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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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CFP: British Women Writers, Special Issue of Revue Francaise (Deadline 03.21.16)
CFP: Special Issue of Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique ‘Rule Patriarcha ? Women in Britain since 1800: evolution, revolution, or plus ça change?’ First wave British feminists made various predictions about the kind of gendered social change that their struggles would usher in. Some imagined a complete overhaul of relations between the sexes, particularly once women…
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MLA 2017 Periodicals, Editorship, Race and Ethnicity
MLA 2017: Periodicals, Editorship, Race and Ethnicity This roundtable invites consideration of how acts of collaboration and editorship might perforate historical acts of writing and reading. We thus respond to important recent work on immigrant, Latin@, and African American print cultures that intersect in their attention to periodicals. In doing so, we regard a structural lack—the…
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CFP MLA Panel: Writing Women in Nineteenth-Century Science and Medicine (3.25.16)
CFP MLA Panel: Writing Women in Nineteenth-Century Science and Medicine Nineteenth-century American women who worked in science and health fields disrupted the contemporary cultural norms that became more stratified with the increasing professionalization in fields of medicine and science. From Almira Phelps’s Botany textbooks and Elizabeth Blackwell’s memoirs to Rebecca Harding Davis’s and Sarah…
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SSAWW 2015 Legacy Best Paper Contest Results
SSAWW 2015 Legacy Best Paper Contest Results Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers is happy to announce the results of the SSAWW 2015 Best Paper Contest, acknowledging the strongest papers presented at the SSAWW Conference in Philadelphia in 2015. Winner-General Category Christa Holm Vogelius, University of Copenhagen “Margaret Fuller’s Transnational Imagination” Winner—Student Category Joshua…
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CFP: “Everyday Stowe” Anniversary Conference from the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society (Extended Deadline. 4.1.16)
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society is organizing its 20th Anniversary conference on “Everyday Stowe” at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington from June 24-26, 2016. The deadline for submissions has been extended until April 1, 2016. We are happy to announce that Dr. Laura Korobkin will be our keynote speaker. A flyer is attached is about…
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Associate Professor or Professor/Chairperson of the Department of English (North Carolina A&T State University)
The College of Arts and Sciences at North Carolina A&T State University seeks an energetic and innovative chairperson for the Department of English who possesses a distinguished record of scholarly and professional achievements, appreciates the integration of learning, discovery and engagement, and has significant experience in higher education. This is a 12-month administrative position with…
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CFP: Celebrating African American Literature and Language Conference
Call for Proposals (due 3/15/16) Celebrating African American Literature and Language – “Race and Resistance” Penn State University October 28-29, 2016 http://arc.psu.edu/caal2016
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CFP: Emily Dickinson (MLA; 3.10.16)
Emily Dickinson International Society Dickinson in the Anthropocene How does the idea of the Anthropocene change our understanding of Emily Dickinson? Presentations on ecopoetics, vitalism, animal studies, periodization, and other topics welcome. Abstract, cv by 10 March 2016; Cody Marrs (cmarrs@uga.edu) Posted 10 November 2015 The Spatial Turn in Dickinson and Her Contemporaries Presentations on…
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Regional Study Groups: Texas SSAWW on April 2 (RSVP by 3.21.16)
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 our…
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Assistant Professor of Africana Studies (Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania)
Lebanon Valley College invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of Africana studies and/or related fields. The area of specialization is open to candidates in the arts, humanities, and/or an interdisciplinary field. Disciplinary backgrounds may include, but are not restricted to, diaspora studies, critical race theory, African American studies, contemporary art, visual and print cultures,…
