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Posthuman Studies: Emergence and Relation (PAMLA)

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:41pm
Akim Golubev/UNLV/PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The Posthuman Studies panel is interested in papers that investigate the ongoing transformation of a human subject in social, political, and transhistorical contexts. Since the introduction of Cartesian duality, as opposed to the British Empirical monism, the field of literary studies has investigated the role of language and cognition. This panel is looking for papers that deal with literary theory, early modern philosophy, and English literature by analyzing what it means to be human and posthuman.

Palimpsests of the English Interregnum

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:03pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Palimpsests of the English Interregnum (Panel / In-Person)

Submit Abstract

Session Type: Special Session
Primary Area / Secondary Area: Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion / British and Anglophone
Presiding Officer(s): Shataparni Bhattacharya (Indiana University - Bloomington)
shabhat@iu.edu

Abstract

On Rhyme

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:31pm
Courtney Weiss Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

A Call for Papers

For a panel at the second SMU Symposium on Poetic Form

To be held at SMU in Dallas on February 23 and 24, 2026

On Rhyme

Literature (General) 2025 SWPACA Summer Salon

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:24pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the SWPACA Summer Salon. SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas in a variety of categories encompassing the following: Film, Television, Music, & Visual Media; Historic & Contemporary Cultures; Identities & Cultures; Language & Literature; Science Fiction & Fantasy; and Pedagogy & Popular Culture. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/

 

Call for Papers: Special Issue of English Studies on Digital Humanities and the English Novel

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:05am
English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Special Issue of English Studies on Digital Humanities and the English Novel

 

We are pleased to invite submissions for a special issue of English Studies on the intersection of digital humanities (DH) and the study of the English novel. This special issue aims to push the boundaries of how we understand the novel as a genre by leveraging computational and quantitative methods to explore form, structure, and themes in English fiction. We invite scholars from both the digital humanities and literary studies to contribute to this exciting and interdisciplinary dialogue.

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Making Our Case For Early Modern English

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:27am
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

In keeping with this year’s MMLA conference theme, “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives,” this permanent session is seeking proposals, which discuss how we “make our case” for Early Modern English. How do we explain to our audiences – both in our classrooms and in public settings – on what interests us and motivates our scholarly activities? How do we demonstrate impact and encourage further participation? Where does the study of Early Modern English align with other organizations and initiatives designed to promote the humanities in public life?  What has worked for us? What hasn’t? 

Terraqueous Globe: Land and Sea in the Age of Sterne

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Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:16am
The Shandean, Liverpool University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Eighteenth-century global history is a history of seas and oceans. International trade and migration stretched across all continents. Britain’s colonial empire, and the trades on which it thrived – not least the Slave Trade – was driven by its domination of the world’s waterways. The port city of Liverpool was a major gateway for Britain’s contact with the wider world through maritime routes. This complemented the complex network of domestic waterways – rivers, canals – which played a significant part in Britain’s industrial revolution.

Call for Panels and Papers: "Sports, Recreation, Leisure, and All Manners of Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century"

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:36pm
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Pinehurst, NC - February 19-21, 2026

All topics related to the long 18th century are welcome. We especially encourage papers related to this year's theme: reading and writing; rural sports; golf, spas, and resorts; shopping; competitions; gambling; drinking; music; theatre, and all other eighteenth-century pastimes. Those speaking on any eighteenth-century topic will be providing pleasure, hence in keeping with the theme.

Medieval and Early Modern Orients: New Encounters - EXTENDED DEADLINE

updated: 
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 - 1:55am
Medieval and Early Modern Orients
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

The decolonial, digital project Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) is delighted to announce its first hybrid conference to be held from the 11th - 14th of December 2025, in person in Cape Town, South Africa, and online. 

