ecocriticism and environmental studies

Many notable comic book scholars highlight Alan Moore as one of the most ambitious writers in mainstream American and British comics. Along with writers like Grant Morrison and artists like Dave McKean, Moore was part of the so-called “British Invasion” of the American comic book industry in the 1980s, and artists of this period are credited as bringing an air of credibility as well as transforming the artistic standards of the medium. Greg Carpenter, for instance, likens the work of these artists to “Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, elevating the English language into a vehicle for poetic drama.

Animal Studies Panel, MMLA ("After the Archive") Chicago November 12-14 Sea Creatures, Then and Now“When the abyss stares back, it demands recognition.” Stacy Alaimo’s newest book—The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters With Deep-Sea Life—challenges us to explore encounters with marine life, intimacies partly enabled by science but offering opportunities for literature and art. This panel seeks papers on any aspect of creaturely marine life and its myriad relationships with human existence. Although traditional AV will not be available for this panel, participants are both allowed and encouraged to share a QR code through which audience members may access their presentations.

Workshop and Special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents

Title: “Seeds of Empire, Roots of Change: Botany and the Atlantic World.”  
 
Location: Saint Louis University Campus, Madrid, Spain (March 11–12, 2027)

Organizers: Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, The Center for Iberian Historical Studies, and Saint Louis University, Madrid.

Call for Papers: Autumn 2026: Biophilia: The Shape of the Future
Coreopsis

A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Mythic Arts

This journal accepts papers from many disciplines and is welcoming of all faiths and philosophies. We publish about 5 papers per issue that have been peer-reviewed according to academic standards. Final submissions should be 3000 to 10,000 words. 

If you have a finished paper ready for submission, send it directly to coreopsisjournalofmyththeatre@gmail.com

Call for Papers

MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2026

Media and Sustainability

University of Reading,

Minghella Studios, Whiteknights Campus

Reading RG6 6BT

9th September 2026

Organising committee: Babsie Keulemans, Emir Anday and Elizabeth Heaney

Any questions about the conference or the submission process can be directed to:

Babsie Keulemans – e.l.keulemans@pgr.reading.ac.uk 

Call for Abstracts for Issue 21 (Spring 2027)Embodiment

Guest Editors: Alexandra Stuhlmann and Siyu Li

Ecologies of Kinship: Forms and Genealogies in Anglophone Literatures

Call for Contributions & Online Symposium

8-9 October 2026

Landscapes of Data and DebtDeadline: April 20, 2026Submission Requirements: Please email a 250-word abstract and brief bio-note to powellti@gvsu.edu. What histories, epistemologies, and systems of power shape the social, spatial, and environmental dimensions of financialization and datafication in the globalized present? And what role does literature, art, and storytelling play in representing life—datafied, indebted, and in climate crisis? Exploring debt and data reveals systems of collection and control, as well as ecological harm.

Aims and Scope

Chenkaantal (E-ISSN: 2583-0481) is a pioneer Diamond Open Access Journal for Tamil studies. The journal is dedicated to the academic research of Tamil language, Tamil Literature, Tamil Culture, Tamil Linguistics and other modern trends in Tamil studies.

Call for

In the collective global imaginary, humans seemingly write the world in isolation. We dictate the climate, biodiversity, and natural resources but we also control the ways in which the world is perceived through literature. This roundtable considers how literature is a co-constitutive process written through connectivity across time and space, landscapes, species, environments, and voices by humans and more-than-humans.

Narratives of Resistance and African Literature: Articulating Dissent, Disobedience and Pluriversal Futures

Special issue of English Academy Review (Taylor and Francis)

Link: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/narratives-of-resistan...

Special Issue Editor(s)

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
goutamkarmakar@uohyd.ac.in

Under capitalism, we live separated from life. Capital’s extractive colonizing domination keeps us separated from nature, from each other, and from our own bodies, denying us a symbiotic and regenerative relationship with the natural world and with each other. Yet, certain types of bindings are integral to capitalism: capitalism depends on the combination of labour and nature for the production of value; the “emergence of capitalist accumulation and the reproduction of capitalist production” depends on “acts of violent dispossession”, on “tearing Indigenous societies, peasants, and other small-scale, self-sufficient agricultural producers from the source of their livelihood––the land” (Coulthard 2014).

JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism—an academic journal published by Michigan State University Press—announces a call for articles and book reviews.JSR seeks articles on political and religious forms of radicalism across the political spectrum. "Radicalism" here refers not to social reform, but to those who seek through violent or non-violent means to bring about sudden political transformation. In particular, we are interested in articles that consider such topics as both historical or contemporary anarchist figures or groups, ecological radicalism, antifa, communism, and radical violence.

Meditations on The Black Garden

Special Issue of African American Review, 2027

Guest-edited by Brandy Underwood (California State University, Northridge); Mia Alafaireet (The University of Texas at Austin); Samantha Pinto (The University of Texas at Austin)

Abstracts due to AARBlackgardensSI@gmail.com by May 1, 2026.

Call for Abstracts: