• 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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  • Post-Doc Fellowship in Women’s Studies (Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne)

    Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) invites applications for a post-doctoral teaching fellowship in Women’s Studies. The fellowship is a two-year appointment, contingent on positive evaluations from students and peers during the first year, as well as the curricular needs of the program. As part of the appointment, the fellow will teach a 3/3 course…

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  • NeMLA 2017 Call for Session Proposals -Baltimore, MD

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  • Assistant Professor of English (Tenure Track) (University of Houston Victoria)

    Teach undergraduate and graduate level English, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Literary and Critical Theory, Interdisciplinary Studies, American Studies courses; advise students; participate in course & program development; pursue scholarly & professional activities; perform college & professional service; work cooperatively with diverse groups; perform other duties as assigned by Dean of Arts & Sciences & Chair…

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  • CFP Deadline Extended: Stowe Society Conference (4.15.16)

    Call for Papers: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 15!  All scholars and students welcome. Everyday Stowe: The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society’s 20th Anniversary Conference Spokane, WA, June 24-26, 2016 The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society announces a conference celebrating Harriet Beecher Stowe—her life and works—at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, our first conference in the Pacific Northwest!…

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  • Grants, Fellowships and Prizes: Lydia Maria Child Society (5.1.16)

    Lydia Maria Child Society Prize The LMCS is pleased to announce two awards in keeping with our society’s goal of honoring and continuing Lydia Maria Child’s vision of and work toward social justice: one for literature scholars at the graduate level and beyond and one for high school and undergraduate students.  Child routinely wrote on…

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  • Assistant Professor of English (Missouri Valley College)

    The Division of Communications, Humanities, and Human Services at Missouri Valley College, a private liberal arts college, invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure track Assistant Professor of English (American literature generalist) to begin August 1, 2016.  The teaching load may include first-year composition and American literature courses.

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  • SSAWW Business: Seeking SSAWW Officer Nominations

    Seeking SSAWW Officer Nominations Please consider nominating yourself and/or deserving colleagues for SSAWW officer positions! Here is our SurveyMonkey link at which you can find descriptions of the open positions and record your candidates: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GZMK636 We’re looking at a window of one week for collecting nominations, unless we need to extend the deadline. Thank you,…

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  • CFP: Signs Special Issue: Displacement (9.15.16)

    Call for Papers  Signs Special Issue: Displacement Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society invites submissions for a special issue titled “Displacement,” slated for publication in spring 2018. The current refugee crisis gives new urgency to questions of gendered displacement. What are the larger questions of “displacement” that require an interdisciplinary and transnational feminist…

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  • Texas Regional Study Group (4.2.16)

    Reminder! The next meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group will be Saturday, April 2, 2016 at the University of Texas Dallas, hosted by Sabrina Starnaman. The common reading is a selection from Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction and one of the editors of this volume, Lisa Yaszek, will be…

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  • Call for SSAWW Newsletter Items (Extended Deadline: 4.4.16)

    Dear SSAWWers, It’s time to send your announcements, calls for papers, new book notices, and other information for the Spring 2016 SSAWW Newsletter. If you have items, please send them to campbelld@wsu.edu or ssaww.web@gmail.com by April 4. If you’re sending in a notice of a new book or article (and please do send these!), it…

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