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Springer Nature Contracted Volume
Series Title: Shifting Borders, Emerging Voices: Narratives of Change in Global South Asia
Edited by Moussa Pourya Asl and Manju Jaidka
CFP
Edited Collection of Critical Essays
“Fearful Performances: Stardom, Skill, and Style of Acting in the Horror Film”
CFP: Virtual Crime and Detection
122nd PAMLA ConferenceThursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23, 2025San Francisco, California | InterContinental Hotel San Francisco
Call for Abstracts!
Camping and Philosophy: Big Ideas in the Great Outdoors
Edited by Joshua Heter and David O’Hara
Living in Languages
traversing borders, disciplines, and mediums.
Call for Submissions: Living in Languages Journal
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
From John Shirley’s chatty incipits to the petitionary envois of courtly poetry, medieval lyrics often come down to us attached to specific situations. By situation we mean both the immediate rhetorical occasion that a poem addresses and the broader social circumstances that give rise to it. Responding to the recent renewal of scholarly interest in Middle English lyric (e.g. Ingrid Nelson’s Lyric Tactics [Penn] and What Kind of Thing Is Middle English Lyric?, ed. Nicholas Watson and Cristina Cervone [Penn]), this panel will explore the critical affordances of the situation, as opposed to broader frameworks such as context or history, in the study of vernacular lyric.
CFP: NCS 2026
This roundtable seeks to host a discussion of Chaucer’s position in the study of Anglophone literature beyond the North Atlantic and Australia. We will hear about the institutional and vocational challenges faced by Chaucerians in what Braj Kachru called “the expanding circle,” i.e. countries in which English serves as a major second language. How is Chaucer scholarship beginning to take hold, or even spreading, in new ways and in new contexts? What opportunities do these contexts present for the teaching and study of Chaucer and Middle English? What role do translations of Chaucer play in teaching and scholarship? Participants will open with brief prepared remarks in order to allow ample time for conversation and discussion.
A symposium on Darkness
Call for Book Chapters: “Matrilineal Family Saga Beyond Western Modernity”
We are excited to invite researchers, writers, and practitioners to contribute a chapter to an upcoming book entitled Matrilineal Family Saga Beyond Western Modernity. This interdisciplinary collection aims to explore diverse perspectives on matrilineal family structures across cultures, examining how they challenge and expand beyond the frameworks of secular Western modernity.
Focus and Themes
This roundtable serves as a direct continuation of "Navigating Graduate School," from last year's PAMLA conference in Palm Springs. One of the most mystifying parts of graduate school that can seem intimidating to a prospective student is what happens after your qualifying exams. You're done with coursework. You've gone through your qualifying exams. You are now considered 'All-But-Dissertation,' or ABD. What happens? While graduate handbooks will helpfully detail requirements for dissertations, prospectus meetings, etc., the experience of navigating the terrain between qualifying exams and the job market can feel abstract.
This panel examines the works and influence of American science fiction author Philip K. Dick. We are interested in proposals about the novels and short stories written by PKD, the many film and television adaptations of those works, the influence of his works and ideas on media of various kinds, and, more generally, the influence of Philiip K. Dick on other science fiction authors. This panel welcomes proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.
Submit abstract here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19694
Abstracts are invited for the Romanticism section of the 122nd annual conference of the Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA), scheduled for 20-23 November 2025 in San Francisco, California, USA, at the InterContinental Hotel.
The Romanticism session seeks papers that examine any aspect of Romanticism, whether English, German, French, or in other languages (although we ask that papers and proposals be primarily in English). We welcome but do not require paper proposals attuned to some facet of the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
“Things That Go Bump in the Night: An International Literary Conference on All Things Scary”
Deadline for Submissions: August 31, 2025
Organized by Anais Shelley, Undergraduate at Troy University
October 16th-18th, 2025 – To be hosted online
Welcoming submissions for a free scholarly conference on scary literature to be hosted online from October 16th-18th, 2025 by Troy University undergraduate student, Anais Shelley.
Research may draw inspiration from (but is not limited to) these prompts:
Supernatural themes
Domestic horror
FEMSPEC announces an open call for theoretical and creative speculative texts, as well as film and television reviews.
