Seminar title: Transgender Storytelling: Accounts of Oppositional Being and Becoming

Seminar link: https://www.acla.org/seminar/c997c5c5-09fd-4307-ba24-29af11d554d6 

Organizers: Clarke Crockett and Ezekiel Greenwood, Florida State University, USA

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Annual Convention 2026, Montreal, Canada

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 2, 2025. Must be submitted through the ACLA portal. 

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.   

-Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye 

The Cornell Medieval Studies Program is pleased to announce the 36th annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC) in person at Cornell University’s A.D. White House on Saturday February 21, 2026. This year’s theme is “Mirror Worlds.”  

Howells Society CFPs for ALA 2026 (Chicago)

The W.D. Howells Society will host two panels at the American Literature Association’s 37th annual conference, which will meet at the Palmer House in Chicago, May 20-23, 2026 (Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend). 

PANEL 1: HOWELLS & MEDIA

PCA True Crime CFP 2026 

Abstract Submission Deadline: November 30th, 2025 

PCA/ACA will be held from April 8-11th, 2026 in Atlanta, GA 

True Crime typically focuses on investigative journalism used to present a mystery or attempt to understand the psychology of a crime/perpetrator. It may include narratives of a case, victimology, forensics, or analysis of evidence, although each case is different. Much of True Crime focuses on serial killers/killings, although subsets of the genre may delve into topics such as kidnappings, cults, wrongful convictions, advocacy, white-collar crimes, trial proceedings, prevention of crime, survivor stories, or sensationalism/entertainment. 

Popular Culture Association: British Popular Culture 

Call for Papers

The British Popular Culture area of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) is now accepting submissions for the 2026 national conference to be held April 8-11, 2026, in Atlanta, GA at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis!

Academics at all stages in their careers, as well as independent scholars, are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage submissions by graduate students. 

Tragedy and Resistance, 16-17 April, 2026

 Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Berlin (https://lfbrecht.de/) 

Keynote Speakers:

Call for Abstracts (Themed Issue 2/26 and Accompanying Workshop)
“Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance”
Deadline for Proposals: December 1st, 2025
Workshop Date: February 27th, 2026, in Marburg/Germany

                                                                             Graduate Research Meet

                                                                                     11th Edition

                              Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences: Trends, Methods and Challenges

Concept Note:

LANGUAGE AND THE INEFFABLE: EXPRESSING THE INEXPRESSIBLE

8th Annual International Comparative Literature Conference Louisiana State University March 27-28, 2026 (Friday-Saturday) Virtual Format

Conference Theme

What happens when language encounters its own limits? This year's conference explores how writers, thinkers, and artists across cultures and centuries have grappled with expressing experiences that seem to transcend ordinary language—the mystical, the traumatic, the sublime, the deeply personal, and the utterly foreign.

Call for Papers

Teaching Literary Maximalism

Call For Papers Nº 26 (Summer 2026)
"Touch Screen. Imaginaries of Hapticity in Audiovisual Media"

Interspaces is an open-access, student-led journal that welcomes submissions in interdisciplinary work and research from inside and outside the proverbial ivory tower of the academic world. Interspaces currently seeks submissions for a special themed section, “Queering the Public Humanities.” The pitch deadline (200 words) is November 1, 2025. The final submission deadline is January 15, 2026. Click the link above to learn more about the theme and submission guidelines.

Masculinities Students' Conference I: Current Issues, Future Directions

Join us for a day filled with insightful discussions, engaging workshops, and networking opportunities. This event aims to create a space for discussing diverse approaches and complexities of contemporary masculinities and their impact on society. Whether you're a student, researcher, or simply interested in the topic, this conference is the place to learn and exchange ideas.

The conference will be held in person. 

DATE: Thursday, 11 December 2025

Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue

 Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. A Journal  Of Criticism and Theory 

Contaminated Bodies, Contaminated Lands:

Transcorporeality in Eco-narratives

Editors

Dr. Paula Wieczorek, Assistant Professor, Department of English Studies, University of Information Technology and Management, Poland. E-mail: pwieczorek@wsiz.edu.pl

                                                                                Tattva Journal of Philosophy

                                                                                                     And

                                                         Department of English and Cultural Studies, Central Campus

                                                                 CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India

                                                                                                Organizes 

April 10-11, 2026

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Alan Liu, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara

Dr. Kalindi Vora, Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University

Dr. Neda Atanasoski, Professor and Chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park

Dr. Bruce Clarke, Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Literature

and Science Emeritus, Texas Tech University

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | December 2025 Issue
Theme: UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Deadline      December 15, 2025  
Format:       1-Minute Plays and Monologues  
Length:       Maximum one page (A4 size)  
Submission Email: miniplaysmag@gmail.comWebsite: 

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The curtain didn’t close. The letter was never sent. The apology… still unspoken.

Mini Plays Review invites you to explore the weight of what’s left hanging — the stories suspended mid-air, the emotions caught in the throat, the promises half-made and paths not taken.

Colleges and universities across the country are under attack.  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives have lost funding and faced multiple challenges to curriculum.  DEI offices have been shuttered, and support groups have been eliminated.  Much of the effect has been felt in the Humanities, which has always served as a space for free discussion of writing and literature that embraces diversity.  Such conversation is in many ways our lifeblood.

The editors of Sargasso invite submissions for a volume on post-narrative futures in Caribbean letters and cultures that will engage works of literature, art, and culture that challenge, subvert, reimagine, and transcend, dominant colonial, postcolonial, and traditional forms of narrative.

This is a call for chapter abstracts for an upcoming edited volume exploring the cultural, narrative, musical, and global fandom implications of the animated film K-Pop Demon Hunters. The volume will be published as part of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies book series (https://tinyurl.com/rbtm8fve).

BOSS: The Biannual Online-Journal of Springsteen Studies (http://boss.mcgill.ca/) is an open-access academic journal that publishes peer-reviewed essays on Bruce Springsteen. The editors of BOSS are currently soliciting papers for the journal’s seventh edition, with an expected publication date of December 2026.

This is a CFP for NeMLA 2026, Pittsburg, PA - March 5-8

Inspired by Ruha Benjamin’s Imagination: A Manifesto, how can we listen to and amplify the voices at the margins that are dismissed or silenced because they are otherwise rejected as naive or impossible for embracing the whole? How can we help each other refrain from “policing the parameters of imagination” (ix) as we are often trained to do, and openly encounter the collective imaginations of others? How can we together learn to take on the challenge that radical imagination begs for radical equality?

Special Issue Title: Long Modernism, Altered Natures 

Guest Editors: Matthew Gannon, Patrick Whitmarsh, and Kate Marshall

Deadline for Abstracts: 30 November 2025

Deadline for Manuscript Drafts: 31 July 2026

In the Anthropocene, human activities profoundly reshape the climate and environment, disrupting ecological balance and transforming humans into a potent geological force. Dominant strands of Western thought from Descartes to Heidegger have contributed to reinforcing this perceived superiority of humans over other beings, thereby calcifying a dichotomy between the human and the non-human. In the field of translation studies, this human-centered focus has historically been echoed through the discipline’s sustained attention to human languages and culture. However, posthumanism and post-anthropocentrism, which advocate the interconnectedness between humans and non-humans, have challenged the centrality of anthropos in translation.