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10×10 Photobooks Research Grants on Photobook History

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 12:27pm
10x10 Photobooks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 23, 2026

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

Information and Submission at: 

https://10x10photobooks.org/research-grants-cycle5-call/

The deadline for submissions for the new cycle of 10×10 research grants is midnight ET 23 March 2026.

Now, That’s What I Call Pop!: Explorations in Nineteenth-Century Pop Culture

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 12:03pm
MLA 2027
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

The LLC 19th-Century American Forum welcomes proposals for papers exploring the vibrant landscape of pop culture in the nineteenth-century USA, from vaudeville to sheet music to moving pictures. How have these examples contributed to Hollywood's legacy? Send 250-word abstracts and 100-word bios to DeLisa Hawkes (ddhawk@wm.edu) by Friday, March 20, 2026.

 

Genre-blurring as Feminist Practice and Methodology

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 9:47am
Multiethnic Literature of the US (MELUS) Women of Color Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 19, 2026

MELUS 2026

Austin, Texas

Women of Color Caucus (WOCC)

Conference Dates: Thursday, April 30 – Saturday, May 2, 2026

 

Genre-blurring as Feminist Practice and Methodology (WOCC scholarship panel)

Equity and Ethics in Digital Spaces and AI

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 9:35am
Multiethnic Literature of the US (MELUS) Women of Color Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 19, 2026

MELUS 2026

Austin, Texas

Women of Color Caucus (WOCC)

Conference Dates: Thursday, April 30 – Saturday, May 2, 2026

 

 

Equity and Ethics in Digital Spaces and AI (WOCC roundtable)

 

Final Reminder: First Book Institute Applications due by 2/9 (Hard Dealine)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:33pm
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 9, 2026

Announcing

The 2026 First Book Institute

May 31-June 6, 2026

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book

EXTENDED: Hopkins’s America, Then & Now

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:24pm
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

CFP | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society (PEHS) session 

American Literature Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026

Hopkins’s America, Then & Now

Reminder CFP:

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:23pm
United Lutheran Seminary
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

CFP “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026

The conference builds on a growing body of research that examines the theological, cultural, and political intersections of democracy, citizenship, and power. Participants will investigate how worldviews and faith traditions have informed concepts of governance, belonging, and personhood from the founding era to the present. The conference will highlight not only the Haudenosaunee Influence on American Democracy but also the historic and present contributions to Democratic thought by Black, Indigenous, and Latine communities, contributions which are often forgotten and ignored.

Featured Speakers

“Teaching In Difficult Times”

updated: 
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:47pm
Margaret Fuller Society ALA 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 26, 2026

The Margaret Fuller Society invites proposals for a panel at ALA 2026 about teaching in difficult times. As we head into the spring 2026 semester—the mid-point in an academic year when students and educators read U.S. literature amidst rising book bans, closing degree programs and DEI offices, and even the dismantling of the Department of Education—many of us are facing existential crises about how to do what matters to us most. How to support our students? How to sustain our disciplines? How to teach in ways that do justice to our subjects? The most basic day-to-day parts of our teaching lives have never felt more vulnerable—or more urgent.

NEH Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty: The Federal Writers’ Project: New Directions for Research, Teaching, and Public Engagement

updated: 
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:47pm
National Endowment for the Humanities / City University of New York
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 6, 2026

We invite faculty, advanced graduate students, and independent scholars to apply for a three-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on the New Deal era Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), taking place June 29–July 18, 2026. The institute will be conducted in a hybrid format, with the first and third weeks held virtually and the second week convening on site at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. for guided research in its extensive FWP collections. This interdisciplinary program offers participants the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the FWP and to develop hands-on experience using its rich documentation of American lives, communities, and cultures for teaching, research, and scholarship.

AHSA at Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:44pm
American Humor Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 13, 2026

As part of the 10th International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies, the American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) invites proposals for either a panel or a roundtable discussion. The Elmira conference will expand its traditional focus on Mark Twain by including sister organizations such as AHSA. The conference theme is “Irreverence, Rebellion, and Resilience.”

 

Slavery's Domestic Economy - Mimbres School Monsoon Session 2026

updated: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026 - 10:37am
Mimbres School for the Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Mimbres School Monsoon Session 2026, Aug 10-14.Slavery’s Domestic Economy

The Mimbres School for the Humanities invites applications to participate in our first in-person Monsoon Session Symposium. This symposium takes recent historical and theoretical work on slavery in the Americas as an occasion to ask what it would mean to take the family and the household, rather than labor or industrial profits, as the primary point of departure for understanding the slave power and its various afterlifes in the present.

Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop | May 26–29, 2026

updated: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026 - 10:36am
University at Buffalo, University at North Carolina and Online
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

It is with great pleasure that we announce the opening of applications for the 2026 Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop.

The workshop will be held in a hybrid format, with both in-person and online participation options. We are especially excited to centre this year’s workshop on reading the work of Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential theorists of our time. Spillers is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University, and her scholarship has been foundational to feminist, Black, and decolonial thought.

Participation in the workshop is by application only, and applicants must be accepted in order to attend.

Richard Wright Society at the American Literature Association 2026 Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - 6:26pm
Richard Wright Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

American Literature Association

May 20-23, 2026

Palmer House, Chicago, IL 

 

The Richard Wright Society announces two sessions on Wright to take place at the 37th Annual American Literature Association Conference.

 

Rethinking Richard Wright’s Depiction and Analysis of Gender and Sexuality

Silence &—

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 11:01pm
University of Southern California
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 16, 2026

SILENCE &—

What is silence? Might it be a gaping void or a buzzy medium—the absence

Thoreau and Abolition: ALA 2026 Chicago

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:55pm
The Thoreau Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

American Literature Association

May 20-23, 2026

Chicago, IL

 

Thoreau and Abolition

This roundtable seeks to explore Thoreau’s relation to the abolitionist movement, whether through his antislavery writings, his biography, or the legacies and afterlives of some of his more famous essays such as “Civil Disobedience.” We are interested in papers that explore any aspect of his political and/or abolitionist thought, his political-economic critiques, or the intertwinement of Thoreau’s ecological and antislavery thinking. We also welcome papers that consider how turning to Thoreau or the politics of nineteenth-century abolition in these terrible times provides us with political paths forward.

CORRECTED DEADLINE cfp "What Theater Does" -- African and Caribbean Perspectives on Performance, Memory, and Identity at the IFTR World Congress July 6-10, 2026 in Melbourne, Australia

updated: 
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 - 6:41am
African and Caribbean Theater and Performance Working Group
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 19, 2025

Paper proposals invited for papers of 15-20 minutes. Please note corrected deadline of Friday, December 19, 2025 for submission of abstracts.

African and Caribbean Theatre and Performance Working Group
IFTR 2026 World Congress
 6-10 July 2026 
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia 

Working Group Theme: 

What Theatre Does” – African and Caribbean Perspectives on Performance, History, and Identity

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