Panel for the 2026 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
March 5–8, 2026 | Pittsburgh, PA
Wyndham Grand Downtown, at the Point
More information: https://www.nemla.org/convention/future.html

A few days before the Independence Day of India in 2023, the Special Police Unit for North-Eastern Region (SPUNER) under the Delhi police circulated a Google form to collect information on “North-Eastern People, Ladakhis & Gorkhas of Darjeeling residing in Delhi” for “better policing Safety & Security.” This incident raises serious concerns due to its discriminatory nature against these marginalized communities and poses security risks involved with the storage and ethical use of such data. This aspect of collecting information becomes even more pertinent during critical moments such as elections or the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.

Kate Chopin in the Classroom

The editors of this essay collection invite 250-word proposals for essays of 5,000 to 7,000 words that address an aspect of or strategy for teaching the fiction, poetry, nonfiction or life of nineteenth-century American author Kate Chopin in the contemporary classroom. What are effective strategies for high school and/or college-level students? How have you incorporated technology into your teaching of Chopin? What changes have you seen in the reception of your students over the years? For example, do they praise or condemn Edna Pontellier? What might this say about students today?

Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and should be no longer than 250 words.

Convocatoria POLIFONIA, Revista de estudios hispánicos Volumen XV, Año 2025Representaciones de la resistencia en la literatura y el cine (el mundo hispanohablante)

El consejo editorial de Polifonía se complace en hacer pública su nueva convocatoria para su decimoquinto volumen, “Representaciones de la resistencia en la literatura y el cine,” que se publicará de forma electrónica e impresa en el 2025.

Este volumen consta de dos partes: la primera aborda la resistencia en la literatura y el cine en el mundo hispanohablante (ver abajo), mientras la segunda es de tema misceláneo - es decir, abierto. 

57th Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2026

Conference Date: March 5-8, 2026

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30, 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.

Resources for American Literary Study, a journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2026 issues. Covering all periods and genres of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. Founded in 1971, RALS remains the only major scholarly periodical of its kind. Each issue includes, in addition to archival and bibliographical research, related book reviews and a unique “Prospects” essay that identifies new directions in the study of major authors. Our editorial board consists of leading scholars from an array of fields and subfields in American literary study.

Housekeepers: The Latina Maid in American Popular Culture, Myra Mendible, Editor

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Imaginations of the Womb – Uterine Imaginaries

Graduate Student Workshop

 Princeton University, November 20–21, 2025

Organized by Marie-Louise James and Erica Passoni (German Department)

Call for chapter proposals for an edited volume

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Ecospirituality in Asia:

Narratives of Care, Conservation, and Sustainability

This in-person roundtable invites creative writing instructors to reflect on current challenges and opportunities in teaching the art and craft of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama.

At a time when the humanities face increasing scrutiny, creative writing courses remain spaces where students actively engage in imaginative thinking, narrative experimentation, and the articulation of personal and collective experiences. But how do we design workshops and other course structures that are inclusive, innovative, and responsive to our students' needs and voices?

Since his debut inFantastic Four #48, the Silver Surfer has become an integral part of Marvel Comic’s sprawlinguniverse. In his six-decade existence, the character has been featured in merchandise and Marvel’s transmedia properties, including cartoons, movies, video games, and podcasts. 
 
While there exists a smattering of academic research on the Silver Surfer, this edited collection welcomes differing perspectives on thischaracter. We welcome contributions from different disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, including comics studies, film and media studies, communication, theology, literary criticism, and so on. 

This panel seeks to investigate the intersection of postmodernism and horror cinema in the 21st century, highlighting shifts in themes, the rise of new filmmakers, innovative production techniques, and the ways in which the genre has absorbed and requalified postmodernist conventions. Comparative studies among American, European, and/or non-Western cinema are encouraged.

All papers submitted to this symposium must be related to results and research in or about English language; comparative, dissemination, multidisciplinary, etc. papers will also be accepted.

The proposed topics cover a variety of lines of work, including:

2026 NeMLA Annual Convention

March 5-8, 2026

Wyndham Grand Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA

Call for Papers for in-person panel:

On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the formation of the United States of America, this panel seeks papers that examine US national identity as it is represented in textual form.  Specifically, we seek papers that analyze literary texts—novels, stories, poems, and plays—that speak to the characteristics of American identity and ultimately offer an answer to the question, “What does it mean to be ‘American’?”