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Narratives of Resistance and African Literature: Articulating Dissent, Disobedience and Pluriversal Futures

updated: 
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 2:11am
English Academy Review
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Narratives of Resistance and African Literature: Articulating Dissent, Disobedience and Pluriversal Futures

Special issue of English Academy Review (Taylor and Francis)


Link: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/narratives-of-resistan...

Special Issue Editor(s)

Goutam KarmakarUniversity of Hyderabad, India
goutamkarmakar@uohyd.ac.in

"(In-)Visible Wounds:" Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence (April 23-25, 2026)

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 6:55pm
Konstantina Kliagkona ("KN: Forensic, Literature, Arts & Media Studies"/ Independent Researcher, Freelancer EFL, Criminology Teacher, & Offender Profiler)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Date of Conference: 23-25 April, 2026

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 24 March 2026

 

Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:

 

(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectiveson Discrimination and Violence

 

Collection: Trauma and Healing in African and Afrodiasporic Literature

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 3:57pm
Paul M. Mukundi & Traci D. Williams
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Across the African continent and its global diasporas, trauma reverberates through histories of slavery, colonialism, racial capitalism, gendered violence, war, migration, and displacement. However, African and Afrodiasporic writers and artists have not only transformed experiences of pain into sites of creativity, survival, and healing but also reflected in their works the use of African approaches to restoration. This edited volume seeks to explore the ways in which trauma is reconstituted, managed, borne, and cured in African and Afrodiasporic literature and cultural expressions.

Afrofuturism in African Literature

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 3:56pm
Dr. Paul M. Mukundi
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Afrofuturism in African Literature
Edited Volume — Call for Contributions

The Victorians and Their Publics

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:58am
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

 

Liverpool John Moores University, UK

6-8th July 2026

 

Confirmed keynotes:

Melissa Gustin (National Museums Liverpool), with guided tours of the Walker Art Gallery

Tara MacDonald (University of Lethbridge, Canada) “Public Institutions, Private Care: Sex Work and Care Work in Victorian Popular Fiction”

BRAIN Focus Series

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:58am
CHARM (Consortium for Health Humanities, Arts, Reading and Medicine)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Designed by Jean-François Vernay, the Routledge Literary BRAIN (Brain-Related Academic Investigations of Narratives) Focus Series combines the language of literary criticism with neurocognitive and health humanities methodologies or explanatory frameworks, providing an innovative way of blending literary analysis with health humanities and neurocognitive approaches.
This exciting BRAIN series is designed to convene conversations across interdisciplinary knowledges, covering all fiction and nonfiction sub-genres such as poetry, drama, novels, short-stories, memoirs, (auto)biographies, essays, etc.

Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:58am
Beyond Postmemory Research Project (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

War leaves lasting marks not only on people and communities, but also on the natural world that witnesses, and endures, its violence. Long after the fighting has stopped, landscapes shaped by destruction remain living archives, bearing the aftereffects of conflict: damaged forests, polluted rivers and seas, and disrupted ecosystems that continue to hold its traces. These ‘trauma ecologies’ pass on the legacy of war from one generation to the next, forming what we call ‘environmental postmemory.’

Conference: Doing American Studies outside the US - now

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:58am
University of Sydney
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Doing American Studies Outside the US—Now

University of Sydney, Australia
Dates: July 16–18, 2026

 

About the Conference

“What’s the Matter with Description? Form, Practice, and Material Culture”

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:58am
Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

 

Call for Papers

 

University of Delaware’s 5th CMCS Conference in Material Culture

 

April 2-3, 2027

 

                                        “What’s the Matter with Description? Form, Practice, and Material Culture”

 

 

Keynote Speaker

 

SUSAN STEWART

(Princeton University)

 

One Hundred Years of Gabriel García Márquez

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:57am
MELOW: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

One Hundred Years of Gabriel García Márquez

Proposed Dates: 1-2 May 2026

Proposed Venue: SRM University, Sikkim

Organized by: MELOW (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World)

Gabriel García Márquez, born in Columbia 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.

MLA 2027 Panel: Beyond Emancipation? Stages of Protest, Resistance, and Agency for the 21st Century

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:57am
Modern Language Assoc'at'on
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

How might theatre and performance come to confront the global rise of populism, while setting the stage for, and potentially provoking a reconceptualization of, emancipatory ways of being in the world? Please send 250-word abstracts and brief bios to Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay, University of Milan (ertug.altinay@unimi.it) and Sharon Lois Mazer, Auckland University of Technology (sharon.mazer@aut.ac.nz)

MLA 2027: Infrastructure and Culture in Los Angeles

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:57am
Lauren White / University of Southern California
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 8, 2026

This MLA special sessions panel invites papers on literary and cultural approaches to Los Angeles infrastructure, aimed at interrogating the political aesthetic of social, natural, and built environments. Please send a 250 word abstract and short bio. 

2027 MLA Convention: January 7-10 in Los Angeles (accepted presenters must be MLA members by April 1)

 

MLA 2027: The Arctic Imaginary: Extraction and Empire

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:57am
Patrick Vincent
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

We invite papers on the literature of the Arctic. Especially welcome are proposals on texts and authors that connect the Arctic to contemporary issues of extractivism, securitization, and imperialism. Please send a 250-word abstract and short bio.

5th IRW CFP: "Rhetorical Flows: Building Transnational Solidarities & Cultures of Resistance," Buenos Aires, Argentina August 5-7, 2026

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:57am
International Rhetoric Workshop
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 21, 2026

5th IRW Theme: “Rhetorical Flows: Building Transnational Solidarities & Cultures of Resistance.”

Submission Deadline (250-word abstracts in English or Spanish): March 21, 2026

Submit here: https://tinyurl.com/IRW-Submissions

The Planning Committee for the 5th Biennial International Rhetoric Workshop invites international PhD students, emerging scholars, and established researchers to come together and consider the myriad ways that our contemporary and established traditions of rhetorical theory, pedagogy, and criticism inform global flows of meaning-making.

Hemingway and Disability

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:57am
Hemingway Society for 2027 MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION
Los Angeles
JANUARY 7-10, 2027

The Ernest Hemingway Society will sponsor a panel at the upcoming MLA Conference:

 

Hemingway and Disability

 

Refugees, Migration, and Displacement in Literary Narratives from Global South

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:52am
Refugee Narrative Network
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Special note for the contributors:

 

  1. Please focus on the text that represents migration from the Global South to the Global North.

  2. The text under consideration should be published after 2000, though it can focus on migration that happened at any time in history.

  3. Please take a minimum of one and a maximum of two migration/refugee narratives for analysis.

  4. Please mention within the abstract the theoretical background clearly that one wants to apply.

  5. The text under consideration should be either written in English or translated into  English.

Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:51am
University College London
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Call for Chapters

Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World

Editors: Dr Mary Katherine Newman and Dr Rana Banna

 

What counted as evidence in the early modern world? 

How did language itself – spoken, written, translated, or performed – shape conceptions of proof? 

And how did sensory experience lend authority, or uncertainty, to what language claimed as true?

 

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) - Volume 7

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:51am
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) - Volume 7

Volume to be published in December of 2026

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is excited to announce the call for papers for our seventh volume, to be published December 2026.

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies is a peer reviewed, open-access journal published by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. JAMS is dedicated to publishing scholarly works exploring anime, manga, and a broad range of related topics, such as methodologies, cosplay, fandoms, adaptations, and more. As an open-access journal, JAMS aims to reach a broad-ranging audience of scholars (both within and beyond the academy) and interested general readers.

Border Crossings in Early Modern England (MLA 2027)

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:51am
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Walls, barriers, barricades, borders are lines (real and imaginary) reified to divide, define, and contain, but there are also borderlands and border crossings which necessarily blur and defy arbitrary lines and lead to rethinking notions of belonging and belongings.

 

[Edited Volume] Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:51am
Nicholas Spengler / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Call for Papers: Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture

War leaves lasting marks not only on people and communities, but also on the natural world that witnesses, and endures, its violence. Long after the fighting has stopped, landscapes shaped by destruction remain living archives, bearing the aftereffects of conflict: damaged forests, polluted rivers and seas, and disrupted ecosystems that continue to hold its traces. These "trauma ecologies" pass on the legacy of war from one generation to the next, forming what we call "environmental postmemory."

FINAL CALL: Conference on the Teaching of Writing: Wicked Reading for Wicked Problems

updated: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026 - 10:32am
University of Connecticut
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

We are excited to share with you all on behalf of the Conference Planning Committee for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program that we are holding our 21st Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing on Thursday, April 23, and Friday, April 24, 2026, on our campus in Storrs, CT. Our theme for the upcoming conference is: “Wicked Reading for Wicked Problems." As those who have collaborated with us in the past, we are once again inviting you to help us explore ways of approaching these 'wicked problems', such as those that evade consensus, offer multiple solutions, or may even resist resolution at all.

