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The Latinx and Hispanic Experience The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion)

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:51pm
The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

As Section Editor for The Latinx and Hispanic Experience, I am reaching out to invite you to submit a chapter to this section of the forthcoming volume, The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, edited by Dr. James S. Bridgeforth, Dr. Jamie Penven, and Dr. Theodore Ransaw.

 

The Green Wall: Narrating Ethnicity, Belonging, and Environmental Nativism in South Asian Cultural Production

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:50pm
Dr. Mansi Bose & Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Chandigarh University, India
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Green Wall: Narrating Ethnicity, Belonging, and Environmental Nativism in South Asian Cultural Production

Guest Editors

Dr. Mansi Bose, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

&

Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

Rationale

Elvis Presley and Theology

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:50pm
Integrite: A Journal of Faith and Learning
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 16, 2026

Intégrité is a scholarly journal published biannually by the Faith and Learning Committee and the Humanities Division at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri. Published both online (https://www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/publications/integrite/) and in print, it welcomes essays for a special issue (Fall 2027) on “Elvis Presley and Theology.”

2027 marks the 50th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death on August 16, 1977.

Call for Papers and Reviews for Spectator 47.1 - SPEED

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:50pm
Truly Edison / University of Southern California
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

SPECTATOR 47.1 — SPEED - CALL FOR PAPERS/BOOK REVIEWS

DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

 

Spectator is seeking papers and reviews for issue 47.1, Speed, themed around USC’s 2025 First Forum Conference on the same topic organized by Minji Kim and Tanushree Sharma. Their call for submissions on this theme is copied below:

 

The contemporary moment is often thought of synonymously with the idea of speed. The 20th

and 21st centuries were marked by rapidly ascending rates of movement: the movement of

Global Imaginaries, Maritime Power, and Intercontinental Circulations: The Ambivalent Legacies of the Long Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:43pm
Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Adolfo Ibáñez University and the consortium of institutions sponsoring this event are delighted to invite you to the 2027 World Congress of the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, centered on the theme “Global Imaginaries, Maritime Power, and Intercontinental Circulations: the Ambivalent Legacies of the Long Nineteenth Century.” The congress will be held in Viña del Mar, overlooking the port city of Valparaíso.     

Geomythology

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:42pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

Geomythology is an emerging field invented by the geoscientist Dorothy Vitaliano in 1968 but has ancient roots in figures such as the mythographer Euhemerus (3rd century B.C.) as well as modern predecessors like Robert Hooke (1635-1703), the “English Leonardo,” and Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), the father of modern paleontology. It has been featured in recent panels at literary and scientific conferences. Geomythology seeks to discover proto-scientific information in ancient and medieval myths, legends, and tales. Often, this information is encoded in stories originally told by eyewitnesses to make sense of traumatic events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis.

Call for Papers for Edited Volume on Religion, Transhumanism, and Posthumanism

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:42pm
Gods and men? Post- and Transhumanism in Interfaith Perspective
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 14, 2026

Call for Papers

Edited Volume on Religion, Transhumanism, and Posthumanism

Working Title:
Gods and men? Post- and Transhumanism in Interfaith Perspective

Overview
We invite contributions to an edited academic volume offering a critical theological reflection on transhumanism and posthumanism from an interfaith perspective. While these developments have already generated a growing body of religious and theological responses, this volume seeks to move beyond initial engagements by critically assessing their assumptions, methods, and conclusions.

The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie: Second and final cfp

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:42pm
University of Agder
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Second and Final Call for papers

Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie

Academic conference, University of Agder, Norway 29. – 30. September 2026

CfP: Eldridge Bulletin of Advanced Inquiry. Arts and Humanities Series

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:42pm
Eldridge Bulletin. London Academic Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Call for Papers: Eldridge Bulletin of Advanced Inquiry | Arts and Humanities Series | London, UK

Inaugural Issue (General Topic)
Submission Deadline: 31 May 2026

#OpenAccess
Reduced publication fees available for this issue.

Web: https://london-ap.uk/eldridge-bulletin/humanities/
Email: eldridge@lapub.co.uk

Nineteenth Century Studies

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:40pm
Sunayani Bhattacharya, NCS Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 1, 2026

Dear colleagues,

 

Are you planning your summer writing projects—or revising an article and considering where to submit it? The editors of Nineteenth Century Studies are now accepting submissions for the 2027 volume. The deadline for consideration is October 1, 2026; submissions received after this date may be considered for the 2028 volume.

