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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
The Final Frontier: Race, Ecology & Colonialism in Space Opera
Edited by Mikail Boz & Cenk Tan
Editors’ Introduction
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
REIMAGINING FRANKENSTEIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Cross-Cultural Adaptations in Visual Culture
Edited by Cenk Tan & Defne Ersin Tutan
Editors’ Introduction
MIRROR 2025
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
NEW DIRECTIONS IN NARRATOLOGY
Organised by
PG Department of English, St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Science (Autonomous), Manjakuppam, Cuddalore.
Date : 12th December 2025, Friday
Time : 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
Venue : St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Science (Autonomous), Cuddalore.
Mode : Offline and Online presentations are accepted.
Key Note Speakers:
Dr. S. Samuel Rufus, PhD
Associate Professor of English
& Dean, International Programmes
Madras Christian College (Autonomous), Chennai, India.
The ground falling from beneath your feet, the cliff’s edge barely holding you aloft, the free fall in open air. Cinematic representations of falling and nearly plummeting from great heights have long been around as an arbiter of suspense and a literal visualization of the classic “cliffhanger,” with origins to such a visual tracing back to the silent film era and actor Harold Lloyd dangling from the hands of a clock in Safety Last! (1923) Falling and dizzying heights have been featured over the years in a variety of forms and often successfully serve as a device to drive the plot forward or signify its climax. We see examples of villains and heroes alike battling on skyscrapers in DC and Marvel universe adaptations.
Bridges and Borders: Material Actualities
March 19-21, 2026 | Proposals Due by January 15th, 2026
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom
Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.
CONTACT: bridgesandborders@andrew.cmu.edu
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: TBA.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Call For Papers
The Erotica, Sexuality, Pornography, & Kink Area of the National Popular Culture Association (PCA) invites scholars to participate in the PCA’s annual conference. Details of the conference can be found at https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines
Astrology in Focus:
Navigating Art, Psyche, and Knowledge
A Transdisciplinary Conference
January 18-20, 2026
Proposal Submission Deadline: December 1, 2025
Format: Online
Fee: 100 GBP
Call for Papers:
“Astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity”, Carl Jung
Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research: A Transdisciplinary Conference
Proposal Submission Deadline: November 9, 2025
Conference Dates: December 8-9, 2025
Location: online
Fees: £100 (non-members)
Call for Papers
Call for Papers for a special issue of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry on “Concrete and Visual Poetries in Britain, Ireland, and Beyond”, edited by Colin Herd and Greg Thomas.
Send 250-300 word abstracts for 5,000-7,000-word articles to ConcreteAndVisualPoetries@gmail.com by 10 January 2026.
Call for Book Chapters
Frankensteinian Resonance: Transtemporal Reanimations in Fiction, Film, and Video
“Under Strong Interest” by Palgrave Macmillan
Editors’ Introduction
Call for Book Chapters
The Plant Turn: Literature, Ecology, and the Green Imagination Across Periods
“Under Strong Interest” by Bloomsbury Academic's Critical Plant Studies
Editor’s Introduction
The 17th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference
February 21st, 2026, Saturday, University of Texas at DallasCall For Papers: RAW 2026
Call for Papers
Food and Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
Call for Papers
Food and Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
Special issue of Comunicazioni Sociali: Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies
Embodied Rhythms. Interdisciplinary Takes on the Perception of Rhythm in Reality, Arts, Cinematic and Immersive Experience
Edited by Adriano D’Aloia, Ruggero Eugeni, and Maria Alessandra Umiltà
In recent years, the study of rhythm has regained centrality across multiple disciplinary fields — from film and media theory to cognitive neuroscience, from aesthetics to performance studies. This special issue aims to explore rhythm as an embodied and perceptual structure that organizes audiovisual experience in both cinematic and immersive environments.
The College of Arts and Humanities at Bethune-Cookman University welcomes proposals for the annual Zora Neale Hurston Conference, which will be held virtually on February 12-13, 2026. “Their Eyes were Watching Words: Publishing, Editing, and Censorship” is a tribute to Hurston’s skilled navigation of the complex world of publishing and censorship. Our invited speakers this year are Roxane Gay and Dana Williams.
