An Edited Volume by
Ruchika Hooda
Assistant Professor at Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), Ambala

Ms. Diksha
Assistant Professor in the Dept. of English at Chandigarh University, Chandigarh

A Volume

Editors
Dr Swastick Sen Chowdhury
Assistant Professor & Head in the Department of Economics, Bhatter College, Dantan (Autonomous)

Dr Supratik Guha
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics at Shahid Matangini Hazra Government General Degree College for Women
 

To be published under the book series

About the Volume

Cognitive Ecologies: Thinking With, Through, and Against Environments
A Special Issue of The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

Complete articles of up to 5,000 words due 30 September 2026. Personal essays, photo essays, poetry, and translation also invited.

Summon the muse!

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Netrokona University, Bangladesh is delighted to inform that it is going to publish its double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal Sphaira: Journal of Arts and Humanities, volume 2, in December, 2026. Scholarly articles in English addressing contemporary issues within the fields of literature, linguistics, language teaching, education, fine arts, performance studies, folklore studies, cultural studies, literary theory, and history and archeology are called for publication in its second volume.

Manuscript development guidelines:

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.

Panel Chair: Noah Gallego, M.A.Contact: noahrgallego@gmail.comDates: March 6 - 9, 2027Location: Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island While the exact calendrical origin of punk rock is nebulous, many credit 1977 as year zero. 1977 saw the release of the eponymous debut album of “the only band that matters,” The Clash, among several other iconic releases, including but not limited to: The Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, The Ramones’ Rocket to Russia, Talking Heads' Talking Heads: 77, The Damned’s Damned Damned Damned, and The Runaways’ Queens of Noise.

Abstract

Demanding that student writers maintain an objective, third-person stance when writing academic essays persists in the academy. However, we hold that providing students with strategies that help them develop a hospitable mindset in the writing process, one in which they aim to make a meaningful connection with their readers through the use of both first person and personal experience, does not diminish the scholarly rigor of college-level work. Moreover, by adopting the attitude that student writing is not immediately designed for publication, educators can focus on helping students find ways to connect with readers while cultivating their own writing styles.

Description

CFP: 3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Department of English, University of Zululand and the Department of English and Literary Studies, Federal University Wukari, Nigeria

28-30 September 2026

Ongoye, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Re-imagining Language, Writing, and Literature in English in a Fast-Changing World

Dystopian fiction is having a moment. Classic dystopian fiction like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1986) have renewed relevance since the election of Donald Trump in the U.S., while more recent novels like Ali Smith’s Gliff (2024), Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song (the Man Booker winner in 2023), and John Lanchester’s The Wall (2019) describe worlds sliding into totalitarianism post-Brexit. This panel seeks to raise questions about how contemporary Anglophone speculative fiction addresses the current cultural moment and issues like artificial intelligence, immigration and the internet’s dissolution of privacy. Formally, how do 21st century dystopian novels connect science fiction with realism? With magical realism?

“It is worse, much worse, than you think” states David Wallace-Wells at the opening of his The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (2019). “When do we start physically attacking the things that consume our planet and destroy them with our own hands?” asks Andreas Malm in How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021). “I don’t think about hope much anymore. But I do think about imagination,” writes Terry Tempest Williams in an interview contained in A voice in the Wilderness: Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams (2006). In the spaces between these statements we encounter a range of reactions to our warming condition, from blunt pessimism, to righteous anger, to nuanced reframing.

This in-person roundtable will take place at NEMLA 2027 (March 6-9) at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI. 

Abstract:

Call for Chapters – Edited volume

The Cultural Life of Beds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Materiality, Bodies and Power

University of New England, Australia

For publication with an international publisher

Call for Book Chapters

Expected Publisher: De Gruyter Brill (Scopus Index)

Recovering Marginalised Theatre, Folk Epics and Songs beyond Literary Canons

Kashyap Deepak
Mahatma Gandhi Central University

Using Comics to Build Community: Approaches to Teaching Comics (Roundtable) (Virtual)

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa and Carl B. Sell

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2026

58th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Salve Regina University (Newport, RI)/Online.

Hybrid event: 6-9 March 2027

This session’s modality is Virtual Only, meaning all presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in-person.

Call for Papers

Literary Friends and Rivals: Hospitality and Literary Networks in Spain and Latin America

98th South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Convention

Thursday, November 5 - Saturday, November 7, 2026

Atlanta, Georgia

REMINDER: SEPTEMBER 22 SUBMISSION DEADLINE

American Comparative Literature Association 2027 Annual Meeting

University of Houston

May 20-23

The Poverty of Literature

Organizer:

Gabriel Quigley, University of Victoria (gabrielquigley@uvic.ca)

Call for Papers 

dialog Special Issue No. 48

Theme: Truth in Question: Literature, Narrative, and the Politics of Knowing

dialog, a fully peer-reviewed, bi-annual international journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, invites submissions for its forthcoming special issue (No. 48) on “Truth in Question: Literature, Narrative, and the Politics of Knowing.” The journal provides a forum for interdisciplinary research engaging literature, culture, and critical theory.

                                                           Call for Chapters

            The Routledge Handbook of Hip Hop and Sport, Culture, and Activism

 A Series of Panels at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, sponsored by the Long Middle Ages Seminar Series

Women's writing emerged as a critical category in response to the historical exclusion of women from literary canons and archives. The recovery of neglected texts, authors, and traditions has transformed literary studies, creating new genealogies of reading and interpretation. Yet the category itself raises important questions. Does the designation "women's writing" continue to serve as a productive framework, or does it risk reinforcing the very marginalization it seeks to address by positioning women outside the literary mainstream?

FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks a new member to join our volunteer collective to fill the role of Website Editor and Social Media Manager

Duties include:

Updating FEMSPEC's website at the collective's request - this could include updating biographies of collective members, altering the website's layout, adding or removing content from various pages in the website, and updating the website with information about the current issue of the journal

Managing the journal's Facebook page and X account

Haryanvi Dalit theatre occupies a highly marginalised position within the broader landscape of Indian theatre. It may aptly be described as “the marginalised among the marginalised,” as it has remained largely excluded from both mainstream theatre studies and Dalit cultural historiography. Haryanvi Dalit Swang theatre was active long before the Dalit Panther Movement, but it received little attention due to its lack of publication and translation into English. This book seeks to recover, document, and critically examine the neglected legacy of Haryanvi Swang, with particular emphasis on its Dalit traditions and practitioners, thereby contributing to a more inclusive understanding of Indian theatrical heritage.

Conference online: 27-28 August 2026 (online)

CFP: