Call for Paper for the Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous area of the PCA for the 2025 PCA Conference in New Orleans

Please join us in exploring the themes, influences, and impact of the monster as a cultural and historical touchstone. Across the globe and throughout the centuries, the label of monster has been invoked to separate the “natural” from the “unnatural” and the acceptable from the socially unacceptable. Whether referring to mythological creatures, the Victorian creations that have become standards through Universal film adaptations, or as a shorthand to denigrate othered peoples, the monster has no shortage of applications and, sometimes, reevaluations.

We are bringing out an edited collection of essays with the working title Time is Power: Temporality and Caste. Time is an ontological phenomenon organized around humans’ need for social interaction and collective life, often compelling individuals to be chrono-normative or abide by a rigid clock. Currently little scholarship exists which examines the power of time and temporal agency in an environment organized by systems of caste and other intersecting identities.

To mark the 2026 Semiquincentennial of the American Revolution, the journal Diplomatic History seeks article proposals that engage with historical aspects related to the international, transnational, transimperial, continental, or global dimensions of the American Revolution, including its origins or aftermath. The articles will be published in a special forum in 2026. 

Call for submissions in all areas of narrative theory and studies

Storyworlds is an interdisciplinary journal of narrative studies. We publish cutting-edge research on storytelling practices across times, cultures, and media. The journal foregrounds research questions that cut across established disciplines and seeks to promote the understanding of narrative and storytelling as worldmaking—and worldbreaking—practices. 

Our general issues support the publication of research in all areas relating to narrative studies, including, but not limited to:

Call for Book Proposals

Peter Lang Book Series

Theatre of the Marginalised: Dalit and Adivasi Performance Traditions in South Asia

Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies

Special Issue Call: “Meat Narratives”

The year 2025 will mark the centennial of one of the most powerful voices in twentieth-century American Literature. Author of a reduced fictional production (two novels and three collections of short stories), Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) remains among the most widely praised authors of the United States, to the extent that, shortly after her premature death, claims by, among others, Brainard Cheney, Robert Giroux, and Caroline Gordon were made about the country having lost their next Nobel Laureate for Literature. Alternative history aside, what is true is that the last century of American literature would have lost an enormous amount of its meaning without the existence of Flannery O’Connor’s writing.

RT: Gone Too Soon: Sunsetting and Transitioning Digital Projects (sponsored by the Digital Humanities Caucus) [ID 96]

In the Humanities, South Asia is usually understood as a set of plurilingual, multicultural nations. Each constituting nation is internally differentiated or socially stratified according to its economic and sociological power hierarchies. In other words, differences exist in different ways: caste, religion, gender, geopolitics, economics, etc. are a few of the markers. Reciprocal to these markers, different categories of ‘literatures’ are assumed to be the subsets of the broader category of ‘South Asian literature’. 

ALA Annual Conference (May 21-24, 2025, Boston, MA) — Wallace Stevens’s Essays

Call for Papers

Join us in Los Angeles for the 39th annual MELUS conference!

April 3-6, 2025

Hosted by Cal State LA

Conference Theme: MELUS Outside

Deadline for Abstracts: November 15, 2024

Call for Chapter Proposals

Editor Dr. Sotiris Petridis invites chapter proposals for an edited volume titled Animated Diversity: Queer Representations in Children’s Audiovisual Narratives. This book seeks to explore the increasing visibility and significance of queer identities in children’s animation, television, and film. The objective is to evaluate the cultural, educational, and social ramifications of this trend while analyzing the incorporation of LGBTQIA+ characters and themes into children's media.

HCIS Journal (2024 Edition)

(Call for Papers & Published Papers)

Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS)

ISSN: 2192-1962, Editor-in-Chief: Jong Hyuk Park

Impact Factor: 3.9

http://hcisj.com/

Culture and Dialogue

Call for Contributions to Special Issue, “The Aesthetics and Ethics of the Toxic”

Guest Editor: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait