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Call for Papers: The Legacy of Norman Bates: Essays on the Psycho Franchise
Editor: Shane H Weathers, Bowling Green State University
Editors Introduction:
We invite proposals for individual papers for the critical mixed race studies panel at the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15, 2026.
Paper proposals are due by June 6, 2026.
2026 Global K-Culture Conference
August 20 (Thu.) ~ August 22 (Sat.), 2026 (3 days)
Chungbuk National University, Korea
Korean, English, or the presenter’s preferred language
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2026
The Department of Global K-Culture at Chungbuk National University is pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming Global K-Culture Conference, aimed at fostering meaningful dialogue and the exchange of ideas among instructors and researchers working across diverse educational and cultural contexts.
We invite you to submit an abstract and bio by June 17, 2026, to participate in a Modern Language Association (MLA) 2027 seminar, "Queer Literary Studies NOW." Seminar participants will precirculate 1500-word papers on the theme, and we will discuss the papers and the larger theme during the seminar on the first day of the MLA 2027 conference. MLA 2027 will take place in Los Angeles, California, January 7-10, 2027. Participants must be MLA members and register for the conference.
Call for Papers
Journal of Narrative Theory (JNT)
Special Issue (Fall 2027)
Contemporary Narratives and Storytelling Cultures
Concept Note
Call for Papers
The Playful Monster
24–25 September 2026
The International Journal of James Bond Studies is now accepting submissions for Volume 10.
Theorizing Gender, Sex and Sexuality through Speculative Literatures
Edited Volume — Call for Contributions
Editors: Drs. Joshua Horton (Arizona State University) and Sandra Cox (Southeast Missouri State University)
contact emails: jthorto2@asu.edu and scox@semo.edu
Deadlines:
Abstracts (200-300 words) due September 30, 2026
Completed drafts (5000-8000 words, including MLA style citations and minimal endnotes) of accepted chapters due February 28, 2027
Overview:
The 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th.
We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Philosophy, Belief, and Pop Culture Area.
The 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th.
We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Area.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in late 2027.
This collection explores how literature and popular music intersect, influence each other, and create new possibilities for artistic expression, and seeks to map the rich terrain where these two cultural forms meet. We will work from broad definitions of both literature and popular music, encompassing work from traditional novels and poetry to digital narratives and graphic novels, from classical and folk sound traditions to electric and contemporary electronic music.
Call for Papers: Global Hip Hop Studies
Special Issue: ‘Hip-Hop Diaspora: Memory, Technology and the Politics of Electric Infrastructure’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/global-hip-hop-studies#call-for-papers
Guest editors
Pablo D. Herrera Veitia, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Francesca D’Amico Cuthbert, University of Toronto, Canada
Myrtle D. Millares, University of Toronto, Canada
Dennis Howard, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Special thematic dossier 8.2 | Aesthetics, Performance, Discourse and Spectacle in the Age of Trumpism
Editor: Anna Marta Marini (JFKI–Freie Universität Berlin)
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th 2026.
The Triumph of the Therapeutic Revisited: The Politics of Self-Care and Self-Improvement in Contemporary American Culture
Guest editors: Alexandra Bacalu & Dragoș Manea
3rd Call for Chapter Proposals
for Essay Collection
How Scripted TV Series Portray Social Media’s Power to Shape Culture
This edited collection invites scholars to consider how an episode or series of scripted television (from 2000 to present) has portrayed social media’s power to shape culture—for better and/or for worse.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1640mIIdakTTPDlFTij6sonxPZtCvRJAc/view?u...
Call for Chapters: Strange Tales of Latin(x) America and the Caribbean
EXTENDED CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
The Works of Elaine May
SCREEN STORYTELLERS book series
Bloomsbury Academic
Editor: Jonathan Winchell
New deadline for abstract submissions: June 30, 2026
The proposed edited volume, The Works of Elaine May, has received preliminary interest from the SCREEN STORYTELLERS series editor. Nine chapters have been reviewed and confirmed for inclusion (see below).
I am currently seeking additional chapters on:
Call for book chapters:
Following confirmation of firm interest from Routledge, Anna Batori is seeking contributions for the forthcoming volume ‘Eastern European Genre Cinema: Forms, Histories, and Transnational Circulation’.
Space and place continuously serve as sources of inspiration in video games and various other interactive media, within which they have a specific way of representing and operationalizing fear and dread. Interactive works can turn fear into a set of narrative and game design sequences that are problems and solutions for the experience of playing and reading. For example, how to structure attention, limit knowledge, choreograph movement, regulate pace, and distribute safety and danger.
Call for Papers
Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research 14.2
Lands of Fear: Gothic and Horror in Literature, Art, and Culture
I am pleased to announce that registration is open for the 18th annual hybrid conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) on the topic of 'The Victorians and Their Publics'. You can access the VPFA conference registration page here.
Humans have long believed we are distinct from other animals in our rationality, self-consciousness, and use of language. Why, then, do writers, artists, and even scientists so often use anthropomorphism to interpret the behaviors of animals, plants, and even nonliving things such as trains, teapots, and toys? What are the repercussions of this tendency to understand the world in terms of human social and cultural identities?
Call for Papers for the Edited Volume: Visualising Criminality: Crime and Films in the Global South
CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 9-11, 2026
Horizon Convention Center | Muncie, Indiana
The Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association is accepting proposals for the organization’s 50th annual conference this October in Muncie, Indiana. Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of each presentation within the panel) with the appropriate keywords via the submissions website at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels.
"Let Us Tell An Old Story Anew": Revising / Reinventing / Reimagining Disney
Disney’s Maleficent (2014), a live-action retelling of their animated classic, Sleeping Beauty (1957), begins with a narrator challenging us to re-see the stories we’ve been told before. The entire movie, in fact, revolves around correcting past perceptions, ones that Disney originally shaped and is now choosing to reshape. Maleficent is just one example of a spate of live-action remakes and other ways Disney has reimagined itself in the twenty-first century. Such reimaginings invite research into how and why Disney feels the need to make us see them anew.
Call for Proposals: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm 2026 PNCA Symposium | October 1–3, 2026 Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University 511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon Free and open to the public
Keynote: Sasha Stiles
Haunted Futures 2026
University College Cork: 29th - 30th September 2026
Deadline for Submissions: July 24th, 2026
Silly Old Bear? A Companion to Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh
Organized by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
Please submit proposals by 1 August 2026