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'Variations of Anglophone Humor Studies'
A Special Issue of Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies
Edited by Kamil Chrzczonowicz and Jack Harrison (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Call for Chapter Proposals for Book on Abortion Related Theatre, Performance, and Protest
Edited by:
Angela Sweigart-Gallagher, Associate Professor of Performance and Communication Arts, St. Lawrence University (asweigart@stlawu.edu )
Victoria P. Lantz, Associate Professor of Theatre, Sam Houston State University (vicky.lantz@gmail.com)
We invite scholars to contribute to a forthcoming book, Abortion Performances: Staging and Protesting Reproductive Pasts, Presents, and Futures.
Media in Transition: The Stories We Tell, The Futures We Imagine
Edited by: Sangita Shresthova and Alfonso Hegde
Call for Submissions
Is artificial intelligence inevitable? Will it usher in a new era of creativity? Will it actually completely automate away all human creativity? How much agency do we have over AI? Is this the death of the author? Is this the end of original creative expression as we know it?
CFP: Post-9/11 Representation after 25 Years.
A special issue of the European Journal of American Culture 46.2 (Summer 2026):
Edited by:
Colin Halloran, Old Dominion University, chall032@odu.edu
Marc A. Ouellette, Old Dominion University, mouellet@odu.edu
Please submit an abstract to the panel session "International Bildungsroman" at this year's PAMLA conference , which takes takes place Nov. 20-23 in San Francisco.
In order to submit, use this link:
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19478
or go to www.pamla.org, use the Conference pulldown tab, go to 122nd Conference and follow the link for submissions there.
Description of panel theme below.
Email mjaptok@palomar.edu if you have any questions.
This panel session for RSA 2026 in San Francisco invites proposals for papers on early modern literature and narrative theory, broadly conceived. Papers might consider narrative perspective, focalization, and free indirect discourse; formalist, structuralist and poststructuralist approaches to early modern narrative; and genre theory. How might early modern narrative invite us to question some of the assumptions of narrative theory, with its traditional emphasis on the novel? What kind of narrative theory (or theories) does early modern literature offer us?
Please email 200-word abstracts to Eve Houghton (eh565@cam.ac.uk) by July 31, 2025.
Mediated Feminisms, Politics, and Pop Culture: An Intertextual Anthology
Date: 19-20 September 2025
Keynote Speaker: Hatim El-Hibri, George Mason University
Mode: In Person
Seeking original book chapters for a collection of essays on the influence of Gullah Geechee narratives and songs in contemporary American literature and culture, recognizing and cataloguing the long-overlooked contributions of the of the Sea Island people of the southeast coast of the United States. Interdisciplinary contributions encouraged.
Chapter length: approximately 6,000 words
Submit a proposal of 300-400 words via email by July 10th, 2025.
Feroza Jussawalla
Gerard Lavin
The international journal Jewish Film and New Media is currently seeking article-length manuscripts on international cinema, television, or other new media (e.g. YouTube videos, photographs, graphic novels) about or made by Jews. Of particular interest is consideration of texts deserving new or renewed consideration.
Submissions should be 8,000-10,0000 words in length following Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. Notes should appear at the end of the essay, in the same font size as the text, and double spaced.
Deadline for consideration in upcoming issues is September 1, 2025.
African American Gothic and Horror have begun to receive more focused scholarly attention in the last decade or so, and interest has only increased with the release of films such as Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) and Ryan Coogler’s recent box-office hit Sinners (2025). Meanwhile, Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Gothic forms have yet to receive much critical attention or attain cross-cultural success, a gap that is arguably due to prolonged histories of erasure and particular manifestations of anti-Blackness in these regions. This session aims to begin teasing out a framework of analysis for the sub-field of Afro-Latin American Gothic.
Date: October 17-19, 2025
Location: SMU Main Campus, Dallas, TX
Theme: Archetypes & Myths
Submission Deadline: August 29, 2025
Keynote(s): TBD
Graduate students of Southern Methodist University’s Departments of English, Anthropology, and History, in collaboration with the Moody School of Advanced Studies, Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute, and the department of English, have collaborated to hold the second annual Engaging Research Across the Humanities (ERAH) Conference at SMU from October 17th-October 19, 2025.
Synchronicity and Intuition: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences and Inner Knowing
an online transdisciplinary conference
Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/06/07/synchronicity-and-intuition/
July 23-24, 2025
Online, Via Zoom
Proposal deadline: July 1, 2025
Fees:
£100 (for both presenters and attendees)
Prices exclude booking fees
Home Sweet HOMES: The Literature and Art of the Great Lakes States
Calling all children's literature scholars! The Children's Literature panel at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference is accepting papers until June 30th or when the panel is filled. PAMLA will meet November 20th-23rd in San Francisco. To submit a paper visit the online PAMLA portal and create an account: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/
The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th – Saturday, October 11th. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Philosophy, Belief, and Pop Culture Area.
