all recent posts

Wallace Johnson First Book Mentorship Program

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:38am
Andrew Rabin
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Dear colleagues,

 

Thanks to the generous support of Wallace Johnson and the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, I am delighted to announce the Call for Proposals for the sixth year of the Wallace Johnson First Book Mentoring Program. The program provides support and mentorship to early career scholars working towards the publication of their first book on the law and legal culture of the early Middle Ages. In conversation with peers and with the advice of senior scholars, participants will develop and revise book proposals and sample chapters, and they will meet with guest editors to learn about approaching and working with publishers.

 

Call for Papers for Vol 4 of IJLS

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:38am
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Politics and Leadership, Leadership Studies and Politics

Politics and leadership: two subjects that are commonly known, yet also deeply misunderstood. Politics is not merely the activities of official decision-makers and the ideas (and people) that give rise to them, but also, more broadly, how human groups determine who gets what (and under what circumstances—by consent or coercion). What if leadership is not entirely a person or position? Perhaps, leadership is a negotiation— a complex moral relationship between people that is predicated on role agreement. We might say, then, that leadership is a dynamic process that cannot be separated from the politics of human groups. Leadership, in this way, is very fundamentally political.

Returning to Form: Genre, Style, and Structure in Literary Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:38am
Seton Hall University English Department
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 7, 2025

Returning to Form: Genre, Style, and Structure in Literary Studies
The Annual Undergraduate English Literature Conference at Seton Hall University
Friday, April 25th, 2025
Keynote Address by Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois Chicago)

Texas Woman's University Book Series: Call for Book Proposals

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:37am
Texas Woman's University Book Series
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Calling all authors: The Texas Woman's University book series is an interdisciplinary book series that explores innovative knowledge, creativity, and discoveries shaped by women and women's experiences in fields such as the arts, sciences, spirituality, religion, politics, business, education, the military, health sciences, and community services.

Gendered returns and encounters between Africa and the Black diaspora

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:37am
Nalini Mohabir / Concordia University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 23, 2025

In 2019, Ghana hosted the Year of Return, emphasizing roots tourism, diaspora resettlement and reunification, as well as development. Similarly, there is a growing message of diasporic return in Benin, as in other West African countries, articulated through various initiatives, policies, and cultural movements. We are interested in a feminist analyses of returns and encounters between the Black diaspora and those on the continent.

The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:37am
Northeastern University, London
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

 

The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century

Saturday 25 October 2025

Northeastern University, London

 

Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), the modernist long poem continues to be the focus of critical response and varied definitions. Recent work on the genre in its historical context by Oliver Tearle (2019), Sean Pryor (2021) and others, as well as a recent conference (Paris, 2024) on the topic, indicates fresh attention to the modernist long poem, on which we aim to build at this event.

Language : New Productions and New Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present Day

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:37am
GRAPHÉ Laboratory
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 2, 2025

The conference will take place from October 22 to 24, 2025, at Université Jean Monnet, in Saint-Étienne (France). The junior laboratory GRAPHÉ (Research Group on Philological and Human Action through an Epistemological Prism) was founded at Université Jean Monnet in Saint-Étienne in 2024. It aims at conducting an incipient, interdisciplinary study of the ways in which languages influence and are influenced by human actions. After an initial symposium in October 2024 dedicated to the interpenetration of language and politics, we now wish to organize a conference focusing on language in all its newest forms, by confronting it with the latest analytical prisms and methods of study.

Call for Book Proposals: Endangered Language Studies Collection

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:37am
Chris Shei / Swansea University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

 

Call for Book Proposals: Endangered Language Studies Collection

Are you interested in writing a book on an endangered language? Lived Places Publishing invites proposals for its Endangered Language Studies Collection, a series designed to provide engaging and accessible supplementary materials for academic programs.

Bildungsroman: Coming of Age Narratives

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:31am
Shiv Nadar University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

“Youth is, so to speak, modernity's ‘essence’, the sign of a world that seeks its meaning in the future rather than in the past”, says Franco Moretti as he dissects the genre of bildungsroman. Youth, he decidedly notes, is  at the heart of the genre, owing to the mobility and interiority that it facilitates, and  its characterisation as dynamic and unstable, yet transient and impermanent. Critics such as Barbra Whitman trace the genre as far back as Homer’s Iliad (8th century BCE) and evolving to include an array of narratives and characters, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1623) to Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister (1795-95).

Samuel Beckett and the Tragic

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:19am
Samuel Beckett Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS

Please note that the French version of the CFP is available after the English one.
Veuillez noter que la version française de l’appel à contributions est disponible après celle en anglais.

Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (SBT/A) Special issue

The Samuel Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), in collaboration with the refereed bilingual journal, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (SBT/A), invites abstract submissions for a special issue on Samuel Beckett and the Tragic.

