category: journals and collections of essays

Popular and Current Art Submissions and Criticism Wanted: Open Deadline

full name / name of organization: 
Anna Faktorovich, Ph.D./ Anaphora Literary Press
contact email: 
director@anaphoraliterary.com

While great works of literature were written in the 19th century and prior, we live today in an age with major problems and solutions in the realm of art and communication that should be addressed by

The Films of Robert Rodriguez

full name / name of organization: 
Christopher Gonzalez
contact email: 
Chris.Gonzalez@tamuc.edu

Call For Papers: The Films of Robert Rodriguez

POST SCRIPT: Essays in Film and the Humanities invites submissions for a special issue on the Films of Robert Rodriguez.

“Embodiments of Horror: William Blake’s Gothic Sensibility.”

full name / name of organization: 
A Special Issue of _Gothic Studies_
contact email: 
cbundock@gmail.com, eeffinge@uwo.ca

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of Gothic Studies: “Embodiments of Horror: William Blake’s Gothic Sensibility.”

Apollon eJournal - Undergraduate Submissions deadline 6/15/2013

full name / name of organization: 
Apollon: eJournal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities
contact email: 
apollonejournal@gmail.com

Check the website, apollonejournal.org, for submission details on publication, or for an application to work with us

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

CFP: Aloha at Risk: Education in Hawaii (Edited Collection)

full name / name of organization: 
Interstitial Press
contact email: 
editors@interstitialjournal.com


Since the release of “A Nation At Risk” in 1983, public education has been subjected to increased scrutiny from political officials, parents, and concerned citizens.

Special Issue on Contemporary Drama [July 15, 2013]

full name / name of organization: 
Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies
contact email: 
breac.djis@gmail.com

Special Issue on Contemporary Drama

SAMLA Special Session on Creating or Expanding a BA Program in English During Uncertain Times (June 20th- Abstract Deadline)

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Special Session- November 8-10, Atlanta
contact email: 
SOrtolano@edison.edu

This panel invites participants from any college or university where there is an interest in building a B.A. in English or establishing a new programmatic track within the discipline.

Call for Papers - Patents for Humanity Special Issue - August 23 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Diana Vergara/ Technology and Innovation - Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors
contact email: 
tijournal@research.usf.edu

In recognition of the USPTO’s Patents for Humanity program, Technology and Innovation - Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors, will be publishing a special issue highlighting influential

International Journal of Welsh Writing in English (deadline September 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Alyce von Rothkirch / Swansea University
contact email: 
ijwwe.editor@gmail.com

International Journal for Welsh Writing in English

Call for Papers

Invitation for Submission of Manuscripts - JMBT

full name / name of organization: 
Microbial & Biochemical Technology
contact email: 
editor.jbtbd@omicsonline.net

Dear Dr. Researchers,

Greetings from Journal of Microbial & Biochemical Technology

We are glad to get associated with eminent researchers.

[REMINDER] Levinas and Early Modern Literature (collection, proposals by 6/15)

full name / name of organization: 
Kent Lehnhof
contact email: 
lehnhof@chapman.edu

Proposals sought for an edited collection exploring the relationship between the writings of Emmanuel Levinas and the writings of early modern authors.

Call for Creative Writing Articles

full name / name of organization: 
Writing Commons -- a global, peer-reviewed, open-education resource for college students
contact email: 
dianne@writingcommons.org

Award-winning Writing Commons (http://writingcommons.org/), a global, peer-reviewed, open-education resource for college students invites the submission of creative writing articles intending to help

"The Senses of Humour," submissions due 1 July 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, McMaster University
contact email: 
ecf@mcmaster.ca

This special issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal will explore the relationships among various meanings of the term "humour" in the long eighteenth century, from humoral theories of the body to

The Monstrous

full name / name of organization: 
Arena Romanistica - Journal of Romance Studies
contact email: 
arenaromanistica@uib.no

ARENA ROMANISTICA.

Jazz and Cinema

full name / name of organization: 
Cardiff University
contact email: 
jazzandcinema@gmail.com

The conference will gather academic scholars and others with an interest in the relationship between jazz and cinema from across a range of disciplines.

Possible themes could include:

[Update] Smallville: Essay Collection

full name / name of organization: 
Nadine Farghaly and Margo Collins
contact email: 
supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com, Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net

Articles are invited for an essay collection on Smallville. This collection will specifically focus on issues of gender, sex, and power in this retelling and expansion of the Superman universe(s).

