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Indigenous and Creole Transcultural Encounters

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Karine Germoni
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The CfP for the hybrid panel "Indigenous and Creole Transcultural Encounters" (NeMLA 2026 convention) is now open (please see abstract and description below). 

 The convention will take place in Pittsburgh, PA on March 5-8, 2026.

How Not to Be a Misogynist: Un/Intentional Sexism in Early Modern Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Lilly Berberyan & Jess McCall
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Stemming from the “How Not to Be a Misogynist” panel at the 2025 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, we are soliciting chapters for an edited collection that engages with matters of gender, power, and misogyny. We are particularly interested in interrogations of how—perhaps unwittingly—misogyny is inscribed onto early modern texts and contexts by contemporary scholars and scholarship. Some of the questions we seek to answer in this collection include: 

 

FRAME 39.1 “Controlling the Narrative”

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 5, 2025

Dissension exists on a spectrum. It can be expressed on an individual scale—by rejecting challenges to ethical or moral beliefs—or within collectives that object to systems that harm or subjugate. Literature can be used as an act of protest and resistance, to create counter narratives that combat oppressive agendas; it can mirror the outcry of societies that wish to test the limits of oppression but lack the voice to do so. Now more than ever, it is imperative that we listen to those voices that systems continually work to silence. Authoritarianism, protest, incarceration, and revolution are interwoven themes that dominate allegorical genres such as dystopian fiction.

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Worldview Critical Edition)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Dr Subashish Bhattacharjee and Dr Indrajit Mukherjee
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We invite original, unpublished essays (maximum 5,000 words) for an upcoming Worldview Critical Companion to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. This volume aims to serve as both a scholarly resource and a generative site of contemporary dialogue on one of the most significant dramatic works of the twentieth century. Contributors are encouraged to revisit canonical readings while also offering new, boundary-pushing approaches that open Godot to current critical, theoretical, and performative discourses.

The Handbook of Bengali Cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Dr Subashish Bhattacharjee and Dr Indrajit Mukherjee
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We invite original and unpublished essays for inclusion in a forthcoming Handbook of Bengali Cinema. This interdisciplinary volume will offer a comprehensive and critical survey of Bengali cinema across periods, geographies, genres, styles, and theoretical frameworks. It will serve as a key reference for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in one of South Asia’s most influential regional cinemas.

Essays should be no longer than 5,000 words, inclusive of notes and works cited, and must follow the MLA citation style (current edition). Contributions may be historical, thematic, theoretical, or practice-based, and are expected to demonstrate critical rigor and originality.

 

Regenerating Technical Communication: Creative Pedagogies & Practices

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Technical communication, as a field of practice and study, has grown larger and more varied in response to the rapidly developing technologies, new forms of globalization, and shifting institutional demands of the past 20 years—all greatly intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic within the last five. How, then, do today's instructors of technical communication meet the current moment as well as current student needs?

CFP: (Chapter Abstracts) German Romantic Humour (Aug. 1, 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Pascale LaFountain
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

CFP: (Chapter Abstracts) German Romantic Humour (Aug. 1, 2025)

 

Call for Chapter Abstracts

Due: August 1, 2025

Subject fields: German Romanticism, Humour Studies, Philosophy, Literature Studies, Musicology, Art History, History of Religion

 

This is a call for abstracts for book chapters to be included in an edited volume on “German Romantic Humour”

 

Edited by Dr. Pascale LaFountain (Montclair State University, USA)

 

The Roles of 20th Century Regionalisms: Past and (Re)Generation.

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
NeMLA 57th Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This NeMLA panel invites proposals exploring the social, cultural, and political uses of regionalist aesthetics throughout the 20th cnetury.

Representing Authoritarianism in Modern Latin American Politics and Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Joseph Mulligan, Weber State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Throughout the nineteenth, twentieth and into the twenty-first century, authoritarianism has proven to be an enduring leadership style in Latin American and has manifested in diverse forms, including the uprisings of regional caudillos, the ascendency of personalist rulers, the formation of solemn cults of personality, the imposition of military dictatorships, the establishment of single-party States, the totalitarian perpetuation of the state of exception, the cultural promotion of ethnonationalism, and the installation of illiberal technocracies, among others.

NeMLA 2026 Roundtable - Villains Reborn: Redemption and (Re)Generation of Comic Book Antagonists

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) | Sydney Nelson and Josie Kochendorfer
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

From brainwashed assassins to complicated anti-heroes to villains on a redemption arc, comic books, films, television, and novels frequently present readers with complicated antagonists-turned-superheroes, many of which become beloved characters. Through varied processes of regeneration, former antagonists remake themselves into superheroes in fascinating and often unexpected ways.

Children’s Rights &/in Popular Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Northeast Popular Studies Conference (Virtual)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 13, 2025

Children’s Rights &/in Popular Culture (panel/roundtable for NEPCA conference taking place virtually Oct 9-11 2025) 

How are children’s rights represented in current popular culture (e.g., videogames, board games, graphic novels, film, TV, social media, music, toys etc.)? In what ways does pop culture today curtail children’s rights (e.g., cellphone apps, tracking devices, surveillance equipment)? How do children themselves define their rights, notions of justice, law and order in their interactions with popular culture (e.g., toys, games, art, fashion, hobbies, social media etc.)?

[NeMLA 2026 Panel] The Name of the Witch

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:52am
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We seek panelists for Northeast MLA 2026, "The Name of the Witch." 

Conference Details

57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5 - 8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA. Visit https://www.nemla.org/convention/future.html for more details. 

Modality 

Panel / In Person Only: The session will be held fully in person at the hotel. No remote presentations will be included.

