This roundtable explores how literature and allied forms of cultural expression regenerate acts of resistance across generations and geopolitical contexts. Centering on comparative studies of marginalized communities including Dalit, Black, Indigenous, and diasporic voices, this session interrogates how storytelling practices evolve to challenge hegemonic narratives and recover erased or silenced histories. Participants are invited to reflect on how forms such as autofiction, digital narratives, performance art, eco-poetics, or oral testimony function as regenerative tools that produce continuity between past traumas and present struggles.

You do not need to be a NeMLA member to submit a proposal.

NOTE: This session is hybrid. It will be seated and accessible on Zoom. Please indicate which you prefer when you submit your proposals. Thank you.

Annual Northeast Modern Language Association

57th  Annual Convention

March 5-8, 2026  in Pittsburgh, PA

at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown.

            Aldous Huxley, who wrote in the 1930s, is famously remembered for his novels Brave New World and Island as well as for the essays he wrote for William Randolph Hearst. Jerome Meckler’s “Aldous Huxley: Dystopian Essayist of the 1930s.” reviews some of Huxley’s writing.

Prayer was central to religious life in the late medieval and early modern period. Despite growing scholarly interest in religious texts, devotional practices, and spirituality, prayer and prayer books remain comparatively understudied. Prayer could take on a multitude of forms and occur in a range of spaces, from public to secluded and private; from monastic, liturgical prayer to short, indulgenced invocations and meditative prayers that evoked a rich scala of emotions and mental images.  

Deadline Extended! Call for Proposals
Hate and NonHuman Listening
A Guest Series for Sounding Out! guest edited by Kathryn Huether
Submission Deadline: July 9, 2025, by 11:59pm PDT

Please send a proposed title and 300–350 word abstract to: kathryn.huether@gmail.com
Final pieces should be ~1200 words. Four will be selected for publication.

The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July.

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.

The Film & History Permanent Panel seeks papers for presentation.

We invite papers for the panel “Meeting the (Re)Generated Other” at NeMLA 2026 annual convention. This panel is in-person only.

What will we want from the constructed companions and servants we build? And what will they want/take from us? SF writers, filmmakers, graphic novelists, and game designers imagine futures featuring sentient artificial beings—domestics, soldiers, sexual partners, protectors—interacting with the humans that make them. These texts operate as thought experiments about how we natural-born humans might coexist and interact with the posthumans we will shortly create.

Who’s afraid of Generative AI? At this in-person (only) roundtable session, we intend to find out by revisiting our post-pandemic practices in the composition classroom. In two of our previous peer-reviewed publications from 2013 and 2014, we questioned the acumen of the “digital native,” as Marc Prensky famously termed the respective generation of university students. To a large degree, and with sometimes surprising results, the collective COVID-era put the technological abilities of these students to the test. At our 2024 NeMLA roundtable, we again assessed this population in light of course design and delivery through the “emergency remote” and “blended” modes of instruction necessitated by the pandemic.

3rd International UTAD Theatre Research Conference

“Evolution”

Transformations in Theatre, Drama, and Performance

Hosted by:
Turkish Society for Theatre Research (UTAD), Süleyman Demirel University, Departments of English Language and Literature and  Theatre, Türkiye
Conference Dates: 4-5-6 September 2025
Venue: Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Türkiye

This virtual panel will discuss and argue how reality shows such as RuPaul’s Drag Race, We’re Here, Survivor, The Rehearsal, and Nathan for You challenge expectations and limitations of narrative and media, and how these shows impact social and cultural understanding of underrepresented communities through spectacle, queerness, race, and gender.

This panel welcomes papers, presentations, and works-in-progress (?!) on reality television and how this genre intersects with critical race and gender studies, critical media studies, fan studies, and digital fandom subcultures.

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This September the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University will be launching a new publication called the Pittsburgh Review of Books (or PRoB). To be edited by author and Public Humanities Special Faculty Ed Simon, PRoB will be a home for engaged, creative, and interdisciplinary cultural criticism and analysis across the humanities. The tone of the publication will be similar to other para-academic publications intended for both specialists and a general audience. In addition to book reviews and excerpts, essays and criticism across the humanities and social sciences will be published. Queries and pitches are to be sent to Ed Simon at esimon@andrew.cmu.edu. 

Northeast MLA, March 5-8 2026

This session explores how postcolonial Southeast Asian literature grapples with memory, trauma, archival recovery, and cultural identity. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging, agency, and identity. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures.

Deadline:  SEPTEMBER 15, 2025
Theme: Fleeting Connections
Format: 1-Minute Plays and Monologues
Length: Maximum one page  (A4  size).
Submission Email: miniplaysmag@gmail.com 

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/the-mini-plays-magazine/submit

A job interview can be a terrifyingly mysterious part of the job application process. This roundtable for the 2026 NeMLA Convention, to be held March 5-8 in Pittsburgh, seeks recently hired faculty and those who have recently served on search committees to discuss their successful experiences with the job interview process, and offer tips or strategies to those currently on the market. We particularly hope for a range of perspectives from international scholars and people employed by diverse institutions in a variety of roles.

Submit proposal here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21585

Call for Papers

dialog, No. 45, Spring 2025

dialog, a Peer-reviewed, Bi-annual International Journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India is open to submissions for its next issue, No. 45, Spring 2025 (ISSN: 0975 - 4881). dialog provides a forum for interdisciplinary research on diverse aspects of culture, society and literature. For its forthcoming issue, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University specifically invites: