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EXTENDED DEADLINE: The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 5:37pm
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Deadline extended for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We warmly invite additional chapters, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals due March 6. We already have 40+ confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. Following this list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 5:37pm
Bloomsbury Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s websitehttps://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

FRAME 38.2 “Paper Pills: A Medical Humanities Issue”

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 5:25pm
FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

‘Body horror,’ a subgenre devoted to corporeal transgressions, is undergoing a rebirth with films like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)—a cautionary tale challenging the beauty industry and the gendered double standards of ageing. This emerging biopolitical discourse concerned with body dysmorphia, loss of control, abjection, susceptibility to illness and mutation is not limited to film. From classics like Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Grand Guignol ghastly extends its arms to the literary sphere with emerging works like Mona Awad’s Rouge or Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.

Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 5:10pm
IATIS; Sultan Qaboos University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

 

 

The IATIS - International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies invites papers on  “Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation” for its 8th International Conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on December 10-13, 2025.

We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South.”

Memory and Materiality in Contemporary Art

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 3:12pm
SECAC
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Conference Dates: October 22-25, 2025
Venue: Hilton Cincinnati 

This panel examines how contemporary artistic practices—including monumental, visual, and performing arts—engage with memory-making processes. By focusing on the interconnection between material experiences and memory, the panel explores how artists embody and reimagine memory while challenging traditional approaches. For instance, activist artists push the boundaries of memory work by challenging conventional notions of archives and historical narratives, positioning artists as critical contributors to understanding how societies remember and forget.

Migration Mythologies

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:14pm
MELUS-Society for the Study of Multiethnic Literatures of the United States
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

MELUS Call for Papers

Modern Language Association 2026

January 8-11, 2026

Toronto, ON (Canada)

Description:

Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes: Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:14pm
University of Kent
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

** UPCOMING DEADLINE: 28 FEBRUARY 2025 **

If you'd like to submit an abstract but cannot make the deadline, please get in touch at r.gregory-fox@kent.ac.uk to discuss an extension.


 

Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes

Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics

University of Kent

23 – 24 June 2025

 

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DELEUZE(NESS)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:14pm
Lithuanian Culture Research Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DELEUZE(NESS)

 

International symposium

18-19 September 2025

National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos pr. 22, Vilnius

        

Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Sibiu, Romania | 1-3.07. 2025                                    

Lucian Blaga University is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the upcoming international conference, “Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond,” to be held between July 1-3 in Sibiu, Romania. The conference aims to explore tragedy as it is reflected in literature, theater, and other cultural forms from antiquity to the present day, with a focus on European (semi)peripheries and non-European cultural spaces. 

Call for Chapters: Bengali periodicals in the long nineteenth century

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
Madhumita Roy and Soumyarup Bhattacharjee
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Chapters: Edited collection of essays on Bengali periodicals in the long nineteenth century

The editors, Dr Madhumita Roy and Mr Soumyarup Bhattacharjee, are inviting abstracts for proposed chapters in a collection of essays on Bengali periodicals and the construction(s) of the “bhadrasamaj” in the long nineteenth century.

Special Issue on Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

CFP Special Issue, Volume 22 (2026) : Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between

Abstract Submission Due Date: April 1, 2025.
Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2025.
Accepted Essays Due Date: January 1, 2026.

John Fante: Thirty Years After

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
Elisa Bordin and Enrico Mariani
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

December 12, 2025

Aula Baratto, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - Dorsoduro, 3246, Venice

 

 

MLA 2026 CFP: Masters of Whose House?: Haunted Spaces and Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary Literature and Film

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
MLA 2026 - Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025

For MLA 2026 - Toronto, we invite papers that examine how contemporary literature and film reimagine haunted space narratives through the lens of immigrant experiences and displaced families. Please e-mail a 250-word abstract, title, and short bio by March 16th, 2025 to Ibrahim and Laura.

Panel organizers:Ibrahim Williams, The University of Mississippi (iawillia@go.olemiss.edu )Laura Evers, Washington University in St Louis (e.laura@wustl.edu )

Epitaphs Magazine Issue 2

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
Epitaphs
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 17, 2025

Submission call:  

https://epitaphs-magazine.weebly.com/

For the second issue of Epitaphs, we invite writers, artists and academics to submit their short form Gothic or Horror work on the following theme: 

Beaten Hearts. 

The theme can be understood as literally or as figuratively as needed. We encourage contributors to think about the many meanings of hearts within a Gothic/Horror context. Works can relate to:  

Dystopian Universes: Postapocalyptic and Futuristic Representations of Climate and Nature in Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
Department of English,Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur, Howrah
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

What does the future hold for us, as the inhabitants of a planet much burdened by a burgeoning population, whose demands for time-saving technologies and physical comfort are endless? Will there be wars over potable water? Will we give up gold and gems and treasure oxygen instead? Or will existence end with either bang or whimper?

