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Special Issue title: Representing Animals in Asian Screen Media
Journal: Society & Animals (SCI & SSCI indexed)
Edited by: Dr. Zhaoyu Zhu (First Author); Dr. Thomas William Whyke (Corresponding Author)
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Background and scope
This proposed panel will address intersections between carceral studies and literary studies, with a focus on modernist literature and art and their contemporary legacies.
Medieval + Monsters in Comics
Online Sponsored Session Proposed for Medieval + Monsters: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM), Mid-America Medieval Association (MAMA), Illinois Medieval Association (IMA) Joint Conference with The Newberry Library
Hosted at Dominican University & the Newberry Library
17-18 October 2025
The Medieval Comics Project and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association seek proposals of 250 words for a proposed online panel devoted to the theme of the medieval and the monstrous in sequential art, comics, manga, and related media.
Topics might include:
Call for Papers
2025 EALA Annual Conference
Disease and Death
Conference Co-organizers:
English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan), National Taipei University of Education and University of Taipei
Date: October 18, 2025
Venue: National Taipei University of Education
The deadline for abstract submission is extended to February 25, 2025
This CFP is for a guaranteed session organized by the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) for the 2026 Modern Language Association convention in Toronto (8-11 January 2026).
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is pleased to host its inaugural conference to expand the knowledge sharing CELJ provides through its listserv, mentoring workshops, and Modern Language Association convention sessions. The online format offers a space where more of our members, and potential new members, can be included. The conference will be virtual and recorded for CELJ members who are not able to attend.
Call For Papers
The conference theme is Open Dialogues, and the organizers encourage submissions of roundtable-based discussions specific to editorial and publishing topics of conversation including, but not limited to:
October 17 & 18, 2025
Hosted at Dominican University and The Newberry Library
CFP: Solitude and loneliness in Nordic Cinema
Special Issue of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
To submit visit our website here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-scandinavian-cinema#call-for-papers
“Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond”
International Conference
Sibiu, Romania | 1-3.07. 2025
Lucian Blaga University is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the upcoming international conference, “Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond,” to be held between July 1-3 in Sibiu, Romania. The conference aims to explore tragedy as it is reflected in literature, theater, and other cultural forms from antiquity to the present day, with a focus on European (semi)peripheries and non-European cultural spaces.
We hereby invite proposals of original articles related to the general theme of Cultural Intertexts, an academic journal of Literature and Cultural Studies, ISSN 2393-0624, E-ISSN 2393-1078.
The editors will consider for publication papers which tackle strategies of representation and of (inter)textual construction emerging from the dialogic relation between:
- literature and the historical and cultural context of text production;
- distribution and consumption;
- literature and other arts (music, film, visual arts, etc.) or sciences (linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, history, sociology and political sciences, internet and new technologies, etc.);
Special issue of Canadian Literature — seeking work by new, graduate, and/or early-career scholars
Submission length: 5,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes)
Guest Editors: Z. N. Dylan Jackson, amanda wan, Emma Gilroy (University of British Columbia)
Abstract
The University of Tehran English Language Scientific Student Association (UTELSSA) presents:
Decolonizing the Mind: A Journey through
Scholars and students are invited to engage in a series of thought-provoking dialogues that examine the process of decolonizing the mind. This series aims to critically explore and challenge the pervasive influences of colonialism on knowledge, culture, and society. Through interactive discussions, we will delve into the complexities of colonial and postcolonial studies, the significance of decolonial theories, and engage directly with a remarkable author in the field.
I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.
All topics will be considered.
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu
Dragons in Gaming and Online Culture
I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.
All topics about dragons will be considered.
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu
This collection seeks essays on paleontologists in film, literature, and contemporary media. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of paleontology in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:
-Studies of specific films
-Studies of specific novels
-Studies of fictional and/or real-life paleontologists in modern media
Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.
This collection seeks essays on dinosaurs in film, literature, and the arts. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of dinosaurs in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and dinosaur portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:
-Studies of specific films
-Studies of specific novels
-Studies of special effects renderings of dinosaurs
-Artwork with dinosaurs
Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.
Beyond Green: Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation
(Proposed as part of Bloomsbury’s Environment and Society series)
Editors: Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash
Introduction
Call for Papers Home: The Space We Claim March 14-16, 2025
University of Ottawa, English Graduate Student Association 2025 Conference
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition” - James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room.
Call for Papers
International Seminar on Indigenous Studies: Envisioning Janjatiya Gaurav: The Legacy of Birsa Munda and the Decolonisation of ‘Global’ Indigenous Studies
Date: March 26-27, 2025 (IST)
Venue: Durgapur Women’s College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India
Organised by the IQAC, Durgapur Women's College in collaboration with Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Event URL: https://durgapurwomenscollege.ac.in/seminars/
Call for papers for the special issue of English Language Notes (published by Duke University Press)
Special issue editors
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
Eunice NgongKum, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon
Environmental Injustice, Resistance and African Literature
Call for Papers: LEARNING FROM FEAR
The University of Memphis English Department will host a graduate student conference, Learning From Fear, on April 25th-26th, 2025, in Memphis, Tennessee. This conference aims to appeal to a variety of disciplines and interests, including rhetoric, communication, film and media studies, creative writing, linguistics, African American literature, museum studies, philosophy, graphic design, pop culture studies, psychology, educational studies, and web development.
Key Research Questions
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.
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.
The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.
Call for Papers
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.
Call for Essays
Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)
Call for essays for a book on the late medievalist Donald C. Baker who left us in 2019.
Donald C. Baker taught English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for twenty years then pursued teaching opportunities in Finland, England, Tunisia, Jordan, and Macau.
Donald C. Baker published or co-published a variety of books and articles (in PMLA, Studia Neophilologica, Speculum, Studies in Philology, Philological Quarterly, The Literary) on Geoffrey Chaucer and Beowulf in particular.
All forms of liteary studies (around 6,000 words using APA style) are welcome.
WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
May 29-30, 2025. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan
About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study.
“Rethinking the Humanities II: Past, Present, and Future”
***Non-Guaranteed Session***
The Milton Society of America invites proposals for a sponsored panel at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada. Papers (15 minutes in length) should examine Milton’s writings through a lens of adaptation studies, media studies, or reception studies, or their appropriation (social, legal, or political). Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.
CALL FOR PAPERS
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION
TORONTO
JANUARY 8-11, 2026
The Ernest Hemingway Society will sponsor a panel at the upcoming MLA Conference:
The Sun Also Rises at 100
The 17th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association
Heights, Depths, and Extremes
The Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham UK
14th-16th July 2025
The Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) is delighted to announce its 17th annual conference for 2025, inviting scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts of Victorian literature to explore this year’s theme, Heights, Depths, and Extremes. This theme encourages an examination of the limits, boundaries, and expanses of Victorian popular fiction, encompassing everything from physical and metaphorical heights to the extremities of human emotion, imagination, and social structures.