Many notable comic book scholars highlight Alan Moore as one of the most ambitious writers in mainstream American and British comics. Along with writers like Grant Morrison and artists like Dave McKean, Moore was part of the so-called “British Invasion” of the American comic book industry in the 1980s, and artists of this period are credited as bringing an air of credibility as well as transforming the artistic standards of the medium. Greg Carpenter, for instance, likens the work of these artists to “Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, elevating the English language into a vehicle for poetic drama.

Call for proposals: no-stage PressCritical Ballet Studies 

no-stage press invites submissions for its inaugural publication, dedicated to critical ballet studies. We seek academic articles, critical essays, and interviews that interrogate the histories, aesthetics, and power structures embedded in ballet and ballet-adjacent forms.

The theme for this year’s MMLA conference explores the relational dynamics inherent in an archive. Since Derrida’s Archive Fever, the role of the archive has been conceived as a site for both the storage and construction of memory. What is selected and how it is framed by the archival materials works both to capture memory and history and shape how something or someone should be remembered. In keeping with this theme, the permanent section for comics and graphic novels is interested in research that interrogates the intersection of comic studies and the archive.

British literature of the 1800s has a close relationship to archival forms and practices. With a boom in bureaucratic record-keeping, extensive imperial documentation, meticulous medical and legal case histories, and the development of libraries and institutional archives, Victorian literary texts frequently include, copy, or contest letters, ledgers, case files, diaries, and serialized records. By engaging with and appropriating formal aspects of “the archive,” Victorian literature often blurred the boundaries between history and literature, fact and fiction, what is real and what is constructed. But who was keeping records? And of whom?

National Seminar on “Brihattar Bharat” (Greater India): Connecting the Asian Countries”

25 and 26 May 2026

Department of Philosophy DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur,

in collaboration with

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata

ABOUT THE SEMINAR

Please consider submitting abstracts for a guaranteed stream of panels on Early American Environments to be held at next year’s Society of Early Americanists conference (March 18-20, 2027, Chicago; https://www.societyofearlyamericanists.org/conferences/upcoming). We are interested in scholarship that considers questions of environment and ecology in the early Americas, broadly defined to include the transatlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific worlds. How are concerns such as climate change, extractivism, and environmental justice or methodologies such as ecocriticism shaping our reading of early American texts and materials?

Scholars are encouraged to contribute articles about the Grateful Dead and reviews of Grateful Dead-and-related performances and media for consideration for publication in the field’s refereed journal, Grateful Dead Studies. Accepted pieces from the current submission cycle will be published in volume 8 (2027 / 2028) of the journal.

Article submission deadline: 1 August 2026

Review submission deadline: 1 September 2026

Grateful Dead Studies is also seeking qualified reviewers interested in supporting the peer review process. Please reach out if you would like to help scholarly discourse about the Grateful Dead thrive.

Who Is This For? The Access Illusion of XR

Immersive Impact Review — Issue 2 Call for Submissions

Open Date: 4/1/26

Closing Date:  5/15/26

The Immersive Impact Review invites submissions for its second issue around the theme of “Who Is This For? The Access Illusion of XR.” The Review is an open-access publication dedicated to advancing knowledge at the intersection of immersive technologies and social good.  It is published by the Immersive Experience Alliance with funding from Agog.  

IMAGINATION, MEDIATION, & MANIFESTATION

Inaugural Graphic Medicine Europe Conference X Cross Comix
9-12 September 2026
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & De Doelen Rotterdam

CALL FOR FINAL CHAPTERS TO COMPLETE COLLECTION

We are now looking for chapters specifically on the work of Madeleine Miller, Pat Barker, and Jennifer Saint. Please see the full CFP below. Please send all abstracts (no more than 500 words) and short biographies to the editors by Friday 8th May 2026.  The editors are: Isabelle Berrow (isabelle.berrow1@yorksj.ac.uk) Zoe Enstone (Z.Enstone@yorksj.ac.uk) and Anne-Marie Evans (A.Evans@yorksj.ac.uk)

Workshop and Special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents

Title: “Seeds of Empire, Roots of Change: Botany and the Atlantic World.”  
 