Lloyd Davis Memorial Prize

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:18am
Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

Lloyd Davis Memorial Prize

 

The Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA) is pleased to announce that the Lloyd Davis Memorial Prize will be awarded to the best graduate paper submitted for presentation as a paper at the 2025 ANZSA conference, Shakespeare in Spirit, in Brisbane 2-4 July. The prize is a cheque for AUD$500 and includes mentoring support towards peer-reviewed publication of the paper, provided by a suitably expert senior scholar on the ANZSA Executive.

You are eligible to enter for the prize if:

Taiwan in the Anthropocene: Essays from the Edge of a Planetary Epoch

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:18am
Taiwan in the Anthropocene Network
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Taiwan in the Anthropocene Network

Call for papers

Taiwan in the Anthropocene: Essays from the Edge of a Planetary Epoch

 

Abstract Deadline: March 1, 2025

Edited by Hannes Bergthaller, Jean-Yves Heurtebise,
Kuang-chi Hong, and Li-hsin Hsu

 

Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:18am
Ben P. Robertson / Troy University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 FEBRUARY 2025.

Submissions are invited for a scholarly conference on domestic cats in literature to be hosted online 13-15 March 2025 by the Troy University Department of English.  

Papers may address any aspect of the subject, including—but not limited to—the following:

The Outdated

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:18am
Aberrations-Graduate Conference, UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Department
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 9, 2025

 

Keynote speaker: Dr. Nick Davis - Northwestern University 

Submission form: https://forms.gle/NseVDG44o6pggdao7

If you face any difficulties in the submission process or have questions about the conference, please email aberrations@tft.ucla.edu 

MLA 2026 / Guaranteed Session Mapping the Futures of Children’s Literature Scholarship: Where Do We Go from Here (DEADLINE MARCH 5, 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:17am
Gabrielle (Brie) Owen on behalf of GS Children's and Young Adult Literature Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

This is a guaranteed roundtable sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 8-11 in Toronto, ON. In the spirit of the conference theme “Family Resemblances” and the call to resist categorizations and exclusionary boundaries, this roundtable assumes an expansive understanding of children’s literature scholarship in mapping its potential futures.

Twenty-Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:17am
Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Twenty-Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities 25-26 June 2025, University of Hawaii, Hilo, USA.

Founded in 2003, the New Directions in the Humanities Research Network is brought together by a common interest in established traditions in the humanities while at the same time developing innovative practices and setting a renewed agenda for their future. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries.

The Twenty-Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities features research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:

CFP - Edited Volume: Female and queer bodies in speculative fiction and visual culture

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:16am
María Gil Poisa/University of Oviedo (Spain)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

CFP - Edited Volume: Female and queer bodies in speculative fiction and visual culture

Edited by María Gil Poisa (University of Oviedo, Spain) and Débora Madrid Brito (University of La Laguna, Spain)

Apply for Editorial Positions

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 12:03am
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The journal is looking for dynamic board members. Please complete the following form and indicate your choices. Working for the journal is voluntary, and no remuneration is paid. The information collected here will be kept confidential.  Apply HERE>>

CFP: Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 11:59pm
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

 

Rupkatha Journal, indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™ 2023: 0.2, 5 Year JIF: 0.2, Category Quartile: Q2, is now inviting papers on Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts. 

Call for Papershttps://rupkatha.com/cfp-indigenous-2025

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 11:00pm
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 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.

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 11:00pm
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, 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 Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 11:00pm
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

–             The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA

Chapter about Monsters that can control human minds

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 8:24am
Nizar Zouidi/University of Gafsa
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

This chapter will be part of an edited collection that aims at examining (the intersections between) the notions of monstrosity and evil in the literary and artistic depictions of non-human and hybrid (or post-human) intelligence in different cultural and historical contexts. It focuses on the representation of monsters and creatures that have cognitive abilities as well as on the demonizing and vilification of artificially or magically enhanced human intelligence. It also deals with the depiction of malignant non-human entities interfering with human thoughts and evil non-human cosmic intelligences interfering with human destinies.

Call for papers: Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 2:25am
Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Papers for the special issue of Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)

Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

Special issue editor: Goutam KarmakarUniversity of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 2:24am
ROUTLEDGE, Taylor & Francis, Informa, Informa UK Limited
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition) 

Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas

Call for papers: Global thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 2:23am
Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies 

Special IssueGlobal thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment

Guest editor

Goutam KarmakarUniversity of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa
GoutamK@dut.ac.za

CALL FOR PAPERS

Endnotes 2025: Solidarity and Spaces

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 7:23pm
University of British Columbia - Vancouver
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 14, 2025

Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of Solidarity and Spaces.

Pages