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Austerity
April 10-11, 2026
The 2026 edition of the Equinoxes graduate student conference at Brown University
Proverbs and Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture
An International and Interdisciplinary Conference
1-3 July 2026
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Hull
The 2026 NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference invites current graduate students to submit abstracts for this year's conference at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville on April 17-18, 2026.
Bloomsbury - Trans Studies Book Series
CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Transgender Entanglements: The shape and limits of transgender
Edited by Levi C. R. Hord and Wendy Gay Pearson
Call for Papers
Midwest Winter Workshop 2026
Rhetoric Program
Indiana University Bloomington
Friday, February 6th – Saturday, February 7th, 2026
https://ucgradconference20.wixsite.com/utopian-impulses We are excited to share the CfP for this year’s interdisciplinary graduate student conference at the University of Cincinnati titled Utopian Impulses in the 2020s! We're also pleased to announce that Dr. Angela Laflen will be this year's keynote speaker. See bio below: "Dr. Angela Laflen is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, and author of Critical Data Storytelling in the Composition Classroom (Utah State UP 2025).
Call for Contributors:
Conspiracy Theories & the Information Society
Editors:
Robert Spinelli (rspinelli@ncis.org); Matthew N. Hannah (matthew.hannah@wisc.edu)
Abstract:
- Call for Presentation Proposals - Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference
Saturday July 11 – Sunday July 12, 2026
University College London (Bloomsbury Campus)
This is the exciting 29th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference!
Closing Date for Submissions: January 24, 2026*
The conference will be held in person.
Proposal submission: conference@greatwriting.org.uk
In 2021, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) issued a position statement on “the Role of Reading in the College Writing Classroom”. In this statement, 4Cs “affirm[ed] the need to develop accessible and effective reading pedagogies in college writing classrooms” because it would help student performance across the university and in students’ roles as citizens in a democracy. The statement correctly notes that reading pedagogy is an issue writing studies has not taken up in a robust way for about 30 years and that it is now receiving attention at four-year institutions, though reading pedagogy has long been addressed at two-year schools.
orum: Issues about Part-Time and Full-Time Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed journal published by NCTE and CCCC to address working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty. This special issue will be published in the fall of 2026. The submission deadline is January 20, 2026. Issues of identity shape not only who we are as faculty, but also how we perform and the connections we make in the classroom. Identifying one’s place, not just as an educator but as a person, has unique implications for part-time and contingent faculty in higher learning, both in and outside the academic spaces they take up.
USM’s English Graduate Organization Conference Call for Papers
(Un)Spoken: Voices of Dissent
April 10th and 11th, 2026
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, History, Philosophy and Theology, West University of Timișoara, is pleased to announce its 34th international conference on British and American Studies, on the theme “Reconfiguring Borders and Boundaries in/through the Lens of Literature, Language and Culture,” which will be held on 14-16 May 2026.
Bridges and Borders: Material Actualities
March 19-21, 2026 | Proposals Due by January 15th, 2026
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom
Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.
CONTACT: bridgesandborders@andrew.cmu.edu
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: TBA.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Deadline for proposals has been extended to 15 November 2025!
JOIN CEA IN THE QUEEN CITY
On May 20, 1775—a year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence—the citizens of North Carolina declared their own independence from Great Britain in the Mecklenberg Declaration. Today, more than 250 years later, North Carolinians continue to celebrate “Meck Dec” and their history as “a free and independent people.” In the spirit of public proclamation and historic resolve, the College English Association announces its 55th annual conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, and our theme, DECLARATIONS. The CEA conference features papers, panels, and roundtables that address our discipline from multiple perspectives.
PCA/ACA Fat Studies 2026 Call for Papers/Presentations/Panels
Deadline: 11.30.25
PCA Fat Studies Area Call for Papers
This year’s MCLLM theme invites exploration of how literature, language, and performance illuminate intersecting dimensions of justice. How are inherited forms, genres, and rhetorical strategies reactivated in contemporary struggles for equity? In what ways do linguistic, literary, and artistic practices navigate, resist, and respond to the abuse of power while imagining alternative futures?
