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The year 2025 marked the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, yet Austen seems to be only increasing in cultural relevance on a global scale. This panel at the NeMLA conference in Pittsburgh, March 5-8, 2026 explores Jane Austen-related texts – including films, streaming, novels, graphic novels etc. - of the twenty-first century, including…
This roundtable hopes to bring together faculty and administrators with a vision to invigorate humanities programs. Its goal is twofold: (1) to provide a platform for sharing innovative strategies to enhance collaboration across traditional academic units; and (2) to critically discuss efforts that have led to new successes in (re)generating full-time faculty satisfaction in teaching, research, and service. Such efforts may include valued practices in co-teaching, faculty residency programs, Interdisciplinary Studies programs, joint appointments, and visiting professorships.
2025 Annual Conference
November 6-8, 2025
Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse
Philadelphia, PA
Call for proposals:
Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Philadelphia, PA. Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome.
This session is organized withing the 2025 NeMLA Annual Conference in Pittsburg. Virtual participation is accepted. The panel investigates literature and the Medical Humanities, focusing on the potential of storytelling and narrative medicine to navigate trauma and improve empathy and communication between patients and health care providers. We seek contributions from scholars pertaining to various disciplines who works at the intersection of literature and medicine. Papers will explore how literature and life writing can successfully address traumatic events and improve medical practice.
English Language Pedagogy in India: Tracing the Changing
Paradigms
Edited by Anindya Syam Choudhury and Christine Coombe
Call for Chapters: Edited Volume on Enacting Curtailment: Practices of Censorship in Colonial India.
We are excited to announce the forthcoming publication of an edited volume titled Enacting Curtailment: Practices of Censorship in Colonial India. This interdisciplinary volume will explore themes of censorship, resistance in the literature, art, performance, film, sound, history, and related fields within the humanities and social sciences.
Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome
“Men will literally drive 200km/h through a neon-drenched cityscape instead of going to therapy.”
Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome
Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome
Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome
This panel explores the volatile and seductive intersections of queerness, horror, and psychosexual cinema. Taking inspiration from the defiant slogan “Not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you,” we frame queerness not as static identity, but as a generative force of disruption, resistance, and cinematic disobedience.
Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome.
This seminar seeks to reimagine Trans Studies through the lens of a prefixial turn, where trans signifies a movement across, as well as a digression away from an unchosen starting point. Presenters are urged to negotiate the limits such given points of departure pose to our horizons of thought and emotion.
We invite submissions for a paper panel themed “Non-Western Aesthetics: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Representation” – an exploration of aesthetics from diverse cultural perspectives, non-Western rhetorical traditions, and globalized literary theory. Our aim is to examine non-Western, non-hegemonic discourses from non-White nations that incorporate indigenous critical approaches and local theories within artistic and literary practices. We are particularly interested in South and Southeast Asian literary and cultural studies.
Broad areas of exploration may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following literary and cultural theoretical perspectives:
Call for Roundtable to be prestented at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 2026 Conference!
Session Modality: Hybrid
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LITERATURE TODAY'S SEPTEMBER 2025 ISSUE
Website: https://literaturetodayjournal.blogspot.com/
Email: editorliteraturetoday@gmail.com
Submission Deadline: September 25, 2025
The Journal of South Asian Exchanges (ISSN: 3048-8877) invites submissions for its upcoming special issue dedicated to the rich, layered, and dynamic terrain of South Asian Studies. This issue seeks to cultivate cross-disciplinary conversations that explore both the historical depth and contemporary complexities of South Asia, from its ancient entanglements to its evolving place in the 21st-century global order. We are especially interested in papers that foreground interdisciplinary approaches and prioritize marginalized perspectives—scholarship that moves beyond binaries and embraces the messy, hybrid realities of the region.
Please note: This CFP is for the SAMLA Conference in Atlanta, Georgia Nov. 6-8, 2025:
Please note: This CFP is for the SAMLA Conference in Atlanta, Georgia Nov. 6-8, 2025:
Call for paper proposals
In periods of economic and cultural crisis, cui bono? Who benefits? How are accounts kept, and gains accounted for? Who is accountable and who is not? What forms does the balance sheet take? What is its narrative and who gets to construct it? How is creative accounting investigated?
The early to mid-twentieth century was a period of global economic crisis, revolution, and war that facilitated a shift of global economic and political hegemony from the British empire to the American. The Weimar Republic’s afterlife as a historical nexus of crisis lends itself especially well to issues of accountability and accounting.
Sinners (2025): Critical Approaches to Ryan Coogler’s Groundbreaking Black Vampiric Horror Film
This call for papers invites contributors to submit papers for publication in a university press. The anthology will gather analyses focusing on writers, artists, and others who have engaged with or represented aspects of a Black past. We are seeking works in literature, film, music, art, or any other relevant fields that incorporate elements of the Black past in a broad sense.
NeMLA: March 5 - 8, 2026
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Session Type: Roundtable (this is a hybrid roundtable with in-person and virtual presentations allowed)
Full Call and Submission: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21632
This panel explores how intersectional feminist frameworks reimagine justice as a regenerative process- one that not only repairs harm but actively cultivates equitable futures. Centering marginalized voices (BIPOC, disabled, and Global South perspectives), we interrogate literary, activist, and pedagogical interventions that challenge systemic oppression while envisioning liberation. Papers might analyze speculative fiction’s role in feminist worldbuilding, decolonial pedagogies that restore Indigenous knowledge, or grassroots movements modeling restorative alternatives to carceral systems.
This roundtable explores how literature and allied forms of cultural expression regenerate acts of resistance across generations and geopolitical contexts. Centering on comparative studies of marginalized communities including Dalit, Black, Indigenous, and diasporic voices, this session interrogates how storytelling practices evolve to challenge hegemonic narratives and recover erased or silenced histories. Participants are invited to reflect on how forms such as autofiction, digital narratives, performance art, eco-poetics, or oral testimony function as regenerative tools that produce continuity between past traumas and present struggles.
Session Title: Classical Hollywood
Organiser: David John Boyd, Stirling Maxwell Centre, University of Glasgow
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025
Conference Dates: November 20–23, 2025
Location: InterContinental San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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You do not need to be a NeMLA member to submit a proposal.
NOTE: This session is hybrid. It will be seated and accessible on Zoom. Please indicate which you prefer when you submit your proposals. Thank you.
Annual Northeast Modern Language Association
57th Annual Convention
March 5-8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA
at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown.
Aldous Huxley, who wrote in the 1930s, is famously remembered for his novels Brave New World and Island as well as for the essays he wrote for William Randolph Hearst. Jerome Meckler’s “Aldous Huxley: Dystopian Essayist of the 1930s.” reviews some of Huxley’s writing.
Submit proposals to: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21664
You do not need to be a NeMLA member to submit a proposal.
NOTE: This session is hybrid. It will be seated and accessible on Zoom. Please indicate which you prefer when you submit your proposals. Thank you.
Annual Northeast Modern Language Association
57th Annual Convention
March 5-8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA
at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown.
Prayer was central to religious life in the late medieval and early modern period. Despite growing scholarly interest in religious texts, devotional practices, and spirituality, prayer and prayer books remain comparatively understudied. Prayer could take on a multitude of forms and occur in a range of spaces, from public to secluded and private; from monastic, liturgical prayer to short, indulgenced invocations and meditative prayers that evoked a rich scala of emotions and mental images.
Marxism and the Coercive Forces of Capital: Today’s Implications and Critical Perspectives
“[The state] power rises out of society, placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it.”
–Frederick Engels