For close to nine hundred years, Gawain has been a favorite hero in Arthurian myth, especially when it comes to his appearance in the late fourteenth century chivalric romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While scholarship on the poem continues to expand in many fascinating ways, David Lowery’s 2021 film adaptation, The Green Knight, has changed the way scholars can approach and teach the medieval poem. We have a contract with Boydell and Brewer and confirmed contributors; however, we have lost a few contributors and are looking for one or two more chapters for the book.

Conference Title: Entangled Histories, Shared Futures: South Asia and Africa

Date: June 4 - 5, 2026

Venue: Zanzibar, Tanzania

Aims & Rationale:

Call for Papers American Literature Association (ALA) 2026, Chicago

The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) plans to offer two panels.

One panel, “Teaching with Humor” will explore, through specific examples, how humor, in its many forms—literary, visual, performative—can enhance the learning process and make it vivid and more engaging. The panel will examine the multiple ways that teachers in disciplines such as literature and other humanities can employ the humor found in literary texts, cartoons, films, songs, memes and media for a richer understanding of the subject matter. 

https://ucgradconference20.wixsite.com/utopian-impulses We're excited to share the CfP for this year’s interdisciplinary graduate student conference at the University of Cincinnati titled Utopian Impulses in the 2020s! We're also pleased to announce that Dr. Angela Laflen will be this year's keynote speaker. See bio below:  "Dr. Angela Laflen is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, and author of Critical Data Storytelling in the Composition Classroom (Utah State UP 2025).

Today, all countries that were colonized by France have gained their independence, yet discussions about its legacy continue. Many films, documentaries, literary works, speeches, and critical writings contribute to the ongoing conversation about liberty and justice in relation to independence. A 2024 documentary produced by Wandrille Lanos, titled Haïti, la rançon de l'indépendance, explores how liberty and justice were interpreted during Haiti’s struggle for independence. From September 22 to 26, 2025, during the United Nations General Debate at the 80th Session, the current president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, argued that colonization should be recognized as one of the greatest crimes against humanity.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Literature/Film Quarterly on “Female Adaptations, Female Sources”

Guest Editor: Betty Kaklamanidou (Aristotle University)

Listening: The Dark Side of Literature, Art and Thought / À L'Écoute: le côté obscur de la littérature, de l’art et de la pensée

Special issue of L’Atelier https://ojs.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/la 18.1 (april 2027) 

Guest Editor: Adrienne Janus Proposals (approximately 350 words) in English or in French should be sent to Adrienne Janus [adrienne.janus@univ-tours.fr] and Anne Ullmo [anne.ullmo@univ-tours.fr] by 15 Feb. 2026

SSAWW at 25: Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures 

American Literature Association, 37th Annual Conference

May 20-23, 2026

The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL

SSAWW at 25: Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures 

Inherently interdisciplinary, Medieval Studies is older than many disciplines and departments in universities today. In light of that long history, what disciplinary norms and training do medievalists have in common? What is the state of Medieval Studies as a discipline? What can we do to sustain Medieval Studies at the highest level for future generations? This year’s annual conference of the Texas Medieval Association seeks to foster conversations about the future of our field, while creating a forum for the presentation of new research by medievalists and scholars of related fields at all stages and of all backgrounds.

Call for Book Chapters: Transhuman Futures in Media and Literature

International Conference (Hybrid) on Impact of Globalization on Society, Culture and Literature, January 19-20, 2026, organized by IQAC, Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, and Antarmukh: A Bengali Research Journal.

About the Conference

USM’s English Graduate Organization Conference Call for Papers

(Un)Spoken: Voices of Dissent

April 10th and 11th, 2026

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, MS

CONCEPT NOTE

Call For Papers

Travel is perhaps the most enduring and evocative leitmotif of life, both in a very real and

metaphoric sense. Essentially spinning from that chequered gamut, Travel Literature records

human interactions and experiences within the diverse landscapes and cultures of the world. Its

significance lies in its ability to document encounters with differences, recording their observations

of previously unknown lands and articulating evolving perceptions of space, place, and identity.

One of the earliest examples of this is found in the works of Herodotus. His Histories blend

accounts of his journeys with observations on cultures, customs, and geographies of the ancient

The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) is pleased to announce our first graduate conference, New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies, which will take place at the University of Leeds on May 20th 2026. This will be a hybrid conference.

Participants will be invited to contribute to a special issue of the soon-to-be relaunched journal Alluvium, to be published after the symposium. 

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 27–29, 2026.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC at WonderCon does not accept virtual submissions.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historian

                                                                                                                            BLOOMSBURY

Call for Papers
Lives Remembered: Trans Narratives of Memory

Bloomsbury's Trans Studies series
Editors: Dr. Arpana Venu & Dr. Neethu P Antony
VIT-AP University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh

About the Volume

Femspec, an interdisciplinary feminist journal, is seeking new reviewers to contribute to the journal. We particularly welcome contributions from postgraduate, early-career, and independent researchers. Femspec is interested in reviews of new titles within feminist, science fiction, fantasy, and folklore genres. This is not limited to printed text, and we welcome reviews of new TV and film. Please see the list below for suggested review material, but do get in touch with any suggestions. We are also keen to publish reviews of new scholarly works. Again, do get in touch to discuss this.

Recently published and forthcoming books:

The Diaspora Child Strikes Back is a  multidisciplinary conference held in-person in Camden, NJ, USA, from June 11-13 2026. 

Announcement: Call for papers extended and shift to online conference! New deadline: January 7, 2026

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination

• Deadline for abstract submissions: November 30, 2025
• Deadline for full manuscript submissions (upon acceptance of abstract): September, 2026
• Publication Date: December, 2026
• Languages accepted: English
• Full name / name of organization: The Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
• Guest Editor: Dr. Hyeryung Hwang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
• Contact email: hhwang@cpp.edu

Overview

Call for Book Chapters

Frankensteinian Resonance: Transtemporal Reanimations in Fiction, Film, and Video

“Under Strong Interest” by Palgrave Macmillan

Editors’ Introduction

Living in Languages Journal

Living in Languages invites submissions of book reviews and review essays for forthcoming issues. We welcome critical engagements with recent publications, new translations or retranslations of literary/theoretical works, performances, exhibitions, and digital projects that speak to translation studies and its intersections across the humanities and social sciences.

Visual Cultures of the Medical Modern

A two-day conference to be held at Azim Premji Bengaluru, 19th - 20th February, 2026 co-

organized by the English and Media Studies group

About the conference:

Call for papers "Literary and Artistic Expressions of Radical Ecology"

Special issue of Capitalism Nature Socialism

Editor: Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India

The Plantationocene: On Histories and Narratives of the Plantation

Special issue for Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

Editors:

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India

Somasree Sarkar, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal, India