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We invite proposals for individual papers for the critical mixed race studies panel at the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15, 2026.
Paper proposals are due by June 6, 2026.
Welcoming submissions for a free scholarly conference on scary literature to be hosted online from October 22nd-24th, 2026 by graduate student, Anais Shelley.
Research may draw inspiration from (but is not limited to) these prompts:
Supernatural themes
Domestic horror
The role of setting within scary stories
Frightening myths and folklore
The gothic novel and short story
Monsters and the monstrous
Multicultural superstition and regional ghost stories
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended until 30 June, 2026.
2026 Global K-Culture Conference
August 20 (Thu.) ~ August 22 (Sat.), 2026 (3 days)
Chungbuk National University, Korea
Korean, English, or the presenter’s preferred language
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2026
The Department of Global K-Culture at Chungbuk National University is pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming Global K-Culture Conference, aimed at fostering meaningful dialogue and the exchange of ideas among instructors and researchers working across diverse educational and cultural contexts.
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the literatures of the Spanish State have witnessed a remarkable proliferation of Bildungsroman-inflected narratives, testimonial accounts, and coming-of-age fictions that fundamentally interrogate received models of subjectivity, identity formation, and social progress. This international congress invites critical engagement with a corpus of works — spanning authors such as Najat El Hachmi, Marta Sanz, Belén Gopegui, and Alana S. Portero — that contest hegemonic discourses of selfhood and becoming from positions of social, gendered, and cultural marginality.
PAMLA Seattle (2026) - November 12-15, all in-person conference
2027 is the centenary year of the birth of US American poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Galway Kinnell (1927-2014). This session seeks to celebrate his life and legacy while pointing to future thematic and prosodic engagement in Kinnellian studies. Papers offering approaches to any aspect of Kinnell’s work are invited and most welcome.
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We invite you to submit an abstract and bio by June 17, 2026, to participate in a Modern Language Association (MLA) 2027 seminar, "Queer Literary Studies NOW." Seminar participants will precirculate 1500-word papers on the theme, and we will discuss the papers and the larger theme during the seminar on the first day of the MLA 2027 conference. MLA 2027 will take place in Los Angeles, California, January 7-10, 2027. Participants must be MLA members and register for the conference.
Call for Papers
Journal of Narrative Theory (JNT)
Special Issue (Fall 2027)
Contemporary Narratives and Storytelling Cultures
Concept Note
Call for Papers
The Playful Monster
24–25 September 2026
The 123rd Annual PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) Conference will be held in person, November 12–15, 2026, in Seattle, Washington.
20th Century Southern Women Writers Conference
presented by the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society
October 15-18, 2026Springfield, Kentucky
The International Journal of James Bond Studies is now accepting submissions for Volume 10.
Language programs across the United States are navigating a period of significant uncertainty marked by declining enrollments, the loss of federal funding, shifting institutional priorities, and increasing budget constraints. In many cases, these pressures reflect broader institutional and political dynamics in which decisions about resource allocation, curricular value, and program viability are shaped by structures of power within higher education. As a result, language programs often find themselves particularly vulnerable within these hierarchies, with some facing downsizing or closure.
Extended deadline for chapter proposals: 10 June 2026.
Hogg’s Worlds Now
EXTENDED DEADLINE!
Theorizing Gender, Sex and Sexuality through Speculative Literatures
Edited Volume — Call for Contributions
Editors: Drs. Joshua Horton (Arizona State University) and Sandra Cox (Southeast Missouri State University)
contact emails: jthorto2@asu.edu and scox@semo.edu
Deadlines:
Abstracts (200-300 words) due September 30, 2026
Completed drafts (5000-8000 words, including MLA style citations and minimal endnotes) of accepted chapters due February 28, 2027
Overview:
The committee for the 49th annual UBC AHVA Graduate Symposium invites graduate students to submit abstracts that reflect upon, investigate, or challenge the theme of “perspective,” across all of its diverse meanings. We will be joined by Dr. Amy Knight Powell, Chair of the Art History Department at the University of Southern California, as our keynote speaker.
The 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th.
We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Philosophy, Belief, and Pop Culture Area.
The 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th.
We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Area.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in late 2027.