The Handbook of Ecofeminism

updated: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026 - 10:11am
Nicole C. Dittmer, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Chapters for The Handbook of Ecofeminism
deadline for submissions: March 1, 2026
full name / name of organization: Nicole C. Dittmer, PhD
contact email: ncdittmer@gmail.com

In 1974, Françoise d’Eaubonne coined the term ecofeminism in Le féminisme ou la mort, foregrounding the intertwined domination of women and nature and calling for the liberation of both from systems of exploitation. Since its emergence, ecofeminism has inspired scholars and activists across disciplines and global contexts.

Concorde: Literary, Linguistic and Sustainability Studies International Conference

updated: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026 - 8:50am
Department of English, Netrokona University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Deadline extended

Concorde: Literary, Linguistic and Sustainability Studies International Conference

Date: 22-23 April, 2026

Venue: Department of English, Netrokona University, Netrokona, Bangladesh

 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Professor Dr Anirudra Thapa, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Professor Dr Shamsad Mortuza, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Professor Dr Shaila Sultana, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Last Call: Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (ACCSFF) CFP

updated: 
Saturday, February 14, 2026 - 4:19pm
Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

ACCSFF ‘26

                                                                                         Call for Papers

The 2026 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy will be held Saturday and Sunday, May 30-31, 2026, in Toronto, Ontario, at York University, Canada.

This year's author GoH keynote speaker is the Nebula Award winning Premee Mohamed.

We invite proposals for papers in any area of Canadian science fiction and fantasy, including:

    -studies of individual works and authors;
    -comparative studies;
    -studies that place works in their literary and/or
     cultural contexts.

FDP on Translation Studies in the Digital Age: Theory and Praxis

updated: 
Saturday, February 14, 2026 - 3:50am
Department of Humanities, School of Liberal Studies, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Faculty Development Programme (Online)
Translation Studies in the Digital Age: Theory and Praxis
Department of Humanities, School of Liberal Studies
KIIT Deemed to be University (India)
March 9–13, 2026

Indigenous Futurisms Beyond the West: Arab and Global South Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 10:07pm
Finnish Literary Research Society Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Finnish Literary Research Society Annual Conference 2026

 May 20-22, 2026

 

Online Panel: Indigenous Futurisms Beyond the West: Arab and Global South Speculative Fiction

JAMS@AX26 - Anime Expo Academic Symposium

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 5:42pm
Billy Tringali - JAMS@AX Symposium - Journal of Anime and Manga Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 27, 2026

JAMS@AX26

Want to present your work at the one-and-only Anime Expo? The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies(JAMS) and Anime Expo have once-again teamed up to give you the JAMS@AX26 academic symposium, July 2-5, 2026 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This symposium presents an incredible opportunity to connect fans of all ages directly to scholars researching and writing about the medium we all love. 

The JAMS@AX26 welcomes all papers taking a scholarly perspective on anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms.

DLC+ | "Slop" and "Nostalgia" – Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture Mini-Conference

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 1:45pm
Digital Literary Cultures (DLC+)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 14, 2026

Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture: “Slop” and “Nostalgia”

May 14th, 2026

Virtual Mini-Conference

https://dlcplus.org/ 

 

DLC+ is excited to announce the second installment of its Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture series, mini-conferences devoted to studying the most pressing and emerging concepts actively shaping digital literary culture. 

 

South Asia in Transition: A Literary Cartography

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
Editors, South Asia in Transition: A Literary Cartography
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 13, 2026

South Asia in Transition: A Literary Cartography

 

Reading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form (Marathon Reading and Symposium, Tampere, Finland, 22-26 May 2026)

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
Tampere University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 10, 2026

The Faerie Queene confronts its characters and readers alike with perceptual, cognitive, and physical struggles, and the reader’s passage through Spenser’s monumental work is as arduous and seemingly unending as the journeys and quests of its knights. The parallels between the characters’ trials and the readers’ embodied experience of the poem become more pronounced when The Faerie Queene is read out loud in its entirety. In 2019, the English department at Tampere University organised its first marathon reading of Spenser’s epic romance. The 2026 iteration will be the sixth marathon reading overall, and the second to be attached to an international symposium.

