With apologies for cross-posting:

The deadline for the Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference has been extended to June 15!

Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration

Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host its third annual digital scholarship conference on October 28-30, 2016. The theme of the…[Read more]

(Apologies for cross-posting)
CFP – Studies in the Novel

Special Issue: “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West” 

Deadline for submissions: 9/1/2016
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West,” guest edited by Sigrid Anderson Cord…[Read more]

(Apologies for cross-posting)
CFP – Studies in the Novel

Special Issue: “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West” 

Deadline for submissions: 9/1/2016
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West,” guest edited by Sigrid Anderson Cord…[Read more]

CFP for American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 17-20, Denver, CO

Home Screens: Digitizing Belonging and Place in American Studies

This panel seeks contributors who have been involved with a digital project that preserves, recreates, or generates notions of “home” in the American context. In keeping with the conference theme, Home/Not H…[Read more]

CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West

<div>C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists</div>
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more]

CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org</div>
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This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more]

Please consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:

Unsettling the Gendered West

This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]

Please consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:

Unsettling the Gendered West

This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]

Please consider submitting a proposal for the following special session at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX. We are especially interested in proposals from graduate students preparing for the job market, or currently on the job market.

The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market

Special Session: MLA 2016

This roundtable will consider…[Read more]

Special Session: MLA 2016

The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market

This roundtable will consider how discipline-specific “lore” continually lures graduate students, contingent faculty, and even full-time faculty into an already overcrowded market. This panel seeks to initiate discussions about the psychodynamics of job candidacy in dis…[Read more]