journals and collections of essays

CFP: Edited Collection on Contingent Teaching from WAC Clearinghouse

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:39pm
Precarious Pedagogy, editors Alex Evans & Bethany Hellwig
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 12, 2025

Dear colleagues,

 

We are excited to invite chapter proposals for a forthcoming edited collection tentatively titled Precarious Pedagogies: Teaching Praxis of the New Majority. As the title suggests, this collection will center the voices of writing instructors working off the tenure track in a variety of precarious positions, though we also invite submissions from writing program administrators and tenured/tenure-track faculty who can speak to the programmatic and institutional impacts of contingent instruction. The collection is under contract with the WAC Clearinghouse for inclusion in the Precarity and Contingency book series, due out in 2027.

CFP: Edited Volume on Star Wars and Politics in the Disney Era

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:38pm
Dominic J Nardi
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This edited volume seeks to collect scholarship on the treatment of political themes and world-building in the Star Wars franchise since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012. Scholars have thoroughly explored political topics in George Lucas’s works, but have paid less attention to how Star Wars projects under Disney have continued, changed, or challenged the franchise’s approach to politics. To advance the scholarship on this subject, we welcome proposals from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, including literary criticism, cultural history, political science, film studies, and fandom studies. 

 

Possible / Suggested Topics:

CFP: Call for Papers: Walter Benjamin in Times of Crisis - NEW BENJAMIN STUDIES (Brill | Fink)

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:38pm
NEW BENJAMIN STUDIES (Brill | Fink)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Dear friends, colleagues, and students, 

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for the third issue of the NEW BENJAMIN STUDIES yearbook, centred around the theme “Walter Benjamin in Times of Crisis”.

The editorial collective of NBS is pleased to welcome Anna Migliorini (Florence) and Ana María Miranda Mora (Utrecht) as guest editors for the issue. 

Call for Submissions: "THRESHOLDS" A Micro Fiction Anthology

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:38pm
Fresh Words-An International Literary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 25, 2025

Call for Submissions: "THRESHOLDS" A Micro Fiction Anthology

Deadline: August 25, 2025

Website: Fresh Words: An International Literary Magazine - Announcements

Submission Email: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com

 

We are seeking compelling micro fiction (100-200 words) that explores moments of transition, transformation, and the spaces in between for our upcoming anthology "THRESHOLDS."

Main Theme: Thresholds

State of the Nation Film and TV in Britain: Representations of the Social, Political, and Cultural Landscape.

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:36pm
Jon Baldwin London Metropolitan University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 29, 2025

State of the Nation Film and TV in Britain: Representations of the Social, Political, and Cultural Landscape.

How might we illustrate, explore, and begin to define the ‘state of the nation’ film and television text? This edited collection, in collaboration with Intellect, invites consideration of these questions. We are particularly keen for considerations of contemporary nominees such as Adolescence (2025) and Mr Bates vs The Post Office (2024).

Roots of Change: The Power and Promise of Black Men in Education (An Anthology)

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:35pm
Dr. Emily Williams and Dr. Kendrick Johnson
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Call for SubmissionsRoots of Change: The Power and Promise of Black Men in EducationEditors: Emily Allen Williams, Ph.D. & Kendrick Johnson, Ph.D.

 

About the Anthology

In education, we often hear that teachers are the heartbeat of our schools. But within that heartbeat, there is a specific, often overlooked rhythm—the voices of Black men who shape the minds of future generations.

Roots of Change: The Power and Promise of Black Men in Education is an anthology that seeks to amplify the diverse and powerful voices of Black male educators who have long been silenced in educational spaces.

Call for articles: GOTHIC MATERNITIES

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:35pm
West University of Timisoara/ B.A.S. Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

A great number of Gothic fiction productions explicitly address themes such as gender roles and reproduction from diverse perspectives, which at times hold opposing viewpoints on certain aspects of these topics. The ability to gestate is often considered one of the key indicators of sexual difference. However, the subject of gestation and child-upbringing is not usually addressed in Gothic fiction, aside from iconic examples such as Rosemary’s Baby (1968). As Russ (2007: 25) has stated, these processes are often not described in many texts. Frequently, the women in these stories are either young and childless or middle-aged, with their children already grown and secure (ibid.).

IVC 41: (Un)Doing Labor

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:35pm
InVisible Culture: A Journal For Visual Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

For the 41st Issue, the graduate-run peer-reviewed journal Invisible Culture, housed within the Visual & Cultural Studies Program at the University of Rochester, the journal is calling for articles on the theme of labor.

Commentarium: Journal of Humanities Studies, Vol. 1 (2026)

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:34pm
Commentarium: Journal of Humanities Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

We are pleased to announce the launch of Commentarium: Journal of Humanities Studies, published by the University of Madeira's Faculty of Arts and Humanities. This interdisciplinary journal focuses on the Humanities and invites contributions that bridge various academic disciplines. It will be published annually, exclusively online, and will be freely accessible through the Open Journal System platform.

The journal welcomes submissions from both domestic and international scholars and researchers in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, and Italian, with contributions accepted on a rolling basis. Book reviews may be submitted only in Portuguese or English.

Registration and submission are now open.

 

Harper Eternal: New Inquiries on Frances E.W. Harper

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:34pm
The Frances E.W. Harper Society (currently being established)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Harper Eternal: New Inquiries on Frances E.W. Harper 

Crisis

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:34pm
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Edited by Jih-Fei Cheng, Cati Connell, and Gowri Vijayakumar

Considering Empathy: Critical Approaches across Disciplines

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 12:58pm
Diana Ashe & Beverley McGuire / UNC Wilmington
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Considering Empathy: Critical Approaches across Disciplines

Co-edited by Diana Ashe and Beverley McGuire (UNCW) 

 

Project Description

We invite contributions for an edited collection addressing the current debate over the role and meaning of empathy in contemporary life. While empathy was once studied primarily by psychologists and ethicists, societal shifts and thought leaders have brought empathy to the foreground of fields like politics, technology, public health, rhetoric, environmental studies, business, international studies, sociology, literary and language studies, education, and more. 

Poetry Off the Page: International Advances in Poetry Performance Research

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 12:57pm
Poetry Off the Page
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 21, 2025

Poetry Off the Page: International Advances in Poetry Performance Research is an open access peer-reviewed digital collection featuring new work in poetry performance research from around the globe. It attends to diverse aspects, geographies, and constituents of contemporary poetry performance cultures and the flows between them, and showcases a range of approaches to spoken poetry.

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