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Call for Proposals for a special issue of Studies in Musical Theatre on the films Wicked and Wicked: For Good.
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https://www.intellectbooks.com/studies-in-musical-theatre#call-for-papers
This is a CFP for an edited collection on Vestron horror.
This manuscript is almost complete, so we cannot offer authors more than two months to complete their essays. Please bear this in mind.
At present, we are only looking for three chapters to round off the collection. The chapters should focus on one of the following films:
Slaughter High
Beyond Re-animator or Dagon
Little Monsters
Chopping Mall
The Gate
The Unholy
Chud II: Bud the Chud
Sundown the Vampire in Retreat
A chapter dedicated to thrillers made by Vestron.
Please spread the word. Below is the original CFP with the new deadline.
Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST)
2026 Fall Issue: Science Fiction and the American Imagination
Guest Editor: Firuze Güzel, Ege University, Izmir, Türkiye
Deadline for Full-Text Submissions: July 15, 2026
The forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present.
— Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
Lose your mind and come to your senses.
— Frederich (Fritz) Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim (1969)
CFP | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society (PEHS) session
American Literature Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026
Hopkins’s America, Then & Now
Science Fiction & Fantasy (SFF) continue to offer new ways of considering the relationships between gender and genre. This conference is interested in how women – writers, characters, fans – use, negotiate, and operate in SFF.
We are particularly interested in papers that have an interdisciplinary and/or creative focus. We welcome papers which consider how this operates across multiple forms, including text, film, TV and videogames.
This conference is open to students and researchers at any stage of their career.
CFP: Precarity Reimagined—Working-Class Representation since 2020
The last few years have seen the publication of a number of fantasy novels for young people written by authors from the postcolonial diaspora, including Tomi Adeyemi’s Legacy of Orisha trilogy, Jordan Ifueko’s Raybearer series, Nnedi Okarofor’s The Nsibidi Scripts series and Roshani Chokshi’s The Gilded Wolves series. Additionally, there are YA fantasy series that deal with hierarchies and inequities resulting from colonization and settler colonialism, such as Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series and Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves duology.
Late Bowie: legacy, mortality and the archival impulse
Call for Papers
Kingston University, UK
MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ARTS & LETTERS 614 Superior Street, Alma College, Alma, MI 48801 - Fax: 989-463-7970 - michiganacademy@alma.edu Call for Papers Women's & Gender Studies
INVITATION 2026 conference: Friday, March 27, 2026, virtual conference held via Zoom.
You are invited to submit a 200-word abstract of the paper you wish to present at the conference.
PROCEDURES Abstract submission deadline is 1/23/26.
Presentations are up to 20 minutes each, followed by discussion.
Undergraduates may present faculty co-authored or sponsored papers (section leaders may require proof that paper/research was reviewed by a faculty sponsor).
Analog Game Studies and Game in Lab are proud to announce Generation Analog 2026. This year’s online conference will take place July 16-17, 2026. The online event is free and open to the public with registration. All presentations will be recorded and made available after the event. Check out the presentations from previous years via AGS’s YouTube channel (like and subscribe).
Food& (https://foodand.eu/) is an experimental publishing project based in Berlin that examines encounters between food and wider social, cultural and political contexts. Previous issues have addressed themes such as Food & Bathrooms, Food & Nuclear War, Food & Gravity and Fast Food & Patents. Food& invites contributions for its upcoming themed issue on Food and Censorship. The issue explores how questions of restriction, regulation, visibility, silence and control shape the production, circulation and mediation of food, food knowledge and food cultures.
Osgood Perkins is emerging as one of the most significant directors of horror in the 21st century. His films are wildly diverse and have elicited an equally wild diversity of response from viewers and critics. Perkins has thought a lot about horror, has frequently spoken about its larger meanings in interviews, and is committed to its centrality as a genre – something he articulates in this 2025 conversation with Interview Magazine:
The journal Studies in Popular Culture publishes reviews of books in the field. If you are interested in reviewing a book submitted to the journal or would like to suggest one to review, please contact the Book Reviews Editor, Caesar Perkowski, at cperkowski@gordonstate.edu. If you have not already reviewed a book for the journal, please include either a CV or a brief description of your interests and qualifications in the email.
Members of the Popular Culture Association in the South who have published a book are encouraged to inform the Book Reviews Editor of that fact.
