Editors: María Eugenia Crusetand Aleksander Bednarski

Proposals (500 words): May 15, 2026

Completed chapters (7,000 words): September 15, 2026

Languages: English and/or Spanish

CALL FOR PAPERS

Send your abstracts to: congress@iasa-world.org by 31st May, 2026.

The "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies" session invites submissions that discuss memory, identity, representation, or intersectionality pertaining to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer literature, media, or culture. You may, should you wish, engage in the conference theme of “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” but any topic on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer literature or culture is welcome.

Some topics of particular interest this year include:

• The homoerotic gaze in media

• Power and culture relating to gay, lesbian, transgender, or queer stories/histories

• Queer-coded representation in art or literature

1956 was a year of theatrical milestones. Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night was published posthumously while The Diary of Anne Frank won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. And, of course, the American Society for Theatre Research was founded. O’Neill’s meditation on troubled family dynamics and addiction would go on to win the Pulitzer in 1957. The previous year, the Pulitzer went to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a Tennessee Williams play about alcoholism and (potentially) sublimated queer desire. In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry became the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway when A Raisin in the Sun premiered.

Otherness: Essays & Studies

Otherness and Folklore – Special issue Call for Papers

Folklore is all about Otherness. It imagines the other as that which is beyond the scope of the ordinary and the real. It evokes the monstrous, the divine, and the outsider. It invokes magic through ritual, and it empowers the repressed. The other, in folklore, is welcomed into the everyday and woven into the fabric of our communities. It becomes an altered version of alterity, a homely version of the uncanny: an other that we can be intimate with.

Dear colleagues,

Submit a Manuscript to the Journal

Sport in Society

For a Special Issue on

Artificial Intelligence and Sport from Social and Scholarly PerspectivesAbstract deadline01 May 2026Manuscript deadline01 December 2026 Special Issue Editor(s)

Shu Wan, University at Buffalo
shuwan@buffalo.edu

Huijie Zhang, South China Normal University
huijiezhang199@163.com

This special issue aims to cultivate greater convergence and contribute to the broader discourse on cross-cultural exchange, particularly in contexts beyond the Euro-American center. We encourage investigations into how cultural values, ideological frameworks, and aesthetic sensibilities shape the translation and reception of children’s literature across diverse cultural contexts. We also encourage the integration of new theoretical lenses and trends, such as transcreation, affect theory, audiovisual translation, cognitive translation studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to gender and ecology, and the impact of AI, in the discussion of translational convergences and divergences in global children’s literature.

1st DL2 International Workshop

• Date: 3-4 December 2026

• Venue: Hybrid - University of Alicante (campus) and online 

• Paper submission deadline: 30th September 2026

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 1st DL2 International Workshop, which will be held in hybrid format on 3rd and 4th December 2026 at the University of Alicante and online. We kindly ask you to distribute this invitation among your colleagues and staff.

The East Asian Translation Studies conference aims to provide a platform for translators and researchers working in the East Asian context to exchange ideas on issues related to translation. 

Previous EATS conferences have been held at the University of East Anglia, UK (2014); Meiji University, Japan (2016); Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (2019); Université Paris Cité, France (2022); and the University of Queensland, Australia (2024). They have centered on questions of the circulation of translation within East Asia, constructing/deconstructing East Asia, changing identities of East Asia observed in translation, universals in East Asian translation, and negotiating the borders of translation and East Asia.

Seeking on papers about opacity in contemporary literature and art for a panel at ASAP (Association for the Study of Arts of the Present) 2026 Convention. Please send an abstract and a short bio to Sané Bhattarai (bhattsan@gvsu.edu) or Moya (Moyang) Li (moyang.li@csulb.edu) by April 24.

Session Abstract: The genre of African American poetry has a long legacy of both preserving tradition and evolving to suit current times and places. This session invites discussion of the defining features that have been maintained over time as well as patterns of bold experimentation. Rather than seeing tradition and innovation as opposing aesthetic directions, this session hopes to examine ways they have co-existed in this genre and been mutually fruitful. 