 

 

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech University)
Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College)

 

Call for Papers on “Useful Knowledge”

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Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:24pm
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society is a quarterly journal that includes papers read at the American Philosophical Society’s biannual meetings, independent, peer-reviewed essays by outside scholars, and biographical memoirs of APS Members. The journal also captures talks by today’s prominent professionals, scholars, and scientists that will not be published elsewhere. Recent topics include Abraham Lincoln and Marfan Syndrome, the philosophical problem of uncertainty in Hitchcock’s Vertigo, old phrenology versus new phrenology, the fascination with twins, and what makes a genuine Picasso.

Performing Religion in Early Modern England

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Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 4:44pm
University of California Santa Barbara Early Modern Center
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

“Whatever his personal beliefs, Shakespeare is in the most important sense of the word a religious writer: not a proponent of any particular religion, but a writer who is aware, and makes his spectators aware, of the mystery of things.”

 

-Stanley Wells, Shakespeare: For All Time 

 

Charles Town International Maroon Conference: The Land

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 5:45am
Charles Town Maroons of Jamaica
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

We welcome papers and performances from scholars, artists, and activists interested in exploring this theme in broad theoretical, practical, and cultural terms. We will consider the predicaments and possibilities of “Land” in the context of Maroon and Indigenous histories and cultures worldwide. Presentations from all fields and genres are welcome, including history, geography, political science, anthropology, ethnography, law & criminal justice, ethnomusicology, education, literature, film, art, sustainability studies, Indigenous studies, economics, spirituality, religion, and ecocriticism.

MLA26: Milton's Afterlives

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Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:22am
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for a sponsored panel at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada. Papers (15 minutes in length) should examine Milton’s writings through a lens of adaptation studies, media studies, or reception studies, or their appropriation (social, legal, or political). Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

CFP: Cultural Circulations, Global Mobilities, and Knowledge Translations: Turning Points in the Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:40pm
Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Cultural Circulations, Global Mobilities, and Knowledge Translations: Turning Points in the Nineteenth Century

The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented acceleration and densification of human movements that generated, perhaps for the first time, cultural circulations on a global scale. With the world more interconnected than it had ever been, the need to classify, translate and hierarchise knowledge became more pressing than ever.

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature

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Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:39pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

CFP - Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature , vol. 6/2025

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

Textiles and the texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801): How the craft and its products interacted with philosophy, literature and the visual arts

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 8:42pm
Anna Maria Cimitile / University of Naples 'L'Orientale'
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

 Textiles and the texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801): How the craft and its products interacted with philosophy, literature and the visual arts

Joint project: University of Naples L’Orientale - Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse. Two joint conferences will be organized:

1. Conference 1: Textiles: The texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801). Designs, patterns, craftsmanship and the early modern imagination – Will be Held at Procida Island (University of Naples L’Orientale), 8-14 September 2025.

2. Conference 2: The circulation of textile designs, patterns, skills and representations in early modern Europe – Will be held at Université de Haute Alsace – Mulhouse, June 2026.

Book Series in British Romanticism

updated: 
Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 5:38pm
Ben P. Robertson / Troy University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Book proposals are invited for a series called Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era, published by Anthem Press (http://www.anthempress.com/). Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era is a series of scholarly monographs and edited collections devoted to the topics of gender and culture in British poetry, fiction, and drama from roughly 1780 to 1830. In terms of gender, the series encompasses scholarship related to the lives and works of women writers but also includes studies that address broader constructions of gender identity and sexuality.

Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of Early Modern Natural Philosophy

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Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 5:37pm
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

26–27th June 2025, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

The international AHRC/DFG research consortium, Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (https://scientificpoetry.org/: Anglia Ruskin University; University of Bayreuth; University of Marburg; University of York), invite proposals for their second conference.