Utopian visions carry hope and contrarily, but more importantly, dystopian ones are much-needed warnings of what is likely to happen. This latter view made us feel that cli-fi needs to urgently present unflattering futuristic scenarios of our continued apathy towards nature and climate.

Philosophy, Spirituality & the Meaning of Life Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
Prof. JJ Joaquin, Southeast Asia Research Center and Hub, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Philosophy, Spirituality & the Meaning of Life Conference

De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

1-3 December 2025

Generous Modernisms (MLA 2026)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:04pm
Modernist Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

MLA 2026 (Guaranteed Session)

Toronto, January 8-11, 2026

 

Generous Modernisms

 

MLA 2026 Convention – Roundtable on "Bad Adaptations"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:04pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

CFP: MLA 2026 Convention – Roundtable on "Bad Adaptations"

The Adaptation Studies Forum invites submissions for a roundtable discussion at the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto (January 8-11, 2026). In collaboration with the Screen Arts and Culture Group, this roundtable will engage in a critical exploration of what constitutes a “bad” adaptation and how these works can be understood and assessed both aesthetically and pedagogically.

Title: Bad Adaptations

Stories of the Land and the Land of the Stories: Highlighting Critical Indigenous Literacies

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:03pm
Modern language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

This guaranteed panel is sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 8-11, 2026, in Toronto, Canada. In conjunction with the 2026 presidential theme, ‘Familial Resemblances,’ this panel engages with forms of Indigenous literacies and epistemologies, especially from the Global South, to highlight their connections to the Land, cultural memory, and traditions.

Laboring Mothers, Motherlands, and the Nation: Literary Constructions of Maternal Identity, Work, and Belonging

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:03pm
Sameera Abbas
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 10, 2025

The maternal figure has long been central to literary imaginings of the nation-state, shaping narratives of belonging, exile, and inheritance. As both metaphor and material reality, motherhood is entwined with national reproduction, kinship structures, and the regulation of bodies, often reinforcing but sometimes resisting dominant ideologies. At the same time, motherhood is a site of labor—both reproductive and economic—raising questions about care work, migration, and the feminization of labor within and across borders. Maternal grief, loss, and displacement further complicate the imagined continuity between mother and motherland, exposing fractures in nationalist and colonial narratives.

MLA 2026: "Forms of Mutual Aid in American Literature"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:03pm
Ajitpaul Mangat
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 17, 2025

Invitation for proposals for a special session panel - entitled, "Forms of Mutual Aid in American Literature" - at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada from 8 to 11 January 2026. Seeking papers (15 minutes in length) that explore how mutual aid has been represented in American literature (during any historical period). Particularly interested - with the conference theme of "Family Resemblances" in mind - in whether such communal forms do or do not resemble the family form. Send 250-word abstracts and a bio to amangat@niagara.edu. Proposals due by March 17.

MLA2026: "Going Global: Questions, Challenges, Opportunities"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:02pm
MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on "Going Global: Questions, Challenges, Opportunities." We seek papers that critically examine the methodological and theoretical implications of global frameworks in seventeenth-century studies. Of particular interest are contributions that address: the epistemological shifts prompted by the "global turn"; the integration of non-European perspectives into traditionally Anglo-centric narratives; the material and digital infrastructures enabling globally oriented research; and the tensions between local and global methodologies.

Special Issue of Porn Studies: Political Theory, Sexuality Studies, and the Politics of the Body: Honouring the Legacy of Shannon Bell

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:02pm
Kyler Chittick and Ela Przybylo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Porn Studies

 

Political Theory, Sexuality Studies, and the Politics of the Body: Honouring the Legacy of

Shannon Bell

 

300-word abstract and a bio by April 15, 2025

 

Porn Studies invites submissions for a special issue honouring the intellectual legacy of Shannon

Bell (Professor of Politics, York University)—a brazen feminist scholar whose work has

redefined feminist political theory, cyberpolitics, and sexuality studies. From her radical

RMMLA: English Nineteenth-Century Panel

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:02pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Rocky Mountain 

Modern Language Association

78th Annual Convention
English Nineteenth-Century Panel

October 16-18, 2025

Spokane, Washington

Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2025

 

Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought (MLA 2025 SPECIAL SESSION CFP)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:58am
Adam Nadir Mohamed / Western University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Deleuze notes in Negotiations that he did not have the chance to write “the book [he’d] like to have done about literature” as he had done for other artforms like cinema and painting. Following Deleuze and Guattari’s definition of great thinkers who “lay out a new plane of immanence” and “draw up a new image of thought” to “change how we think” (What Is Philosophy), this seminar takes up Deleuze’s desire for new images of thought focused explicitly on literature. This seminar invites participants to consider the relation between Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy and commentary on art (e.g., painting, cinema, and literature) and a variety of literary writers to establish new ways of thinking and navigating the margins of literature.

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