Literary Representations of Co-Existence

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

Literary Representations of Co-Existence 

 

Conference location: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia

 

Keynote speakers: Mark Bould (University of the West of England Bristol) in-person

                               Dinesh Wadiwel (University of Sydney) online

 

Conference dates: Sept 3-5, 2026

 

Conference fee: 75 Euros for the fully employed, 50 Euros for students and those not fully employed

 

Send abstracts of 200 words, and a short biography, to bwillems@ffst.hr by May 1, 2026

 

Digital Archives and Literature of the Marginalized

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
MELUS - Society for the Study of Multiethnic Literatures of the United States
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

One response to the official archives’ violent erasure(s) of multiethnic subjects (and the associated literatures) in the US has been scholarly investment in digital archiving. Still, the digital archives (and/or the metadata culled from them) can–and often do–reify whiteness as normative and the marginalization of other Americans. MELUS invites papers that consider how digital archiving (re)shapes and/or supports lay communities that inform the literature of the marginalized. We are particularly interested in papers that address how practices of liberatory archiving resist objectification of multiethnic subjects and/or authors. Submit titled proposals (250 words), a brief CV, and AV needs.

Call for Papers: ‘Video streaming policy and genre on demand’

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
Journal of Digital Media & Policy
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 1, 2026

Apologies for crossposting.

Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy (JDMP)

#JDMPJournal

Special Issue: ‘Video streaming policy and genre on demand’

Guest Editors: Jessica Balanzategui, Andrew Lynch and Alexa Scarlata 

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-digital-media-policy#call-for-papers

Shakespeare Across Centuries: Reception, Resonance, and Reinvention

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
NCCU Department of English National Chenhchi University, Taiwan Shakespeare Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Shakespeare’s works continue to inhabit what Stephen Greenblatt calls a “circulating energy system,” an ever-renewing sphere in which texts, performances, and interpretations travel across borders and epochs, sustaining the playwright’s presence in world culture. Tiffany Stern’s seminal research further reminds us that Shakespeare should be understood not as a fixed authorial entity but as an ongoing “process”—a dynamic constellation of scripts, fragmentary documents, performance traces, and editorial interventions that resist the notion of a stable text.

Literaturas modernas y estudios literarios en el primer cuarto del siglo XXI

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Anuario de Letras Modernas

Convocatoria

Literaturas modernas y estudios literarios en el primer cuarto del siglo XXI

 

Editores invitados:

Mario Alfonso Álvarez Domínguez

Universidad de Lille – Universidad Paris Nanterre

 

Odette de Siena Cortés London

José Alfredo Valerio Luna

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

 

71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:12pm
National Willa Cather Center / The Cather Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 2, 2026

Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250

Willa Cather Spring Conference | Thursday, June 4 - Saturday, June 6, 2026 

This year marks the centennial of My Mortal Enemy, one of Cather’s least affirmative works and one not produced in the Cather Scholarly Edition (translation: much important work remains to be done!)  We invite papers on new approaches to My Mortal Enemy, including but not limited to the following considerations of style, form, provenance, and themes:

2026 Wenshan x TSA International Conference: Shakespeare Across Centuries: Reception, Resonance, and Reinvention

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:12pm
Department of English, National Chengchi University & Taiwan Shakespeare Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

2026 Wenshan x TSA International Conference Call for Papers

 

Hosted by: NCCU Department of English, Taiwan Shakespeare Association

 

Date: November 29, 2026

Venue: National Chengchi University

 

Shakespeare Across Centuries:

Reception, Resonance, and Reinvention

 

Shakespeare’s works continue to inhabit what Stephen Greenblatt calls a “circulating

The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale Conference

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:12pm
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 4, 2026

The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale will host its fourth annual conference via Zoom  May 1-2. This conference is completely free. We will be accepting proposals for presentations through April 4th.

[MLA 2027] Edited Collections: Tips and Tricks to Successful Publishing

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:12pm
Modern Language Association Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Call for Proposals
MLA 2027 (Los Angeles)
Special Session

We are proposing a special session for the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles on "Edited Collections: Tips and Tricks to Successful Publishing." This special session will be a roundtable featuring six presenters with the following format: 

CFP forTRIVIUM A Multi disciplinary Journal of Humanities of Chandernagore College

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:12pm
Chandernagore College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited for the 18th and 19th issues of the peer-reviewed journal of bi-annual frequency: TRIVIUM A Multi disciplinary Journal of Humanities of Chandernagore College. The scope of the journal includes humanities and social sciences, commerce and management without mathematical application.
Guidelines for Submission

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