 

Call for Chapters Chornobyl in Video Games

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:40pm
Dr. Yaraslau Kot
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2026

Call for Chapters
Edited Volume: Chornobyl in Video Games: Memory, Simulation, and Post-Apocalyptic Play

Editor: Yaraslau Kot
Affiliation: Assistant Professor at University of Warsaw; Researcher at European Humanities University
Publisher: [TBA]

Invisibility & The Raft of Hope: A 75th-Anniversary Reflection on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:40pm
Editors: Quraysh Ali Lansana (Applied Assoc. Prof. of English & Creative Writing, University of Tulsa), Brandy Thomas Wells (Assoc. Prof. of History, Oklahoma State University), Autumn Brown (Asst. Prof, Oral History Research, Oklahoma State University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

Call for Submissions: Invisibility & The Raft of Hope: A 75th-Anniversary Reflection on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

Deadline: June 15, 2026

Contact: qal0815@utulsa.edu

"Let Us Tell An "Old Story Anew": Revising / Reinventing / Reimagining Disney

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:36pm
Disney, Culture and Society Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

"Let Us Tell An Old Story Anew": Revising / Reinventing / Reimagining Disney

Disney’s Maleficent (2014), a live-action retelling of their animated classic, Sleeping Beauty (1957), begins with a narrator challenging us to re-see the stories we’ve been told before. The entire movie, in fact, revolves around correcting past perceptions, ones that Disney originally shaped and is now choosing to reshape. Maleficent is just one example of a spate of live-action remakes and other ways Disney has reimagined itself in the twenty-first century. Such reimaginings invite research into how and why Disney feels the need to make us see them anew.

Chênière journal call-for-papers (undergraduate)

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:26pm
Chênière: The Nicholls Undergraduate Humanities Review
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Chênière journal call-for-papers

Volume 10

 

Chênière, an online, interdisciplinary undergraduate journal based at Nicholls State University, invites papers for its tenth volume. Chênière is an MLA-indexed journal that welcomes submissions from any humanities field, broadly speaking, from history, communication, English, religion, art, music, and everything in between. The journal welcomes submissions from any undergraduate work but particularly caters to students from the Gulf Coast and the American South, broadly speaking. The subject matter for this issue is completely open topic.

Deadline Extended! Call for Articles: Rethinking Work and Labour History

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:26pm
Mos Historicus: A Critical Review of European History
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 14, 2026

The history of work and labour has long occupied a central place within European social history, offering a key lens through which to examine social relations, hierarchies, forms of power, and economic formations across the longue durée. Rather than approaching work solely as an economic function, historical scholarship has increasingly foregrounded work as a lived social experience –one that has shaped identities, values, and modes of belonging.

Civic Space in Comparative Perspectives: Everyday Life and Agency in Cities under Authoritarian Regimes

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:26pm
Soongsil Institute for Peace and Unification
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 22, 2026

Dear colleagues and friends,

We warmly invite scholars to submit papers for the DPRK Cities Research Group’s 5th International Conference at the Soongsil Institute for Peace and Unification, Soongsil University, supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

This conference explores how marketization, technological change, and governance reshape civic space and everyday life in cities under authoritarian and transitional regimes. Moving beyond state-level analysis, it focuses on cities as key sites where control, adaptation, and agency are negotiated in practice.

PAMLA 2026 Steinbeck’s Complicated American Imagination

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:25pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

This panel invites discussions of Steinbeck's complicated imagination of American life and culture in his novels and nonfiction. Alternately fraught and adoring, critical and laudatory, his works attend with specificity to Americanness as a unique and discernible identity in the first half of the twentieth century. Especially encouraged are papers that attend to the tensions and disjunctures in Steinbeck’s descriptions of American society, including his treatment of gender, decolonial readings of his novels, and approaches that expose often contradictory relationships that extend among people, places, and power in his body of work.

Part of the PAMLA Conference in Seattle, WA from November 12, 2026 - November 15, 2026.

Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:20pm
Popular Culture Group, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Portugal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Call for Papers Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror International Interdisciplinary Conference 29 th – 30th June and 1st July, 2026  https://speculativenarratives.com/ NEW Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10th May 2026Venue: Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Portugal Conference Organisers: Popular Culture Group  We invite scholars, researchers, and artists to submit abstracts for the upcoming academic conference, Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror.