Location: Saint Louis University Campus, Madrid, Spain (March 11–12, 2027)

Organizers: Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, The Center for Iberian Historical Studies, and Saint Louis University, Madrid.

Call for Papers

SHONDALAND

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2026 SWPACA Summer Salon

June 25-27, 2026

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 30, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Eco-Bordering and Green Nationalism: Spatial Transformations in the South Asian Diaspora

Guest Editors:

Dr. Mansi Bose, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India 

&

Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India 

Rationale

This call seeks proposals for 18-minute talks to be presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Seattle, Nov. 12-15, 2026.

The Spanish and Portuguese (Latin American) session is open to all papers exploring some aspects of Latin American Spanish and Portuguese literature and cultures. It is a dynamic forum for scholarly exchange, collaboration, and engagement with these interconnected regions' rich cultural heritage and diverse perspectives.

We are particularly interested in papers that touch on:

• Contemporary Literature and Culture

• Cultural Studies

• History and Culture

• Literature, Arts, and other Media

• Visual and Performing Arts

• The conference theme, "Our Ruling Classes"

The 21st century has been defined by large-scale global change driven by migration, exile, border reconfigurations, political upheaval, and shifting power dynamics – all of which have profoundly shaped debates surrounding human rights, identity, culture, and belonging. Furthermore, as digital platforms collapse geographic distance and intensify new forms of surveillance, nationalism, and exclusion, diasporic subjects must navigate complex landscapes of memory, language, race, gender, and political belonging.

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the players come with their own requests (“Write me a prologue”, Botttom asks), in a hilarious example of group-working. In Hamlet, as the Prince of Denmark gets ready to take action, one of his first decisions is to appoint himself as co-writer of The Murder of Gonzago: “You could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines which I would set down and insert in’t, could you not?” (2.2.5.528-30). Both examples show the nuts and bolts of early modern stage practice, in which co-writing was commonplace. 

DEADLINE EXTENDED

“There is more savagery, more brutality, in the pages of Wuthering Heights than in any novel of the nineteenth century, and, for good measure, more beauty too, more poetry, and, what is more unusual, a complete lack of sexual emotion…” Daphne du Maurier.

This panel seesion for the 2026 RMMLA Conference to be held Ocober 8-10, 2026 in Ogden, Utah, seeks papers that explore all aspects of English literature of the twentieth century to present, namely proposals that look at British or ex-patriot artists and/or works by those authors whose English Commonwealth residency influenced their art since 1900. Interdisciplinary approaches to anlyses of the literature are welcome.

Textual Bodies: Incarnation, Corporeality, and Affective Materialities through Literature
6th Meeting of Young Researchers of the SELGyC

Faculty of Philology — Complutense University of Madrid
September 16–17, 2026

«Write yourself: your body must be heard»
Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa

«The text you write must prove to me that it desires me»
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am seeking short (3,500-word) chapters for The Works of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, which will be an edited volume dedicated to Didion and Dunne’s lives in film.

The American couple were a prolific and popular screenwriting team despite being much better known for their respective novels, memoirs, and journalism. Accordingly, the volume will take into account both their produced and many unproduced screenplays—the latter of which are held in Didion and Dunne’s papers at the New York Public Library.

Call for Papers

dialog, No. 46, Autumn 2025

dialog, a Peer-reviewed, Bi-annual International Journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India is open to submissions for its next issue, No. 46, Autumn 2025 (ISSN: 0975 - 4881) (final stages of publication). dialog provides a forum for interdisciplinary research on diverse aspects of culture, society and literature. For its 46th issue, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University specifically invites:

Call for Book Chapters

From Page to Screen: An Examination of Comic Book to Television Adaptation

Edited by Ryan Twomey and Sebastian Sparrevohn

The advancement of artificial intelligence has transformed humanities research and education, deepening computation’s influence on scholarly practice and everyday life. From the early era of “humanities computing” in the 1970s to the rise of “computational humanities” over the past decade, this trajectory highlights the enduring—and expanding—role of computation in shaping inquiry across the humanities. These intersections are especially visible in interdisciplinary work. As T. S. Eliot observes, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” The same spirit can illuminate how methods and tools migrate across fields.