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MLA 2026: Adaptation and Opposition Through Comics (due 3/15)

updated: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:16pm
MLA forum on Comics & Graphic Narratives; MLA forum on Adaptation Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Please note: This is a proposed, not a guaranteed, session, co-sponsored by the forum on Comics & Graphic Narratives and Adaptation Studies for MLA 2026 in Toronto (Jan. 8-11). It is contingent on approval by the MLA Program Committee. All prospective presenters must be current MLA members by April 1, 2025.

Corporate Fictions

updated: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:15pm
Modern Language Association 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 17, 2025

Corporate Fictions

Across the novel, theater, film, and television, and across genres and modes, the corporation has served as a key setting for fictionalizations of modern life. This panel aims to create an intermedial, intergeneric, and historically comparative conversation between literary and literary-minded scholars interested in the corporation as a representational content and form. Paper foci could include:

Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities

updated: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:14pm
University of Edinburgh
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 28, 2025

Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities

 

University of Edinburgh, 28–29 May 2025

 

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Devin Singh (Dartmouth College)

Dr Rachel O’Dwyer (National College of Art and Design, Dublin)

Over the past decade, growing numbers of researchers in the arts and humanities have turned their attention to questions of money, finance, and the economy. At the same time, social scientists have increasingly drawn on humanities-based methodologies in their analyses of economic phenomena. “Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities” is a landmark conference dedicated to mapping this emerging interdisciplinary space and charting its multiple potential futures.

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

updated: 
Friday, February 28, 2025 - 7:31pm
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.

 

Call for book chapters

updated: 
Friday, February 28, 2025 - 6:54am
The Northern Border University, Saudi Arabia & the unviersity of Sfax, Tunisia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Papers: Edited Volume on “Writing under Duress in Anglophone Arab Literature in the Diaspora: The Articulation of a Coerced Imagination”

 

Editors: Dr. Hamida Riahi, Prof. Mounir Triki, and Dr. Saud Enazi
Publisher: This volume is being prepared for submission to Palgrave Macmillan for consideration.

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Avant-garde Poets of the San Francisco Bay Area. Their Lives, Works, and Film Portraits

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 5:50am
Tadeusz Pióro (University of Warsaw), t.t.pioro@uw.edu.pl Daniela Daniele (University of Udine), daniela.daniele@uniud.it
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

 

XXVIII AISNA Biennial Conference

 

“Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West”

 

(Bergamo, Italy, 11-13 September 2025) Deadline: February 28 2025

 

 

Panel 5

 

Coordinators: Tadeusz Pióro (University of Warsaw), t.t.pioro@uw.edu.pl Daniela Daniele (University of Udine), daniela.daniele@uniud.it

Avant-garde Poets of the San Francisco Bay Area. Their Lives, Works, and Film Portraits

 

MLA 2026 Toronto - NABOKOV AND THE SOCIAL

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 5:50am
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

Nabokov’s defense of personal freedom is well documented, but little has been written about his social commitments. Papers are invited on Nabokov’s works demonstrating concern for others: family, community, hospitality, mutual aid, solidarity, etc. Please send 250-word proposals by March 21.

James Baldwin and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 5:46am
James Baldwin Review
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS: James Baldwin Review

Modern Language Association

2026 MLA Convention

January 8-11, 2026

 

James Baldwin and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism

 

Social domination, as exerted and felt through the categories of race, class, sex, and gender, finds itself expressed in and through James Baldwin’s work, often unevenly, subject to the peculiarities of his historical moments. Both Baldwin and his interpreters can be seen to elevate one vector of domination in racial capitalist modernity over the others, or forget one at the others’ expense, obscuring our vision of such domination and our capacities for struggling against it. 

 

The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 5:45am
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)

CFP Contemporary Feminism and the Politics of Emotion

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 5:44am
National Women's Studies Association 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

CFP Contemporary Feminism and the Politics of Emotion

Proposed Panel Submission for NWSA 2025    Conference dates: Nov. 13th-16th, 2025

Submission Deadline: March 15th

Lesbian Lives 2025

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 5:43am
Hosted by the Journal of Lesbian Studies, Sinister Wisdom, and CLAGS: the Center for LGBT Studies at the City University of New York.
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

For the first time since its inception in 1993, the Lesbian Lives Conference is crossing the Atlantic to New York City! The conference is hosted by the Journal of Lesbian Studies, Sinister Wisdom, and CLAGS: the Center for LGBT Studies at the City University of New York. Lesbian Lives brings together academics, artists, writers, and activists to showcase, enjoy, and critically analyze lesbian culture.

Rooted in an ethos of inclusivity, dialogue, diversity, and accessibility, the conference welcomes people of all sexualities and genders.

Lesbian Lives 2025 will be held on October 24 and 25 at the Graduate Center CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10016.

Making the Millennials: Mass Education, Meritocracy, Malaise

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 5:42am
Modern Language Association (MLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

This is a call for proposals to participate in a proposed panel at MLA in Toronto in January 2026.

Higher education had three socially pertinent effects in previous eras of capitalist development. It: offered graduates a pathway to upward mobility; conferred a “stake” in normative society such that graduates could “buy into” the dominant economic systems from which they stood to benefit; and was an incubator for mass social and political movements such as the 1960s student movement.

