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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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Associate Professor of English (University of Texas at Arlington in Texas)
The English Department of the University of Texas at Arlington invites applications for the position of tenured or tenure-track Associate Professor in English and Digital Arts, starting in the Fall of 2016. The successful applicant will have a PhD in English and will be an active researcher who can contribute to our vibrant graduate and…
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Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes: RSAP Article Prize for Early-Career Scholars (3.10.16)
RSAP Article Prize The Research Society for American Periodicals announces the $1000 article prize for 2016. The prize will be awarded to the best article on American periodicals by an early-career scholar – that is, one who is pre-tenure, non-tenure, or independent, within five years of degree conferral – published in a peer-reviewed academic journal…
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CFP: MLA 2017 SSAWW Proposed Special Session (Deadline 03.01.16)
SSAWW Proposed Special Session: American Women Writers’ Boundary Conditions: 1 March Deadline Boundaries that define/challenge the category of American women writers, any period/genre. Special session proposed by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. 500 word abstract by 1 March 2016; Kristin J. Jacobson (kristin.jacobson@stockton.edu). https://apps.mla.org/cfp_detail_8849 Topics might include author(s), text(s), and/or teaching approach(es) that…
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CFP: Society for the Study of the American Short Story
The American Short Story: An Expansion of the Genre A Symposium of the American Literature Association The Society for the Study of the American Short Story (SSASS) requests proposals for papers and presentations at an international symposium on the short story to be held in Savannah, October 20-22, 2016, at the Hyatt Hotel. More information…
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CFP: Gale eBook Series on 19c. American Literature (3.18.16)
We are looking for nineteenth-century American scholars who are interested in contributing to a series of textbooks for Gale, a division of Cengage Learning. We’re currently working to create a 10 volume series of eBooks (targeted at undergrads) on American Literature prior to 1900. Gale is interested in scholars who can write succinctly and clearly…
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SSAWW CFP for MLA 2017 Special Session
American Women Writers’ Boundary Conditions Special Session Boundaries that define/challenge the category of American women writers, any period/genre. Special session proposed by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. 500 word abstract by 1 March 2016; Kristin J. Jacobson (kristin.jacobson@stockton.edu).https://apps.mla.org/cfp_detail_8849 Please share and submit abstracts Topics might include author(s), text(s), and/or teaching approach(es)…
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CFP: Teaching Western American Literature (essay collection; proposals by 5.1.16)
CFP: Teaching Western American Literature We invite submissions for a proposed collection of essays on teaching western American literature. If, as scholars and teachers of Western literatures and cultures, we regularly share our research, we perhaps do not as often get the chance to share new and innovative strategies for teaching courses or individual works…
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CFP: Critical Insights: Civil Rights (edited volume; 3.16.16)
Critical Insights: Civil Rights Christopher Allen Varlack, University of Maryland, Baltimore County cvarlack@umbc.edu From its flawed notion of “separate but equal” to the rampant violence against black bodies throughout the twentieth century, the United States faced a clear racial divide perpetuated by its Jim Crow culture and the disenfranchisement of blacks. In response, on August…
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Instructor, Chicana(o)/Latina(o) Studies (Foothill-De Anza Community College)
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POSITION INCLUDE: Primary responsibility of a Chicana(o)/Latina(o)Studies Instructor is to teach a variety of college-level courses that fulfill either general education requirements or an Associate of Arts degree in Intercultural Studies. Provide classroom instruction in Chicana(o)/Latina(o) Studies courses using student-learning-and-success-centered pedagogies. Primary teaching assignments may include, Introduction to Chicana(o)/Latina(o) Studies,…
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Assistant Professor of English (University of Houston-Victoria)
The School of Arts and Sciences is accepting applications for one tenure-track, assistant professor of English.
