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Early Modern Narrative Theory (RSA2026)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:22am
Renaissance Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

This panel session for RSA 2026 in San Francisco invites proposals for papers on early modern literature and narrative theory, broadly conceived. Papers might consider narrative perspective, focalization, and free indirect discourse; formalist, structuralist and poststructuralist approaches to early modern narrative; and genre theory. How might early modern narrative invite us to question some of the assumptions of narrative theory, with its traditional emphasis on the novel? What kind of narrative theory (or theories) does early modern literature offer us?

Please email 200-word abstracts to Eve Houghton (eh565@cam.ac.uk) by July 31, 2025. 

 

  

Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:22am
Science Fiction Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025

We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation in 2026. To be considered for the competition, please submit an original article on any topic, period, theme, author, film or other media within the (broadly defined) field of science fiction and its academic study. Approximate length should be 6000-8000 words. All submitted articles should comply with the guidelines to contributors as set out on the journal pages of the SF Foundation website.

Call for Journal Articles

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 8:35am
Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, a peer-reviewed international journal published by Çankaya University in Ankara, is currently accepting submissions of articles and book reviews for its forthcoming issues. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is listed or indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, the MLA Directory of Periodicals, Index Copernicus Master List, ERIH Plus, and TR Index. 

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 July 2025*

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 2:35am
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the sixth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in September. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus, DOAJ, and Gale Cengage.

* Deadline is the end of July but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 11:39pm
Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Issue Editors:

Patricia Belen, Fordham University

Stefano Morello, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Gregory Palermo, Emory University

Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland

Brandon Walsh, University of Virginia

Journal article submissions for William Carlos Williams Review

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 8:07pm
Williamm Carlos Williams Review
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Call for submission of academic articles on William Carlos Williams for consideration by the William Carlos Williams Review. Articles must be between 20 to 30 pages in length. All topics welcome. Queries to the editor at copers@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions: July 28, 2025. To submit, register as an author and upload your article here: https://www.editorialmanager.com/wcwr/default.aspx

 

  

Victorians and AI

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 8:04pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Perhaps the most relevant question we are facing today, both in and out of the university, is how to deal with AI. In academia, different disciplines handle this question in a myriad of ways, some insisting that to not embrace AI in the classroom is harmful to the students, while others believe the utilization of AI must weaken critical thinking skills. Regardless of the differing opinions on how to use it appropriately, no one disagrees that it is here to stay.

The Plantationocene: On Histories and Narratives of the Plantation

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 8:04pm
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Published by Penn State University Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

The Plantationocene: On Histories and Narratives of the Plantation

Special issue for Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

 

Special issue editors:

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India

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

 

11th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture (Batman University, Çankaya University, Prešov University, Toruń Nicolaus Copernicus University) Keynote Speakers: Prof. Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University and Prof. Adelheid Rundholz, JCSU

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 8:04pm
Batman University, Dept of English Language & Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

11th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture: “Humanities in the Digital Age” 

https://www.academia.edu/129910678/11th_International_Conference_on_Lang... October 2025, Batman, Türkiye

Keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University & Prof. Dr. Adelheid Rundholz, JCS University

2025 Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College (virtual)

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 8:02pm
Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS: Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College (virtual conference)

2025 Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College

Friday and Saturday, October 17–18, 2025 (Eastern Time)

Virtual conference (digiHPAC)

Deadline for proposals (academics & community members): September 1, 2025

Call for Journal Articles

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 5:07pm
Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, a peer-reviewed international journal published by Çankaya University in Ankara, is currently accepting submissions of articles and book reviews for its forthcoming issues. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is listed or indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, the MLA Directory of Periodicals, Index Copernicus Master List, ERIH Plus, and TR Index. 

PAMLA Undergraduate Forum

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 3:51pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

PAMLA Undergraduate Forum

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23

San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

EXTENDED DEADLINE - JUNE 30

Diverse Francophonie

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 3:51pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Diverse Francophonie

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23

San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

EXTENDED DEADLINE - JUNE 30

Call for Papers: "Sports, Recreation, Leisure, and All Manners of Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century"

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 3:32pm
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Pinehurst, NC - February 19-21, 2026

The South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS) looks forward to welcoming all to its 2026 meeting in Pinehurst, which is slated for February 19-21, 2026.  The incomparable 2026 SCSECS meeting will present a fabulous opportunity to engage in lively intellectual conversation centered on 18th-century topics while luxuriating in all the amenities of a vibrant resort, set in the heart of the Village of Pinehurst, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Warren Manning. Pinehurst offers a spa, history, golf, shopping, landscape, birding, croquet, watering holes, and more! You will not want to miss out on this opportunity.

Call for Abstracts: Barbie in Latin America (Special Issue)

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 12:53pm
Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez (West Chester University of Pennsylvania)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Call for Proposals: Special Issue on Barbie in Latin America

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: August 15, 2025
Edited by: Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez(West Chester University of Pennsylvania) and M. Paula Bontempo(National Science and Technology Research Council and the National University Arturo Jauretche)

Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pandemic Literature and the Postcolonial Imagination (SAMLA 2025/In-person)

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 10:10am
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention 2025.
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 2025. 

