We invite contributions for a special issue titled Cutting Across Borders: Contemporary Gibraltarian Writing, which seeks to explore the evolving literary landscape of Gibraltar.

This session seeks 250-word abstracts of critical and creative pieces on women’s war narratives from postcolonial experiences, like – partition, apartheid, independence, internal colonization, gendered, racialized or sectarian violence.

The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature have flourished since the turn of the twenty-first century. As the climate crisis continually becomes more urgent, however, the need for us as scholars to re-assess our history and culture through an ecological lens also steadily increases. Where is seventeenth-century ecocriticism now, and where is it going?

Call for Papers: Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies Issue 17.2

Special Issue: 'Ludomythologies: the Creation, Circulation & Transformation of Imaginaries in Games'

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The MLA Drama and Performance Forum is currently accepting proposals for the two panels it is sponsoring for the 2026 conference in Toronto: https://www.mla.org/Events/2026-MLA-Convention.

Crowd Work: Audiences in Drama and Performance

How do drama and performance engage audiences as spectators and participants? What work does the audience do and how is it negotiated across local, transnational, economic, generic, or mediatized performance and reception contexts?

Please submit brief bios and 200-word proposals.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 21 March 2025

Call for Chapters in an Edited Volume

Soundscapes in Indian Art, Literature and Culture

The Gaskell Journal

Joan Leach Memorial

Graduate Student Essay Prize 2026

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2026

The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published in the Gaskell Journal (with revisions as appropriate), and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, and a complimentary copy of the Journal.

The Doris Lessing Society, an allied organization of the MLA, invites proposals for the two 2026 MLA sessions; for details of the Calls, see below:

                                               Calls for Paper for the 2026 MLA Convention (01/08--01/11/2026)

1       Doris Lessing the Storyteller: Literature and Social Change

The goal is to explore the ways in which Lessing uses fiction for social transformation through the elaboration and dissemination of knowledge, e.g., self-education, constructing knowledge, questioning moral/political values, and the relationship to language.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 23 March 2025

ACQL General Call for Papers: 2025 ONLINE Conference 

Founded in 1975 in the wake of Canada’s official ratification of multiculturalism, the Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures has, over more than 45 years, emerged as Canada’s premier association for showcasing multilingual and transnational research in Canadian and Québec literatures. 

This year, ACQL will host its annual conference ONLINE between Friday, May 23rd and Sunday, May 25th.

We invite potential participants to submit NEW proposals in English or in French on research, teaching, and professional matters of relevance to current or prospective members. 

We are thrilled to announce an open call for submissions for 'Voices Unbound', a new poetry anthology that seeks to celebrate the diverse, vibrant, and transformative power of poetry. Whether you are an emerging voice or an established poet, we invite you to share your work and contribute to this collective tapestry of human experience.

 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/home

Longing to Know:

Gender and the Production of Scientific Knowledge

Special Issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies

Issue editors: Imogen Forbes-Macphail and Anna Henchman

https://www.ncgsjournal.com/

Call for Papers

Title:Contemporary Impacts of Settler Traumas Upon Indigenous Peoples of North America Description & Requirements:Submit a brief bio and 150 word abstract to daniellemercier92@gmail.com examining contemporary narratives of Indigenous peoples of North America (U.S. and Canada), their bodies/embodiment. Presentations may focus on issues such as: trauma, time, capitalism, settler colonialism. Submission Deadline:Thursday, 20 March 2025

“Make you to ravel all this matter out” (Shakespeare, Hamlet, 3.4)

Within early modern studies, there has been a growing interest in the intersections between text, materiality, and performance, both in and beyond the commercial theatres. The Revels Office, an international research group comprised of early career academics, has always been fascinated by the relationship between textual, visual and material cultures and the material realities of theatre and performance.

While revising Between the Acts in 1940, Virginia Woolf edited her drafts to reinforce the disruptive wartime shifts in food culture triggered by the Second World War: the novel notes a particular wariness for rationed beef and mutton, references the interwar freedom of easily obtaining bacon and oil, and suggests the indulgence of sugar consumption. The modernist moment saw a variety of such shifts in the alimentary, from increased industrialization and food processing to a more gastronomic turn to the realities of wartime food rationing that Woolf and others chart.