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FINAL CALL: Conference on the Teaching of Writing: Wicked Reading for Wicked Problems

updated: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026 - 10:32am
University of Connecticut
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

We are excited to share with you all on behalf of the Conference Planning Committee for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program that we are holding our 21st Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing on Thursday, April 23, and Friday, April 24, 2026, on our campus in Storrs, CT. Our theme for the upcoming conference is: “Wicked Reading for Wicked Problems." As those who have collaborated with us in the past, we are once again inviting you to help us explore ways of approaching these 'wicked problems', such as those that evade consensus, offer multiple solutions, or may even resist resolution at all.

The Handbook of Ecofeminism

updated: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026 - 10:11am
Nicole C. Dittmer, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Chapters for The Handbook of Ecofeminism
deadline for submissions: March 1, 2026
full name / name of organization: Nicole C. Dittmer, PhD
contact email: ncdittmer@gmail.com

In 1974, Françoise d’Eaubonne coined the term ecofeminism in Le féminisme ou la mort, foregrounding the intertwined domination of women and nature and calling for the liberation of both from systems of exploitation. Since its emergence, ecofeminism has inspired scholars and activists across disciplines and global contexts.

Concorde: Literary, Linguistic and Sustainability Studies International Conference

updated: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026 - 8:50am
Department of English, Netrokona University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Deadline extended

Concorde: Literary, Linguistic and Sustainability Studies International Conference

Date: 22-23 April, 2026

Venue: Department of English, Netrokona University, Netrokona, Bangladesh

 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Professor Dr Anirudra Thapa, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Professor Dr Shamsad Mortuza, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Professor Dr Shaila Sultana, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

"(In-)Visible Wounds:" Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence (April 23-25, 2026)

updated: 
Saturday, February 14, 2026 - 7:11pm
Konstantina Kliagkona ("KN: Forensic, Literature, Arts & Media Studies"/ Independent Researcher, Freelancer EFL, Criminology Teacher, & Offender Profiler)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Date of Conference: 23-25 April, 2026

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 24 March 2026

 

Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:

 

(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectiveson Discrimination and Violence

 

Last Call: Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (ACCSFF) CFP

updated: 
Saturday, February 14, 2026 - 4:19pm
Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

ACCSFF ‘26

                                                                                         Call for Papers

The 2026 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy will be held Saturday and Sunday, May 30-31, 2026, in Toronto, Ontario, at York University, Canada.

This year's author GoH keynote speaker is the Nebula Award winning Premee Mohamed.

We invite proposals for papers in any area of Canadian science fiction and fantasy, including:

    -studies of individual works and authors;
    -comparative studies;
    -studies that place works in their literary and/or
     cultural contexts.

FDP on Translation Studies in the Digital Age: Theory and Praxis

updated: 
Saturday, February 14, 2026 - 3:50am
Department of Humanities, School of Liberal Studies, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Faculty Development Programme (Online)
Translation Studies in the Digital Age: Theory and Praxis
Department of Humanities, School of Liberal Studies
KIIT Deemed to be University (India)
March 9–13, 2026

Indigenous Futurisms Beyond the West: Arab and Global South Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 10:07pm
Finnish Literary Research Society Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Finnish Literary Research Society Annual Conference 2026

 May 20-22, 2026

 

Online Panel: Indigenous Futurisms Beyond the West: Arab and Global South Speculative Fiction

JAMS@AX26 - Anime Expo Academic Symposium

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 5:42pm
Billy Tringali - JAMS@AX Symposium - Journal of Anime and Manga Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 27, 2026

JAMS@AX26

Want to present your work at the one-and-only Anime Expo? The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies(JAMS) and Anime Expo have once-again teamed up to give you the JAMS@AX26 academic symposium, July 2-5, 2026 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This symposium presents an incredible opportunity to connect fans of all ages directly to scholars researching and writing about the medium we all love. 

The JAMS@AX26 welcomes all papers taking a scholarly perspective on anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms.

DLC+ | "Slop" and "Nostalgia" – Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture Mini-Conference

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 1:45pm
Digital Literary Cultures (DLC+)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 14, 2026

Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture: “Slop” and “Nostalgia”

May 14th, 2026

Virtual Mini-Conference

https://dlcplus.org/ 

 

DLC+ is excited to announce the second installment of its Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture series, mini-conferences devoted to studying the most pressing and emerging concepts actively shaping digital literary culture. 

 

South Asia in Transition: A Literary Cartography

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
Editors, South Asia in Transition: A Literary Cartography
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 13, 2026

South Asia in Transition: A Literary Cartography

 

Reading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form (Marathon Reading and Symposium, Tampere, Finland, 22-26 May 2026)

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
Tampere University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 10, 2026

The Faerie Queene confronts its characters and readers alike with perceptual, cognitive, and physical struggles, and the reader’s passage through Spenser’s monumental work is as arduous and seemingly unending as the journeys and quests of its knights. The parallels between the characters’ trials and the readers’ embodied experience of the poem become more pronounced when The Faerie Queene is read out loud in its entirety. In 2019, the English department at Tampere University organised its first marathon reading of Spenser’s epic romance. The 2026 iteration will be the sixth marathon reading overall, and the second to be attached to an international symposium.

Literary Representations of Co-Existence

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

Literary Representations of Co-Existence 

 

Conference location: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia

 

Keynote speakers: Mark Bould (University of the West of England Bristol) in-person

                               Dinesh Wadiwel (University of Sydney) online

 

Conference dates: Sept 3-5, 2026

 

Conference fee: 75 Euros for the fully employed, 50 Euros for students and those not fully employed

 

Send abstracts of 200 words, and a short biography, to bwillems@ffst.hr by May 1, 2026

 

Digital Archives and Literature of the Marginalized

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
MELUS - Society for the Study of Multiethnic Literatures of the United States
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

One response to the official archives’ violent erasure(s) of multiethnic subjects (and the associated literatures) in the US has been scholarly investment in digital archiving. Still, the digital archives (and/or the metadata culled from them) can–and often do–reify whiteness as normative and the marginalization of other Americans. MELUS invites papers that consider how digital archiving (re)shapes and/or supports lay communities that inform the literature of the marginalized. We are particularly interested in papers that address how practices of liberatory archiving resist objectification of multiethnic subjects and/or authors. Submit titled proposals (250 words), a brief CV, and AV needs.

Call for Papers: ‘Video streaming policy and genre on demand’

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
Journal of Digital Media & Policy
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 1, 2026

Apologies for crossposting.

Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy (JDMP)

#JDMPJournal

Special Issue: ‘Video streaming policy and genre on demand’

Guest Editors: Jessica Balanzategui, Andrew Lynch and Alexa Scarlata 

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-digital-media-policy#call-for-papers

Shakespeare Across Centuries: Reception, Resonance, and Reinvention

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
NCCU Department of English National Chenhchi University, Taiwan Shakespeare Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Shakespeare’s works continue to inhabit what Stephen Greenblatt calls a “circulating energy system,” an ever-renewing sphere in which texts, performances, and interpretations travel across borders and epochs, sustaining the playwright’s presence in world culture. Tiffany Stern’s seminal research further reminds us that Shakespeare should be understood not as a fixed authorial entity but as an ongoing “process”—a dynamic constellation of scripts, fragmentary documents, performance traces, and editorial interventions that resist the notion of a stable text.

Literaturas modernas y estudios literarios en el primer cuarto del siglo XXI

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Anuario de Letras Modernas

Convocatoria

Literaturas modernas y estudios literarios en el primer cuarto del siglo XXI

 

Editores invitados:

Mario Alfonso Álvarez Domínguez

Universidad de Lille – Universidad Paris Nanterre

 

Odette de Siena Cortés London

José Alfredo Valerio Luna

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

 

71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:12pm
National Willa Cather Center / The Cather Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 2, 2026

Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250

Willa Cather Spring Conference | Thursday, June 4 - Saturday, June 6, 2026 

This year marks the centennial of My Mortal Enemy, one of Cather’s least affirmative works and one not produced in the Cather Scholarly Edition (translation: much important work remains to be done!)  We invite papers on new approaches to My Mortal Enemy, including but not limited to the following considerations of style, form, provenance, and themes:

2026 Wenshan x TSA International Conference: Shakespeare Across Centuries: Reception, Resonance, and Reinvention

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:12pm
Department of English, National Chengchi University & Taiwan Shakespeare Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

2026 Wenshan x TSA International Conference Call for Papers

 

Hosted by: NCCU Department of English, Taiwan Shakespeare Association

 

Date: November 29, 2026

Venue: National Chengchi University

 

Shakespeare Across Centuries:

Reception, Resonance, and Reinvention

 

Shakespeare’s works continue to inhabit what Stephen Greenblatt calls a “circulating

The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale Conference

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:12pm
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 4, 2026

The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale will host its fourth annual conference via Zoom  May 1-2. This conference is completely free. We will be accepting proposals for presentations through April 4th.