MCLLM welcomes proposals from a wide range of disciplines and expression forms. The list below provides a sense of the topics the organizers are interested in seeing, but it is not an all-inclusive list. Please submit a proposal that represents your interpretation of our theme!
Call for Papers
Writing and Social Justices: Praxis, Aesthetics, Pedagogies
Special Issue, University of Toronto Quarterly
Co-editors: Julia A. Boyd, Corrine Bent-Womack, Sheliza Ibrahim, Megan Janssen-McBride, Iona Lister, Nelesi Rodrigues, and Clare Warner
Advisory Editor: Leticia Ridley
NeMLA’s 57th Annual Convention (Virtual Session)
Conference Date: March 5-8, 2026
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025
All presentations will be delivered via Zoom.
Session Title: Touching the World at the Speed of Light: Community and Conflict in the Global Village
NeMLA’s 57th Annual Convention (Virtual Session)
Conference Date: March 5-8, 2026
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025
All presentations will be delivered via Zoom.
Session Title: Touching the World at the Speed of Light: Community and Conflict in the Global Village
Jürgen Habermas suggested that it is through communicative action, that is reasoned and open discourse, that we transmit, change, and recreate cultural knowledge, and that in so-doing we can achieve mutual understanding.
Communicative action and communicative rationality are self-reflexive dialogues through which we can learn from others, question dominant paradigms, and advocate for cultural change.
Against Evidence Otherwise:
Bad Faith and Antiblackness in Education & Society
Under Contract with Brill Publishing
Edited by Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University
What is to be done in a world of near universal sense of superiority to, if not universal hatred of, Black folk?
–Lewis R. Gordon (1997, p. 1)
I know I am a Human because I am not Black. I know I am not Black because when and if I experience the kind of violence Blacks experience there is a reason.
PERFORMANCE MATTERS
https://performancematters-thejournal.com/
Call for Papers: “On Being There”
(Re)generative Storytelling: Embodied Narratives for Resilience and Social Renewal
March 5-8, 2025| Pittsburgh PA), Virtual Only
Abstract submission link: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21583
ABSTRACTS DUE: SEPT 30, 2025
Technical communication, as a field of practice and study, has grown larger and more varied in response to the rapidly developing technologies, new forms of globalization, and shifting institutional demands of the past 20 years—all greatly intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic within the last five. How, then, do today's instructors of technical communication meet the current moment as well as current student needs?
Call for Proposals
University of Florida’s Writing Program
Spring 2026 Conference on Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy
Conference date: Saturday, February 7, 2026
Theme: Meaningful Writing
The University of Florida’s Writing Program invites proposals for our annual Conference on Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy. This year’s theme, Meaningful Writing, asks us to reflect on the writing experiences that matter most to our students, our classrooms, and ourselves.
Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing invites scholarly notes for its next volume. Up to 2,500 words, notes may include preliminary results of a study, responses to recent content in DH, comments on a current issue of concern, or other brief insights related to critical thinking and writing.
DH publishes, on a rolling basis, a range of scholarly work--from research articles to notes--on writing and critical thinking pedagogy. For more information about DH, please visit the journal at the WAC Clearinghouse of Colorado State University: https://wac.colostate.edu/double-helix/.
Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Call for Proposals
A Virtual Conference
12–13 March 2026
Sponsored by the University Writing Program at the University of Florida
Details
We invite submissions for a paper panel themed “Non-Western Aesthetics: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Representation” – an exploration of aesthetics from diverse cultural perspectives, non-Western rhetorical traditions, and globalized literary theory. Our aim is to examine non-Western, non-hegemonic discourses from non-White nations that incorporate indigenous critical approaches and local theories within artistic and literary practices. We are particularly interested in South and Southeast Asian literary and cultural studies.
Broad areas of exploration may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following literary and cultural theoretical perspectives: