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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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Awards: Lydia Maria Child Society Student Award Deadline Extended to May 8
Lydia Maria Child Society Student Award Deadline Extended to May 8 Dear colleagues, The Lydia Maria Child Society’s executive board has so enjoyed reviewing the nominations we’ve received for our first social justice award. While we’ve received many nominations of scholars at the professorial level, though, we have not yet received any for our student…
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UPDATE: SSAWW 2017 Université Bordeaux Montaigne
We are pleased and honored that both Alice Kaplan and Sarah Rose Etter have accepted our invitation to join us and give a keynote address. Alice Kaplan is probably best known for her 1993 memoir, French Lessons, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in biography/autobiography. Her latest book, Dreaming…
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Northwest Region SSAWW Study Group – Whitworth University, Spokane, WA
You are invited to the Summer 2016 meeting of the Northwest Region SSAWW Study Group, which will take place at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA. The meeting will be on Saturday, June 25th from 12:00-1:30pm. Hor d’oeurves will be provided by the Whitworth English Department. We will be meeting in Conference Room ABC in the Hixson Union Building. The…
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CFP: Kay Boyle Society at ALA 2017
CFP: ALA 2017 Conference Boston, Mass. 2017: Boston, MA. May 25-28, 2017 Panel proposal: “Kay Boyle and Surrealism” Kay Boyle’s life in Europe (1923-1941) brought her in close contact with the avant-gardes, including particular with French Surrealism. Through her collaboration to Eugene Jolas’s international little magazine transition, in particular, she was able to measure the influence…
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CFP: Kay Boyle Society at SSAWW 2017 (5.30.16)
CFP: SSAWW 2017 Conference Border Crossings: Translation, Migration, & Gender in the Americas, the Transatlantic, & the Transpacific Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France 5th – 8th July 2017 Panel proposal: “Women Writers and the Rise of a Transnational Modernism” For American modernist women writers, border crossing and travel was an essential experience in reshaping their sense…
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19th-Century American Visiting Assistant Professor at Whitworth University
19th-Century American Visiting Assistant Professor at Whitworth University We are seeking a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor of English to teach courses in American literature before 1900. Renewable up to three years, depending on performance and university needs. Ability to contribute expertise and courses to either our Women’s and Gender Studies program or our US Cultural…
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CFP: Society for the Study of the American Short Story (7.1.16)
Call for Papers: The American Short Story: An Expansion of the Genre Keynote Speaker: J. Gerald Kennedy (Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University) “National Strangeness in the Antebellum Tale” Special Event: A Reading by Judith Ortiz Cofer The Society for the Study of the American Short Story (SSASS) requests proposals for papers and presentations at…
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American Literature Society Announces The 1921 Prize in American Literature
American Literature Society Announces The 1921 Prize in American Literature We are pleased to announce The 1921 Prize in American Literature, a new prize awarded to the best article in any field of American literature. The prize is named for the year the organization was initially founded “to promote and diversify the study of American…
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Post Doctoral Researcher in Special Collections and Digital Humanities (The University of Delaware)
The University of Delaware Library and the College of Arts and Sciences invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow of Special Collections and Digital Humanities. We seek an untenured scholar in the humanities (PhD received January 2010 – June 2016). The mission of the Fellow is to promote primary sources related to African American culture found…
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Visiting Assistant Professor of the Study of Women and Gender and English Language and Literature (Smith College)
The Program for the Study of Women and Gender (SWG) and the Department of English Language and Literature at Smith College invite applications for a one-year, non-tenure-track position at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor, to begin July 2016. We seek a scholar working at the intersection of questions of race, gender, and sexuality in…