[MLA 2027] Edited Collections: Tips and Tricks to Successful Publishing

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:12pm
Modern Language Association Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Call for Proposals
MLA 2027 (Los Angeles)
Special Session

We are proposing a special session for the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles on "Edited Collections: Tips and Tricks to Successful Publishing." This special session will be a roundtable featuring six presenters with the following format: 

CFP forTRIVIUM A Multi disciplinary Journal of Humanities of Chandernagore College

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:12pm
Chandernagore College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited for the 18th and 19th issues of the peer-reviewed journal of bi-annual frequency: TRIVIUM A Multi disciplinary Journal of Humanities of Chandernagore College. The scope of the journal includes humanities and social sciences, commerce and management without mathematical application.
Guidelines for Submission

MLA 2027: Child Narratives of Violence

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:11pm
Mary Gryctko
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 13, 2026

Children’s accounts of violence occupy a paradoxical space in public discourse: they are framed as both essential, unquestionable evidence, and, sometimes at the same time, as unreliable and prone to outside influence. Both framings rely on cultural constructions of the child’s “innocence.” This panel invites papers examining narratives of violence told by children, with a particular interest in experiences of institutional or state violence. How do these narratives complicate familiar tropes of children as voiceless victims in need of saving, or of certain topics as exclusively “adult” or “childish”?  How do child narrators themselves exploit, resist, and play with or into these tropes?

The Body Before Sex // MLA 2027

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:11pm
LLC Early American and TC Sexuality Studies // MLA 2027
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 16, 2026

MLA 2027 – Early American and Sexuality Studies Forum 

 

“The Body Before Sex”

 

This collaborative panel by the Early American LLC and Sexuality Studies TC of the Modern Language Association aims to bring forward trans, environmental, and affect methodologies to consider the historically and culturally specific ways the body and sex intersect and depart. We are particularly interested in papers that stretch and transgress temporal and spatial domains, offering critical juxtapositions that reexamine the materialities and temporalities that make visible the body before it becomes associated with, and attached to, sex. 

 

Global Music History and Northern Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:11pm
Mikkel Vad/University of Copenhagen
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Global Music History and Northern Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries

University of Copenhagen, 15–16 May 2026

Deadline for proposals: 15 Feb. 2026

 

We invite proposals for papers exploring global music histories connected to Northern Europe in the long 18th and 19thcenturies.

 

What Academic Novels Can Teach Us About Leadership: A Roundtable

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:11pm
Samuel Cohen/Association of Departments of English
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 9, 2026

This session will be devoted to academic novels and academic administration. Panelists will consider what these novels (as well as television and films centered in academia) have to say about how higher education institutions are run, and what we might learn about how—and how not—to run them. Equally interested in literary studies (genre, form, representation) and Critical University Studies (history, politics, current events).

Stories and histories of power

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 11:59am
université de Caen Normandie, France
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Stories and histories of power, 24-25 Septembre 2026.

 Confirmed Keynote speaker : Peter Boxall

 

Based on the premise that any account is the result of a re-ordered selection in facts which is the mark of the power of the author and/or the institution or cultural group they stand for., this conference will examine factual and fictional narratives of power in the English-speaking world.

Emancipations in Irish Literature and Culture

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 11:59am
American Conference for Irish Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 6, 2026

CFP for MLA 2027 (7-10 January, 2027), Los Angeles: Guaranteed ACIS Panel

 

Emancipations in Irish Literature and Culture

 

Literary and Cinematic Representations of Carceral Los Angeles

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 11:59am
MLA 2027
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 16, 2026

While Los Angeles has regularly been called the “City of Angels,” historian Kelly Lytle Hernández has argued that a more appropriate epithet would be the “City of Inmates,” as Los Angeles has historically been a site for innovations in imprisonment, surveilling, policing, and oppressing various communities for their race, ethnicity, class status, sexuality, and other out-group identifications. Literature and cinema have long been fertile sites for examining the ramifications of police- and prison-centric ideologies within American society and culture, particularly for a city that defined itself by cinema.

