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Call for Book Chapter_Green Humanities: Eco-Diaspora, Indigenous Resilience & Literary Cartographies

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 8:42am
Shrabanti Kundu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Selected Papers will be published in an edited Book with an ISBN from AuthorsPress (International Publication), New Delhi, India

Submission Guidelines:

  • Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and include a clear outline of the proposed paper’s objectives, methodology, and relevance.

 

  • Bio-note: A separate bio-note (maximum 100 words) should include your title (Dr/Prof.), affiliation, contact information, and research interests.

 

  • Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere. A signed self-declaration of originality is required. AI-generated content is strictly prohibited.

 

Indigenous and Creole Transcultural Encounters

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Karine Germoni
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The CfP for the hybrid panel "Indigenous and Creole Transcultural Encounters" (NeMLA 2026 convention) is now open (please see abstract and description below). 

 The convention will take place in Pittsburgh, PA on March 5-8, 2026.

How Not to Be a Misogynist: Un/Intentional Sexism in Early Modern Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Lilly Berberyan & Jess McCall
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Stemming from the “How Not to Be a Misogynist” panel at the 2025 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, we are soliciting chapters for an edited collection that engages with matters of gender, power, and misogyny. We are particularly interested in interrogations of how—perhaps unwittingly—misogyny is inscribed onto early modern texts and contexts by contemporary scholars and scholarship. Some of the questions we seek to answer in this collection include: 

 

FRAME 39.1 “Controlling the Narrative”

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 5, 2025

Dissension exists on a spectrum. It can be expressed on an individual scale—by rejecting challenges to ethical or moral beliefs—or within collectives that object to systems that harm or subjugate. Literature can be used as an act of protest and resistance, to create counter narratives that combat oppressive agendas; it can mirror the outcry of societies that wish to test the limits of oppression but lack the voice to do so. Now more than ever, it is imperative that we listen to those voices that systems continually work to silence. Authoritarianism, protest, incarceration, and revolution are interwoven themes that dominate allegorical genres such as dystopian fiction.

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Worldview Critical Edition)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Dr Subashish Bhattacharjee and Dr Indrajit Mukherjee
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We invite original, unpublished essays (maximum 5,000 words) for an upcoming Worldview Critical Companion to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. This volume aims to serve as both a scholarly resource and a generative site of contemporary dialogue on one of the most significant dramatic works of the twentieth century. Contributors are encouraged to revisit canonical readings while also offering new, boundary-pushing approaches that open Godot to current critical, theoretical, and performative discourses.

The Handbook of Bengali Cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Dr Subashish Bhattacharjee and Dr Indrajit Mukherjee
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We invite original and unpublished essays for inclusion in a forthcoming Handbook of Bengali Cinema. This interdisciplinary volume will offer a comprehensive and critical survey of Bengali cinema across periods, geographies, genres, styles, and theoretical frameworks. It will serve as a key reference for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in one of South Asia’s most influential regional cinemas.

Essays should be no longer than 5,000 words, inclusive of notes and works cited, and must follow the MLA citation style (current edition). Contributions may be historical, thematic, theoretical, or practice-based, and are expected to demonstrate critical rigor and originality.

 

Regenerating Technical Communication: Creative Pedagogies & Practices

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Technical communication, as a field of practice and study, has grown larger and more varied in response to the rapidly developing technologies, new forms of globalization, and shifting institutional demands of the past 20 years—all greatly intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic within the last five. How, then, do today's instructors of technical communication meet the current moment as well as current student needs?

CFP: (Chapter Abstracts) German Romantic Humour (Aug. 1, 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Pascale LaFountain
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

CFP: (Chapter Abstracts) German Romantic Humour (Aug. 1, 2025)

 

Call for Chapter Abstracts

Due: August 1, 2025

Subject fields: German Romanticism, Humour Studies, Philosophy, Literature Studies, Musicology, Art History, History of Religion

 

This is a call for abstracts for book chapters to be included in an edited volume on “German Romantic Humour”

 

Edited by Dr. Pascale LaFountain (Montclair State University, USA)

 

The Roles of 20th Century Regionalisms: Past and (Re)Generation.

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
NeMLA 57th Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This NeMLA panel invites proposals exploring the social, cultural, and political uses of regionalist aesthetics throughout the 20th cnetury.

Representing Authoritarianism in Modern Latin American Politics and Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Joseph Mulligan, Weber State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Throughout the nineteenth, twentieth and into the twenty-first century, authoritarianism has proven to be an enduring leadership style in Latin American and has manifested in diverse forms, including the uprisings of regional caudillos, the ascendency of personalist rulers, the formation of solemn cults of personality, the imposition of military dictatorships, the establishment of single-party States, the totalitarian perpetuation of the state of exception, the cultural promotion of ethnonationalism, and the installation of illiberal technocracies, among others.