But much recent fiction evinces a change in attitudes to university – a weakening of the assumption that higher education is a pathway to social mobility for the individual and social justice/progress for the collective.

Oscar Wilde, French by Sympathy?

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 5:41am
Oscar Wilde Society / MLA 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Oscar Wilde, French by Sympathy?

 

The Oscar Wilde Society invites abstracts for a special session at the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Jan. 8-11 2026.

 

Irish Association for American Studies Annual Conference 2025

updated: 
Saturday, February 22, 2025 - 3:52am
Irish Association for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 15 2025

IAAS Annual Conference
Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin

24-26 April 2025

Conference Theme: “We the People”

CALL FOR PAPERS

“It is certain in Theory, that the only moral Foundation of Government is the Consent of the People. But to what an Extent Shall We carry this Principle?”—John Adams, 1776

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DELEUZE(NESS)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:14pm
Lithuanian Culture Research Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DELEUZE(NESS)

 

International symposium

18-19 September 2025

National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos pr. 22, Vilnius

        

Special Issue on Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

CFP Special Issue, Volume 22 (2026) : Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between

Abstract Submission Due Date: April 1, 2025.
Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2025.
Accepted Essays Due Date: January 1, 2026.

Generous Modernisms (MLA 2026)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:04pm
Modernist Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

MLA 2026 (Guaranteed Session)

Toronto, January 8-11, 2026

 

Generous Modernisms

 

MLA 2026: "Forms of Mutual Aid in American Literature"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:03pm
Ajitpaul Mangat
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 17, 2025

Invitation for proposals for a special session panel - entitled, "Forms of Mutual Aid in American Literature" - at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada from 8 to 11 January 2026. Seeking papers (15 minutes in length) that explore how mutual aid has been represented in American literature (during any historical period). Particularly interested - with the conference theme of "Family Resemblances" in mind - in whether such communal forms do or do not resemble the family form. Send 250-word abstracts and a bio to amangat@niagara.edu. Proposals due by March 17.

Routledge Studies on Edward Albee and American Theatre

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:57am
Michael Y. Bennett (Book Series Editor)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 14, 2028

The Edward Albee Society is proud of the launch of The Routledge Studies in Edward Albee and American Theatre and sends out this call for proposals for new projects.

The new book series aims to examine mid-to-late 20th Century American theatre; its most influential and important playwright, Edward Albee; and his contemporaries.

 

Currently, two books are in production:

--David A. Crespy and Les Gray, eds. Emergence of Difference and Diversity in US and World Theatres, 1950s-1970s: Albee and his Contemporaries, forthcoming 2025.

--John P. Bray, Jack Gelber: Consider This, forthcoming 2025.

 

MLA 2026: Wallace Stevens, Influence, and Poets of Color

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:56am
The Wallace Stevens Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

“This song is for my foe, / the clean-shaven, gray-suited, gray patron / of Hartford, the emperor of whiteness / blue as a body made of snow.” Those four lines of dedication close “Snow for Wallace Stevens” (2009) by the African American poet Terrance Hayes—an ambivalent ode, blending wintry detachment and “love without / forgiveness,” “lost faith” and faith regained. Hayes is far from the only poet of color, from the United States or elsewhere, to write a poem after or against Stevens.

"Modernist Infrastructures of Meaning"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:56am
Modernist Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

In keeping with this year’s conference theme, this panel will focus on texts that function as infrastructures or sties of negotiated meaning and which also take as their subject matter real sites of infrastructure around which collective or communal identities or meanings are disrupted, negotiated and crystallized.  Obvious examples include Williams's Paterson and Crane's The Bridge, but proposals on novels and plays as well as on film and painting are also welcome.  Please send abstracts to Charles.Sumner@usm.edu no later than 3/21/25.

Translations in Colonial India, 1800-1947: Paradigms, Networks, and Practices

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
Suddhaseel Sen, PI (India), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Dear all,
We invite potential contributors for a Government of India-sponsored SPARC project
titled "Translations in Colonial India, 1800-1947: Paradigms, Networks, and
Practices." The overall goals of the project are as follows:
 
1. To trace the networks of translations between modern Indian languages in the
period under consideration;
2. To trace the impact of European languages such as French, German,
Russian, Italian, and Spanish, on modern Indian languages and literatures,
either in the original or mediated through English translations; and
3. To trace how translational activities helped the establishment of modern

Carceral Infrastructures and the Modernist Imagination

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
MSA 2025, Boston, Oct. 9-12 [Modernist Studies Association]
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

This proposed panel will address intersections between carceral studies and literary studies, with a focus on modernist literature and art and their contemporary legacies.

Transnationalism and Australasian Literatures (MLA 2026)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

This CFP is for a guaranteed session organized by the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) for the 2026 Modern Language Association convention in Toronto (8-11 January 2026).

CfP New issue: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 9:32am
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the New ssue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

Call for Papers ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 9:31am
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

MLA26: Milton's Afterlives

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:22am
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for a sponsored panel at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada. Papers (15 minutes in length) should examine Milton’s writings through a lens of adaptation studies, media studies, or reception studies, or their appropriation (social, legal, or political). Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

The Sun Also Rises at 100

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:22am
The Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION

TORONTO
JANUARY 8-11, 2026

The Ernest Hemingway Society will sponsor a panel at the upcoming MLA Conference:

The Sun Also Rises at 100

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