux SSAWW Conference
CFP: Susan K. Harris is seeking panelists/topics for two roundtable panel proposals that she would like to submit for the SSAWW Conference, Universite Bordeaux Montaigne, France, July 5-8, 2017. Please reply to skh5@ku.edu . Remember to specify to which panel you are applying! 1. Lighting Out for the Territories I: taking our skills out of…
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CFP: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society in Bordeaux, France (Deadline 6.22.16)
CALL FOR PAPERS – Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society SSAWW Conference, Universite Bordeaux Montaigne, France, July 5-8, 2017 The first international SSAWW conference has the following focus: “Border Crossings: Translation, Migration and Gender in the Americas, the Transatlantic and the Transpacific.” The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society wants to submit a complete panel for this conference. Abstracts…
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SSAWW Panels and Business Meeting at ALA this week
Session 1-B Transnational Community in Multi-Ethnic American Women’s Literature (Pacific I) Thursday, May 26, 9-10:20 a.m. Organized by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Chairs: Emily VanDette, SUNY-Fredonia 1. “It Means Loving Someone You Don’t Know: Transculturation and Marriage in Bengali-American Fiction,” Sandra M. Cox, Pittsburg State University 2 “Joyce, Race, and…
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CFP: Recovering American Women Writers Roundtable (Deadline 6.1.16)
Inviting a scholar to join our roundtable at the Western Literature Association meeting in Big Sky, MT on Sept. 22-24, 2016. We are looking for someone who has worked or is currently working on the recovery of an American writer to discuss their process, resources, and future work. Given the audience, it would be preferable…
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CFP: Dystopic Dickinson for SAMLA 2016 (Deadline 06.01.16)
CFP: South Atlantic Modern Language Association convention; Jacksonville, Florida; November 4-6, 2016 Dystopic Dickinson. Or Is It Utopic Dickinson? Decades of criticism have revealed many—often contradictory—Dickinsons: a skeptic or a devout Christian? A Civil War poet or an isolated genius ahead of her time? A poet who truly believed “Publication” to be the “Auction / Of the Mind of Man”…
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Lydia Maria Child Society Website Launch
The Lydia Maria Child Society is pleased to announce the launch of our website https://lydiamariachildsociety.wordpress.com. We will expand this site in the coming months to include resources and other materials relevant to Lydia Maria Child, her writing, and her social justice mission. We welcome your input and suggestions. Please follow us, and if you are…
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Visiting Assistant Professor, American Literature (Rollins College)
The Department of English at Rollins College invites applications for a one-year replacement position for a specialist in American Literature beginning Fall 2016. The teaching schedule of six courses over two semesters will include literature electives in the candidate’s area of specialization, an upper-level class in American literature after 1850, and at least one section…
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CFP: American Women Writers and the Short Story (5.15.16)
Call for Papers: American Women Writers and the Short Story ALA Symposium “The American Short Story: An Expansion of the Genre” Savannah, Georgia October 20-22, 2016 Proposal Deadline: May 15, 2016 For a panel on “American Women Writers and the Short Story” at the ALA Symposium on the short story in Savannah, Georgia, please send…