Submissions and Deadline

Conflict and Literature: Perspectives from Global South

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:25am
Indira Chakraborty (Bhattacharya)/ St. Xavier's University, Kolkata, India
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Global South is a phrase often heard in the academic parlance to categorise a group of nations which have been broadly classified in economic terms by the United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD) based on certain defining characteristics (socio-economic and political factors). The countries or continents which come under this category are Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (excluding Australia and New Zealand). However, to classify economic grounds poses severe questions about factors contributing to the dissemination of this inequality. This unevenness as one suspects can be a major reason for armed conflicts often leading to tensions and permanent war zones.

Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 5:33pm
Lenka Filipova / Freie Universität Berlin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 17, 2025

Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z

Eds. Başak Ağın, Z. Gizem Yılmaz, and Lenka Filipova

NeMLA 2026: World Literature and Cultural Globalization (Roundtable/Virtual)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 3:49pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

57th Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2026

Conference Date: March 5-8, 2026

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 10, 2025

All presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in person. We will use Whova (our conference app) and Zoom to integrate remote sessions into the conference.



 

Session Title: World Literature and Cultural Globalization (Roundtable/Virtual).

 

“The era of world literature is at hand, and everyone must contribute to accelerating it,” Goethe said to Eckermann on the afternoon of 1827, and the idea of world literature (Weltliteratur) was born.

(Re)generating Pynchon (NeMLA 2026 panel)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 10:08am
NeMLA - Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The 57th annual NeMLA Convention is taking place Thursday, March 5, through Sunday, March 8, 2026, at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown in Pittsburgh, PA.  For more information, see https://www.nemla.org/.

The Literary Love Letter

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In Nick Bantock's Griffin and Sabine, Sabine Strohem and Griffin Moss have never met--not really. They have, though, shared an extraordinary epistolary correspondence. And through this correspondence, Griffin wonders how he can feel so close to someone through letters, only, "How can I miss you this badly when we've never met?" (39).

**Deadline Extended** (CFP: PAMLA 2025) Haunted Belonging: Memory, Erasure, and Identity in Diasporic Literatures

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
Wenyuan Wang / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This session explores how postcolonial and diasporic literatures grapple with memory, trauma, and cultural haunting. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging and agency. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures. This session welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and encourages work on Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and other diasporic communities.

Call for manuscripts: Towards a Global Understanding of Cultural Work

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
De Gruyter Publishers (Berlin/Boston)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

De Gruyter Publishers hereby invite scholars to submit manuscripts for the new series

TOWARDS A GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF CULTURAL WORK


Series Editors:
  

Carlos Garrido Castellano, University College Cork, Ireland/University of Johannesburg, South Africa 
Minna Valjakka, University of Helsinki, Finland 

Migrations of the Self: Women’s Stories of Borders, Boundaries, and Becoming

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
Mussarat Shahid/ NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Modality: in-person only

Across cultures and histories, women have journeyed through visible and invisible migrations: geographic, emotional, spiritual, intellectual. This panel invites explorations of how these journeys and thresholds: both outer and inner, shape the evolution of selfhood. From the classroom to the kitchen, from the mother’s memory to the daughter's voice, from exile to homemaking, we seek narratives that dwell in moments and spaces of unfolding and becoming. These are stories of transition and tension, of belonging and othering, of rupture and reconciliation. 

Fascism and Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This session explores the intersection between fascism and literature, particularly theatre, to ask how theatrical works, as well as other forms of poetry and art, can become a space for anti-authoritarian interruption.How do we break the cyclical myth with which fascism enchants the masses?

Sports Area - NEPCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

This area probes North American and international intersections between sports, society, and culture. Among the topics welcomed are those probing:

NeMLA 2026 (Panel) Regenerative Blackness—Skin, Flesh, and the Future of Being

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
Zay Dale/ University of Kansas
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In her essay, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book,” Hortense Spillers articulates the enduring violence of racial enslavement through the concept of the “hieroglyphics of the flesh” (67). This term marks how the captive body, stripped of legal and social personhood, became inscribed with meaning through the violence of racial differentiation. This transformation rendered the Black body not only a surface upon which terror was written but also a metaphysical site from which alternative modes of being might be imagined. In attending to the duality of skin and flesh, Spillers distinguishes between Black skin as legible and social, and Black flesh as ungendered, unsovereign, and open—both wounded and full of radical potential. 

Queer-Class Relations Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Queer-Class Relations Conference

Call for Proposals

April 17-18, 2026

CUNY Graduate Center, New York City

 

CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center will host a Queer-Class Relations conference April 17-18, 2026. Proposals are due by September 1, 2025. Successful applicants will be required to register by November 15, 2025.

Sally Rooney: Her Novels

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
Northeast Modern Language Assocation (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This NeMLA session critically discusses the novels of Sally Rooney. We will ask: is Rooney's oeuvre a critique, a snapshot, a suggestion, or a warning about a way forward for fiction, the novel form, feminism, and contemporary culture?

View full CFP here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21883

 

Modality:

In Person Only: The session will be held fully in person at the hotel. No remote presentations will be included.

 

Questions/Comments:

Contact Kimberlyjcoates@gmail.com

Feeling the Nation: Emotion, Identity, and Memory in Literature and Media

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
NeMLA 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

What does it mean to experience national belonging through emotion? This session brings together papers that consider the layered connections among feeling, identity, and cultural memory as they unfold across literature and media. In periods marked by rupture or transformation, emotion often anchors or unsettles the stories through which nations come to know themselves. Heritage dramas steeped in nostalgia, literary depictions of estrangement, and audiovisual forms of cultural longing all point to this dynamic. National identity, in these works, emerges not as a fixed concept but as a lived and felt experience.

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