SMU’s ERAH Graduate Conference - Movement and Borderlands

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 11:49am
Engaging Research Across the Humanities (SMU)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 28, 2026

Call for Papers

SMU’s ERAH Graduate Conference

English | History | Anthropology

 

Date: October 10-11, 2026

Location: SMU Main Campus, Dallas, TX

Theme: Movement & Borderlands

Submission Deadline: August 28, 2026

Keynotes: Dr. Tim Bowman | Dr. Elda María Román 

 

CFP: chapters for an edited volume “Animal Adaptations”

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 11:49am
University of Warsaw & University of Innsbruck
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026

We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).

MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2026- Media & Sustainability

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 10:52am
MeCCSA PGN & Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Call for Papers

MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2026

Media and Sustainability

University of Reading,

Minghella Studios, Whiteknights Campus

Reading RG6 6BT

9th September 2026

Organising committee: Babsie Keulemans, Emir Anday and Elizabeth Heaney

Any questions about the conference or the submission process can be directed to:

Babsie Keulemans – e.l.keulemans@pgr.reading.ac.uk 

Life Writing in the Age of Generative AI: Power, Authorship, and Self-Representation

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 10:01am
PAMLA - 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

Abstract:

This panel reexamines life writing in the age of Generative AI, asking who controls the conditions under which individuals narrate their own lives. Submissions reflecting on how AI corporations and Generative AI models are reshaping life writing practices across textual, digital, and visual formats, or on the consequences of such practices for authorship, equity, and cultural power, are especially welcome.

Description:

"A Matter of Life and Death" Victorians Institute Conference 2026

updated: 
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 - 4:10pm
Victorians Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2026

A Matter of Life and Death

Call for Papers: Victorians Institute Conference 2026

September 11-13, 2026, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Knoxville, TN

Following along from the urgency of last year’s theme, Victorian Studies: Who Cares? this year’s theme asks conference participants to consider matters of life and death in the Victorian era. What did it mean to live and die in Victorian England? How are matters of life and death reflected in the literature of the time?

Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence

updated: 
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 - 1:02am
5th World Congress on Logic and Religion
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence

 

Session Organizer: Dr. Houman Mehrabian, University Canada West

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia

 

Judi Bari's Legacy: The Search for Ecological Democracy

updated: 
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - 10:25am
Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 15, 2026

2027 will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of radical ecologist and labor organizer Judi Bari. Best known for her leadership in the 1990 Redwood Summer campaign in Northern California, Bari sought to overcome the entrenched division between environmentalists and timber workers by identifying corporate capital as the common force exploiting both labor and forests. Her politics extended beyond direct action and formal organizing to include music, storytelling as agitation, and public spectacle, all mobilized to cultivate ecological consciousness within a framework of working-class solidarity.

"A Letter to Video Games: The Mechanisms of Emotions"

updated: 
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - 7:22am
Konstantina Kliagkona ("KN: F.L.A.ME.S [Forensic, Literature, Arts & Media Studies]"/ Independent Researcher, Freelancer EFL, Criminology Teacher, & Offender Profiler)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 5, 2026

 

Date of conference: 28-29 August, 2026

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 5 July 2026

 

Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:

 

A Letter to Video Games:The Mechanisms of Emotions

 

Call for Forums – Space, Urban Studies, Cityscapes, and Virtual/Digital Spaces

updated: 
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - 5:39am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

The Forum Section invites scholars to reflect on the different ways that their research and/or pedagogy has intertwined with their lives in relation to the theme of the Volume. It is a more immediate exploration of how one’s research is shaped out of one’s personal experiences and positionalities. This section was introduced in 2023, encouraging contributors to experiment with styles outside academic writing to tease out the intricacies of pedagogy, research, and lived experience. Forum pieces can be more personal and self-reflective, and can include open ended enquiries. There are aspects of research that never make it to the research paper.

UPDATE: American Carnage (conference; October 23-25, 2026)

updated: 
Monday, May 4, 2026 - 1:12pm
Canadian Association for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2026

DEADLINE UPDATED TO JUNE 1ST 2026 due to late application demand. Please continue to share widely.