You are invited to submit scholarly, pedagogical, or creative proposals exploring any of the following:
The English department at Duke University is thrilled to host the 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on February 20-21, 2026.
The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies.
Monstrous Bodies: From Frankenstein to the Posthuman
Saint Louis University Madrid, April 23-24, 2026
Call for Abstracts
Tracks and Practices: Rethinking Artist Residencies
Symposium, part of OULU 2026 – European Capital of Culture
21–22 August 2026 | Oulu & Varjakka, Finland
As part of the project Tiny Spaces – Deep Connections, we invite proposals for participation in the upcoming symposium Tracks and Practices: Rethinking Artist Residencies, taking place between Oulu and Varjakka on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd August 2026.
Call for Chapters: Bodies That Breathe – The Politics of Air, Health, and Survival
Volume 1 of the “Earth and Us” Book Series
Earth and Us is a twelve-volume inquiry into how environmental breakdown and social inequality intertwine, bringing together feminist, queer, and decolonial perspectives. The inaugural volume, Bodies That Breathe, explores the politics of air, health, and survival.
17 th Debrupa Bal Memorial International Students’ Seminar
2-3 December 2025
Organized by the students of
Department of Comparative Literature
Jadavpur University
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECTATORIAL-ITY: RECEPTION/ REGENERATION/ REPRODUCTION
2nd Call for Chapter Proposals
for Essay Collection
How Scripted TV Series Portray Social Media’s Power to Shape Culture
Announcing
The 2026 First Book Institute
May 31-June 6, 2026
Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University
Co-Directors
Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature
Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book
Call for Presentations for the Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association
We invite presentations about War after 1945, covering any of the following general topics with special attention to popular culture:
Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan; Cold War and Global War on Terrorism; military interventions and peacekeeping missions involving Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. We particularly welcome papers that look at pop culture in light of the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
Presentations may focus on writers and artists: original fiction, poetry, memoirs, drama, art, music, film, and television.
Panel Title:
Transnational Black Childhood and Practices of Maronnage
Conference:
Rutgers University-Camden, Childhood Studies Department
“The Transnational Child Strikes Back: Transnational Desires and Childhoods of Empire ”
June 11-13th, 2026
Camden NJ
Organiser Contact Info:
Samira Abdur-Rahman, The College of New Jersey, abdurras@tcnj.edu
Panel Description:
GC Secular journal invites submissions of original fiction and non-fiction for its first edition devoted to World Cinema. The aim of this issue is to open a space for writing that responds to cinema across languages, regions, and cultures, and to highlight how film travels, transforms, and shapes public imagination. We welcome analytical, creative, and research-oriented work that engages with cinema as an artform, a cultural memory, and a global conversation.
About the Theme
This special panel to be held in the Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association seeks 15-20 minute conference presentations from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives examining any and all aspects of the emerging trend of “reality shifting” in relation to popular culture, particularly that of Generation Z.
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
NEW Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025
The Generational Studies area of the Popular Culture Association 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), and iGen (Gen Z). If your paper is accepted, you will be presenting at the 2026 Popular Culture Association national conference, held at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, April 8-1.
We invite submissions from individuals and organized panels (3 or 4 persons), focusing on topics related to:
The Journalism & Media Culture area of the Popular Culture Association requests proposals on diverse topics, including journalism and media-related issues and subjects that can be local, regional, national, and/or international and can deal with historical or contemporary times. If your paper is accepted, you will be presenting at the 2026 Popular Culture Association national conference, held at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, April 8-1.
Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers that do not exceed 15 minutes each. We can also accept proposals for special panels and for sessions organized around a journalism/media-related theme.
CALL FOR PAPERS
for a joint symposium to be hosted by the
Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and Lydia Maria Child Society
Williamsburg, Virginia
June 24-27, 2026
(Deadline for proposals: February 5, 2026)
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Lydia Maria Child Society invite proposals for a joint symposium to be held on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, June 24-27, 2026.
Feeling haunted by that unfinished conference proposal? We've got just the Halloween treat for you: a two-week extension -- now accepted through November 14!
Mathematics and engineering are often confined to academic settings, yet they form the foundation of life and popular culture alike. When we examine engineering marvels in movies, books, and other media, we uncover rich symbolism and deeper meanings that reveal how these disciplines shape our understanding of the world.
Panels are now forming on topics related to all aspects of mathematics and engineering and their intersection with popular culture. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):
Call for Papers—DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Myth and Fairy Tales Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
EXTENDED proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2025
Mystery / Detective Fiction Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
EXTENDED proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2025
Poems Invited for dec 2025 Issue of Taj Mahal Review 48th Issue
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:
Deadline for proposals has been extended to 15 November 2025!
This edited volume extends the project initiated by the Korean Studies 2025 special section “Feminist Korean Studies,” which deployed feminist critique across digital media, popular culture, legal discourse, public health, neoliberalism, and postcoloniality. Building on that foundation, the volume invites interdisciplinary, interregional, and bilingual feminist scholarship to address pressing global and regional developments: the rise of right-wing authoritarianism, intensified anti-feminist backlash in South Korea, and the persistent marginalization of feminist discourse in Anglophone Korean Studies.
Call for papers – International PhD and early-career symposium
Seeing the Other Empire: British Travel Writing and Imperial Rivalry in Europe and the Near East, 1783–1914
University of Strasbourg, 24 April 2026
Organisers: Arman Martirosyan and Suheyla-Hacer Sahin
Research group SEARCH (UR 2325)
In 2025, broad legislative and cultural backlash is focused on eliminating even the idea of trans people from public space. When public space is inaccessible, online communities have, for more than the past twenty years, been a place where trans people can still find one another, self-represent, and build their own publics. Now the walled world of the app economy, organized personal attacks, discriminatory social media algorithms, ID verification laws, and government intervention are changing the internet too. At such a moment, understanding the ways that trans people navigate their digital worlds is more important than ever.
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
Description:
In honor of Jack London's 150th birthday anniversary in 2026, paper submissions are invited for the Jack London Society panels at the American Literature Association 37th Annual Conference, May 20-23, 2026,Palmer House 17 East Monroe Street, Chicago, IL. Papers may address any aspect of Jack London studies. Send a 250-to-300 word abstract for a twenty-minute presentation to Kenneth K. Brandt at kbrandt@scad.edu by January 26, 2026. Include a brief biographical sketch and any AV equipment needs.
Neurodivergence and Fandom
The Neurodivergent Studies area and the Fandom Studies area are excited to announce a joint panel on Neurodivergence in Fandom! Neurodivergence can have a big impact on the ways that people interact with popular culture, and this can be seen in the ways that neurodivergent folks approach fandom. This panel seeks to understand different approaches or experiences when it comes to neurodivergence in/and fandom!
Some possible topics include:
The English department at Duke University is thrilled to host the 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on February 20-21, 2026.
The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies.
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
“War & Culture”
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
NEW Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
“Horror (Literary & Cinematic)”
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
NEW Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025
Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2026
Call for Papers on the Theme: “Transformation”
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville – March 14-15, 2026
The Graduate Students in English at University of Arkansas in Fayetteville invite proposals on the theme “Transformation,” a topic as broad as the literary and academic canons themselves. As we bear witness to changes in higher education landscapes across disciplines, we might consider how our own perceptions have evolved, what has been reliable in scholarship historically, and what needs to adapt.
*****Deadline extension till 1 December 2025*****
(In)Secure Fictions: South Asia and 9/11
The esoteric, occult, and magical roots of deep ecology have become increasingly interconnected with the growing popularity of witchcraft practices, neopagan worldviews, and explicitly spiritual climate activism and environmentalism. These developments include specific foci on particular ecological concerns and crises, but such trends are equally exemplified by transdisciplinary dialogues in which holistic scientific perspectives intersect with diverse systems of belief. This special panel seeks 15-20 conference presentations to explore these connections and their influence on, reception by, and expression through popular culture in any and all of its manifestations.
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
Annual Conference
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
NEW Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025