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The times, they are a changing! AI, book bans, changes in student populations, the rise of the neoliberal university, and more are changing how we engage with children's literature in the classroom. With all these changes, what is it about time we talk about?
CFP: Playing Games in the American Environmental Literature classroom
Panel at ALA 2025 in Boston
“To be neurodivergent is to reclaim the pathologizing aspects of a long-term cognitive diagnosis and to reclaim one’s neuro-status as a possible position from which to claim resources, representation and recognition” (Stenning and Bertisldottir Rosqvist 1535).
The editors invite scholars and practitioners with interests and/or experience in justice studies to contribute chapters to Research Methods for Qualitative Justice Studies. We are seeking originally authored chapters that focus on specific qualitative research approaches aligned with justice studies-oriented research. Each chapter should cover one primary method of qualitative research.
See full CFP at link for further details.
** Call for Proposals **
Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference
Saturday July 12 – Sunday July 13, 2025
University College London
This is the 28th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference.
Closing Date for Submissions: Sunday January 19, 2025*
Send proposals to: conference@greatwriting.org.uk
The conference will be held in person.
Call for Chapter Proposals
Editor Dr. Sotiris Petridis invites chapter proposals for an edited volume titled Animated Diversity: Queer Representations in Children’s Audiovisual Narratives. This book seeks to explore the increasing visibility and significance of queer identities in children’s animation, television, and film. The objective is to evaluate the cultural, educational, and social ramifications of this trend while analyzing the incorporation of LGBTQIA+ characters and themes into children's media.
Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.
We are seeking chapters to include in an edited book with the provisional title: Storied Citizenship: Reimagining Civic Encounters Among Children and Youth in the Post-Digital Age. This text will be an interdisciplinary, open access volume that will explore existing and emerging ideas about storied citizenship among children and youth in the post-digital age. Rather than defining citizenship or civic engagement in traditional ways, we see it as a process in which young people participate in arts-based, embodied, lived, and spatialized ways across cultural contexts.
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference
BWWC 2025
TRANSFORMATIONS
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
May 15–17, 2025
Hosted by South Dakota State University and The University of South Dakota
Deadline for submission of proposals: December 15, 2024
Fredric Jameson as Marxist Educator
Special issue of the journal Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
Edited by: Dr. Tyson E. Lewis
Deadline for Proposals: December 1
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) January 17, online via Zoom
The Arthurian Tradition(s) is often most students’ first and only exposure to the Middle Ages. Exposure often comes from films that students have seen: Fuqua’s King Arthur (2004), Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), and Lowery’s Green Knight (2021). What students learn from a course or unit on the Arthurian Tradition(s) is often very different from filmed depictions. This session seeks papers that explore issues, opportunities, and innovations in teaching the Arthurian Traditions(s). We welcome all aspects of teaching Arthuriana.
The appeal of teleological thinking often shapes our readings of James, whether of individual works or of his career as a whole. But rather than let a sense of the ending determine our interpretation of what came before, how might James look different if we focused instead on beginnings? How does he typically begin a tale or novel—and how, if at all, do his strategies differ from those of other short story writers or novelists? How, where, or when doesn’t he begin? How is beginning thematized within the fictions, as in Isabel Archer’s practice of “beginning afresh a great many times” or Madame Merle’s wish that she could “begin again”? How did James himself begin as a writer?
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
Children’s/Young Adult Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
EXTENDED Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2024
Call for Expressions of Interest.
In July of 2026 Punch magazine will be 185 years old!
The Punch’s Pocket Book Archive team are editing a special commemorative issue of Victorian Periodicals Review to celebrate Punch, both the magazine and the evolution of a clear brand identity that witnessed many imitations and adaptations across the world.
We would like to invite expressions of interest from scholars who are working on Punch, developing and enriching the field, to consider topics such as: global imitators of the magazine; the merchandise; the almanacks; the pocket-books; the reprinted bound volumes and thematic collections; the online digital resources and more.
Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for Volume 23 of Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric, an international peer-reviewed journal. We invite undergraduates from all majors and academic years to submit research and theoretical articles on topics related to rhetoric, writing, discourse, and language.
