journals and collections of essays

Otherness: Essays and Studies - Spring 2026

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:07pm
Centre for Studies in Otherness
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

The peer-reviewed e-journal Otherness: Essays and Studies is now accepting submissions for its 2026 general issue.

Otherness: Essays and Studies publishes research articles from and across different scholarly disciplines that examine, in as many ways as possible, the concepts of otherness and alterity.  We particularly appreciate dynamic cross-disciplinary study.

Human-Animal Studies and Literary Animal Studies in German Narratives

updated: 
Sunday, December 7, 2025 - 8:58am
Marmara University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Human-Animal Studies and Literary Animal Studies in German Narratives
Book Series: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology

 

About the Series

The book series Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology (Istanbul University Press) explores intersections of German literature, culture, and society with broader interdisciplinary fields.

Utopia, Dystopia, and Heterotopia in Narratives

updated: 
Sunday, December 7, 2025 - 8:58am
Marmara University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Utopia, Dystopia, and Heterotopia in Narratives
Third volume of the book series: Interdisciplinary Studies on Philology

About the Series

Interdisciplinary Studies on Philology brings together research that bridges literary studies with adjacent human and social sciences.

  • Volume I: Mythological Motifs in Narratives (published)
  • Volume II: Redefining Communication in Posthuman Age (published)
  • Volume III: Utopia, Dystopia, and Heterotopia in Narratives (planned)

Aim and Scope

Reading Girls: Exploring Girls’ Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literature and Culture

updated: 
Friday, December 5, 2025 - 3:15pm
Miranda Green-Barteet, Sonya Sawyer Fritz
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Updated: In the mid-nineteenth century, the literacy rates among women and girls were on the rise. This was due to changing attitudes toward educating girls and women and the increasing popularity and availability of reading materials aimed at girls and women. Authors such as Lydia Maria Child, Louisa May Alcott, Juliana Horatia Ewing, E.D.E.N. Southworth, L.T. Meade, and Sarah Tytler wrote works specifically for girls, from novels and short stories to periodicals and conduct manuals.

Genevieve Taggard: Poet/Feminist/Activist/Teacher Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal --Special Issue

updated: 
Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 10:23am
Nancy Berke / City University of New York, LaGuardia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 16, 2026

 

Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is devoting a special issue to Genevieve Taggard, her career and legacy. Given the interdisciplinary nature of Women’s Studies, and the breadth and depth of Taggard’s multi-faceted artistic, cultural, and political undertakings, proposals are sought for essays that demonstrate Taggard’s wide-ranging literary and political legacy and her significance to our present moment. 

 

Topics may include but are not limited to:

 

Special Issue of STUDIES IN AMERICAN HUMOR: "Periodicals, Period: Humor and Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Magazines"

updated: 
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 8:15pm
STUDIES IN AMERICAN HUMOR
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Deadline 1/1/26 

Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association, invites submissions of scholarly papers for a special issue of the journal to appear in fall 2027, edited by Wesley Scott McMasters and Todd Nathan Thompson. The topic of this special issue is “Periodicals, Period: Humor and Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Magazines.” This special issue will be an extension of a well-received panel on this topic (co-sponsored by the American Humor Studies Association and the Research Society for American Periodicals) at the 2025 American Literature Association conference.

 

Protest

updated: 
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 8:12pm
Margaret Fuller Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Call for Submissions to Conversations:

Margaret Fuller Society’s Special Issue on “Protest” 

Call for Submissions: The Lamp Literary Journal

updated: 
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 8:07pm
The Lamp Literary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 11, 2026

Call for Submissions! The Lamp is seeking submissions for its 2026 issue (Volume 16)!

 

The Lamp is an international literary journal dedicated to showcasing the creative writing of graduate and professional students. If you write poetry, short fiction, scripts, creative nonfiction, or any other form of textual art, please submit your work to The Lamp at thelampeditor@gmail.com. The deadline is Sunday, 11 January 2026. Please follow our submission guidelines below.

 

Submission Guidelines:

CFP: Vol. 1 No. 2: The sleep of digital reason? Dreaming of a creative machine in the age of AI

updated: 
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 8:07pm
Caleidoscopio @ Lusófona University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 5, 2026

Caleidoscopio – Revista de Comunicação e Cultura is the journal of the Communication Sciences Department of ECATI, Lusófona University.

Now entering its second series, Caleidoscopio is being relaunched with the aim of consolidating its position as an open-access platform dedicated to critical research in communication sciences, with a special focus on the intersection of communication, media, and the arts in contemporary societies.

We invite submissions that engage with approaches from media theory, visual studies, philosophy of technology, cybernetics, or contemporary artistic practices. There are no article processing charges.

Verge 14.2 Call for Guest Editors

updated: 
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 8:05pm
Global Asias Initiative
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 26, 2025

Since its inception, Verge has championed the role of special issues in making visible key questions in Global Asias scholarship while also suggesting new possibilities in the field. Maintaining this commitment, we invite proposals from potential guest editors for issue 14.2, a special issue slated for publication in Fall 2028.

