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EXTENDED DEADLINE: The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Saturday, February 8, 2025 - 3:11pm
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Deadline extended for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We warmly invite additional chapters, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals due March 6. We already have 40+ confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. Following this list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:

Global childhoods and cosmopolitan identities, call for papers

updated: 
Saturday, February 8, 2025 - 11:52am
Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 4, 2025

Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (uwi.edu) is a new, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.

10×10 Research Grants on Photobook History - 2025

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Friday, February 7, 2025 - 12:05pm
10x10 Photobooks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 10, 2025

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

Worlds Beyond: 48th Annual Williamson Lectureship

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Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:56am
Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Theme: Worlds Beyond

The Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) invites scholars, academics, and researchers to submit abstracts for academic papers and/or proposals for panel presentations focused on the intersection of speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and hybrid genres) with the evolving notion of the (post)human. The theme for this year's Lectureship is "Worlds Beyond” with distinguished guest of honor Darcie Little Badger, the Locus, Nebula, Ignyte, and Newberry Honor Award winning author of Elatsoe and A Snake Falls to Earth. The event will also feature several other speculative fiction authors.  

English Literature since 1900

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:56am
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

This panel seeks papers that explore all aspects of English literature since 1900. Proposals may explore Trans-Atlantic artists, or artists whose works were influenced by their English territory residency, as well as those artists of the British literary canon. Please submit a proposal no longer than 250-300 words to Dr. Krista Rascoe at krista.rascoe@tccd.edu by April 1st. 

UCL Artists' Books Symposium: Structures/Infrastructures

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:39am
Killian Beashel / University College London (UCL)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 11, 2025

This symposium, due to be held on 9th June 2025, proposes to investigate the formal or informal infrastructures and networks which sustain (or, perhaps, inhibit) the production, preservation, curation, distribution and analysis of artists’ books in Britain now. We are actively seeking contributions not just from academics and doctoral students working in the field, but from all those involved in the artists’ books and small press ecosystem, from retailers to publishers to librarians to artists. This symposium is supported by a grant from the Association for Art History.

Railway Aesthetics: Experiencing Locomotion across Media and Cultures (Vienna-Bucharest-Istanbul, 10-13 September 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:37am
Tampere University, Sapienza University of Rome, University of Zurich
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 2, 2025

‘With the tremendous acceleration of life, mind and eye have become accustomed to seeing and judging partially or inaccurately, and everyone is like the traveller who gets to know a land and its people from a railway carriage.’ (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878)

We are inviting proposals for a multidisciplinary conference on the aesthetics of the railway. Taking place on two trains from Vienna to Bucharest and from Bucharest to Istanbul, the conference will itself be a mobile experience.

Brave Sermons: Religious Speech and the Struggle for Justice

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Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:35am
TC Religion and Literature forum -- MLA Convention 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Budde’s January 2025 inauguration sermon sparked both praise and critique, shining light on the contested role of religious speech in public discourse and its relation to justice and good governance. As Elizabeth Ammons writes in Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet(2010), religious values—and religious speech—have contributed enormously to justice throughout history, including movements for abolition, civil rights, decolonization, and more recently, calls to redress environmental damage as in Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home and Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable.

Religion, Literature, and Palestinian Liberation

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:34am
TC Religion and Literature Forum -- MLA Convention January 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

For this guaranteed session of the January 2026 MLA convention, the Transdiscipinary Connections Religion and Literature forum invites proposals that focus on literatures of Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora, especially in their engagements with religion, interfaith encounters, justice, and liberation movements. As members of the MLA debate institutional responses to the Gaza genocide, we seek to amplify scholarship in our transdisciplinary field that bears witness to the struggle for just peace and Palestinian liberation. 

 

Please submit 250-word proposal and CV by Mary 15, 2025 to Cynthia Wallace, forum chair: cwallace [at] stmcollege.ca.

Global Transmedial Modernism

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 1:47pm
English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Global Transmedial Modernism

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN)

Telangana Journal of Higher Education

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 5:33am
Telangana Council of Higher Education
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)
Inaugural Issue Theme: Technology and Higher Education

The Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE), published by the Telangana Council of Higher Education (TGCHE), Government of Telangana, invites submissions for its inaugural issue, focusing on “Technology and Higher Education.” This issue aims to discuss the transformative role of technology in reshaping the practices, policies, and experiences within higher education. With a focus on the Indian context and a global outlook, the journal seeks contributions that examine innovative approaches, critical challenges, and forward-thinking strategies in the integration of technology across diverse areas of higher education.

Call for Papers for Vol 4 of IJLS

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:38am
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Politics and Leadership, Leadership Studies and Politics

Politics and leadership: two subjects that are commonly known, yet also deeply misunderstood. Politics is not merely the activities of official decision-makers and the ideas (and people) that give rise to them, but also, more broadly, how human groups determine who gets what (and under what circumstances—by consent or coercion). What if leadership is not entirely a person or position? Perhaps, leadership is a negotiation— a complex moral relationship between people that is predicated on role agreement. We might say, then, that leadership is a dynamic process that cannot be separated from the politics of human groups. Leadership, in this way, is very fundamentally political.

Texas Woman's University Book Series: Call for Book Proposals

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:37am
Texas Woman's University Book Series
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Calling all authors: The Texas Woman's University book series is an interdisciplinary book series that explores innovative knowledge, creativity, and discoveries shaped by women and women's experiences in fields such as the arts, sciences, spirituality, religion, politics, business, education, the military, health sciences, and community services.

