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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: Everyday Stowe: The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society’s 20th Anniversary Conference (3.15.16)
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! In Stowe’s short work, “The Cathedral,” she suggested that, “To be really great…
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CFP: HERA in New Orleans (Extended Deadline: 1.15.16)
HERA Call for Papers Humanities Education and Research Association Annual Conference, 23-26 March New Orleans, LA The Nature of Our Humanity (See HERA’s website for an expanded description.) www.h-e-r-a.org/ In keeping with HERA’s mission of promoting the study of the humanities across a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplines, we invite presentations for the 2016 conference.…
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CFP: Critical Insights: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Collection; Abstracts due 12.30.15)
CFP: Critical Insights: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, the most-taught text across disciplines according to the MLA, will soon celebrate its 40th anniversary of publication. Over these forty years it has received much critical attention, as well some rather virulent attacks. This…
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CFP: Harriet Beecher Stowe Society panel at ALA (Deadline: 1.18.16)
Harriet Beecher Stowe Society Call for Papers: ALA, May 26-29, 2016, San Francisco, CA Stowean Legacies 2016 marks several anniversaries relevant to Harriet Beecher Stowe scholars, notably the 120th anniversary of Stowe’s death, the anniversary of the Collected Works, and even the twentieth anniversary of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society. To acknowledge these anniversaries, this…
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Amherst College Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI) Fellows
The Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI) at Amherst College seeks scholars from across the disciplines for full-time, one-year appointments as CHI Fellows. In colloquy with one another and the Amherst faculty, the CHI Fellows will explore the theme of Conservation. Amherst College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, persons of color, and persons with disabilities to…
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Assistant Professor (Texas A&M University-San Antonio)
Specialization: Early American literature or Latina/o literature Qualifications: A Ph.D. degree in English or a closely related field from a regionally accredited institution, with a demonstrated specialization in either Early American literature or Latina/o literature.
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CFP: Constance Fenimore Woolson Society at ALA (Deadline 12.30.15)
CFP: Constance Fenimore Woolson Society at ALA “Teaching Recovered Women Writers” As a follow-up to a productive roundtable on the recovery of women writers at last year’s ALA, the Constance Fenimore Woolson Society is putting together a panel for the San Francisco ALA on the subject of Teaching Recovered Women Writers. One the most urgent issues…
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Assistant Professor (University of South Carolina Lancaster)
The University of South Carolina Lancaster, a regional campus of the University of South Carolina located approximately thirty-five (35) miles south of Charlotte, NC seeks candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in English beginning August 16, 2016. Applicants should hold the Ph.D. or other terminal degree in English or a related field including credentials necessary…
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CFP: “Women’s Voices” (Journal Issue; 2/1/16)
Call for Submissions: “Women’s Voices” Short Story Journal is seeking short stories and critical articles on the theme of women’s voices for its spring 2016 issue. – Submissions should not exceed 4000 words (if possible, please use MLA format). – Email submissions as .doc, .docx, or .rtf attachments, and include your full name, contact information,…
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#GivingTuesday and SSAWW
1 December is #GIVINGTUESDAY: Please consider donating to SSAWW: https://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/donate/ Your tax-deductible donations will help rebuild our graduate student travel fund in anticipation of the 2017 Universite Bordeaux Montaigne conference. Thank you for your support of SSAWW.