This collection explores how literature and popular music intersect, influence each other, and create new possibilities for artistic expression, and seeks to map the rich terrain where these two cultural forms meet. We will work from broad definitions of both literature and popular music, encompassing work from traditional novels and poetry to digital narratives and graphic novels, from classical and folk sound traditions to electric and contemporary electronic music.
South Atlantic Review, Call for Proposals for Special Issue
“Change for Sustainability in English, Rhetoric, and Writing:
Models for Transfer across Contexts”
Call for Papers: Global Hip Hop Studies
Special Issue: ‘Hip-Hop Diaspora: Memory, Technology and the Politics of Electric Infrastructure’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/global-hip-hop-studies#call-for-papers
Guest editors
Pablo D. Herrera Veitia, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Francesca D’Amico Cuthbert, University of Toronto, Canada
Myrtle D. Millares, University of Toronto, Canada
Dennis Howard, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Indian psychoanalysis consistently finds itself in a space of translation—concepts and praxis generated through Euro-American epistemes are translated on the page and in the clinician’s office. Concepts forged in specific Euro-American contexts encounter Indian affective, political and cultural worlds that resist and reshape them. In India, these juxtapositions between lived worlds and psychoanalytic theory have often been navigated through recourse to Hindu mythology, or rarely, through strict adherence to European epistemes.
Special thematic dossier 8.2 | Aesthetics, Performance, Discourse and Spectacle in the Age of Trumpism
Editor: Anna Marta Marini (JFKI–Freie Universität Berlin)
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th 2026.
Reception, including reading, listening and viewing, occurs at the tail-end of a complex process of production and reproduction that can create a significant distance between the authors who begin the process and the individual recipients who enact multiple, unique endings in their idiosyncratic experience. With an acknowledgement of the digital reproduction that enables this online conference to occur, we invite papers that address the impact of reproduction at any stage of this process. We especially welcome papers that address the impact of reproduction on the textual, material and cultural meaning of the work, text or image that is reproduced on, amongst others:
Papers are invited for an anthology to be brought out by a reputed international publisher on the theme, “100 Years of Gabriel García Márquez.”
Concept Note
Gabriel García Márquez, born in Colombia in the year 1927, is acknowledged as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. As we head towards his birth centenary, it is time to look back at this literary giant, reassess his contribution and its impact on literary history.
The annual graduate student conference organized by the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California is now accepting applications. EXTENDED submission deadline is June 15, 2026.
This year’s conference invites proposals that engage broadly with the theme, Delirium.
It will take place on October 23–24, 2026, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, with Professor Eugenie Brinkema joining for the Keynote.
We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines and methodological approaches, including creative works.
We invite submissions for the upcoming issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in SEPTEMBER. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus, DOAJ, EBSCO and Gale Cengage.
* Deadline is the end of JULY but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.
* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.
* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.
South Atlantic MLA Conference
November 5-7, 2026
In-Person Conference
Atlanta, GA
Panel Proposal: “Intertextual ‘Innerleckchuls’: Reading O’Connor in Conversation”
The Flannery O’Connor Society seeks abstract proposal submissions for a panel to be held at SAMLA’s annual conference (November 5-7, 2026) in Atlanta, GA.
Click here to submit your abstract and bio using SAMLA's internal platform: https://samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19584
The Flannery O’Connor Society invites abstracts (of no more than 300 words) for open topic presentations at SAMLA 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia, November 5-7. We will accept proposals for a wide variety of topics about and/or related to Flannery O’Connor’s oeuvre, and submissions from graduate students and emerging scholars are encouraged.
Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:
Seeking critical and critical-creative presentations for a proposed panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900, Feb.18-20 2027
Performing Data in Australasia
Performance Paradigm Volume 21
Guest Editors
Mara Davis Johnson (U of Wollongong), Benjamin Laird (Flinders U/Australian Creative Histories and Futures), Sarah Thomasson (Te Herenga Waka – Victoria U of Wellington/U of Queensland), James Wenley (Te Herenga Waka – Victoria U of Wellington).
Call for Papers
In-Between Wor(l)ds: Liminality, Poetry and Performance
Extended Deadine: June 7th!
