CFP | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society (PEHS) session 

American Literature Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026

Hopkins’s America, Then & Now

CFP “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026

The conference builds on a growing body of research that examines the theological, cultural, and political intersections of democracy, citizenship, and power. Participants will investigate how worldviews and faith traditions have informed concepts of governance, belonging, and personhood from the founding era to the present. The conference will highlight not only the Haudenosaunee Influence on American Democracy but also the historic and present contributions to Democratic thought by Black, Indigenous, and Latine communities, contributions which are often forgotten and ignored.

Featured Speakers

Elmira 2026: The Tenth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies

Conference Theme: Irreverence, Rebellion, and Resilience

We are pleased to invite participants to a four-day intensive book reading workshop on Antonio Gramsci (online), focused on questions of hegemony, culture, subaltern politics, and political struggle. This workshop brings together students, scholars, researchers, activists, and readers for a sustained and collective engagement with Gramsci’s writings. Written largely under conditions of imprisonment and censorship, Gramsci’s work challenges us to think about power not only as domination, but as consent, culture, and everyday common sense.

The last few years have seen the publication of a number of fantasy novels for young people written by authors from the postcolonial diaspora, including Tomi Adeyemi’s Legacy of Orisha trilogy, Jordan Ifueko’s Raybearer series, Nnedi Okarofor’s The Nsibidi Scripts series and Roshani Chokshi’s The Gilded Wolves series. Additionally, there are YA fantasy series that deal with hierarchies and inequities resulting from colonization and settler colonialism, such as Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series and Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves duology.

Abstract 

The “end of the world” names a methodological problem before it names an apocalypse: how do humanities scholars and artist-researchers think, make, and teach when climate disruption, extinction, extractive infrastructures, forced displacement, and slow violence reformat what counts as evidence, what counts as futurity, and what counts as responsibility? This conference convenes research and practice across film, theatre, performance, and allied arts to ask how (post)Anthropocene conditions are not only represented but produced, felt, and negotiated through aesthetic forms, production systems, embodied publics, and more-than-human milieus. 

(Extended Deadline)

MEMORY

University of Virginia Department of English Graduate Symposium

March 27 & 28, 2026

The Anaïs Nin Foundation and Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal are pleased to announce the inaugural Anaïs Nin Essay Prize. We are seeking submissions of scholarly essays centered on the work, influence, relationships, or legacy of Anaïs Nin. Essays should aim to extend the academic conversation around her contributions to literature, art, and culture.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ARTS & LETTERS 614 Superior Street, Alma College, Alma, MI 48801 - Fax: 989-463-7970 - michiganacademy@alma.edu Call for Papers Women's & Gender Studies 

INVITATION 2026 conference: Friday, March 27, 2026, virtual conference held via Zoom.

You are invited to submit a 200-word abstract of the paper you wish to present at the conference.

PROCEDURES  Abstract submission deadline is 1/23/26.

Presentations are up to 20 minutes each, followed by discussion.

Undergraduates may present faculty co-authored or sponsored papers (section leaders may require proof that paper/research was reviewed by a faculty sponsor).

MLA Annual Convention 2027
Los Angeles, California | 7–10 January 2027

Analog Game Studies and Game in Lab are proud to announce Generation Analog 2026.  This year’s online conference will take place July 16-17, 2026.  The online event is free and open to the public with registration.  All presentations will be recorded and made available after the event.  Check out the presentations from previous years via AGS’s YouTube channel (like and subscribe).

Queer Ecologies Across Socialisms 

15-16 October 2026

University of Regensburg, October 15-16, 2026 | CfP deadline: Feb 15, 2026
Organizers: Martyna Miernecka, Paweł Matusz

In literary and arts research on socialist worlds, both queer studies and environmental histories have been expanding – yet we still lack approaches that would systematically integrate these strands across global state socialisms. This conference responds to that gap by inviting work that reads queer practices alongside institutional and environmental policies and traces the queer ecological impulses emerging from socialist contexts across the globe.