CFP: Special Issue of The CEA Critic, Spring 2014: Digital Humanities Pedagogy

full name / name of organization: 
Leigh Bonds and Luke Iantorno, Texas Tech University
contact email: 
digitalhumanities@ttu.edu

As “digital humanities” becomes more prevalent in English course syllabi, faculty and instructors are seeking new ways to teach undergraduates to consider the decisions editors and other scholars

Call for Papers - The Journal of Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness

full name / name of organization: 
Frederick Alex / The Blue Water Institute
contact email: 
falex@thebluewaterinstitute.com

Call for Papers

Transmedia Horror

full name / name of organization: 
University of Melbourne
contact email: 
Jessica.Balanzategui@unimelb.edu.au

Special Issue: Transmedia Horror (Abstracts due 20th of June 2013)

Call for Submissions: Simondon and Disability Studies

full name / name of organization: 
Wilson Kaiser
contact email: 
wkaiser@ju.edu

Call for Submissions: Simondon and Disability Studies
Special Issue of the DHA (Disability History Association) Newsletter
http://www.dishist.org/newsletter.htm

[UPDATE] CFP Four Nations Fiction: Women and the Novel 1780-1830 - Deadline Extended

full name / name of organization: 
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
contact email: 
e.edwards@wales.ac.uk

In Blackwood’s Magazine in September 1819, John Wilson reflected on the towering fame of three contemporary women poets in the following terms: ‘Scotland has her Baillie – Ireland her Tighe –

[Update] Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of Asian American Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Lan Dong
contact email: 
ldong4@uis.edu

Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of Asian American Culture

Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic

full name / name of organization: 
University of Sheffield
contact email: 
john.miller@sheffield.ac.uk

Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic

Edited by Robert McKay & John Miller (University of Sheffield, UK)

Slayage Special Issue: Critical Reflections on The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

full name / name of organization: 
Slayage: The Journal of the Joss Whedon Studies Association
contact email: 
jasie.stokes@louisville.edu

Salaam Cinema: Representations and Interpretations - Celebrating 100 Years of Bombay Cinema

full name / name of organization: 
Edited by Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra
contact email: 
parichay.patra@gmail.com

Book Proposal

Salaam Cinema: Representations and Interpretations
Celebrating 100 Years of Bombay Cinema

Edited by Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra

Reconstruction 14.1 The Undead Arcade

full name / name of organization: 
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
contact email: 
reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com

Reconstruction 14.1: The Undead Arcade (to be published March 2014)

Edited by Carly A. Kocurek and Samuel Tobin

Translation and Transcendence conference: 25-26 October, 2013, Toronto

full name / name of organization: 
Modern Horizons journal
contact email: 
editors@modernhorizonsjournal.ca

Modern Horizons CFP – Translation and Transcendence

UPDATE: Academic Exchange Quarterly Special Issue on Leadership and Writing Programs

full name / name of organization: 
Academic Exchange Quarterly
contact email: 
cl830@nova.edu

Focus: This issue will examine effective leadership practices in college and university writing programs, including first-year composition, basic writing, and ELL/ESL writing programs; undergraduate a

‘Bibliography in the Digital Age’ conference: Sydney, Australia, 20–22 November 2013 [CFP deadline 26 July]

full name / name of organization: 
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (BSANZ)
contact email: 
mpatton@sl.nsw.gov.au

The annual conference of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand will be held at the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 20–22 November 2013 on the theme of ‘Bibliography

Fairy Tales: articles for Topic: The W&J Review (deadline: 1 September 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
TOPIC: The Washington & Jefferson College Review
contact email: 
topic @washjeff.edu

For the next issue of TOPIC, we are soliciting critical essays on fairy tales, either studies of classic tales or modern retellings, transformations, and refashionings (for adults or children, in poet

The Shakespearean Performance Research Group of the American Society for Theatre Research, deadline June 3, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The Shakespearean Performance Research Group of the American Society for Theatre Research
contact email: 
astr.sprg@gmail.com

Call For Papers, Deadline: Monday, June 3rd, 2013

The Shakespearean Performance Research Group
of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)

Call For Ecologically-minded Creative and Scholarly Work

full name / name of organization: 
Kudzu Review
contact email: 
editor@kudzureview.com

Kudzu Review is seeking work for its Winter Solstice Issue 3.1 as well as for its very first themed issue, "Apocalypse & Renewal." We define ecologically-minded very broadly, and our interest is in a

2013 Global Information and Management Symposium (GIAMS)

full name / name of organization: 
Asia-Pacific Education & Research Association
contact email: 
giams@giams.org

2013 Global Information and Management Symposium (GIAMS)
December 05-07, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan

UPDATE: 10 Years After Katrina: Critical Perspectives of the Storm’s Effect on American Culture and Identity

full name / name of organization: 
Mary Ruth Marotte and Glenn Jellenik, University of Central Arkansas
contact email: 
mrmarotte@uca.edu

Seeking critical essays (20-30 pages in length) on texts that examine the storm's effect on American culture and identity.

Scotland and Children’s Literature in the Nineteenth Century

full name / name of organization: 
Sara Dunnigan, English Literature, University of Edinburgh
contact email: 
s.m.dunnigan@ed.ac.uk

Call for Papers

Scottish Children’s Literature in the Nineteenth Century

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