The Shape of Love: Material and Metaphysical

“What is Love?” has remained an enduring query for philosophers and mystics across centuries, with hundreds of theories and beliefs modifying its ontological standing and apprehension. From classical philosophers to more modern thinkers, questions and explanations about love have permeated through the very fabric of civilization in many forms; through philosophy, theology, literature, and art, love has found many expressions and definitions.

Call for Submissions

Queering Sikh Identity and Desire through Lyrical Uprisings and the Poetics of Becoming

We invite poets from India and its diaspora to submit work that explores queerness in relation to their Sikh identity, sexuality, and the body. You do not need to identify as LGBTQIA+ to contribute—this call is open to those navigating self-discovery through poetry, as well as those who affirm and celebrate their queerness on the page.

7TH ANNUAL MODERN LITERATURES & LINGUISTICS INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE CONFERENCE

“Beyond Fracture: Reimagining Futures through Divergence and Convergence”

Constructing New Paths Across Division, Resistance, and Solidarity

Florida State University, Tallahassee Campus

March 5-6, 2026

Submission Deadline: October 17, 2025

Submit Abstracts Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9Eg_pf3fbRWz-67bQY8DeLQ4tkIl-...

Status Quaestionis 2026

Post-truth and populism in politics, communication and discourse

Edited by Massimiliano Demata and Donatella Montini

Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) Sponsored Workshop on 

Precarity and Human Life: Reflections of Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Popular Culture 2.0

Date: 15th-19th December 2025

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

The online issue of Negotiations: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, the bi-annual journal of the Department of English, University of North Bengal,  has been published. The journal is now inviting submissions for its December, 2025 issue. The details of the journal can be found at https://negotiations.nbu.ac.in . All details regarding the submission procedure, processes of free registration, current issue, style sheet can be obtained from the journal website.

Peace in the Age of Forever Wars

Temple University

April 3–4, 2026

In celebration of our 15th year anniversary, we are delighted to open our Call for Papers for the 2026 Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North. The conference shall be held on April 16th to 18th 2026, in the Edda auditorium at Háskóli Íslands and online. The conference is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (master’s and doctoral level) and early career researchers working in the field of medieval northern studies. Students who have not given papers at an academic conference before are especially encouraged to submit. 

We are currently accepting abstract submissions for the fifteenth annual 

Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North. 

Call for FULL Chapters:

Update: The manuscript is nearly finished however some of the planned chapters have fallen through. I need a replacement chapter, possibly two, in short order. Please review the CFC details below and contact me with any questions: maureenfadem@gmail.com

The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison

Editor: Maureen E. Ruprecht, CUNY

This is a call for chapters for The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison. This companion text is intended for a scholarly audience and as support for newer Morrison scholars as they approach their research.

The Western genre has been widely read within the confines of a national cinema and culture of the United States. However, the field of Film Studies has increasingly sought to emancipate the Western genre from discourses of American myth and identity, instead exploring its ongoing production, circulation, and reception beyond the borders of the United States (including Miller 2013; Higgins 2015; Mayer 2022, among many more). This body of work has significantly expanded our understanding of the Western’s transnational dimensions by highlighting the genre’s local rewritings on a global scale, and unpacking the complex transcultural negotiations involved in appropriating what is often considered an inherently American genre.

[re]frame is an online academic space that aims to amplify and foster early career scholarship as well as provide space for academic dialogue in postcolonial studies and related fields of study. Our academic blog is committed to investigating and problematising the complexities of forms of colonial, anticolonial, and decolonial patterns, phenomena, and infrastructures, as well as how they manifest in literary and cultural studies. Formed under the aegis of the GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies), [re]frame encourages investigations of academia and academic practices, such as the colonial legacies of universities and the coloniality of knowledge systems that inform epistemologies.

THE LANGUAGES OF FASHION: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON FASHION DISCOURSESFashion Highlight Journal Call for paper Issue 7 (2026)

Guest editors Benjamin Wild and Natalia Berger

Fashion has been personified as the younger sister of Death, a daughter of Caducity. It has been portrayed as a lifelong companion and described as capitalism’s favourite child. It has been conceptualised as a belief, a system, and an empire. These varied characterisations hint at fashion’s complexity as both cultural phenomenon and global industry.