CFP: “American Carnage”

Canadian Association for American Studies, October 23-25, 2026 (In person at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)

NEW: Visit our website: https://american-carnage.ca

Indian Knowledge System: Perspectives and Imperatives

updated: 
Monday, May 4, 2026 - 6:16am
SRI GURU TEG BAHADUR KHALSA COLLEGE, SRI ANANDPUR SAHIB-140118, PUNJAB, INDIA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Indian Knowledge System Cell,

Post Graduate Department of English,

And

Post Graduate Department of Economics,

SRI GURU TEG BAHADUR KHALSA COLLEGE,

SRI ANANDPUR SAHIB-140118,

PUNJAB, INDIA

organizes

Two-days International Conference

On

Indian Knowledge System: Perspectives and Imperatives

(6-7 August, 2026)

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism

updated: 
Sunday, May 3, 2026 - 4:52pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism
A Transdisciplinary Conference
July 16-17, 2026
July 16: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 17: Fully online
Conference Page: 
https://labrc.co.uk/2026/01/21/ecopoetics2026/

Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
**Prices exclude Eventbrite fees

Call for Presentations:

The Aquatic Presence-Absence in World Literatures

updated: 
Saturday, May 2, 2026 - 5:34pm
Shahriyar Mansouri / Shahid Beheshti University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 10, 2026

The Aquatic Presence-Absence in World Literatures

Critical Language and Literary Studies (CLLS) invites original, unpublished research articles for a themed issue to be published in Fall 2026. The theme is examining aquatic presences and absences in world literatures.

Tropes of Comics and Manga

updated: 
Saturday, May 2, 2026 - 9:40am
CLOSURE, Kiel University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

Call for Papers – 2nd International CLOSURE Conference

Tropes of Comics and Manga

Kiel, November 19–21, 2026

 

Deadline Extended! Translating Resistance: Literary Activism in Conflict and Solidarity

updated: 
Friday, May 1, 2026 - 3:56pm
International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Translating Resistance:
Literary Activism in Conflict and Solidarity

  • Hosted by The Translation Research & Instruction Program (TRIP) at Binghamton University
  • October 3–4, 2026

Funded in part by The International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) Regional Workshop Fund


Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
  • Professor Samah Selim (Rutgers University, USA)
  • Dr. Ruth Abou Rached (University of Manchester, UK) 

Call for Papers:

Scholars, researchers, and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this two-day workshop, hosted by Binghamton University (SUNY), to be held in New York on October 3–4, 2026. 

Heated Rivalry: Queer Joy and Intimate Masculinity on Television

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 10:36pm
Popular Culture Research Network, University of New England
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 19, 2026

Call for Book Chapters

Heated Rivalry: Queer Joy and Intimate Masculinity on Television

** Under review with a major international publisher **

Australia from Below: Lived Histories and Material Cultures of Everyday Life

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 10:36pm
Popular Culture Research Network PopCRN
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Australia from Below: Lived Histories and Material Cultures of Everyday Life

The editors of Australia from Below: Lived Histories and Material Cultures of Everyday Lifeareinviting you submit a research article, essay, creative work, poetic or other creative work reflecting the diversity of ways in which lived experience and material culture can be explored.

Edible Witness: Cookbooks, Recipes, and the Social History of Women

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 10:35pm
University of New England
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Edible Witness: Cookbooks, Recipes, and the Social History of Women

Jo Coghlan and Sherrie Gavin, editors

University of New England

 

** Edited Collection for Vernon Press, The Cultural Politics of Witnessing Book Series. Under contract **

 

The Mid-Atlantic Review - Volume 34 (2026)

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 4:30pm
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

The Mid-Atlantic Review is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually by the College English Association Mid-Atlantic Group (CEAMAG). The journal specializes in literary and cultural criticism, discussions of pedagogy, public humanities work, reviews of scholarly books published in the last two years, personal essays concerned with the teaching of English, photographs and visual art related to the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, and creative writing clearly related to the humanities, teaching, or the craft and art of writing. The Mid-Atlantic Review is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography and available to scholars through the EBSCO and ProQuest Literature databases.

Animal Adaptations--Call for Additional Chapters

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 2:49pm
Justyna Włodarczyk and Michael Fuchs
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Animal Adaptations

 

We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).

 

Galway Kinnell at 100 - PAMLA Seattle 2026

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 2:24pm
Dr. Ariana Lyriotakis
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

PAMLA Seattle (2026) - November 12-15, all in-person conference 

 

2027 is the centenary year of the birth of US American poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Galway Kinnell (1927-2014). This session seeks to celebrate his life and legacy while pointing to future thematic and prosodic engagement in Kinnellian studies. Papers offering approaches to any aspect of Kinnell’s work are invited and most welcome.

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