• 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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  • Cesar Chavez Postdoctoral Fellowship (Dartmouth College)

    Dartmouth College invites applications for the César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Fellowship supports a scholar whose research addresses aspects of Latino/a experience and culture. Particular attention will be given to candidates who work in any of the following fields: Comparative Literature, English, Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, Spanish, Womens, Gender, or Sexuality Studies or…

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  • Visiting Assistant Professor of English (Kenyon College)

    Kenyon College, a highly selective liberal arts college in Gambier Ohio, invites applications for one or two one-year visiting positions in the Department of English at the rank of instructor or assistant professor. Areas of specialization for the positions are creative writing (fiction) and/or any area of American or ethnic-American literature.  The term of appointment…

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  • CFP for ALA: Sarah Piatt at 180 and Palace-Burner at 15, Deadline 1.25.16

    This is a call for a proposed panel for the for the 27th annual American Literature Association conference. Sarah Piatt at 180 and Palace – Burner at 15: the View from 2016 2016 will mark the 180th anniversary of Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt’s birth and the 15th anniversary of the groundbreaking publication of Paula Bernat Bennett’s Palace –…

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  • CFP (Extended Deadline): Constance Fenimore Woolson at ALA (1.20.16)

    The Woolson Society is extending the deadline to Jan. 20 for its ALA panel/roundtable (May 26-29, San Francisco) on Teaching Recovered Women Writers. We hope to expand the discussion to more voices and particularly to the topic of using online archives to bring recovered women writers’ texts into the classroom. The original call is below.…

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  • CFP: Women’s Studies in the Library, Deadline: 02.28.16

    Women’s Studies in the Library: Case Studies of Innovative Programs and Resources Book Publisher: McFarland Carol Smallwood, ed. Library’s Role in Supporting Financial Literacy for Patrons (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); public library administrator, special, school librarian. Lura Sanborn, co-editor. Women, Work, and the Web, contributor, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015); public, academic, school librarian. One or…

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  • CFP: Edited Collection Library Outreach to Writers and Poets, Deadline 01.31.16

    Library Outreach to Writers and Poets: Interviews and Case Studies of Cooperation Book Publisher: McFarland Carol Smallwood:  Water, Earth, Air, Fire, and Picket Fences (Lamar University Press, 2014);  Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching is on Poets & Writers Magazine list of Best Books for Writers. Vera Gubnitskaia: contributor, Bringing the Arts into…

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  • CFP: Lydia Maria Child Society at ALA 2016, Deadline: 01.17.16

    CALL FOR PAPERS:  LYDIA MARIA CHILD SOCIETY AT ALA 2016 The Lydia Maria Child Society (LMCS) welcomes proposals on the topic “‘HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE LYDIA MARIA CHILD?’: PRINCIPLES AT HEART AND AT WORK” for a panel to be held at the annual American Literature Association conference in San Francisco, CA, 26…

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  • CFP for “Woman Thinking” at ALA 2016 Deadline extended 01.17.16.

    CFP for “Woman Thinking” at ALA 2016 Please note: Our deadline has been extended to January 17th. We welcome proposals on the topic “Woman Thinking: Public Intellectualism and U.S. Periodical Culture” for the American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 26-29, 2016 (http://alaconf.org/). This panel will be co-sponsored by the Research Society for American…

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  • Last day to download Edith Wharton Review issues for free!

    Today is the last day to download back issues of The Edith Wharton Review for free at https://edithwhartonsociety.wordpress.com/edith-wharton-review/ewr-back-issues-online/ Because The Edith Wharton Review has moved to Penn State Press, free back issues will be taken down from the Edith Wharton Society site tomorrow.

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  • CFP Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy – TEACHING COMMUNITY, Deadline: 02.08.16

    Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy announces a special issue on TEACHING COMMUNITY, with guest editors Erica R. Meiners and Therese Quinn. Feb. 8, 2016 deadline. The editors seek articles (5,000-10,000 words) and media essays (3,000 to 5,000 word overviews of books, film, video, performance, art, music, websites, and more), short essays for…

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