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PAMLA 2025: American Literature Post-1945 (Extended Deadline)

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 4:52pm
Pacific Modern Language Association_American Post-45 Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

We invite proposals for papers dealing with American Literature from 1945 to the present. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works (fiction, poetry, drama) but also essays, memoirs, or creative nonfiction. Texts that are written by American-identifying authors, composed by writers in the US, or address American life are all welcome.  

PAMLA 2025: Anger and Frustration in Contemporary American Women's Fiction [Deadline Extended]

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 4:51pm
Pacific Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Many mainstream media outlets have observed an uptick in the mainstream popularity of American women's fiction that center on rage-filled female characters or that express anger at contemporary society. The complicated aftermath of second-wave feminism has in some ways enabled women to speak more frankly about their bodies, desires, and experiences, but these forms of sexual and social liberation of the past several decades have led to a strong backlash against reproductive freedom and a resurgent public-sphere misogyny; many feminist critics have also noticed that media discussions of progress for women—how many female CEO’s run Fortune 500 companies, for instance—have silenced structural critique of a patriarchal society.

Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies Essays due June 30

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 3:54pm
Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CFP for Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies 2025

Deadline for Submissions: essays (6,500 words) due 30/06/25, book reviews (2,000 words) due 31/07/25.

JWLS 2025 Wyndham Lewis: Collaboration, Influence, Impact

The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies seeks articles for its 2025 issue. 

Articles that centre the broad themes of 'Collaboration, Influence, Impact' are particularly welcome. Articles (c.6,500 words inclusive of Bibliography) should be formatted using MLA, with in-text citations.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Global childhoods and cosmopolitan identities, call for papers

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 2:12pm
Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 10, 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.

Special Issue: AppleTV+ and Science Fiction--EXTENDED DEADLINE

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 10:04am
Science Fiction Film and Television
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Special Issue: AppleTV+ and Science Fiction 

Guest Editors: Burcu Kuheylan, Milt Moise, Nicholas Orlando

contact email: projectscifi.appletv@gmail.com

EXTENDED DEADLINE—Abstracts due May 21, 2025 

In this special issue of the journal, editors seek scholarly articles that contextualize and critique AppleTV+ and its production of science fiction television against the tumultuous Zeitgeist of post-2016.   

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

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 5:34pm
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

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

 

International Interdisciplinary Conference (online)

 

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

12-13th December 2025

 

 

Call for papers

W. B. Yeats: Dubliner

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 10:54am
International Yeats Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 16, 2025

W. B. YEATS: DUBLINER

The 2025 Conference of the International Yeats Society

30 October to 1 November | Trinity College Dublin

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE: The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 4:19pm
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 17, 2025

We warmly invite additional chapters for The Handbook of Trans Cinema, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals are due April 17, 2025. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. After the following 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:

MMLA Permanent Section - Short Story **deadline extended**

updated: 
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 2:16pm
The Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

Presentation Format: In-Person Only

 

Taking inspiration from the convention theme, this year’s short story panel asks presenters to consider how the unique properties of the form contribute to its ability to offer hope, particularly the hope of human connection in an inhuman time.

 

Panelists might explore how formal considerations inform the short story’s relationship with hope:

 

Deadline Reminder: Conference "Cultural Memory – Memory Culture(s): Europe’s Past, Present and Future"

updated: 
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 7:11am
University of Limerick, Centre for European Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

The ways in which Europe remembers its past are central to shaping its future. From the memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War to the legacies of colonialism, dictatorship, and conflict, the continent’s history remains a site of both reconciliation and contestation. This conference invites scholars to explore the role of cultural memory in shaping European identities, values, and policies. How are memories transmitted across generations? How do different national narratives interact, clash, or converge within a shared European framework? What national and transnational memory cultures are created?

 

Workshop: The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces in 21st-Century British and Anglophone Literatures”

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:46pm
Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

CFP: “The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces in 21st-Century British and Anglophone Literatures”

 

Workshop, 31. October – 1. November 2025, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

 

Confirmed Keynote speaker: Ben Highmore (University of Sussex)

 

Women Remembering Power and Violence: Postcolonial Trauma Studies

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:46pm
Postcolonial Text
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

“Violence is man recreating himself,” psychiatrist and critic Frantz Franon wrote in 1961 in The Wretched of the Earth as he witnessed postcolonial destruction in the wake of the Algerian War. The violence he underscored in his seminal work was not the centuries-long decimation of the land and culture of the oppressed, but rather the revolution of the colonized against hegemony to reclaim a national and racial identity.

