Since September of 2025 the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University has housed a new publication called The Pittsburgh Review of Books (or PRoB), available at http://www.pghrev.com We are particularly interested in pieces by scholars that analyze or contextualize breaking news - be it political, cultural, or social events - that can be published quickly. 

Edited by author and Public Humanities Special Faculty Ed Simon, PRoB is a home for engaged, creative, and interdisciplinary cultural criticism and analysis across the humanities. The tone of the publication is similar to other para-academic publications intended for both specialists and a general audience. 

You are invited to participate in a research study survey examining the relationship between film and memory.

This study explores how film experiences may shape personal, emotional, neurological, and cultural recollection, including how individuals understand events they did not directly experience. You will be asked to reflect on your film viewing habits, emotional and cognitive responses to specific films or scenes, and the ways films may influence your understanding of memory, history, and identity.

Forever: Poets on PFAS, Plastic, and Persistent Pollution

A call for poetry submissions

2027 Society for Textual Scholarship Conference Call for Papers: Cultural Connectivity

The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, May 26-28

This interdisciplinary conference invites researchers to explore the collective lives of texts: the communities, collaborations, institutions, and networks through which textual objects are created, circulated, preserved, transformed, and interpreted. We welcome work on the many forms that textual collectivity has taken across periods and media—from archives, print cultures, editorial and artistic circles, and literary movements to oral and folkloric traditions, activist networks, technological communities, and other collaborative practices of textual production.

Lost & Found

The University of Maryland’s Graduate English Organization (GEO) invites proposal submissions of academic papers on the topic of “Lost & Found” for our 20th annual graduate student conference, to be held in person on Friday, March 5, 2027, at the University of Maryland, College Park.

A Decade of Queer Screens: An International Conference22-23 April 2027 | Department of Film and Screen Media | University College Cork Deadline for Submission of Paper Proposals: Monday 14 December 2026 This two-day international conference aims to bring together scholars and creative practitioners to reflect on the last decade of LGBTQ+ representation across cinema, television, online spaces, and video gaming. See our Call for Papers for more:

Call For Papers: JG Ballard in the 21st century

Edited Collection

Call for Chapters

Terminal Futures: Reading J.G. Ballard in the Twenty-First Century (working title)

An edited collection

Edited by Dr Matt Melia
Kingston School of Art, Kingston University

Popular Culture Association (PCA): Health, Humanities, and Popular Culture 2027 Conference, Boston, USA, March 24-27 2027 CFP

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 31ST OCTOBER 2026

Travel Grant Applications due 15th November

Karen Collins (2007) writes that “audio can play a more limited role in certain genres of games,” giving sports games as an example of video games with less “elaborate” audio. Indeed, music in sports video games is mostly non-diegetic – with the characters in the game not hearing it, hence not reacting to it in any way – and rather linear than adaptive, however, it is an important environmental and immersive element. Audio can equally as successfully contribute to the overall experience of realism, as well as take the gamer– which is a term I use to differentiate between the basketball/football/hockey/etc. players on a team and the person controlling them during the video game – out of the world of the game.

Call for Papers (submission deadline October 31, 2026)

Fairy Tales Area, American Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, 2027

Boston, MA, March 24–27, 2027

The Fairy Tales Area of the Popular Culture Association invites proposals for individual papers, panels, and roundtables for the 2027 annual conference in Boston, MA, March 24-27.

18th SAAS Conference “Negotiating Identity and Power: Resistance, Rebellion, and Resilience in U.S. Literature and Culture” (Universidad de Oviedo, March 15-17, 2027)

PANEL: Queer Bounds: Circulating Affects in Contemporary Ethnic US Literature 

CHAIRS: Paula Barba Guerrero & Beatriz Hermida Ramos (Universidad de Salamanca)

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459 - December 2026

Academic Journal

Research Academy

Call for Proposals: Education and Americana Music:

Curriculum with Carlile, Instruction with Isbell, Teaching with the Truckers

We are looking for chapter proposals for an edited collection on the educational opportunities found in Americana music.  We encourage submissions that consider education widely: pedagogically, andragogically, and/or systemically.

BFS Journal #30 Summer 2027: Call for Submissions

While comfort has a long lineage in Fantasy, the conventional narratives of journey and discovery pull adventurers from the comforts of the hobbit hole out into the wider world. Yet a rising trend in contemporary fantasy has characters coming in from the cold to find safe spaces of tea-shops and bookstores, keeping protagonists and their problems close to the warmth of the inn and the home.

Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies /

Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS: TORONTO 2027

International Conference on Digital Humanities

Issue 15.2: Cold War Realignments in Global Asias

Edited by Shuang Shen and Jooyeon Rhee

Deadlines | verge@psu.edu

Convergence proposals: September 30, 2027

Essays: May 1, 2028

On the Theme

Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations, Berlin, Germany, 31 May–1 June 2027

Founded in 1993, the Organization Studies Research Network was brought together around a common concern for and interest in exploring new possibilities in knowledge, culture, and change management within the broader context of the nature and future of organizations and their impact on modern society.

The Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations calls for research addressing the following themes.

2027 Special Focus—Entangling Worlds: Connection, Coordination, Collaboration in Organization Research and Practice

James Baldwin Review (JBR), an annual peer-reviewed journal, seeks submissions for the journal’s graduate student essay award. Submissions should address the topic of JBR’s upcoming special issue: “Teaching Baldwin, Baldwin as Teacher.” In Baldwin’s terms, “to become educated (as all tyrants have always known) is to become inaccessibly independent, it is to acquire a dangerous way of assessing danger, and it is to hold in one’s hands a means of changing reality.” For this special issue, JBR is especially interested in essays from a range of international perspectives and from contexts within and outside academic institutions. Topics might include but are not limited to the following:

CALL FOR PAPERS

“What Can a Cinematic Fury Do?” Visual Culture and the Contradictions of Modernity

                                 Dreamscape: Analyzing the Physical, Mental, and Political Dimensions of Escape

                                                              Comparative Literature Students’ Tribune

                                                                                     10th edition

                                                              April 9 and 10, 2027, University of Toronto

The PCA Generational Studies area welcomes proposals for papers on any and every topic related to America’s generations including: Baby Boomers, Generation Jones, Generation X, Xennials, Millennials (Gen Y), iGen (Gen Z), and Gen Alpha. 

We invite submissions from individuals and organized panels (3 or 4 persons), focusing on topics related to:

·       Generational cultural production/consumption: literature, film, music, etc.

·       Generational identities and realities (then and now).

We are especially interested in presentations that connect (or disconnect) multi- generational pop culture experiences.

FOR INDIVIDUAL SUBMISSIONS:

·       150-200-word abstract

Deadline Approaching: Oct 31, 2026Visual Culture Area at the Popular Culture Association, 2027 Conference

Visual culture constitutes an interdisciplinary area flexible enough to facilitate discussion across the arts, media, and communication. Visual culture, broadly defined, exists at the intersection of the visual and the cultural. Distinct from film, television, animation, video game, media, literature and the arts, we study the cultures in which such media circulate. Yet common interests connect visual studies with material culture, digital culture, and media studies, among others, suggesting fertile opportunities for collaboration and crossover.