SAMLA97, KNOWLEDGE: CALL FOR PAPERS (In-person), Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Conference Date: November 6-8, 2025

Special Session/Panel on "Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pandemic Literature and the Postcolonial Imagination"


 

NeMLA 2026 Panel: The Volcanic Imagination in Print and Visual Culture, 1780s-1880s

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:57am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Volcanic matter really matters. During a one hundred year span from the 1780s to 1880s, a series of volcanic eruptions occurred that altered the atmosphere, disrupted weather conditions, and caused unprecedented loss due to famine and widespread disease: Laki Iceland (1783-1784); Vesuvius, Italy (1794); Pico Viejo, Canary Islands (1798); Tambora, Indonesia (1815); Ferdinandea, Sicily (1831); Hekla, Iceland (1840, 1845); and Krakatoa, Indonesia (1883). Various critics have written about the systemic effects geologically, meteorologically, and ecologically such as Richard Altick, David Higgins, Monique Morgan, Marilynn Olsen, Nicholas Robbins, Jesse Oak Taylor, and Gillen D’Arcy Wood.

NeMLA 2026 Roundtable: Reading as a Political Act: Exploring the Confluence of Literacy and Politics

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:57am
Daniel C. Charlton / Montana State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

From book bans to executive orders, the question of academic freedom and the freedom to read has become increasingly urgent. In the wake of the 2024 election, debates around “parental rights” and ideological control have intensified, fueling challenges to literacy and intellectual freedom. According to preliminary data from the American Library Association, 1,128 unique titles were challenged between January 1 and August 31, 2024 (“American Library Association reveals preliminary data on 2024 book challenges,” September 23, 2024).

The (Re)generation of the Nonhuman: Nature and Text in Dialogue

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:57am
Israel Eweka/NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The last decade has seen a surge in scholarly interdisciplinarity, exploring the nonhuman in a broad range of critical perspectives. Whether through Glenworth et al (2024)’s conservationist prism which contextualises ‘Rewilding’ as a way of restoring ‘non-human autonomy’; or perhaps, through Bram Büscher (2021)’s capitalist reflections on nature’s alienation and entanglement, both of which are recent approaches that seek to champion the cause of ‘decentering the human in favor of a concern for the nonhuman’ (Grusin, 2015: 1), we see a growing pace of intersectionality within which nature and literature are brazenly intertwined.

Margins of Edibility: Non-food in Postcolonial South Asian Literatures Edited Volume — Call for Abstracts

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:57am
University of Würzburg and IIT Kanpur
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Food, in any society, is defined as much by what is consumed as by what is excluded. The concept of edibility is shaped not only by nourishment or taste but also by cultural, religious, political, and social boundaries. This edited volume investigates non-food—items or substances that are technically ingestible but culturally rejected, stigmatized, or taboo—in postcolonial South Asian literature. From famine-induced substitutes to ritually impure matter, we seek to explore how literary representations of non-food reflect evolving dynamics of power, identity, and cultural values in a region deeply shaped by colonialism and its afterlives.

Embodied Experience, Emotions, and Creativity

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:25am
Interface -Journal of European Languages and Literatures
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Dear Colleagues,"Interface" calls for papers for a conference on the topic: Embodied Experience, Emotions, and CreativityConference Date: September  17-19, 2025Conference Place: Doğuş University, Istanbul, TurkeyAbstract Submission Deadline: July 30, 2025 "Interface" would like to thank Trier University (Centre for Advanced Studies "Poetry in Transition”), Kobe University (Graduate School of Humanities), and Seoul National University (Institute of Classical Studies) for their kind support and co-operation in organizing this conference. 

Art as resistance: protest as art, art as protest

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:24am
Meredith Martin / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

An online panel on the art of protest and political dissent. This includes artists who engage in socio-political protest through their work, or protestors who use art to disseminate their message.

The Politics of Pessimism

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 8:39am
Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

 

“Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a programmeof complete disorder” (27) 
 
—Frantz Fanon, The Wretched OfThe Earth 

 

Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 7:27am
University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour

University of Bucharest, Romania

19-21 March 2026

(in-person)

 

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Helen W Kennedy (University of Sheffield)

Emil Lundedal Hammar (University of Tromsø)

Maria Mandea

 

Call for papers: An Awkward Marriage: Considering the serial killer’s social standing in a changing British culture

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 3:57am
University of Worcester
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 29, 2025

Great Britain has a rich and varied history when it comes to true crime. This statement applies as much to the crimes themselves as it does to media producers’ coverage of them. While a global canon of true crime is forming, there has to date still been an emphasis placed on Western narratives according to American culture, with crimes from this region dominating media attention. However, Britain itself has a long history of true crime that warrants further critical attention, to include some of the most prolific serial killers within the genre: Fred and Rose West; Harold Shipman; John Christie; Dennis Nilsen; and, more recently, and controversially, Lucy Letby.

Call for Book Chapters - Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 12:35am
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 28, 2025

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.

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