Welcome to Hawkins: A Special Issue on Stranger Things
Slayage plans a special issue on Stranger Things for publication in late June 2026. Slayage is an international and interdisciplinary refereed scholarly journal concerned with the “fuzzy set” with Buffy the Vampire Slayer at its center, and Stranger Things, a multi-season television series with kick-ass heroines, the irruption of the supernatural into the mundane, high-stakes action, strong characterizations, snarky humor, and an emphasis on relationships and the complexities of queerness and race, fits our definition nicely. It’s even got a Hellmouth in a library!
CALL FOR PAPERS
TWO DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on “CINEMA: A WAY OF LIFE ? ” (Virtual)
Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds
Special Issue 3/2026
“Save State: Ethics, Politics, and Poetics of Game Preservation”
Guest Editors: Paweł Frelik (University of Warsaw), Magdalena Kozyra (SWPS University), Tomasz Z. Majkowski (Jagiellonian University)
Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture is seeking reviews for upcoming issues. The journal welcomes reviews of a wide range of queer media and cultural artefacts. Like other academic journals, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture publishes reviews of recently released books on queer subject matter. Consistent with the journal's overall focus, however, we also strongly encourage the submission and publication of reviews pertaining to significant films, musical recordings, plays, television series, video games, exhibitions, and related cultural artefacts that are of relevance to queerness in its various forms.
A one-day symposium hosted by the Contemporary Intimacies, Sexualities and Genders (CISG) Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University.
22 April 2026 10-4, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6EB.
Reminder: CFP due soon. Please reach out with any questions!
Special Issue, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film Call for Papers:
Adapting Thackeray
The Medieval Comics Project would like to organize a session on comics for the 46th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum to be held at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, on Friday and Saturday, 10-11 April 2026.
Presentations can be in-person or remote.
Possible topics might include
“comics” of the medieval and/or Renaissance eras
comics adaptations of medieval and/or Renaissance literary texts
comics depictions of medieval and/or Renaissance historical events
We're now accepting proposals for our 2026 conference and Volume IV of the Board Game Academics journal through March 15, 2026. If you or someone you know has an idea for a presentation or article about using tabletop gaming to contextualize, historicize, and challenge the ideologies rooted not just within gaming materials but also in their communities at large, please contact us.
Share with the world how you are using tabletop games to support more experiential pedagogies, enhance clinical practice, and engage with students and colleagues.
The Palgrave Handbook of Virtual Reality Literature (Re-CFP)
Anik Sarkar and Ratul Nandi
Note: This is a call for additional essays.
About the book:
CALL FOR PAPERS
American Religion and Literature Society
American Literature Association
37th Annual Conference
May 20-23, 2026
The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603
Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies invites scholarly contributions for its annual issue exploring the profound significance of plants to human culture, literature, history, and thought. We seek essays that examine the complex relationships between humans and botanical life from arts, humanities, and social science perspectives.
Plant blindness remains a significant challenge in cultural representation and environmental awareness. This perceptual tendency causes us to overlook plants in favour of animal life. Yet botanical life constitutes the foundation of all terrestrial ecosystems. Plants remain central to human survival, economy, and imagination.
Steeped in the primal discomfort of the uncanny, dolls and the houses they inhabit are an especially fluid and perennially creepy motif within popular culture. Revealing historical and on-going tensions between what it means to be human and what it means to only perform those attributes, these remnants of childhood carry with them specific cultural messaging that has been particularly fertile ground for the horror genre.
For special issue #10 (spring 2026) of Horror Homeroom, we’re diving into the world of creepy dollhouses and their inhabitants. We’re interested in abstracts about the dolls and dollhouses of horror - or of horror adjacent narratives (thrillers, mysteries, science fiction etc.).
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19) seeks to publish the best scholarship on the century that was, in many ways, the time period in which the modern genres of science fiction and fantasy began, and in which the academic study of fairy tale and folklore has its roots.
As technological, ecological, and sociopolitical transformations challenge traditional notions of human identity, the posthuman paradigm offers a framework for exploring how literature and culture imagine, negotiate, and problematise the boundaries between humans, nonhumans, and their surroundings. This conference seeks to critically examine established notions of a posthuman future/present and its representations in contemporary narratives across literature, cinema, advertising, video games, and other media forms. The seminar examines the concepts of authority, marginality, and ambiguity within dystopian and utopian literary visions of posthumanism.
As part of the 10th International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies, the American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) invites proposals for either a panel or a roundtable discussion. The Elmira conference will expand its traditional focus on Mark Twain by including sister organizations such as AHSA. The conference theme is “Irreverence, Rebellion, and Resilience.”
Edited Collection – Critical Perspectives on the “Flanaverse” of Mike Flanagan