 

Deadline Reminder: Call for Chapters: Bodies That Breathe – The Politics of Air, Health, and Survival (Volume 1 of the “Earth and Us” Book Series)

updated: 
Sunday, November 23, 2025 - 11:48pm
Sturges and McGregor
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Call for Chapters: Bodies That Breathe – The Politics of Air, Health, and Survival
Volume 1 of the “Earth and Us” Book Series

Earth and Us is a twelve-volume inquiry into how environmental breakdown and social inequality intertwine, bringing together feminist, queer, and decolonial perspectives. The inaugural volume, Bodies That Breathe, explores the politics of air, health, and survival.

Call for Essays: Subtle Body Horror

updated: 
Friday, November 21, 2025 - 12:50pm
North Meridian Press
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

EXTENDED: Call for Proposals: Edited Volume, North Meridian Press, “Subtle Body Horror.”

LEO SEWELL ASSEMBLAGE SCULPTURE (Pennsylvania, born 1945) Seated Woman. Assembled from toys, coins, bits and fragments of metal, glass, wood, and plastic.

Call for Proposals

Anthology Editors: Kailey Tedesco & Mauve Perle Tahat

We invite contributions for Subtle Body Horror, an anthology exploring the intersections of embodiment, pain, and transformation.

The title plays on the idea of the “subtle body," the energetic or spiritual body, and the notion of “subtle” as slight, creeping, or insidious.

The Hidden Second World War: Cultural Depictions of Irregular Warfare and Covert Action

updated: 
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 3:05pm
Department of English Studies, Durham University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

British covert operations of the Second World War have provided source material for a string of recent films and TV series, with Operation Mincemeat (2021), SAS Rogue Heroes (2022-), and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) all attracting media coverage and public debate. This recent wave joins and revises a longer tradition of cultural representations of the secret aspects of the war, across fiction, memoirs, cinema, television, and latterly digital gaming.

Kaleidoscope : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

updated: 
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 3:03pm
Purbasthali College, Parulia, Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal (India)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Journal Name: Kaleidoscope : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Website: https://kaleidoscopejournal.in/ 

We invite original, unpublished research papers, review articles, essays, and book reviews from scholars, researchers, and academics for Volume 1, Issue 1, to be published in December 2025.

Theme: Open Theme

For the inaugural issue, we welcome contributions on any topic within the broad ambit of Humanities and Social Sciences, including but not limited to:

Submit abstract for a special issue of the journal "Global South Literary Studies" on "Political Violence and Literary Responses in South and Southeast Asia since the 1940s"

updated: 
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 2:55pm
Global South Literary Studies (Routledge, Taylor and Francis)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Submit a Manuscript to the Journal

Global South Literary Studies (Routledge)

For a Special Issue on

Political Violence and Literary Responses in South and Southeast Asia since the 1940s

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/political-violence-and...

Political Violence and Literary Responses in South and Southeast Asia since the 1940s

Indian Writing in English in the 21st Century: Negotiations, Resistance and Alternatives - An International Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 2:55pm
Postcolonial Interventions
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Call for Abstracts

Postcolonial Interventions in association with Centre for Studies in Gender, Culture and Media, West Bengal State University and the Department of English, Sister Nivedita University invites abstracts for an international conference on Indian Writing in English to be held in Sister Nivedita University, New Town, West Bengal on 13-14 March 2026.

Indian Writing in English in the 21st Century: Negotiations, Resistance and Alternatives

Verge 14.2 Call for Guest Editors

updated: 
Sunday, November 16, 2025 - 11:07am
Global Asias Initiative
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 5, 2026

Since its inception, Verge has championed the role of special issues in making visible key questions in Global Asias scholarship while also suggesting new possibilities in the field. Maintaining this commitment, we invite proposals from potential guest editors for issue 14.2, a special issue slated for publication in Fall 2028.

 

Literature and Social Justice

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 6:11pm
Matraga Journal - Rio de Janeiro State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

In recent decades, scholarship has increasingly foregrounded the intersection between literary studies and social justice. From Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s reflections on the ethical responsibility of the critic (An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization, 2012) to Martha Nussbaum’s defence of literature as a resource for democratic imagination (Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life, 1995), critics have shown how narrative and form can reshape political thought and civic engagement. Literature has long served as a site where inequality, resistance, and collective agency are represented, contested, and reimagined.

Call for Abstracts: Playful Literature, Literary Play: (Video) Games and American Fiction [Iperstoria Special Issue]

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:30pm
Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Iperstoria Special Issue no. 28 (Dec 2026) - Playful Literature, Literary Play: (Video) Games and American Fiction

Guest Editors

Francesca Razzi, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (francesca.razzi@unich.it)

Valentina Romanzi, University of Torino (valentina.romanzi@unito.it)

Stefan Schubert, Leipzig University (stefan.schubert@uni-leipzig.de)

 

Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega, issue 28

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:30pm
Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 24, 2026

Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega (CFG), an international journal on phraseological and paremiological research edited by Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (Xunta de Galicia), is seeking submissions of contributions for its twenty-eight issue. Even though the deadline is permanently open, only manuscripts received by October 24, 2026 will be considered for issue 28.

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