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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: ESQ Special Issue: Paula Bernat Bennett and the Recovery of 19th-Century American Women Poets (Proposals due 5.17.16)
ESQ Special Issue: Paula Bernat Bennett and the Recovery of 19th-Century American Women Poets (Proposals due 5.17.16) Call for papers for a special issue of ESQ to celebrate the landmark contribution of Paula Bernat Bennett to the recovery of nineteenth-century American women poets and the 20th anniversary of the publication of her ground-breaking anthology Nineteenth-Century…
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CFP: Edith Wharton’s Summer (MLA 2017; Deadline 3.15.16)
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CFP (Updated Deadline): Teaching Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States: Pedagogy in Anxious Times (journal issue; 4.1.16)
Teaching Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States: Pedagogy in Anxious Times Guest Editors: Cristina Stanciu and Anastasia Lin Updated deadline: April 1, 2016 The 2005 MELUS special issue “Pedagogy, Praxis, and Politics” raised a number of questions about the theoretical implications of pedagogical practices in the multi-ethnic literature classroom. From the state of the field…
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Research Assistant Professor/Assistant Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP) (University of Pittsburgh)
Pending budgetary approval, the newly created Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP) at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for the new position Research Assistant Professor/Assistant Director. The position is a renewable, full-time non-tenure-stream appointment with the opportunity for promotion. The contract term will begin as soon as April 1, 2016.
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Assistant Teaching Professor in Core Literature (Wake Forest University)
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY’S Department of English is seeking a permanent, non-tenure-track Assistant Teaching Professor. Applicants should have a commitment to high-quality teaching of literature at the introductory level, with an ABD or PHD in English. Preference for specialist in American literature. This position includes funds for travel and research, and the opportunity for a long-term…
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Assistant Professor-Ethnic Literatures (University of Arkansas at Little Rock )
English: The English Department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock invites applications for a tenure-track position in Ethnic Literatures at the rank of Assistant Professor (R99381). The applicant should have a primary emphasis in African American, Chicana/o, or Latina/o literatures, and will be expected to teach African American Literature, the core survey of…
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2016 First Book Institute
The 2016 First Book Institute June 5-11, 2016 Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University Co-Directors Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book Priscilla Wald, Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Duke University and Editor…
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Fellowships: 2016 James P. Danky Fellowship
2016 James P. Danky Fellowship Applications are due May 1. In honor of James P. Danky’s long service to print culture scholarship, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Historical Society, is again offering its annual short-term research fellowship (http://www.slis.wisc.edu/chpcdanky.htm).
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Assistant Professor in Ethnic Literatures (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
English: The English Department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock invites applications for a tenure-track position in Ethnic Literatures at the rank of Assistant Professor (R99381). The applicant should have a primary emphasis in African American, Chicana/o, or Latina/o literatures, and will be expected to teach African American Literature, the core survey of…
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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 to begin August 1, 2016. The teaching load may include such courses as Rhetoric and Composition, Literature and Composition, Humanities I and II, Film Criticism and American…
