SEEKING BOOK CHAPTER AUTHORS: Women and social media through a global lens - edited collection (under contract)

We are seeking authors for an interdisciplinary edited volume examining women’s roles in social media as both producers and consumers across global contexts. This collection explores the personal, political, social, and economic dimensions of this digital activity through the examination of global regions.

Chapters are organized by region. Remaining regions include:

• Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands)

Each chapter will contain the following sections:

The Aquatic Presence-Absence in World Literatures

Critical Language and Literary Studies (CLLS) invites original, unpublished research articles for a themed issue to be published in Fall 2026. The theme is examining aquatic presences and absences in world literatures.

REMINDER: Submission deadline June 15th!

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS/ACAS 2026

The Southern Gothic is not merely a regional offshoot of the Gothic tradition—it is a dynamic cultural mode shaped by the histories, violences, mythologies, and contradictions of the American South. Rooted in hauntings both literal and structural, the Southern Gothic interrogates race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, ecology, labor, memory, and the ongoing afterlives of history. Its borders—like its landscapes and bodies—are unstable, porous, and contested.

Creative Textual Reuse & Research (PAMLA Conference in Seattle, November 2026)

William Faulkner and Louise Erdrich

A Conference Sponsored by the Center for Faulkner Studies

Southeast Missouri State University

Cape Girardeau, Missouri

October 22-24, 2026

Deadline for proposals is 15 May 2026. You will receive a decision no later that 1 July 2026. 

The conference runs from 29 September - 1 October. On-site attendance only. The conference is held in Aarhus, Denmark. 

See full programme here: https://conferences.au.dk/gastro/programme 

Read more about contributions and send your paper proposal: https://conferences.au.dk/gastro/call-for-contributions 

About the conference

Call for Papers (FINAL CALL - May 31, 2026)

Journal of West Indian Literature Special Issue on Caribbean Health Humanities

 November 2027

Special issue editors: Jarrel De Matas and April Shemak

The CCCC’s 2027 Convention (April 14-17, 2027 in Miwaukee, WI) invites us to “imagine and design” our preferable, potentially even preposterous, writing futures; this panel imagines those futures through place-based education (PBE).

We invite you to submit scholarly or creative work to the 91st Annual Conference of the Indiana College English Association. As a regional affiliate of the College English Association, anyone in our region (Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky) is encouraged to participate.

Call for Papers (Rolling Basis)

Karto-Teka Gdańska

An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the University of Gdańsk and the Pomeranian Philosophical-Theological Society, Karto-Teka Gdańska invites submissions on an ongoing, rolling basis for future online-first publication.

Founded in 2017, Karto-Teka Gdańska is an international, peer-reviewed journal committed to interdisciplinary dialogue across the humanities, philosophy, history, theology, cultural studies, and related fields.

Scope and Focus

PAEDEIA: NSU Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences, and LawCall for Papers

Vol. 2, 2026

*"Online First" publication upon acceptance

*Expected print publication in December 2026

The Indian diaspora is the largest diaspora community in the world, with an approximate population of 35.4 million. From the migration of the indentured labour force during the colonial period to the mass immigration of educated Indians to overseas countries in the late twentieth century, the Indian diaspora has indeed become a global phenomenon. Expanding migration circuits, job and business opportunities, shifting lifestyles, skilled and semi-skilled labour force, among others, have resulted in significant socioeconomic mobility, especially over the last 25 years. Besides making significant contributions to varied fields, the Indian diaspora has also arguably brought changes in how others have traditionally seen India.

Setting the stage: a theatre and performance dissertation writing group

Writing a dissertation can be lonely: we want to change that. Many of us first fell in love with theater because — through exploratory rehearsals, late-night tech runs, and joyful opening nights — we found camaraderie and connection, both of which can feel distant in graduate school. If theater is best practiced with others, how can our research and writing processes be shaped by the same commitment to community-building? 

This edited volume explores the interrelations between disability and addiction within Japanese literary literature. By focusing strictly on literary representations—and excluding media studies—this collection aims to examine how embodiment, social normativity, and deviance are negotiated through culturally specific frameworks.

The editors invite contributions for the following four sections

1. Disability in Japanese Literature (3 Articles)

Whether we teach at an R1 university, liberal arts college, community college, or other institution, our work as scholars depends upon our students. Within the context of generative AI, declining support for the Humanities, and the rapidly changing landscape of higher education, this roundtable places pedagogy at the center by inviting participants to share practical, classroom-tested approaches to teaching the Renaissance at the college level.

Call For Papers

Indigeneity and Sustainable Foodways: Planetary Challenges

from the Global South

Editors:

Shreyasi Dasgupta, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur

University

Sayan Mazumder, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur

University

Debashree Dattaray, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University

FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks submissions to our blog, available at BLOG | Femspec

Those interested in publishing on the Femspec blog do NOT need to be subscribed to the journal.

INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL CONFERENCE

SILENCE(D): ILLUSORY ABSENCES AND DENIED PRESENCES

University of Florence (Italy), 26th-27th October 2026

Link to the call for papers (in Italian and English): https://www.dottoratolinletcult.unifi.it/upload/sub/News/CallForPapers_Silcenced_UNIFI%20(1).pdf

Synchronicity and Intuition: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences and Inner Knowing
an online transdisciplinary conference

June 15-16, 2026

Online, Via Zoom

Proposal deadline: May 15, 2026

Fees:
£100 (for both presenters and attendees)
Prices exclude booking fees

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/03/16/synchronicity/ 

This panel explores how Latin American and Latine writers, filmmakers, and artists engage environmental elements as dynamic forces shaping human experience, identity, and social life. Grounded in the environmental humanities, the panel examines how cultural production renders visible the entanglements between ecological conditions and forms of movement, including migration, displacement, circulation, and transformation across human and more-than-human worlds.

In April 2026, I attended Shauna M. Morgan, Angel Dye, and Madison (Mocha) Hunter's College Language Association panel discussion: “Scripting Soul Work: The Infusive Praxis of Poet-Scholars.” In their talk, each panelist discussed—in prose like fashion—her relationship with her creative and scholarly self, and, in the spirit of Barbara Christian's 1987 “The Race for Theory,” they argued the significance of creative writing to Black and brown folk scholarship and being, which they supported with a reading of their selected poetic works.

Continuing the interdisciplinary tradition of the International Language, Literature and Culture (LLC) Conference Series, the 12th International Language, Literature and Culture Conference, jointly organized by Çankaya University and Bournemouth University, will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Süleyman Demirel University on 21–24 October 2026. Scholars and researchers are cordially invited to contribute to the conference under the theme “Human, Environment and Ecology.”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Speculative Embodiment: Dramaturgical Approaches to Subtext in Shakespeare
Special Session | PAMLA 123rd Annual Conference

Conference Dates: November 12–15, 2026
Location: Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell St., Seattle, WA 98101
Abstract Deadline: May 25, 2026
Format: In-person only
Session Area: Drama, Theater, and Performance / British and Anglophone
Presiding Officers: Kristen Tregar (Independent Scholar) and Sam Kolodezh (University of California – San Diego)

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Pedagogy and Praxis (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)

The Pedagogy and Praxis roundtable will explore all aspects of pedagogy and teaching praxis as experienced or theorized by English, Modern Languages, and Humanities educators. Topics of interest might include:

· Theoretical and practical responses to the rise of large language model/generative AI

· Classroom methods and assignments that foster students’ literary analysis skills and that reduce reliance of AI tools

· Recent trends in higher education and high school teaching of the humanities

· Innovations and emerging research in pedagogy