Plenary speakers
• Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin)
• Helena Taylor (University of Exeter)

Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
American Philosophical Society - Science History Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

As the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence drives increased interest in the founding of the United States, this conference, co-hosted by the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum and the Science History Institute aims to widen the scope of such conversations. Inspired in part by the APS’s 2025 exhibition, Philadelphia: The Revolutionary City and “America’s Scientific Revolutionaries,” a multiyear project funded by the Lounsbery Foundation we invite proposals from scholars from all disciplines whose research illuminates the intersections of science and society in the Atlantic World between 1764 and 1804. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

CFP: Dracula: A Companion

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Matthew Crofts (University of Hull), Maddy Potter (University of Edinburgh)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

CFP: Dracula: A Companion

Matthew Crofts & Maddy Potter

Dracula: A Companion is intended to both be an essential guide to interpreting Bram Stoker’s Dracula and a collection of new perspectives supporting a reshaping of the way the text is taught and engaged with by students. 

[UPDATE] Studia theodisca - Deadline: 30th September of each year

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 3:50am
Studia theodisca - An international journal devoted to the study of German culture and literature - http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaTheodisca/
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Studia theodisca
An international journal devoted to the study
of German culture and literature
Published annually in the autumn
Hosted by Università degli Studi di Milano under OJS
ISSN 2385-2917
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaTheodisca/

Editor-in-chief: Fausto Cercignani

Co-Editor: Marco Castellari

[UPDATE] Studia austriaca - Deadline: 30th April of each year

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 3:48am
Studia austriaca - An international journal devoted to the study of Austrian culture and literature - http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaAustriaca/
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Studia austriaca (founded in 1992)
An international journal devoted to the study of Austrian culture and literature
Published annually in the spring
p-ISSN 1593-2508 | e-ISSN 2385-2925
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaAustriaca/

Editor-in-chief: Fausto Cercignani
Co-Editor: Marco Castellari

EXPLORING THE SCANDALOUS: SCANDAL AS A CATALYST OF PROGRESS?

updated: 
Monday, January 20, 2025 - 10:00am
University of Vienna
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

International Conference: 24th (evening)-26th September 2025

Location: University of Vienna

Language of presentations: English

Deadline for abstracts (500-750 words and a short list of references): 15th March 2025

Selection of abstracts and notification of speakers: mid-April 2025

Conference Warming: 24th September 2025

Conference Dinner: 25th September 2025

Conference Fees: full: 65 Euros; reduced (PhD students; postdocs without access to funds): 35 Euros

MORE PRIDE, LESS PREJUDICE: JANE AUSTEN AT 250

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:10am
CETAPS / University of Porto
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 16, 2025

 

MORE PRIDE, LESS PREJUDICE: JANE AUSTEN AT 250

Faculty of Arts and Humanities I University of Porto

2-3 October 2025

 

Keynote Speakers 

John Mullan (University College London) 

Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford)

 

Writing from the Margins

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 4:07am
Watermark Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Watermark, the annual, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by graduate students in the English Department at California State University, Long Beach, is now seeking submissions for its nineteenth volume. Our journal is dedicated to publishing original, critical, and theoretical papers concerned with literature of all genres and periods, as well as representing current issues in the field of rhetoric and composition. As this journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only student work will be considered.

English Romanticism

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Friday, January 17, 2025 - 4:07am
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association seeks papers exploring English Romanticism (1798 - 1837). The conference will be held at the Centennial by Davenport Hotel in Spokane, WA, from 16 October to 18 October 2025. Please submit abstracts of 250 words and a 60-word bio to JT Rucker at william.rucker10@okstate.edu by 1 April 2025.

NASSR 2025 virtual panel: Common Sense and Popular Belief

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Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:56pm
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Romantic-era approaches to popular belief, from the philosophical to the sociological, had different ways of framing the “common.” Common beliefs might be framed as ordinary, intuitive, or rooted in common sentiment; or might in contrast suggest vulgar or popular belief, as in the category of “popular superstitions.” This panel will look at Romantic-era constructions of common or popular belief, with topics that might include (but are not limited to): “Common Sense” philosophy and intuitive belief; popular religion; folklore and supernatural beliefs; cultures of popular magic; or other approaches to “traditional” belief.

Common Time: Enclosure and the Renaissance

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 7:51pm
The Renaissance Project
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

 “Common Time: Enclosure and the Renaissance,” a symposium organized by 

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