Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society's journal, Spring, invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 45th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 23-25, 2017, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). This session welcomes papers on elements of Cummings’ modernism, cultural aesthetics, genre issues and visual effects, critical reception, and interactions with other modernists.

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The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 49th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 24-26, 2022, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). Recent criticism of the works of Cummings has gone beyond his well-documented engagement with modernist aesthetic and poetic innovations. From Cummings’ visual and temporal poetics, to iconic meta-sonnets and rhythmic portraiture, to iconicity and ecology, and even to disability studies, the iconoclasm of Cummings in art and language presents a multi-dimensional i/eye that perceives and receives.

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 51st annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 22-24, 2024, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com).

For this special issue on “Magic,” Theatre Journal invites submissions that consider magic as concept and practice, broadly construed, with a particular interest in how magic aligns with other terms like alchemy, transformation, trickery, prophecy, conjuring, and ceremony. Magical practices, phenomena, practitioners, and events are not often at the forefront of theatre, performance, and dance studies’ scholarship. Through categorization as, on the one hand, popular entertainment, and, on the other hand, a component of spiritual or ritual practice, magic has seemed beyond the scope of the concert and/or avant-garde traditions that have tended to dominate Eurocentric theatre history and theory.

Sensing Environmental Networks 

The primary aim of this edited volume is to explore the word ‘Literature’ in the age of AI. Etymologically, the Latin word litteratura is derived from littera (Latin) meaning the ‘smallest element of alphabetical writing’ (Klarer 1). The word ‘literature,’ then means, any writing e.g., a medical prescription, usage instruction written on the bottle of shampoo or maybe a cautionary warning on the packet of cigarettes. To specify the particular type of literature we use the term ‘Creative Literature’ (called the Literature of Power by Rees).

Call for Papers for Panel at Society of Renaissance 11th Biennial Conference

Bristol, July 2, 2025 - July 5, 2025

Rethinking ‘self’ and ‘community’: Early Modern Identities in Times of Changes

Inclusive Stories, Writing for Change

“We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” – Toni Morrison

The English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU) invites proposals from the fields of literature, writing studies/rhetoric, linguistics, English education, film studies, cultural studies, creative writing, and digital humanities.  Undergraduate students, graduate students, and higher education faculty may share analytical or creative projects that explore themes of writing, social justice, narratives, voices, inclusion, and diversity. 

EAPSU invites proposals for:

• Panel proposals of 3-4 presenters

• Individual papers

• Posters

Please find below the abstract for a RMMRA-sponsored panel at RSA 2025 (March 20-22)

2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8 - 10, 2025)

More than 25 years ago, Robert LA Clark and Claire Sponsler argued in "Queer Play: the Cultural Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama" that "transgender and transstatus representations cannot be reduced to one simple meaning but rather perform a variety of...cultural work." We seek contributions to explore, expand and complicate the idea of transgender identities, trans bodies, transgressive practices, or other kinds of transformations or translations in medieval drama and performance. In 2025, how do we understand the shapeshifting nature of "trans"? What are the emerging questions and where do they lead us?

H(a)unted

October 25, 2024 

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“O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted.”

-         William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes.”

-         Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism.”

-         Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto

Call For Papers for Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culture

Cosmoramas and Other Peep Practices 1800-1880

Before virtual reality, peeping has long been a widespread media practice. Since the 18th century, the world has been presented in lensed and boxed apparatuses that aroused wonder and seduced audiences. Our contemporary culture of immersion was initially launched by peepshows and cosmoramas: one of the earliest media systems in Europe that produced and distributed views.