Fat Studies: South Asian Texts and Contexts

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 11:42am
Dr. Priyanka Chakraborty, Sister Nivedita University; Dr Aditya Ghosh, ICFAI Tripura
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Fat has been ever-present in public imagination in various forms. Fat is perceived as a

public enemy and “demonized in medicine and public policy” (Blank 2020). It is “adored by chefs

and nutritional faddists, desired and abhorred when it comes to sex, and continually courted by a

multi-billion-dollar fitness and weight-loss industry” (Blank 2020). Yet, ‘Fat’ as an area of

academic research has remained remarkably underdeveloped in the Humanities and Social

Sciences domain. Only recently, it has emerged as a vibrant interdisciplinary field that interrogates

MLA 2027 - Nabokov, Freedom, and Anti-Authoritarianism

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 11:38am
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following themes for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 7-10, 2027, Los Angeles):  

 

Nabokov, Freedom, and Anti-Authoritarianism

MLA 2027 - Nabokov in the '70s / Nabokov's Afterlife

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 10:40am
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following themes for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 7-10, 2027, Los Angeles):  

 

 Nabokov in the ‘70s / Nabokov’s Afterlife

Comics and Film: A Space Odyssey

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 10:15am
Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) Prague, Czech Republic

August 20–21, 2026

Call for Papers Deadline for proposals: April 1, 2026

Conference Directors: Petra Dominková (FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic), Thomas Ballhausen (Inter-University Organization Arts & Knowledges + Mozarteum University Salzburg, Austria)

 

Facing Extractivisms: Arts and Literatures. 2nd International Conference. Paris, June, 1-3, 2026. INHA Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Académie du Climat, Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis.

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 10:09am
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, École Polytechnique, Paris 8, University of Barcelona, University of Lleida.
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 30, 2026

Venues:

INHA – Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art
Académie du Climat
Université Paris 8 | Vincennes – Saint-Denis

 

Proposals should be sent to: extractivisms2@gmail.com before 30/03/2026

 

Organising Committee: LAE Network (Literatures, Arts, Extractivisms):

Christian Alonso, University of Lleida
David Castañer, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Fortunata Calabro, University of Barcelona
Christian Galdón, École Polytechnique, Paris 8
Alessia Gervasone, University of Barcelona
Benoît Turquety, Université Paris 8

 

Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 9:56am
Victor Monnin and Alison Laurence
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

We invite additional submissions for Lands of the Lost, an edited collection that explores extinct animal parks real, imagined, unrealized, or yet to be. Our goal is to bring together multi-disciplinary perspectives to examine parks across time and space, across fact and fiction. We seek to understand how these projects, which reconstitute and enclose long-extinct life forms, intersect with histories of science, capitalism, imperialism, environmental change, and more.

Online Panel MLA 2027: “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”: Testimony and Resistance in Atwood’s Works

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 9:55am
Margaret Atwood Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 23, 2026

The Margaret Atwood Society invites paper proposals for an online panel on testimony and resistance in Margaret Atwood’s work. In keeping with the MLA 2027 presidential theme, this panel welcomes papers that examine how Atwood’s narratives represent coercion and constraint while also tracing the risk and agency at stake in claiming liberatory space. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

 

• Testimony, witnessing, and the politics of voice

• Surveillance, secrecy, confession, and the archive

• Gendered power, reproductive politics, and bodily autonomy

• Critical reception and adaptation

 

Guaranteed Panel MLA 2027: “Negotiating with the Dead”: Religion, Spirituality, and the Supernatural in Atwood’s Works

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 9:55am
Margaret Atwood Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 23, 2026

The Margaret Atwood Society invites paper proposals for an online panel focusing on how Atwood’s writing engages religious and spiritual practices and the supernatural. We welcome proposals that consider how Atwood’s works mobilize the sacred, the ritual, the metaphysical, and/or the ghostly as vehicles for meaning-making, ethical reflection, and narrative strategy. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

 

·       Religion as ideology

·       Spirituality and folk belief outside institutional frameworks

·       Myth, ritual, and cosmology

·       Scriptural and prophetic discursive modes

·       Haunting, spectrality, and divided subjectivity

Women who Create: The Feminine and the Arts (2026)

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 8:10am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 22, 2026

The London Arts-Based Research Centre

Women who Create: The Feminine and the Arts
A Transdisciplinary Conference

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/11/18/women-who-create-2026/

March 28-30, 2026

Where:
March 28-29: In person participation at Cambridge University and online
March 30: Fully online

Fees (for both presenters and attendees):        
195 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees

Abstract: Deadline February 22, 2026

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