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Seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 11:21am
The Handbook of Trans Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. These are the final chapters needed to complete the handbook.

We have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents.

Your chapter "Trans Cinema from the United States" or "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" should provide a broad survey and analysis of films with transgender themes from the respective country, while also examining at least three films in depth. 

Upcoming deadline: CFP The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 10:56am
International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture (INNC)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture (INNC) 3rd Annual Symposium

Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

Date: 19 September 2025

Location: Online

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Gabrielle Decamous, Kyushu University, Japan, author of Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age (2019)

Call for Book Chapters - Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 1:17am
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 28, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.

My Wild Heart Bleeds: New Perspectives on Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla

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Sunday, June 22, 2025 - 1:06pm
Dr Sam Hirst
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CFP: ‘My Wild Heart Bleeds: Exploring Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’and its legacy’

 

Sheridan Le Fanu published his sapphic vampire tale ‘Carmilla’ in 1872, reworking the vampire genre, and creating a figure who has inspired subsequent original works and reimaginings. This collection focuses on new explorations and readings of ‘Carmilla’ and its ongoing legacy, from adaptations and reimaginings to more subtle influences on the figure of the female vampire and the vampiric tradition more broadly.

Hegel and Literature

updated: 
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 9:05am
Northeast Modern Language association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In Positions, Derrida stated that “we will never be finished with the reading or rereading of the Hegelian text.” Hegel's impact on all areas of thought cannot be overstated. Recent decades have seen the efflorescence of publications such as Hegel and the Foundations of Literary Theory (Habib 2018), or Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique (Scott 2025), which attempt to retrace the pervasiveness of Hegel's thought, the hostility as well as hospitality it underwent in literary critical discourse, or Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination (Bates 2010), which cross-reads Hegel and Shakespeare to reciprocally shed light on each other.

Call to Host the 2026 Post45 Graduate Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 1:28pm
Post45
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Submission deadline: August 5, 2025

We are pleased to announce an open call for bids to host the 2026 Post45 Graduate Symposium. The Post45 Graduate Symposium is a two-day event, typically held in Spring, which brings together graduate students and faculty members working on post-1945 arts, literature, media, and culture. Around fifteen graduate students each submit a work-in-progress and convene in a workshop-style setting along with faculty respondents to discuss each participant's work. 

FRAME 39.1 “Controlling the Narrative”

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 5, 2025

Dissension exists on a spectrum. It can be expressed on an individual scale—by rejecting challenges to ethical or moral beliefs—or within collectives that object to systems that harm or subjugate. Literature can be used as an act of protest and resistance, to create counter narratives that combat oppressive agendas; it can mirror the outcry of societies that wish to test the limits of oppression but lack the voice to do so. Now more than ever, it is imperative that we listen to those voices that systems continually work to silence. Authoritarianism, protest, incarceration, and revolution are interwoven themes that dominate allegorical genres such as dystopian fiction.

The Handbook of Bengali Cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Dr Subashish Bhattacharjee and Dr Indrajit Mukherjee
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We invite original and unpublished essays for inclusion in a forthcoming Handbook of Bengali Cinema. This interdisciplinary volume will offer a comprehensive and critical survey of Bengali cinema across periods, geographies, genres, styles, and theoretical frameworks. It will serve as a key reference for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in one of South Asia’s most influential regional cinemas.

Essays should be no longer than 5,000 words, inclusive of notes and works cited, and must follow the MLA citation style (current edition). Contributions may be historical, thematic, theoretical, or practice-based, and are expected to demonstrate critical rigor and originality.

 

Representing Authoritarianism in Modern Latin American Politics and Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Joseph Mulligan, Weber State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Throughout the nineteenth, twentieth and into the twenty-first century, authoritarianism has proven to be an enduring leadership style in Latin American and has manifested in diverse forms, including the uprisings of regional caudillos, the ascendency of personalist rulers, the formation of solemn cults of personality, the imposition of military dictatorships, the establishment of single-party States, the totalitarian perpetuation of the state of exception, the cultural promotion of ethnonationalism, and the installation of illiberal technocracies, among others.

Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 5:33pm
Lenka Filipova / Freie Universität Berlin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 17, 2025

Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z

Eds. Başak Ağın, Z. Gizem Yılmaz, and Lenka Filipova

(Re)generating Pynchon (NeMLA 2026 panel)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 10:08am
NeMLA - Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The 57th annual NeMLA Convention is taking place Thursday, March 5, through Sunday, March 8, 2026, at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown in Pittsburgh, PA.  For more information, see https://www.nemla.org/.

The Literary Love Letter

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In Nick Bantock's Griffin and Sabine, Sabine Strohem and Griffin Moss have never met--not really. They have, though, shared an extraordinary epistolary correspondence. And through this correspondence, Griffin wonders how he can feel so close to someone through letters, only, "How can I miss you this badly when we've never met?" (39).

**Deadline Extended** (CFP: PAMLA 2025) Haunted Belonging: Memory, Erasure, and Identity in Diasporic Literatures

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
Wenyuan Wang / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This session explores how postcolonial and diasporic literatures grapple with memory, trauma, and cultural haunting. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging and agency. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures. This session welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and encourages work on Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and other diasporic communities.

Sports Area - NEPCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2025

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

This area probes North American and international intersections between sports, society, and culture. Among the topics welcomed are those probing:

Sally Rooney: Her Novels

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
Northeast Modern Language Assocation (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This NeMLA session critically discusses the novels of Sally Rooney. We will ask: is Rooney's oeuvre a critique, a snapshot, a suggestion, or a warning about a way forward for fiction, the novel form, feminism, and contemporary culture?

