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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

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Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 12:14pm
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. 

(3 Weeks Left) In Living Color: Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century

updated: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 3:36pm
Amir Gilmore
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

In Living Color:

 Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century

Under Contract with Bloomsbury Publishing

 

Edited by

Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University

Vikki Carpenter, Heritage University

 

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair

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

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 10:03am
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.

Chapters on Gullah Geechee Narrative and Song in American Culture

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:58pm
Feroza Jussawalla, Emeritas Professor, University of New Mexico
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Seeking original book chapters for a collection of essays on the influence of Gullah Geechee narratives and songs in contemporary American literature and culture, recognizing and cataloguing the long-overlooked contributions of the of the Sea Island people of the southeast coast of the United States. Interdisciplinary contributions encouraged.

 

Chapter length: approximately 6,000 words

 

Submit a proposal of 300-400 words via email by July 10th, 2025.

 

Feroza Jussawalla

fjussawa@unm.edu

 

Gerard Lavin

jerrylavin@hotmail.com

PAMLA Session on African Literature and Abdulrazak Gurnah

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:56pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025

Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.

Topic - Reclaiming History: Trauma, Memory and Resilience in the Narratives from Africa

Deadline for Abstract/Proposal Submission - June 30th 2025

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Langston Hughes’s Blues Vision in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners: A Special Issue of The Langston Hughes Review

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 10:19am
Tony Bolden
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 4, 2025

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a quintessential blues narrative composed for the twenty-first century. The film embodies perspectives commonly found in blues-oriented expression, including songs, autobiographies, and interviews, not to mention Black fiction and poetry that thematizes and/or reflects blues-oriented music and blues criticism as well. But before academic scholars considered blues worthy of analysis, Langston Hughes wrote critically and creatively about blues music and the suffusion of its principles throughout much of Black expressive culture. In fact, he first observed a blues performance in his early teens, well before Mamie Smith’s recording “Crazy Blues” (1920) launched the classic blues era.

Call for paper: Research in Contemporary World Literature

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Sunday, June 8, 2025 - 11:58am
Dr. Ali Salami, University of Tehran
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Research in Contemporary World Literature (RCWL) invites submissions for upcoming issues. As a leading international journal committed to cutting-edge scholarship published by the University of Tehran, RCWL publishes double-blind, peer-reviewed research on modern and contemporary literary production across global contexts, with a primary focus on literature emerging after 1945.

Originally founded in 1994 as Journal of Foreign Languages and reconstituted in its current form, RCWL has evolved into a vital platform for the exploration of literary texts, movements, and theories that traverse cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries.

50th Anniversary of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: A New Collection of Essays

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Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 5:31pm
Jericho Williams / University of Alaska Fairbanks
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 11, 2025

2027 will be the 50th anniversary of Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison’s third novel and one of the author’s more popular books alongside The Bluest Eye and Beloved.

This forthcoming volume of essays will provide new readings of the novel for high school and undergraduate readers just in time to celebrate Song of Solomon’s 50th anniversary. 

It seeks to advance Morrison studies and foster critical appreciation of the novel, especially in light of new directions in literary criticism since 2010.

Memory and Reparation: Healing the Past for a Better Present and Future

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:34pm
University at Buffalo (UB) Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We invite papers that explore the theme of memory and reparation, and demonstrate the interconnectedness of the past, present, and future by focusing on any of the four spheres of reparation: economic, political, cultural, and psychological.

Please send your 200-word abstract in French or English to sawuni@crimson.ua.edu ( Sawel Awuni)  and to ldjamess@iu.edu (Lolonyo Djamessi)  , along with the title of the paper, your email, your institutional affiliation, and a brief one-paragraph bio. Please send your submission by September 30. Thank you!

Herkimer County 250th Commission Semi-Quincentennial Conference

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:33pm
Herkimer College/Herkimer County 250th Commission
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Call for Papers
Herkimer County 250th Commission Semi-Quincentennial Conference
Theme: Liberty and the American Revolution
 April 24–26, 2026
 Herkimer College, 100 Reservoir Road, Herkimer, NY 13350
Conference Director: Sharon Powell, Herkimer College
 Conference Fee: TBD
 Proposal Deadline: December 31, 2025

Power in Urbanscapes: Rethinking Spatiality and Sociality

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 8:47am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

The second Issue of Volume 7 of LLIDS examines how structures of power constitute and shape urban spaces. It proposes to explore their influence in determining social values wherein varied social groups—marked by religion, class, race, gender, etc.—negotiate the power dynamics that constitute life in urban spaces. The modern, bustling city carries within itself a continuous sense of becoming. The urban dwellers, inhabiting segregated parts of the city, shape the lived experience of these spaces through their socio-cultural interactions and relationships.

