Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

Instructions for Authors

International Conference on Innovations in Technology for Humanity (IIHTC 2026)  invites original research contribution from different fields as mentioned in topics provided that the context of the work is clearly explained. Papers must be submitted on or before the last date of paper submission. After this deadline, you will not be able to register new papers, however you will be able to edit the information of existing submitted papers. 

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Akaki Tsereteli State University in Kutaisi, Georgia will host a two-day international biennial multidisciplinary conference on American studies. The conference is dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of John Dos Passos, honoring his enduring literary legacy and critical contribution to modern American literature. It is organized by Prof. Vakhtang Amaglobeli Center for American Studies at ATSU, ATSU Foreign Affairs and Development Office and John Dos Passos Association of Georgia.
The conference will be held at ATSU (59 Tamar Mepe st., Kutaisi 4600, Georgia) on October 23-24, 2026.

Call for Proposals: The Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) Annual Conference

Global Fallouts: Moving Peace and Justice Forward in Times of Uncertainty
October 2-4, 2026
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

• Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15, 2026
• Early Bird Registration: Before May 1, 2026
• Draft Schedule Released: June 1, 2026

Skip me right to the proposal submission form!

This paper grounds its analysis in ecofeminist theory, particularly drawing on Susan Griffin’s Women and Nature (1978) and Carolyn Merchant’s The Death of Nature (1980), who argue that the domination of nature parallels the oppression of women under patriarchal systems. The analysis will pay particular attention to the novel’s portrayal of floods, extreme weather, and earthquakes in a post-apocalyptic setting as a way to expose the brutality through which patriarchal systems have historically treated both women and nature as resources to be controlled and exploited.

Writing about a series of human-object relationships, Robin Bernstein employs the term “scriptive thing” to articulate how objects become things when they orient, choreograph, or compel human action. In one such case study, she analyzes a photograph of a woman posing with a racist caricature at the Hotel Exposition in New York’s Grand Central Palace, circa 1930. Using this photo, she further clarifies the nature of this particular subject-object relationship, stating that it is “neither an isolated woman and her ‘whys’ nor an isolated caricature and its textual ‘hows,’ but instead through a complex interaction between the two figures,” that the photo constructs race.

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)

The Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University is pleased to announce the call for the 28th British Novelists International Conference. This year’s theme is Ali Smith and Her Work. The conference will be held on 3-4 December 2026 in Ankara, Turkey.

We invite submissions from a broad range of disciplines, including literary studies, cultural studies, environmental humanities, queer studies, narrative studies, media studies, philosophy, sociology, and fine arts. We welcome papers on any aspect of Ali Smith’s work from any theoretical perspective. Proposals by graduate students are also welcome.

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)

International Journal of Arts and Humanities (IJAHS) 

Submission System

Scope

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 Environment, Extraction, Evolution. 

 
“What do I want from literature, anyway? 
A new way of living, a new way to talk  
About the trees that doesn’t endanger them” 
- Billy-Ray Belcourt, “Endnotes” 

Monstrous Bodies: From Frankenstein to the Posthuman

Saint Louis University Madrid, April 23-24, 2026

CFP: “American Carnage”

Canadian Association for American Studies, October 23-25, 2026 (In person at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)

The London Arts-Based Research Centre

Women who Create: The Feminine and the Arts
A Transdisciplinary Conference

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/11/18/women-who-create-2026/

March 28-30, 2026

Where:
March 28-29: In person participation at Cambridge University and online
March 30: Fully online

Fees (for both presenters and attendees):        
195 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees

Abstract: Deadline February 15, 2026

Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists
American Literature Association | 37th Annual Conference | May 20–23, 2026 | Chicago, IL

Placing Chicago in Early American Studies

Acknowledging our conference setting and anticipating the 2027 SEA Biennial, this panel invites papers and presentations that explore the literature, culture, and history of Chicago prior to its March 1837 incorporation. What is (or should be) Chicago’s place within the field of early American studies? Topics might include (but are not limited to):

Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists
American Literature Association | 37th Annual Conference | May 20–23, 2026 | Chicago, IL

Errand into the Wilderness at 70

Upon the 70th anniversary of his Errand into the Wilderness, this panel invites papers and presentations that offer critical examinations and new interpretations of work by the intellectual historian (and Chicago native) Perry Miller. Topics might include (but are not limited to):

PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED

Florida Atlantic University’s English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) is pleased to announce the return of our annual academic conference, to be held in person on FAU’s Boca Raton campus on Saturday, April 4, 2026. 

This conference is completely free for presenters and attendees. We invite undergraduate and graduate students from all institutions, as well as independent scholars, educators, and creatives, to explore the theme of “(Re)memory” through both academic and creative work.

Conference: 18-19 June 2026

in person (Gdańsk, Poland) and online

CFP:

How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is involved in these processes? How does history remember these events? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The significance of these and related questions have made their way into our daily lives, from the refugee crisis to policy decisions, individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities, communities, and memories.  

Special Issue: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies: Wartime Periodicals

Co-edited by Sarah Cornish, Paula Derdiger, and Amanda Sigler

Academic Journal: Em Tese (ISSN 1982-0739)
Submission format: .doc or .docx, font 12, spacing 1,5, from 10 to 20 pages long.
Submission guidelines: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/emt/about/submissions 
Submission system: OJS 3.0
Journal homepage: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/emt/index
Questions: lauraribaraujo@gmail.com

Editors: Federico Bertoni (University of Bologna), Gabriele D’Amato (University of L’Aquila and Ghent University), Luca Diani (University of L’Aquila), Massimo Fusillo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

CFP for a Special Session on "Books and Reading in Hispanic Queer Culture"2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles (7-10 January 2027) Proposals sought on the roles of books, print culture or reading in the consolidation of queer identities or communities in Spanish-speaking or Hispanic contexts. Send 200-250-word abstracts and 100-word bios. Submissions in English or Spanish are welcome.

Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State University (jzamostny@ksu.edu )

The Victorians Institute Journal (VIJ) is still accepting submissions through April 1st for Volume 53, which will be published later this year. The VIJ is an award-winning scholarly journal of Victorian and Edwardian literary and cultural studies. The VIJ publishes a variety of pieces, including articles, reviews, and rare texts. For further details on the Victorians Institute Journal, visit 

The Australasian Modernist Studies Network and Modernist Studies in Asia present

JOINT AMSN / MSIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

NOVEMBER 19-21, 2026

In 1916, interviewed for the New York Times, the poet-diplomat Robert Underwood Johnson took up the “new movement” in poetry: “There is an intoxication about the way our contemporary poets fling themselves into a dauntless quest for self-expression.” “Alas!,” he went on, “this is just the trouble! For intoxication is no more desirable in poetry than in the household. Intoxication is not the state of mind in which, as Matthew Arnold says, one may ‘see life clearly and see it whole’.”