Here are texts that we have available:
STRANGELOVE COUNTRY by Harlan Wilson
THE BLACK UTOPIANS by Aaron Robertson
THE FEMALE HYPNOTIST: STORIES from the VICTORIAN & EDWARDIAN ERAS, ed. Donald K. Hartman
KINSHIP IN THE FICTION OF N.K. JEMISON, edited by Berit Astrom & Jenny Bonnevier
DISCOVERING CLASSIC FANTASY FICTION, edited by Darrel Schweitzer
CRAWDADDY, film by Kassandra Voss
We will consider other 2024-2025 publications and releases and will consider longer, comparative reviews of important fantasy, sci-fi, and horror films released since 2020; please inquire.
We invite proposals for short articles to complete a cluster on “Accessibility in Feminist Modernist Studies.” The papers in this cluster will consider how feminist methods and considerations of structural access help us understand and re-examine the concept of “modernist difficulty.”
Editors Lisa Hopkins and Katherine Walker seek contributions from scholars at any stage of their careers to contribute to an edited collection titled The Arden Handbook to Shakespeare’s Worlds (for more on The Arden Shakespeare handbooks, see this link).
The narrative of women in Indian print culture reflects a dynamic interplay of struggle and achievement, where, despite significant contributions, women's voices were frequently marginalized, and societal expectations and institutional barriers often constrained their roles. This complex history underscores the ongoing need for a more inclusive historical narrative that fully acknowledges the diverse and critical roles women have played
in shaping print culture in India.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.
Call for Papers
Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature
(Indexed in Scopus, ISC, and SJR | Published by the University of Tehran)
Scope: Cutting-Edge Research in World Literature (Post-1945)
Publication Date: autumn-winter 2025-2026
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025
The Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature invites scholarly contributions for its forthcoming autumn-winter 2025-2026 issue, devoted to pioneering research on global literary production after 1945. As of autumn 2025, the journal now accepts submissions in both Persian and English, reflecting its commitment to multilingual and cross-cultural engagement.
National Identities (T&F)
Special Issue Editors:
Debajyoti Biswas, Department of English, Bodoland University.
Email: deb61594@gmail.com
Parvin Sultana, Department of Political Science, Pramathesh Barua College (Affiliated to Gauhati University)
Email: parvin.jnu@gmail.com
Xenophobia and Violence in Asia
The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in San Francisco at the InterContinental Hotel San Francisco, from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025.
Hitchcock's America
Call for Papers
(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Virtual Symposium
Sunday, 20 July 2025
The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture invites proposals for another panel on the theme of "(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media" for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Virtual Symposium, which will run on Sunday, 20 July 2025.
The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be held from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025, at the InterContinental Hotel, San Francisco, California.
Exploring The Murderbot Diaries:
Since the publication of All Systems Red in 2017, Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series has come to include seven books, three related short stories, and an upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation starring Alexander Skarsgard. The series has won four Hugo Awards, two Nebulas, and four Locus Awards, with Wells often turning down subsequent award nominations.
This session is a sepcial session at 122nd PAMLA Conference between Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23, 2025 located at San Francisco, California.
Fluidity is a complex state of being in the world that exists in the realm of the aesthetic. To be fluid means to be continuously shifting and morphing, calling attention to embodiment and its materiality in relation to spaces and each other. As an identitarian characteristic, fluidity challenges the spatio-temporal logics that impose rigid taxonomy through the hetero-patriarchy and, instead, offers resistance. As a spatial condition, fluidity may offer malleable or blurry boundaries to help form alternative ways of being and connecting in the world. As a process, fluidity means to reimagine bodies and spaces as watery.
This panel seeks to consider representations of amnesia, memory loss, dementia, and forgetting in late 20th- and 21st-century cultural productions, as well as representations of people, entities, and/or cultural phenomena that disrupt the possibility of remembering and representing the past.
The panel welcomes submissions relating to the conference theme of “Palimpsest: Memory and Oblivion” as well as those related more broadly to issues of memory, remembering, and loss. Such representations may focus on subjective experiences, or deal with issues of cultural memory, continuity, and tradition.
Since 2014, the eTEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has served as a platform for the examination and exploration of diverse "texts" from English-speaking countries of Ango-Saxon heritage. By bringing together scholars, doctoral students, and early-career professionals, the conference fosters scientific debates and critical discussions that drive forward our understanding of literature and culture. Our sessions facilitate development and dissemination of original research, encouraging participants to engage in critical analysis of a wide array of social, cultural, philosophical, and historical issues.