C19 2026: Talking About Slavery

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Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:26pm
Geoffrey Kirsch
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Talking About Slavery: Abolitionism, Censorship, and Free Speech

The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biennial Conference

March 12-14, 2026, Cincinnati, OH

 

 

Soul & Syntax: The Evolution of Black Expression through Art, Dance, and Literature

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 9:13am
Billy Joe Turner Interdisciplinary Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

4th Annual Billy Joe Turner Symposium
Title: Soul & Syntax: The Evolution of Expression through Art, Dance, and Literature
Dates: April 15–17, 2026
Location: Texas Southern University – Houston, TX
Format: In-Person Conference

Call for Papers: Sonic Palimpsests: Sound, History, and Speculative Listening PAMLA 2025 Conference | San Francisco, November 20–23

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:18pm
Andrew Brooks / University of Massachusetts Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This panel invites scholarship that explores how sound—broadly understood as an aesthetic, material, and theoretical force—functions within and shapes literature, music, performance, and visual media to riff on history and modulate experience. We seek contributions that investigate how sound operates both as a method and a site of creative invention—where dominant narratives are unsettled and histories that resist closure come into audible presence. Sonic form becomes a space where the unfinished, the fugitive, and the refused emerge through rhythm, echo, distortion, repetition, and resonance.

Return to the South: The Complexities of Southern Culture in Ryan Coogler's film Sinners

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
Journal of American Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Return to the South: The Complexities of Southern Culture in Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners. 

On April 18, Warner Brothers released Ryan Coogler’s long anticipated film Sinners. Since its release, the film has achieved both critical acclaim and popular resonance, marking a significant entry in contemporary Southern cinema. Critics and audiences praise Sinners for its nuanced treatment of inter/intra-racial dynamics, spirituality, and regional identity. In addition, the film has prompted sustained cultural discourse, and now, academic interest in the South. Its layered narrative and atmospheric rendering of the South position Sinners as a vital text for examining the complexities of Southern culture and history.

CFP "For the Record"

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:05pm
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

liquid blackness ISSUE 11.1 CFP – “FOR THE RECORD”CFPs

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 11, no. 1, Spring 2027

Submissions due January 15, 2026

Inner Circles: Kinship, Inclusion, and Inaccessibility

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Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:41pm
Postcolonial Narrations
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

The family is often conceived in terms of exclusivity, closeness and intimacy. The word ‘intimate’ – intimus, or ‘most interior’, in the Latin – suggests that this relationship touches our innermost part, that which is deepest and hidden from view. Familial ties are further corporealized in terms of blood, or the physical proximity of shared space, resources, and memories, and acts of care. Broader ethnic, linguistic, cultural and national communities may be framed as extensions of this familial ‘inner circle’, as the concept of the body politic suggests; the family, for Rousseau, is ‘the first model of political societies’ (The Social Contract).

Small Forms in Nineteenth-Century America

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:03pm
Madeline Zehnder and Thomas W. Howard
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

CFP: Small Forms in Nineteenth-Century America

This edited collection expands critical approaches to scale in nineteenth-century America by shifting focus from immensity (Baker 2006; Roberts 2014) to “small forms,” or forms disposed toward brevity or reduction. Building on scholarship that examines the operation of individual forms such as epigraphs (Stokes 2021), extracts (Wisecup 2021), footnotes (Cohen 2022), recipes (Tompkins 2013), and the serial sketch (Spires 2021), this collection aims to synthesize analysis of diverse small forms evident in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.

Motherhood's Cultural Artifacts in American Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:56pm
Wendy Whelan-Stewart / McNeese State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Collection Editor: Wendy Whelan-Stewart, McNeese State University

Contact Email: wwhelanstewart@mcneese.edu

Book Proposal: Edited Collection

Abstracts are invited for chapter proposals for an edited collection titled Motherhood and Its Cultural Artifacts in American Literature.

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Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 1:49am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

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