The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, History, Philosophy and Theology, West University of Timișoara, is pleased to announce its 34th international conference on British and American Studies, on the theme “Reconfiguring Borders and Boundaries in/through the Lens of Literature, Language and Culture,” which will be held on 14-16 May 2026. 

Theme statement:

How do we come to know health—our own or that of others? In a time marked by global crisis, inequality, and rapid technological change, lived experience offers vital, yet often marginalised, forms of knowledge. This one-day conference brings together Early Career Researchers across disciplines to explore health through the lens of lived experience: its stories, its silences, and its capacities for change.

Call For Papers

The “Collecting and Collectibles Area” of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on “Collecting in/as Crisis” for the 2026 National PCA/ACA Conference to be held in Atlanta, GA, USA on April 8-11, 2026. We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Collecting in/as Crisis” and particularly address how collections/collectibles and their institutions and practices involve or respond to natural, cultural, economic, environmental, health, epistemic crises, etc.  

Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:

·         Collecting as systemic violence

·         Collecting as cultural erasure

Call for Abstracts: “Cultures of Waste” International conference (Offline)

Deadline for abstract submissions: Dec 20, 2025

Full name / name of organization: Department of Liberal Arts. Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India and UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, Department of English, The University of Hyderabad

Contact email: culturesofwaste@gmail.com

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Stardom and Fandom

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

NEW Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025

We are now accepting submissions for our next regular issue. Manuscripts in MS Word (5,000–10,000 words) adhering to the MLA 9th edition formatting guidelines should be sent to editor@jcla.in.

Website: jcla.in

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Comparative_Literature_and_Aest...

Don't Look Away: The Monstrous, the Gothic, and Survivance in the Worlds of Stephen Graham Jones

Organized by the Stephen Graham Jones Society

Chair: Dr. Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver

The Stephen Graham Jones Society invites proposals for a panel at the 2026 American Literature Association (ALA) meeting. We welcome submissions from emerging and established scholars investigating the vast, ever-expanding body of work by Stephen Graham Jones. This panel will focus on the recent and ongoing scholarship surrounding his horror fiction, as well as its significant pedagogical value in the contemporary classroom.

The University of Calgary English Department Graduate Association cordially invites both critical and creative proposals for our annual Free Exchange Graduate Conference, taking place from March 20-21, 2026. Going back nearly 20 years, Free Exchange is a transdisciplinary conference that aims to bring together emerging scholars from across Canada and beyond in the spirit of collaboration and knowledge creation.

Call for Papers:

Black Performing Arts: Sound, Movement, Image, Text

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

NEW submission deadline: November 14, 2025 

The Bonnie Jo Campbell Society is sponsoring a panel at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, IL (May 20-23, 2026).

As a native Michigander, Campbell is associated strongly with the American Midwest, where much of her fiction takes place. This panel hopes to interrogate that relationship, either through analyses of the Midwest in Campbell's work, or in relationships with other Midwestern writers and their fiction.

Please send an abstract (200 words) and a brief bio to Dr. Ross Tangedal (ross.tangedal@uwsp.edu) for consideration by January 1, 2026.

48th Annual Comparative Drama Conference 

Conference Dates: July 9-11, 2026

Location: Madison, Wisconsin (hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Deadline for Abstract Submission: December 10, 2025

Disability Studies, Dramatic Texts, and Performance 

Call for Papers: Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance | March 27, 2026

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Diana Martinez, Assistant Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley

Graduate Student Symposium

Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Tufts University, Medford, MA

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University invites graduate students to submit paper proposals for the 2026 Graduate Symposium titled Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance, which will be held on March 27, 2026, in Medford, MA. 

Call for Papers: Theory and Criticism Focus Group- ATHE 2026Communities of Imagination and Theoretical FuturesBaltimore, Maryland- July 22-26, 2026 Call for Complete Session Proposals and Roundtable SubmissionsSponsored by the Theory and Criticism Focus GroupComplete Session ProposalsThe Theory and Criticism focus group seeks proposals for the general conference that include a variety of approaches and inquiries into the theme “Communities of Imagination and Theoretical Futures.” We encourage multidisciplinary submissions from across the various subfields of theatre and performance studies and seek participants from a range of focus groups.Our focus group welcomes and embraces a multitude of approaches and definitions of theory, criticism

Please see this Call for Proposals for an upcoming special issue of Feral Feminisms: 

 https://feralfeminisms.com/cfps/ 

This special issue, “Scrapwork: Foraging Feminist Fragments” will be guest edited by Dr. Amber Moore (University of British Columbia) and Dr. Kaye Hare (University Canada West). 

36th Annual Mardi Gras Conference

Postcolonial Environments: Re-Grounding the Discipline in the State of Emergency

Date: February 12-13, 2026

Location: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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:

Call for book chapters: Reading as Habitation. In Memoriam Ana-Karina Schneider

THE THIRD ANNUAL WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

A Century of Black History Commemorations

“The Impact and Meaning of Black History and Life Commemorations in Transforming the Status of

Black Peoples in the Modern World”

Morgan State University, April 2, 2026

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”

George Orwell, 1984

General Issue | Rolling Submissions

The Critical Gender Studies Journal / Revista Crítica de Estudios de Género invites submissions for its upcoming general issue. We welcome original research articles, theoretical essays, creative interventions, and reviews that explore the multifaceted dimensions of gender and sexuality across diverse contexts and disciplines.

Translating Modernities: Language, Selfhood, and Literary Futures in Asia

This proposed panel explores how modernities across Asia have been shaped not only through contact with the West but through acts of translation-linguistic, cultural, and epistemic-within and across Asian languages. It asks how writers and thinkers, negotiating between vernaculars and global idioms, forged new vocabularies of selfhood and community that redefined what it meant to be "modern."

RSAP Article Prize 2024-2025

Deadline for submissions: 15 December, 2025

https://www.periodicalresearch.org/rsap-article-prize-2024-2025/

Contact: Kirsten Macleod, kirsten.macleod@newcastle.ac.uk

The Research Society for American Periodicals invites submissions for its 2024-25 Article Prize.