NeMLA 2026 Roundtable - Villains Reborn: Redemption and (Re)Generation of Comic Book Antagonists

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) | Sydney Nelson and Josie Kochendorfer
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

From brainwashed assassins to complicated anti-heroes to villains on a redemption arc, comic books, films, television, and novels frequently present readers with complicated antagonists-turned-superheroes, many of which become beloved characters. Through varied processes of regeneration, former antagonists remake themselves into superheroes in fascinating and often unexpected ways.

Children’s Rights &/in Popular Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Northeast Popular Studies Conference (Virtual)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 13, 2025

Children’s Rights &/in Popular Culture (panel/roundtable for NEPCA conference taking place virtually Oct 9-11 2025) 

How are children’s rights represented in current popular culture (e.g., videogames, board games, graphic novels, film, TV, social media, music, toys etc.)? In what ways does pop culture today curtail children’s rights (e.g., cellphone apps, tracking devices, surveillance equipment)? How do children themselves define their rights, notions of justice, law and order in their interactions with popular culture (e.g., toys, games, art, fashion, hobbies, social media etc.)?

[NeMLA 2026 Panel] The Name of the Witch

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:52am
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We seek panelists for Northeast MLA 2026, "The Name of the Witch." 

Conference Details

57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5 - 8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA. Visit https://www.nemla.org/convention/future.html for more details. 

Modality 

Panel / In Person Only: The session will be held fully in person at the hotel. No remote presentations will be included.

Submissions and Deadline

Conflict and Literature: Perspectives from Global South

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:25am
Indira Chakraborty (Bhattacharya)/ St. Xavier's University, Kolkata, India
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Global South is a phrase often heard in the academic parlance to categorise a group of nations which have been broadly classified in economic terms by the United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD) based on certain defining characteristics (socio-economic and political factors). The countries or continents which come under this category are Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (excluding Australia and New Zealand). However, to classify economic grounds poses severe questions about factors contributing to the dissemination of this inequality. This unevenness as one suspects can be a major reason for armed conflicts often leading to tensions and permanent war zones.

The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series Exploring Transgender Themes

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 3:12am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The response to our CFP for Indian Trans Cinema has been so strong that we have expanded it into The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series. Proposals are due July 1, 2025.

We seek a diverse group of contributors from countries around the world.

We especially welcome additional chapters on the following 16 themes, for which we already have 50 confirmed chapters:

Theme 1. Historical Cinema

Seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 3:11am
The Handbook of Trans Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. These are the final chapters needed to complete the handbook.

We have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents.

Your chapter "Trans Cinema from the United States" or "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" should provide a broad survey and analysis of films with transgender themes from the respective country, while also examining at least three films in depth. 

Bloomsbury's Ecocritical Theory and Practice Book Series

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 3:11am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. More than 100 books have already appeared in the series.

Works that explore environmental issues through literatures, oral traditions, and cultural/media practices around the world are welcome. The series features books by established ecocritics that examine the intersection of theory and practice, including both monographs and edited volumes. Contemporary and historical works are equally appropriate.

Proposals are invited in the range of topics covered by ecocriticism, including but not limited to works informed by

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 3:11am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 3:11am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Environment and Society, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. More than 30 books have already appeared in the series.

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 2:52am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology 

  ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJCST/Home.html

*** June Issue***

Submission System

Scope & Topics                                                  

Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 5:33pm
Lenka Filipova / Freie Universität Berlin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 17, 2025

Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z

Eds. Başak Ağın, Z. Gizem Yılmaz, and Lenka Filipova

NeMLA 2026: World Literature and Cultural Globalization (Roundtable/Virtual)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 3:49pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

57th Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2026

Conference Date: March 5-8, 2026

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 10, 2025

All presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in person. We will use Whova (our conference app) and Zoom to integrate remote sessions into the conference.



 

Session Title: World Literature and Cultural Globalization (Roundtable/Virtual).

 

“The era of world literature is at hand, and everyone must contribute to accelerating it,” Goethe said to Eckermann on the afternoon of 1827, and the idea of world literature (Weltliteratur) was born.

(Re)generating Pynchon (NeMLA 2026 panel)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 10:08am
NeMLA - Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The 57th annual NeMLA Convention is taking place Thursday, March 5, through Sunday, March 8, 2026, at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown in Pittsburgh, PA.  For more information, see https://www.nemla.org/.

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