View full CFP here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21883

 

Modality:

In Person Only: The session will be held fully in person at the hotel. No remote presentations will be included.

 

Questions/Comments:

Contact Kimberlyjcoates@gmail.com

Feeling the Nation: Emotion, Identity, and Memory in Literature and Media

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
NeMLA 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

What does it mean to experience national belonging through emotion? This session brings together papers that consider the layered connections among feeling, identity, and cultural memory as they unfold across literature and media. In periods marked by rupture or transformation, emotion often anchors or unsettles the stories through which nations come to know themselves. Heritage dramas steeped in nostalgia, literary depictions of estrangement, and audiovisual forms of cultural longing all point to this dynamic. National identity, in these works, emerges not as a fixed concept but as a lived and felt experience.

Pilgrimage, Liberation, and Flux: The (Re)Generated Reader

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:33am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In her 1981 study of surrealist poetry, The Metapoetics of the Passage, Mary Ann Caws considers the capacity of poetic language to simultaneously arrest itself and enable forward movement: "The word is situated, as Jacques Garelli reminds us, between two deaths, so that each cluster of sounds located within this regenerating rhythm is able to resume its impetus, thus refreshed, as if it were starting again." It is the practice of architextural reading, Caws argues, that reveals the sustained surface tension at work in written texts, a tension often concealed beneath plot, message, the presence of characters, or particularly potent visual images.

Human or Human-ish: Generating, Regenerating, Degenerating Humanity in Fiction (NeMLA panel, March 5-8 2026, Pittsburgh)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:30am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Many fictional works tackle ethical challenges regarding human relationships with emergent technologies. Specifically, fiction presents issues about generation (invention and use of technologies), regeneration (cloning, simulated people and realities), and degeneration (collapsing of virtual worlds, discarding of clones and simulations).

Call for Journal Articles

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 8:35am
Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, a peer-reviewed international journal published by Çankaya University in Ankara, is currently accepting submissions of articles and book reviews for its forthcoming issues. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is listed or indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, the MLA Directory of Periodicals, Index Copernicus Master List, ERIH Plus, and TR Index. 

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 July 2025*

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 2:35am
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the sixth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in September. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus, DOAJ, and Gale Cengage.

* Deadline is the end of July but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

Margins of Edibility: Non-food in Postcolonial South Asian Literatures Edited Volume — Call for Abstracts

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:57am
University of Würzburg and IIT Kanpur
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Food, in any society, is defined as much by what is consumed as by what is excluded. The concept of edibility is shaped not only by nourishment or taste but also by cultural, religious, political, and social boundaries. This edited volume investigates non-food—items or substances that are technically ingestible but culturally rejected, stigmatized, or taboo—in postcolonial South Asian literature. From famine-induced substitutes to ritually impure matter, we seek to explore how literary representations of non-food reflect evolving dynamics of power, identity, and cultural values in a region deeply shaped by colonialism and its afterlives.

Embodied Spaces: Digital Reconfigurations of Experience

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Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 8:37am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Virtual interventions have become permanently embedded in our spaces, and play a major role not only in how a space is constituted but also in how our bodies exist in, encounter, and co-constitute space. Physical space and virtual networks are inextricably intertwined today, such that a space is never purely physical.

Haunted Cities: Spaces, Spectres, and Urban Hauntologies

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 7:00am
Editors - Marko Lukic and Irena Jurkovic/University of Zadar
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Reminder:

Call for Papers

Haunted Cities: Spaces, Spectres, and Urban Hauntologies

Edited Collection

New Perspectives on Bob Dylan (NeMLA 2026)

updated: 
Saturday, June 14, 2025 - 5:26pm
David Polanski (Independent Scholar) & Robert Reginio (Alfred University)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

New Perspectives on Bob Dylan (NeMLA 2026)

Deadline for abstract submission: September 30 2025

Journal article submissions for William Carlos Williams Review

updated: 
Friday, June 13, 2025 - 6:31pm
Williamm Carlos Williams Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 28, 2025

Call for submission of academic articles on William Carlos Williams for consideration by the William Carlos Williams Review. Articles must be between 20 to 30 pages in length. All topics welcome. Queries to the editor at copers@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions: July 28, 2025. To submit, register as an author and upload your article here: https://www.editorialmanager.com/wcwr/default.aspx

Foreclosure, a Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Chloe Ashbridge (Newcastle University) and Owain Burrell (Warwick University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 18, 2025

British cultural production has a long history of foreclosure. Understood as a premature abandonment, or an abortive failure, of radical political projects, foreclosure has an imaginative and material register in working-class writing, which has been read since the 1930s as failing to experiment, relying on realism without meaningful engagement with questions of literary form. This view has been challenged by literary scholars, who have demonstrated that formal experimentation did exist, though not in ways that comfortably align with the usual reading of middle-class modernism (Clarke Working Class Writing, 2018).

The Writing's on the Wall

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Institute of Faith and the Academy
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Institute of Faith and the Academy Conference 

Call for Papers 

September 26, 2025 

Theme: Writing's on the Wall

10th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

 

10th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues

in Language and Literature

to be held online for the purpose of presenting unpublished research findings in English

on November 13th-14th, 2025.

The leitmotif of the conference is:

Totality and fragmentation

in literature, linguistics, philosophy and culture

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature 7/2026

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

vol. 7/2026

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

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