The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th – Saturday, October 11th. We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Area.
The Southern Humanities Conference, 2026
Call for Papers
Conference Theme: Tides and Time, Ebbs and Flows
Annapolis, MD, January 29- February 1, 2026
Historic Inns of Annapolis
The Southern Humanities Conference offers an opportunity for scholars, artists, writers, musicians, performers, and humanists of all kinds to share their knowledge, research, work, and experiences in an interdisciplinary, welcoming, and engaging intellectual space.
Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025
Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.
Topic - Reclaiming History: Trauma, Memory and Resilience in the Narratives from Africa
Deadline for Abstract/Proposal Submission - June 30th 2025
Overview -
Call for Papers - Following the recent success of our 'Languages of the Future' conference, we are delighted to announce a call for papers for a special issue of UCL online journal Think Pieces: https://thinkpieces-review.co.uk/
Think Pieces provides a host of different format opportunities. We are inviting academic essays of up to 3,000 words, but are also open to more create pieces such as narrative non-fiction and poetry.
(Call for Paper & Podcast ) - Peter Lang
Victorian literature is being fundamentally reimagined. What was once read through the lens of industrial realism, imperial narration, and bourgeois decorum is now being reassessed through new critical modes such as Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities, Food history, Ecocriticism, and Postcolonial re-readings. The aim of Rewriting the Victorian Imagination: Fables, Flesh, and Fluidity in Nineteenth-Century Literature is to consolidate and advance these reconfigurations by drawing together new research that unsettles the stable categories through which the “Victorian” has traditionally been understood.
Call for Submissions is open now!
Complete the submission form and send it to rhizomemind@gmail.com by September 30, 2025. Website: https://www.rhizomemind.com/festival
Hosted in-person and online at Slippery Rock University October 23-24 (online) and 25 (at Slippery Rock University’s main campus)
Presenters must be instructional faculty or students at a PASSHE institution - proposals from outside the PASSHE system cannot be accepted
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a quintessential blues narrative composed for the twenty-first century. The film embodies perspectives commonly found in blues-oriented expression, including songs, autobiographies, and interviews, not to mention Black fiction and poetry that thematizes and/or reflects blues-oriented music and blues criticism as well. But before academic scholars considered blues worthy of analysis, Langston Hughes wrote critically and creatively about blues music and the suffusion of its principles throughout much of Black expressive culture. In fact, he first observed a blues performance in his early teens, well before Mamie Smith’s recording “Crazy Blues” (1920) launched the classic blues era.
Bulletin on 10 June 2025: Final Week to Send Abstracts! Second Keynote Speaker Confirmed.
The Department of Communication at Saint Louis University’s Madrid, Spain campus announces an upcoming international, interdisciplinary conference that examines change from a wide panorama of angles.
The conference will take place across Thursday and Friday, 2-3 October 2025 on the SLU-Madrid Campus, close to central Madrid (seven metro stops from Puerta del Sol).
We invite abstracts of 250 words, plus up to six key words, by 15 June 2025. Decisions to invite candidates will happen shortly after the due date to assure adequate time for participants to make travel plans as needed.
Call for Journal Articles Now Open Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres (Volume 4) Following our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for publication consideration.
Our fifth annual online event addressed the theme of ‘sensing euphoric and dysphoric atmospheres’ in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Taking an embodied perspective, we seek journal articles that focus on the role of corporeal perception in making sense of lived experience.
Call for Reviews
For 2025 Journal Publication
We are pleased to announce a call for reviews for Volume 4 of our journal to be published in 2025.
Journal Articles(Volume 5)Call for PapersMaking, Remaking, and Limitations Following our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for publication consideration.
During our sixth annual online event, we discussed 'making, remaking, and limitations' in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Our questions focused on: How and why do people continue to make and remake culture? In what ways do they experience limitations when making and remaking culture, if any? What is the significance of the making and remaking of culture and whom is it for?
Food fests, feasts, and gatherings address the role of food in events, gatherings, celebrations, and ceremonies. Exploring how people incorporate ideas about food into festival culture, including history, heritage, tradition, creativity, and social and political factors.
In addition, it examines festivals in which food is not the main focus, yet contributes significantly to the atmosphere, memory, and tradition. It also looks at people's fascination with taste. In addition to examining these notions, we will also examine trends in the consumption and production of food.
Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026
In January 2025, just four days into the new Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that they had ended the so-called “Book Ban Hoax” by dismissing 11 pending civil rights complaints related to book bans in public schools and eliminating the position of Book Ban Coordinator – a position created by the Biden administration to address intellectual freedom violations in schools and federally-funded institutions.