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries (https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/) is an open-access, mutually-anonymous peer-reviewed journal exploring the intersection of Defoe and/or his contemporaries and digital humanities.

We strongly encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental essays and pedagogical approaches.

 Full submission guidelines and archived issues of the journal may be found on the website: https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/policies.html

 Call for Book Chapters

‘Mother(hood)’ in Anglophone Asian Literature: Representations, Interventions, and Critical Reframing

Eudora Welty Society Call for Papers at

American Literature Association 2026 Conference (May 20-23, 2026 at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago)

New Approaches to Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples

Call for papers:
Philosophy and Literary Genres in the Twentieth CenturyJournal: Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee - Critical Journal of History of Ideas 

(https://en.giornalecritico.it/)

Issue editors:

Raffaele Ariano (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan)

Paolo Babbiotti (University of Turin)

Matteo Falomi (Sapienza University of Rome / University of Essex)

In the Middle Ages, Christian liturgy was far more than a sequence of prayers and ceremonies: it structured religious practice, shaped sacred space, and gave material form to the expression of faith. Objects, vestments, and books played a central role in this framework, endowed with a visual, tactile, and symbolic language that embodied the theology of the sacred. The International Conference Instrumenta altaris: Ritual Artefacts and Their Images for Medieval Liturgy seeks to refocus attention on the material dimension that, throughout the medieval centuries, rendered the invisible visible and preserved —often in fragmentary form— a tangible legacy of devotion.

18th ESSE Conference (European Society for the Study of English)
31st August – 4th September 2026
Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Call for Contributions to the ESSE Panel "Infrastructures of Feeling: The European City in Contemporary Literature and Visual Media"

Shakespeare exists across and between multiple worlds today. After centuries of circulation in Asia, Shakespeare inhabits all locales and cultural formations in ever-changing forms, but is contained by none. Neither completely virtual nor concretely embodied, long dead yet very much alive, inhabiting past, present and future in equal measure, Shakespeare continues to thrive in the act of playing, teaching and thinking. Recent Asian Shakespeare scholarship has critically reflected upon, yet ultimately celebrated such cross-cultural, international, world-wide flourishing, bringing together new arrangements, forms and collaborations of Shakespeare’s work across art, performance and cultures.

How do we reimagine the past? How can we envision the future? In our present moment, how do we tell the story of a past that has become just as contentious as the many visions of where we want to go? The concept of legacies allows us to think through the continuum, the spectrum, and the sometimes-chaotic mishmash of the relationship of past, present, and future. The ideas of tradition, innovation, nostalgia, and refashionings can open up texts to consider their temporal, historical, and intertextual contexts.

CfP New issue: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553) deadline for submissions: November 15, 2025 full name / name of organization: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553) contact email: essencecritiquejournal@gmail.com 

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the New ssue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Sustainable Shakespeare

Exploring Human-Nature Interconnectedness in the Plays of William Shakespeare 

Edited by 

Prof (Dr) Seema Raizada, Professor and Head, Govt MLB Girls PG Autonomous College, Bhopal, 9827055738

Prof (Dr) Rolii Agrawal, Professor and Head, Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal, 9425148782

Email –sustainableshakespeare@gmail.com

Concept Note:

ContactZone (http://www.aisff-starfiction.com/journal) Special Issue "Unruly Bodies and Astral Corporealities in Science Fiction Cinema and Television Series"

Edited by Giuseppe Balirano and Oriana Palusci

Call for Book Chapters

Title: Women in Motion: Perspectives from the Indian Subcontinent

Socio-cultural factors such as gender, class, caste, ethnicity, etc. determine the motion of an individual, making the discourse especially relevant when it comes to articulating experiences of motion by/of women in the Indian subcontinent. Studies interplaying ‘motion’ and ‘female bodies’ continue to be an important avenue of exploration, illuminating how women have been navigating motion – spatially, temporally, corporeally, cognitively, socially, culturally, historically.