Call for Papers – GNSD Graduate Conference, University of Minnesota
Nov. 6 - 7th, 2026 (in person)
Keynote by Adeena Karasick
The Triumph of the Therapeutic Revisited: The Politics of Self-Care and Self-Improvement in Contemporary American Culture
Guest editors: Alexandra Bacalu & Dragoș Manea
Three peer seminars are lined up for the 2026 meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society in St. Louis, from 25-27 September.
They are:
Four Quartets, led by Christina Lambert
Call for Peer Reviewers
The Dragon Lode, the journal of the Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group of the International Literacy Association, invites interested scholars, educators, and researchers to serve as peer reviewers.
We are seeking reviewers with expertise in children’s and young adult literature, K–12 literacy education, literacy pedagogy, teacher education, library and media studies, critical literacy, multicultural and diverse literature, and related fields. Peer reviewers play an essential role in supporting the journal’s mission by offering thoughtful, constructive, and timely feedback to authors.
This roundtable invites speakers to address any aspect of the so-called Renaissance self. Borrowing from Jan Goldstein, the cultural historian Elwin Hofman describes the self as “individuated mental stuff.” How might this definition inform our understanding of conceptions of the self that developed during the early modern period? What was the relationship between selfhood, self-consciousness, and identity? What kinds of evidence—artistic, confessional, visual, literary, legal, philosophical, textual, or medical—allow us to approach this question? What methodologies offer the most promise? Given the paradoxical nature of the self, both historically and in our own moment, how might it be treated as a proper object of study?
“Quiet Desperation”: Pessimism in Emerson and Thoreau
12-13 March 2027
University of Łódź
Faculty of Philology
Sorbonne Université
Research Unit VALE
Online conference
Call for Papers
If You Rebuild It, They Will Come: Reimagining Higher Ed with Pedagogies of Hope
“Hope is a discipline.” Mariame Kaba We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice. (2021)
“We must dare to imagine and to dream. It is precisely in hopeless times that the act of teaching becomes a radical gesture of hope.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Hope (1994)
John Milton is mostly known for writing one of the greatest epics in English, Paradise Lost, but his shorter poems and treatises also contributed greatly to the political and religious conversations of the seventeenth century. The sphere of Milton’s influence was not limited to his time period, but also shaped later periods, including the Romantics, who were fascinated with what they deemed a sympathetic portrayal of Satan. This panel seeks research investigating Milton’s influences on not only his contemporary society, but the ways that he also affected later literary thought and culture.
The Animal Studies standing session seeks papers broadly related to the intersection of literature or media and animal studies, across genres and national literatures, with a special—but not exclusive —interest in proposals that engage with the 2026 PAMLA conference theme, "Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict." As such, it aims to enliven the conversation surrounding the conference theme through animal studies and literature, while making cross-disciplinary pathways with science, conservation, and public policy.
The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.
The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.
Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published. Please send electronic submssions in Microsoft Word format and a current CV to hjamesr@creighton.edu.
For PAMLA 2026 123rd Annual Conference (Seattle, WA) – Nov. 12-15, 2026
As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence,
at a time of perceived challenges to its promises of freedom and equality, this symposium
invites a multidisciplinary reflection on the narrative strategies used to represent past and
contemporary interpretations of experienced scenarios of crises, resistance and change.
The Symposium is particularly interested in the connections between contemporary
political, social and cultural fractures and previous experiences of confrontation of
opposing visions of the collective national project, which also tested the fulfillment of the
Call for Papers
Decolonial Imaginations in Indian Writings in English: Indigenous Knowledge, Memory, and Resistance
Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2026
Publisher: Authorspress, New Delhi, India
Editors:
Dr. Ashutosh Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Foreign Language, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Chhattisgarh, India
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) will sponsor up to four panels at RSA Philadelphia 2027 and invites proposals for individual papers or pre-formed panels on any topic within the scope of bibliography and book history. Papers and pre-formed panels may address, but are certainly not limited to, the following topics:
3rd Call for Chapter Proposals
for Essay Collection
How Scripted TV Series Portray Social Media’s Power to Shape Culture
This edited collection invites scholars to consider how an episode or series of scripted television (from 2000 to present) has portrayed social media’s power to shape culture—for better and/or for worse.