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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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SSAWW 2015 Update – Notes on Presentation times and Chair guidelines
Dear Conference Participants, As the conference approaches, below are a few notes about the panels and presentations: Paper lengths for panels: panels are either three or four person panels. All four person panels and some three person panels are in an 80 minute time slot. Most three person panels are in a 75 minute time…
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SSAWW 2015 updates: Oct. draft schedule; online registration update
Dear conference participants, We look forward to seeing you all in Philadelphia for SSAWW’s Triennial Conference in a few weeks. Here is the updated program schedule. As we worked to make some adjustments, we were again impressed by the exciting presentations that make up the conference program. Please check your entry carefully in case there…
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Assistant Professor – Modern American (Montclair State University)
Department of English: (V-F11)Modern American literature; teach specialized and survey courses required for the major and graduate courses, including courses on women and minority writers. Ph.D. in English or related field. Montclair State University has a long history of commitment to cultural diversity in its programs, faculty and students. To foster this multicultural environment, the…
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New Books: “Hero Strong” and Other Stories: Tales of Girlhood Ambition, Female Masculinity, and Women’s Worldly Achievement in Antebellum America
Hero Strong Dust Jacket “Hero Strong” and Other Stories: Tales of Girlhood Ambition, Female Masculinity, and Women’s Worldly Achievement in Antebellum America Mary F. W. Gibson; edited and with an introduction by Daniel A. Cohen University of Tennessee Press http://utpress.org/title/hero-strong-and-other-stories/ (for 30% publisher’s discount coupon, please email dac37@case.edu) A teenage orphan from Vermont, Mary Gibson…
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Deadline Extended: ALA Symposium on Frontiers and Borders in American Literature (Deadline 12.1.15)
American Literature Association Symposium: Frontiers and Borders in American Literature February 25-27, 2016 Sheraton Gunter Hotel San Antonio, TX Proposals are welcome for papers and panels on a range of topics related to varied conceptions of the frontier and American borderlands, including but not limited to nineteenth and twentieth-century narratives of the frontier, Western literature, the…
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CFP: Eudora Welty and Modernism (American Literature Association, San Francisco, May 26-29, 2016)
Call for Papers: Eudora Welty and Modernism (American Literature Association, San Francisco, May 26-29, 2016) This panel will investigate Eudora Welty’s relationship with modernisms–regional, national, transnational, or global. Papers welcome on any aspect of the subject: the extent to which her work (fiction, nonfiction, photography) is shaped by a modernist aesthetic, modern or modernist temporalities…
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Assistant Professor (Lindsey Wilson College)
The Lindsey Wilson College English program, which values breadth, flexibility, and innovation, invites applications for an Assistant Professor of pre-20th century American literature to begin in August 2016. Expertise in Ethnic, African American, or Southern literature a plus. Additional responsibilities will include teaching all levels of first-year writing, general education literature courses, and upper-level courses…
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CFP: NEMLA Panel The Choice of Books: The Woman Reader, Control, and Cultural Authority
The Choice of Books: The Woman Reader, Control, and Cultural Authority kimberlyearmstrong@gmail.com In Yale Professor Noah Porter’s 1870 guide to finding “successful methods of Reading,” he argues that young women “suffering for the want of a little direction […] read themselves down into an utter waste and frivolity of thought, feeling and purpose. The trashy…
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CFP: Southern Writers and Their Professional Networks
This panel is being proposed for the 2016 Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference, which is being held in Boston from March 10th to 12th. A more complete cfp is below. Southern Writers and Their Professional Networks During the nineteenth century, the nation’s communication and transportation systems advantaged publishers located in the northeastern…
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CFP: Louisa May Alcott Society at ALA
Louisa May Alcott Society Call for Papers: ALA, May 26-29, 2016, San Francisco, CA Alcott for Grown-ups While Louisa May Alcott notoriously complained about her role as a chief provider of “moral pap for the young,” after the widespread success of Little Women, her identity as “the children’s friend” was firmly sealed. Turning away from this…