60th Anniversary of The Beatles' RUBBER SOUL

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:33pm
Kenneth Womack/Monmouth University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

 Everything Fab Four Fest: RUBBER SOULNovember 6-8, 2025, Asbury Park, NJBerkeley Oceanfront Hotel

You are cordially invited to submit abstracts and/or panel suggestions for an international symposium devoted to the life, work, and influence of the Beatles, particularly in relation to their legendary album RUBBER SOUL (1965). The festivities will include a host of well-known speakers, journalists, and musicians. 

Octavia E. Butler Seminar at PAMLA 2025 (San Francisco, 11/20-23)

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:33pm
Jade Saffery / PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

We are seeking proposals for papers that explore Octavia E. Butler’s oeuvre for a special session at the PAMLA 2025 Conference in San Francisco. 

The session format is a seminar: Four to seven participants will share their paper ahead of time and then present a brief (five to seven minute) summary of their paper during the seminar, allowing time for an extended question and discussion period.

All submissions are welcome, but because Butler’s literature evidently lives in the past, present, and future—within the fictional worlds she builds and in our world as her readers—we are particularly interested in papers that engage with her work in relation to the 2025 PAMLA conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”

Call for Book Chapters: Urban Imaginaries and Indian Cities in Literature

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:26pm
Rupkatha Books
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Book ChaptersUrban Imaginaries and Indian Cities in Literature

Editors
Dr. Neethu P. Antony, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India
Dr. Arpana Venu, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India

Antiracism Permanent Section

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:42pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

The Antiracism Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) is requesting abstracts from prospective panelists for this year’s in-person conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With this year’s conference theme— “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives”—as a foundation, this section calls for scholarly work that connects antiracism work with hope along with resilience. When researching or performing antiracist work, there is the risk of focusing on the despair brought on by racism without highlighting ways communities have and continue to build and foster resilience.

International Pynchon Week 2026

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:41pm
Sascha Pöhlmann, Burak Sezer, TU Dortmund University, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

International Pynchon Week 2026

June 15-19, 2026

TU Dortmund University, Germany

 

 “Consider coal and steel. There is a place where they meet.” (Gravity’s Rainbow)

Posthuman Studies: Emergence and Relation (PAMLA)

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:41pm
Akim Golubev/UNLV/PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The Posthuman Studies panel is interested in papers that investigate the ongoing transformation of a human subject in social, political, and transhistorical contexts. Since the introduction of Cartesian duality, as opposed to the British Empirical monism, the field of literary studies has investigated the role of language and cognition. This panel is looking for papers that deal with literary theory, early modern philosophy, and English literature by analyzing what it means to be human and posthuman.

Special Issue: Feminist Resistance to Fascism, Past and Present

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:40pm
Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Special Issue: Feminist Resistance to Fascism, Past and Present

 

Submission Deadline: May 25, 2025 

Estimated Publication Date: February 2026

 

CFP: CCNY Graduate English Conference: Through the Dark

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:37pm
The City College of New York
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 21, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Annual City College of New York Graduate English Conference

 

Through the Dark

 

Conference Date: May 9th, 2025

Abstract Submission Deadline: April 18th, 2025

 

CFP: Postcolonial Ecology (PAMLA, San Francisco, 11/20-23)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 12:40pm
Sarah Lincoln
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 8, 2025

In the past two decades, scholars of environmental literature have begun expanding the Euro-American canons and contexts that have long dominated ecocriticism and publication, teaching, and reading practices in the West. The perspectives on humans’ relationship with the nonhuman world that emerge from alternate global sites often complicate and even challenge the values and priorities of Western environmental scholarship and activism.

[Deadline Extended] Call for Papers: Edited Volume on Zadie Smith

updated: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 11:59am
Ataberk Çetinkaya / Middle East Technical University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

 

 

We are seeking chapter abstracts on Zadie Smith’s short stories, non-fictional prose, The Embassy of Cambodia and The Fraud to be added to the confirmed chapters of a collection of essays on Zadie Smith to be published by an international publisher. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words.

 

Contact mail: ataberkc@metu.edu.tr

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