This year, we are also accepting multilingual submissions that explore Spanish-English bilingualism, translation studies, and writing across languages. Submissions fall into three categories:
The Oswald Review is an international, refereed journal of undergraduate criticism and research in the discipline of English. Published annually, The Oswald Review accepts submissions from undergraduates in this country and abroad (with a professor’s endorsement).
Special Issue: Reconceptualizing Sustainability Literacies
Action on behalf of life transforms…as we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
“To be neurodivergent is to reclaim the pathologizing aspects of a long-term cognitive diagnosis and to reclaim one’s neuro-status as a possible position from which to claim resources, representation and recognition” (Stenning and Bertisldottir Rosqvist 1535).
Spaces and Contexts for Teaching African Literature
A Roundtable for the African Literature Association Annual conference
Nairobi, June 25-28, 2025
The Conference for Young Adult Literature Louisiana (CYALL) is accepting proposals for papers, slide presentations, lightning talks, and 20x20 sessions. The conference is a forum to discuss, demonstrate, and champion learning strategies in teaching young adult literature. College faculty, graduate students, librarians, authors, K-12 educators, and scholars are invited to submit proposals for papers and presentations on all aspects of YA literature and media.
The deadline for submitting a proposal is February 15, 2025
The conference will be held on April 11, 2025 and will be onsite.
READING NOTHING ACROSS LITERATURES: A HANDBOOK
“No friend is He who to his friend and comrade who comes imploring food, will offer nothing.” (Rig Veda CXVII)
“Did you rise to the crisis? Not a word, you and your birds, your gods – nothing.” (Oedipus the King)
“Nothing will come of Nothing. Speak again.” (King Lear 1.1)
Call for Papers
for
Essays in Honour of Professor Krishna Sen – a Festschrift
NeMLA's 56th Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 6 to March 9, 2025: https://www.nemla.org/convention.html
Please consider submitting an abstract to the following CFP:https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21067
This roundtable invites educators to present their revolutionary approaches to language teaching in the post pandemic era, from AI integration, to project-based and task-based learning, to career preparedness. Contributions that address curricular innovations in all languages and learning modalities are welcome.
Will digital transformation allow for a reinvention of the articulation of art, culture, science and
technology?
What interactions can be established between the Humanities and digital transformation?
What is the long-term impact of digital transformation on the teaching-learning process
within the Humanities?
Quintessential figures of the Renaissance, such as Leonardo da Vinci, articulated art, culture, science and
technology. In the 21st century, we are once again living in an era of civilizational paradigm shift, as digital
transformation imposes transformative possibilities and challenges.
Developing Inclusive Physical Education Programs in the 21st Century will examine the diverse functions of PE in promoting social justice, inclusivity, and active participation. Postgraduate researchers, early career academics, graduate students, and educators dedicated to enhancing diversity, inclusivity, and engagement in physical education teaching and learning are invited to submit abstracts for review.
The Hemingway Society welcomes proposals for papers to be delivered at the 36th American Literature Association conference to be held May 21-24, 2025 in Boston.
Dear Scholars and Researchers
We are delighted to announce a Call for Book Chapters for an upcoming edited book titled “Creative Disruption: Impact of AI on English Language and Literature Studies.” This volume aims to explore the transformative influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the study, interpretation, and teaching of English Language and literature Studies. We invite contributions from scholars, researchers, and educators who are interested in examining how AI is reshaping the literary landscape, from literary analysis and criticism to pedagogy and linguistic studies.
Location: Bangalore, India
Subject Fields: English Language Teaching/ English Literature/Linguistics/Computer Science/Education
Venue: CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bannerghatta Road Campus, Bangalore, India
Mode: Offline and Online (Only for Presenters)
Date: 20 January 2025 (Tentative date. Final date to be announced soon)
Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
After working in alternative or hybrid spaces throughout the pandemic, the return of educators and students to the “traditional” classroom has brought its own unique challenges and frustrations both for students and instructors. Learners who previously participated in fully remote classes are expected to integrate smoothly into synchronous in-person courses with little guidance or preparation. Instructors are offered little guidance in easing the transition for students and are often already stretched thin themselves. In light of these circumstances, educators must reevaluate what teaching methods and structures might best serve students and instructors in a technological and AI-driven era.