popular culture

The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2026 virtual annual conference will be held from Thursday, October 15-Saturday, October 17, 2026. Sessions will take place on Zoom through Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. More information on the conference can be found here: https://www.northeastpca.org/call-for-papers

250-word abstracts are due by June 15, 2026 at 5 pm.

CFP NEPCA Monsters & the Montrous Area 2026

The Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (a.k.a. NEPCA) seeks proposals for inclusion in NEPCA’s 2026 annual conference.

The event will run as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th, through Saturday, October 17th. Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July. The registration fee is expected to be around 50 USD.

Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:

- travel and gender/race/class
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
- the impacts of the political climate on travel

2027 marks the 50th anniversary of the film now generally known as Episode IV: A New Hope, the first instalment in the hugely successful Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. As beloved as it is divisive, Star Wars now straddles multiple decades and generations while proliferating across narrative media (novels, comics, games, animation, TV). It provides a series of compelling case studies in the relationship between creativity and commerce, from the foundation of Lucasfilm during the New Hollywood period to the 21st century Disney-era, and it has developed via a complex interplay between cutting-edge technological innovation, nostalgia, and mythmaking.

SPECTATOR 47.1 — SPEED - CALL FOR PAPERS/BOOK REVIEWS

DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Spectator is seeking papers and reviews for issue 47.1, Speed, themed around USC’s 2025 First Forum Conference on the same topic organized by Minji Kim and Tanushree Sharma. Their call for submissions on this theme is copied below:

The contemporary moment is often thought of synonymously with the idea of speed. The 20th

and 21st centuries were marked by rapidly ascending rates of movement: the movement of

Call for Papers: Representation of Violence in South Asian Graphic Narratives and Comics

Chênière journal call-for-papers

Volume 10

Chênière, an online, interdisciplinary undergraduate journal based at Nicholls State University, invites papers for its tenth volume. Chênière is an MLA-indexed journal that welcomes submissions from any humanities field, broadly speaking, from history, communication, English, religion, art, music, and everything in between. The journal welcomes submissions from any undergraduate work but particularly caters to students from the Gulf Coast and the American South, broadly speaking. The subject matter for this issue is completely open topic.

We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).

This session focuses on British literature and culture of the long 19th century. Particularly welcome are proposals on underrepresented works, on the 150th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s proclamation as Empress of India and on the 125th anniversary of her passing, on Neo-Victorianism, and on the conference theme “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.”

While any proposals dealing with British literature and culture of the long 19th century are welcome, these topics related to the conference theme are of special interest:

We’re delighted to announce a new online event to mark Dickens’s passing. On this occasion, our theme does not dwell on the Inimitable’s death, but focuses instead on his ever-expanding life on the big and small screen. Dickens was first adapted for silent cinema in 1901, and since then his work has appeared countless times on film and television. Since Dickens’s Bicentenary in 2012, a number of significant screen adaptations have appeared, including Armando Iannucci’s Personal History of David Copperfield (2019), Steven Knight’s Great Expectations (2023), two Artful Dodger character adaptations, and multiple versions of A Christmas Carol.

An international workshop at Utrecht University (The Netherlands), 14 September 2026

Organized by Karin van Es (Utrecht University), Ramon Lobato (Swinburne University), and Mike Wayne (Erasmus University).

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2026 Conference on Young Adult Literature - Louisiana (CYALL)
LSU Shreveport,  November 6, 2026
Shreveport, LA
Deadline for proposal submissions is August 7, 2026

https://libguides.lsus.edu/CYALL

Call for Chapters!

Using Popular Culture in the Classroom: Teaching Traditional Skill Sets with Popular Culture Artifacts

Editors: Laura Getty, University of North Georgia (lgetty@ung.edu) and Josef Vice, Purdue University Global (jvice@purdueglobal.edu)

Deadline for submitting chapter proposals (400 words): August 1, 2026 

Notification of acceptance: ongoing, no later than September 1, 2026

Provisional deadline for essay draft submission (approximately 5,000-8,000 words, including teaching resources): December 31, 2026

CFP: Special Issue of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (15.2 2026) on K-Pop, deadline 15th June 2026.