postcolonial

The Cambridge Handbook of Postcolonial Law and Literature is a collection of essays analyzing the relationship between English Common Law and Anglophone literature in the colonial and postcolonial world. The collection is largely complete, but can accommodate a few more essays.   The editors particularly welcome submissions on Disability Studies, Ecological Studies, and/or essays that focus on the Caribbean.  

Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies

Brutalism in the Global Novel  (https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps/cfp) 

• Guest Editors: Om Prakash Dwivedi, Chandigarh University, India

                                 Madhurima Nayak, Chandigarh University, India

Personhood is having a cultural moment. The ambiguous status of agency and rights animates compelling and diverse critical responses: from studies of animals, AI, and fetal protection laws (Kurki and Pietrzykowski, 2017), to Frankenstein as a model for corporate personhood (Atkinson, 2022), to anthropocentric ideas of personhood versus the environment (Rochford, 2024), to studies of  “potential people” including chatbots and embryos (Kalantry 2025).

UCD Centre for Gender, Feminisms & Sexualities - 2nd CGFS Conference  Call for Papers: 'Thinking Gender Justice: Oppression, Resistance, Liberation' University College Dublin, Ireland, 17-19 June 2026  Proposal Deadline: 27 February 2026. Notifications: 9 March 2026Registration opens 6 MarchProposal Submission form: https://forms.gle/4qkYr9riQ1yWgnwR7

10×10 Photobooks is pleased to announce a new grant cycle and call for applications as part of its annual photobook research grants program to encourage and support scholarship on under-explored topics in photobook history.

Information and Submission at: 

https://10x10photobooks.org/research-grants-cycle5-call/

The deadline for submissions for the new cycle of 10×10 research grants is midnight ET 23 March 2026.

MELUS 2026

Austin, Texas

Women of Color Caucus (WOCC)

Conference Dates: Thursday, April 30 – Saturday, May 2, 2026

Genre-blurring as Feminist Practice and Methodology (WOCC scholarship panel)

Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of Environment, Extraction, Evolution. 

 
“What do I want from literature, anyway? 
A new way of living, a new way to talk  
About the trees that doesn’t endanger them” 
- Billy-Ray Belcourt, “Endnotes” 

For this guaranteed session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention, we invite papers focusing on literatures of migration and spirituality. Given the convention’s location in Los Angeles, we especially welcome proposals that consider authors and texts with connections to LA and the city as a site of contact, dialogue, and religious syncretism.

Papers might consider, for example:

-       Memoirs of migration in place and faith

-       Religious affect in literatures of exile and precarity

-       Indigenous survival and reemergent spiritual practices in and around LA

-       Sacred spaces and urban geography

“Channels and Chokepoints: Tracing the Pathways of Long Nineteenth-Century Indian Fiction”

Sponsored by the NAVSA Empire & Colonialism Caucus

CALL FOR PAPERS

Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies

Thematic Issue 2027

Apocalypse as Utopia:

Hopeful Visions of Apocalypses in Literature, Media and Culture

Guest Editors:

Magdalena Cieślak, University of Lodz

Paola Spinozzi, University of Ferrara

Katarzyna Więckowska, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun

Call for Papers - Doctoral Conference 

 Restanza. Linguistic, Literary and Geographical Imageries of Permanence

University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara 

Pescara, 4-5 June 2026

Doctoral Course in Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Contact  Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

«Restare, quindi, non è statica come azione, 

ma dinamica, non cristallizza il presente ma si permea di futuro»(Teti, 2022: 119).

Neither ‘queer’ nor ‘beginnings’ are easy to pin down. Queerness is infamous for its ability to slip away from definition; it encompasses – but is not reducible to – sexuality, gender, race, ability, class, politics, and more. Beginnings, too, wriggle from our grasp. Choose a beginning for any historical event, movement, or narrative and there is always something which precedes it. Are beginnings focused into an inciting event, or do they reside in the feelings which precipitate such events? Who gets to decide?

No Longer in the “Waiting Room of Literary History”:
Accounting for Nineteenth-Century Indian Fiction

A Special Issue of The Global South, Fall 2028

In his 2022 book, Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature,
Christopher Krentz writes that “while disabled people everywhere have dealt with barriers to
making their views known, those in the Global South, who are usually people of color, have long
been largely unheard, despite numbering more than half a billion people . . . Such invisibility
underscores how disabled people and those close to them in the Global South have commonly been
afterthoughts, deemed unimportant and disposable” (Krentz 2). While the Global South is Krentz’s
focus, we also acknowledge these issues in minority and indigenous communities globally.