The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:37am
Northeastern University, London
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

 

The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century

Saturday 25 October 2025

Northeastern University, London

 

Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), the modernist long poem continues to be the focus of critical response and varied definitions. Recent work on the genre in its historical context by Oliver Tearle (2019), Sean Pryor (2021) and others, as well as a recent conference (Paris, 2024) on the topic, indicates fresh attention to the modernist long poem, on which we aim to build at this event.

MLA 2026 / Guaranteed Session Mapping the Futures of Children’s Literature Scholarship: Where Do We Go from Here (DEADLINE MARCH 5, 2025)

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Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:17am
Gabrielle (Brie) Owen on behalf of GS Children's and Young Adult Literature Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

This is a guaranteed roundtable sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 8-11 in Toronto, ON. In the spirit of the conference theme “Family Resemblances” and the call to resist categorizations and exclusionary boundaries, this roundtable assumes an expansive understanding of children’s literature scholarship in mapping its potential futures.

Chapter about Monsters that can control human minds

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 8:24am
Nizar Zouidi/University of Gafsa
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

This chapter will be part of an edited collection that aims at examining (the intersections between) the notions of monstrosity and evil in the literary and artistic depictions of non-human and hybrid (or post-human) intelligence in different cultural and historical contexts. It focuses on the representation of monsters and creatures that have cognitive abilities as well as on the demonizing and vilification of artificially or magically enhanced human intelligence. It also deals with the depiction of malignant non-human entities interfering with human thoughts and evil non-human cosmic intelligences interfering with human destinies.

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 2:24am
ROUTLEDGE, Taylor & Francis, Informa, Informa UK Limited
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition) 

Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas

Proposed Panel for ASA 2025: "Tourism and Self-Help Culture"

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 4:54pm
American Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

UPDATED DEADLINE: Feb, 7th, 20245.

I'm an Assistant Professor of English at The University of The Bahamas with a partial panel formed for this year's American Studies Association 2025 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, held Nov. 20-22, 2025. We're looking for one more presenter and a chair for a panel on the following topic:

Proposed Session Title: Tourism and Self-Help Culture

DFW25: A Virtual Conference

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:56am
The International David Foster Wallace Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

The 20th Anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” Kenyon Commencement Speech is coming up this May! If you can’t make our roundtable at the ALA conference in Boston, we’d love to see you in the virtual realm for a two-day Zoom event hosted by The International David Foster Wallace Society. 

On Friday, June 8th, 2025 from 5 pm to 7 pm, EST: a live reading of “This Is Water.” Please join us to read a passage, or simply to listen. Afterward, an open forum will discuss the impact of this monumental speech. 

Edited Collection: Haunted by Hydrocarbons: Petrogothic and Petrohorror in the Contemporary Imagination

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:53am
Jennifer Schell (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Edited Collection: Haunted by Hydrocarbons: Petrogothic and Petrohorror in the Contemporary Imagination

 

Deadline for proposal submission: August 31, 2025

 

Editors: Madalynn L. Madigar (Cherokee Nation, University of Oregon), Jennifer Schell (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)

 

Contact Email: mmadigar@uoregon.edu, jschell5@alaska.edu

 

For this edited collection, we invite proposals for essays that focus on and engage with petrogothic and petrohorror, emerging fields that examine the textual artifacts of hydrocarbon cultures through the lens of gothic and horror studies.

 

(Un)welcome Imaginaries: (Non-)Fiction Literature on Fundamental Rights

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 4:57pm
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Un)welcome Imaginaries: (Non-)Fiction Literature on Fundamental Rights

 

International Interdisciplinary Conference (online)

 

12-13th December 2025

 

Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)

 

Call for papers

US-UK Transatlantic Crossings in the Arts and Literature from 1823 to Today (Nancy, France, 16-17 October 2025)

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:23pm
Université de Lorraine (France)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

The ongoing interdependence between the United Kingdom and the United States dates back further than the "Special Relationship" popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946. In the early decades of their independence, the United States maintained strong cultural ties with the United Kingdom (cf.

MLA 2026 call for paper:Quantum Narratives: AI and Multiverse in Asian American Literature and Film

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:11pm
Claire Rodan/ University of Maryland
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Panel Title: Quantum Narratives: AI and Multiverse in Asian American Literature and Film E-mail Address: claire.yijiec@gmail.com Description & Requirements: This panel explores how speculative discourses around AI, quantum physics, or the multiverse influence representations of identity and consciousness in Asian American literature and film. Submit abstracts to Erin Suzuki: esuzuki@ucsd.edu ; Claire Rodan: cchen200@umd.edu Submission Deadline: Saturday, 15 March 2025 

Technology and Late-19th- and Early-20th-century American Literature

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:10pm
MLA forum on Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

This call seeks paper proposals for a panel at the 2026 MLA convention that explores the intersections between American literature and various emergent or developing technologies during the period of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. The panel is sponsored by the MLA Forum on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature.

Participants with accepted papers must be members of the MLA by April 7, 2025.

The 2026 MLA Convention will be held in Toronto, Canada, on January 8-11, 2026.

Please send a 250-word abstract and brief bio to Heather.Ostman@sunywcc.edu by March 15, 2025.

MLA 2026 (Toronto, Canada) Special Session: Queer Cultures of the Hispanic World: 19th and 20th Centuries

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:09pm
Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 10, 2025

How have modern Hispanic queer cultures taken shape and been remembered, forgotten or censored over time? What networks or collaborations sustained them in and beyond Spain and Latin America? Send 250-word abstracts and 100-word bios in English or Spanish.

 

Submission deadline: March 10, 2025 

 

Contact information: 

Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State U, KS (jzamostny@ksu.edu

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