Call for Papers: International Journal of Fashion Studies

Special Issue: 'Clothing and Dress in Times of Mass Violence'

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-fashion-studies#call-for-papers

The figure of the witch (both real and imagined) is inherently political and potentially contentious. Each wave of feminism has reflected on shifting considerations of the witch as evocative of issues around gender, power and, more recently, intersectional aspects of identity. More recent critical engagement with witches and witchcraft reflects a transition, transcending disciplinary boundaries and positioning the witch in line with shifting contemporary debates. This shift moves the witch beyond the symbolic or the individual to consider both the interconnected and disparate nature of the witch. We can, instead, see the witch as a key component in movements of political change, as activist alongside the spiritual expl

Though getting it together may signal a practice of spontaneous collectivity, “get it together” is also a gendered command—one which affiliates a performance of femininity with certain aesthetic expectations and demands the unbounded work of love, care, and social reproduction. How do we understand the aesthetics of femininity in a moment where feminism has been defanged of its oppositionality, when it functions as an alibi for the tide of fascism in the form of TERFs and girlbosses? Everyday injunctions toward norms of femininity appear in the form of “Get Ready With Me” videos, Planned Parenthood’s decision to offer Botox, ceaseless trend cycles, and the normalization of weight loss medication, with Serena Williams as its icon.

Short Stories (Fiction/Non-fiction) INVITED for

Climate Change, Disasters, and Global Narratives: Collection of Short Stories

Edited by:

Dr. Gurpreet Kaur

Assistant Professor & Head

Post Graduate Department of English

Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College

Sri Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, India

and

Jacobus Bracker

Hamburg University of Technology,

Call for Papers // Society of Early Americanists // 2027

“Queer Humors”

CALLING ALL 2SLGBTQ+ WRITERS WHO EXPERIENCED RELIGIOUS TRAUMA. I am excited to announce this Call for Submissions for my new anthology of creative nonfiction narratives! Entitled Queer and Trembling: Stories of LGBTQ+ Religious Trauma, this anthology will bring together a collection of stories about 2SLGBTQ+ religious trauma from Christian contexts, whether they be evangelical, fundamentalist, Pentecostal, Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Orthodox, etc. The collection is under contract with Jessica Kingsley Publishers (an imprint of Hachette UK) and will likely be released in 2028. 

This special issue brings together innovative and interdisciplinary comics scholarship that rethinks the epistemic, aesthetic, political, material, and decolonial aspects of comics across the Global South. These forms prompt renewed reflection and inquiry into what it means to draw knowledge, memory, community, dissent, and futurity, while simultaneously interrogating the foundational categories of representation, authorship, narrative form, and colonial epistemology.

While Percival Everett’s novel James (2024) functions as a radical reworking of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)–freeing Twain’s literary creation from the constraints of the nineteenth century novel as well as the expectations of its original audience–”tellings and retellings” have long served as a mode for revising and reimagining canonical narratives.  From Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966) and Ursula K Le Guin’s Lavinia (2008) to Sandra Newman’s Julia (2023), literary retellings often expose the ideological foundations of the canon while amplifying voices historically marginalized or silenced within it.

Since September of 2025 the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University has housed a new publication called The Pittsburgh Review of Books (or PRoB), available at http://www.pghrev.com We are particularly interested in pieces by scholars that analyze or contextualize breaking news - be it political, cultural, or social events - that can be published quickly. 

Edited by author and Public Humanities Special Faculty Ed Simon, PRoB is a home for engaged, creative, and interdisciplinary cultural criticism and analysis across the humanities. The tone of the publication is similar to other para-academic publications intended for both specialists and a general audience. 

You are invited to participate in a research study survey examining the relationship between film and memory.

This study explores how film experiences may shape personal, emotional, neurological, and cultural recollection, including how individuals understand events they did not directly experience. You will be asked to reflect on your film viewing habits, emotional and cognitive responses to specific films or scenes, and the ways films may influence your understanding of memory, history, and identity.

Call for Papers: British Literature, pre-1600 at CEA 2027

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on British Literature, pre-1660 for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University is thrilled to host the 12th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 4-6, 2027.

The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies.