Call for submission of academic articles on William Carlos Williams for consideration by the William Carlos Williams Review. Articles must be between 20 to 30 pages in length. All topics welcome. Queries to the editor at copers@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions: July 28, 2025. To submit, register as an author and upload your article here: https://www.editorialmanager.com/wcwr/default.aspx

This panel invites papers that examine how early modern women were imagined and represented across genres and cultural contexts. From historical figures to literary characters, how were women positioned in relation to authority, virtue, sexuality, or empire?  How were women written, circulated, obscured, or celebrated in early modern texts? What roles did women play in shaping narratives of gender, race, and power? This panel welcomes work that attends to both the forms of representation and the structures that produced or obscured women’s presence in the early modern world. What kinds of authority or ambivalence did gendered figures carry, and how did race, class, and empire shape their depiction or erasure?

British cultural production has a long history of foreclosure. Understood as a premature abandonment, or an abortive failure, of radical political projects, foreclosure has an imaginative and material register in working-class writing, which has been read since the 1930s as failing to experiment, relying on realism without meaningful engagement with questions of literary form. This view has been challenged by literary scholars, who have demonstrated that formal experimentation did exist, though not in ways that comfortably align with the usual reading of middle-class modernism (Clarke Working Class Writing, 2018).

Institute of Faith and the Academy Conference 

Call for Papers 

September 26, 2025 

Theme: Writing's on the Wall

10th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues

in Language and Literature

to be held online for the purpose of presenting unpublished research findings in English

on November 13th-14th, 2025.

The leitmotif of the conference is:

Totality and fragmentation

in literature, linguistics, philosophy and culture

The Old English Literature session is open to any and all papers that explore some aspect of Old English poetry, prose, and/or Beowulf studies. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.

Please submit an abstract here: 

 https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19648

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PAMLA 2025 Theme:

Critical Minerals Symposium

7 November 2025
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Keynote Speaker: Associate Professor Tom Nurmi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Recent geopolitical contestations over Ukraine’s rare earths, global debates on ‘critical’ minerals in the context of green energy transitions, and growing scholarly engagement – such as Museum and Society’s recent special issue on minerals – have all highlighted the ethical, political, and environmental stakes of minerals.

CFP Tiphys #1, Dopo il palazzo: la nascita della polis

Editor: Massimo Cultraro (CNR-ISPC), Giancarlo Germanà Bozza (Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo)

Deadline per l’invio dei contributi: 30 giugno 2025

La complessa storia dell’Egeo tra la fine del II e gli inizi del I millennio a.C. è segnata dal passaggio da strutture socio-politiche centralizzate e gerarchiche, identificate nel modello del palazzo miceneo, a comunità sul territorio che si riorganizzano in centri abitati di nuova formazione.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 18 OF Katherine Mansfield Studies
THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY
PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
on the theme of
KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S MEN
Editors
Dr Erika Baldt and Dr Gerri Kimber
Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2025
‘Everything must ring like elizabethan english and like those gentlemen I always seem to be
mentioning ‘the Poets’. There is a light upon them especially upon the elizabethans and our
‘special’ set – Keats, W.W. Coleridge Shelley De Quincey and Co. […] Those are the people
with whom I want to live – those are the men I feel are our brothers’. (Letter to John

'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)

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?  

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.

Mediated Feminisms, Politics, and Pop Culture: An Intertextual Anthology 

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

fjussawa@unm.edu

Gerard Lavin

jerrylavin@hotmail.com

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.

Home Sweet HOMES: The Literature and Art of the Great Lakes States

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 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.

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
 

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.

We invite proposals for an edited collection of essays on Adaptation and the work of Terry Pratchett. The book proposal will be submitted to Palgrave Macmillan or Bloomsbury Academic’s Perspectives on Fantasy series in the Spring of 2026. 

Scare Packages:

Horror Anthology Films of the Twenty-First Century

edited by David Scott Diffrient

Ekphrasis, the verbal representation of visual representation, is one of art’s oldest preoccupations. Over the past decade, we have seen a rise in both ekphrastic poetry and visual art that responds to poetry. Concurrently, there has been a new wave of interest in the efficacy and function of ekphrasis, that focuses on its role as a type of creative practice and a way of thinking through aesthetic judgement. Despite all this activity, no formal consideration of the field of ekphrasis itself has emerged. As such, we are holding a cross-disciplinary symposium on contemporary ekphrasis called ‘Ek’.

Call for Book Chapters -- Fans, Fandoms, and Tabletop Roleplaying Games deadline for submissions: June 15, 2025 full name / name of organization: Fans, Fandoms, and Tabletop Roleplaying Games contact email: fans.fandoms.and.ttrpgs@gmail.com 

Call for Book Chapters
on Fans, Fandoms, and Tabletop Roleplaying Games

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, June 15, 2025

Contact email:fans.fandoms.and.ttrpgs@gmail.com 

Editors: 

Maria K. Alberto, University of Utah

Adrianna Burton, University of California – Irvine