The International Congress on Narrative and Aesthetics in Film, Series, TV, and Audiovisual Experimentation is a platform for discussion and dissemination of studies and projects related to audiovisual creation in its various areas of production and distribution. It encompasses research related to cinematography and film history across a wide range of fields (sociology, industry, aesthetics, etc.), formats (fiction, documentary, animation, music videos, etc.), and genres (from thrillers and comedies to the connections between film and comics or video games).

Osgood Perkins is emerging as one of the most significant directors of horror in the 21st century. His films are wildly diverse and have elicited an equally wild diversity of response from viewers and critics. Perkins has thought a lot about horror, has frequently spoken about its larger meanings in interviews, and is committed to its centrality as a genre – something he articulates in this 2025 conversation with Interview Magazine:

The Department of English and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Performing Arts, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR Campus, is hosting its 3rd International Conference on Global Digital Cultures: Texts, Technologies, and Audiences (Hybrid Mode). 

Date: 23 - 24 February, 2026

In the era of rapid technological change, digitalization, globalization, and platformization are reshaping film, media, and creative industries. This conference critically explores the intersections of texts, technologies, and audiences in global digital cultures, with a focus on South Asia and the Global South.

Call for Papers: Perspectives on Netflix’s Ripley

I am pleased to announce a call for papers for the first edited volume devoted to the Netflix limited series Ripley (Zaillian, 2024). Perspectives on Netflix’s Ripley seeks to explore the myriad ways in which this striking adaptation reimagines Patricia Highsmith’s iconic character for a new era of streaming television. I invite proposals from scholars, practitioners, and critics whose work engages with adaptation, media studies, sexuality, and screen cultures.

About the Volume

Studiolo is a series of essays on objects, books, and early technologies, written in the spirit of the chockablock Renaissance study from which it takes its name and published monthly at the Pittsburgh Review of Books (http://www.pghrev.com) 

Latina/o/x Literature and Culture Society, ALA, Chicago, Illinois, May 20-23, 2026

This year, the Latina/o/x Literature & Culture Society welcomes submissions focusing on diverse topics, including literary genre, single authors, children’s literature, speculative fiction, comparative analyses, as well as cultural studies approaches. The society also encourages a variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary prisms, and a variety of panel types, including traditional paper sessions, roundtable discussions, and sessions dedicated to the teaching of Latina/o/x literature and culture.

The organizers the University of South Carolina Beaufort's Interdisciplinary Studies Conference, "Balm: Binding Art, Life, Medicine," invite proposals for this year's event. This interdisciplinary conference on Narrative Medicine and Health Humanities will be held virtually on Thursday, March 26th and on the Bluffton campus on Friday, March 27th.  We are extending the submission deadline from February 1st to February 15th to allow undergraduate scholars to generate potential contributions. Topics of Interest

We welcome interdisciplinary proposals that explore, interrogate, or illuminate the central theme, including but not limited to:

Call for Papers and Workshops: “History up for Debate: Literature, Storytelling and the Imagined Past” 

1-2 July 2026, University of Salzburg, Department of English and American Studies, Unipark Nonntal 

Conference within the Framework of the Salzburg Conferences on English Literature and Culture (SEC) 

Organisers: Dorothea Flothow, Julia Hartinger, Sarah Herbe, Christopher Herzog, Eva-Maria Kubin, Markus Oppolzer, and Elisabeth Schober 

***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JAN. 15th 2026***

Medieval Engagements with Disability

This edited volume aims to explore the concept of veleno, that is poison, in its material and symbolic
dimensions, examining how it functions as a cultural construct and/or a discursive category within
Italian literature—considered in dialogue with cultural practices and discursive uses of language—
from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period.
Across Italian cultural history, poison operates on a threshold between pharmakon (in its Derridean
sense) and toxin, between language that heals or contaminates, between scientific knowledge and
moral accountability. Far from being confined to medical or chemical meanings, poison emerges as a

Proposing a panel or panels on postmodern-era US Fiction for this year’s American Literature Association Conference, which will happen in Chicago from May 20-23.

A one-day symposium hosted by the Contemporary Intimacies, Sexualities and Genders (CISG) Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University. 

22 April 2026 10-4, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6EB.