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Gramma: Journal of Theory and CriticismCALL FOR PAPERS for Volume 31 (2026)
Call For Papers
Religion & Theatre Focus Group – Emerging Scholars Panel
Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) 2025 Conference
This years conference is virtual
July 28 – Aug. 1, 2025 General Conference
The ATHE Religion and Theatre Focus group invites current graduate students and/or independent scholars who have not presented at a major national conference to submit papers for the 2025 Emerging Scholars Panel.
The 2025 Conference Theme:
The Real
The binary opposition between “real” and “virtual” is ever more outdated and unnecessary. Theatre and performance has always been both real and representation. ATHE 2025: The Real invites us to consider the real effects of a virtual conference.
The L.M. Montgomery Institute’s 17th Biennial International Conference
University of Prince Edward Island,
24-28 June 2026
“It seemed to open such dizzying possibilities of change.” — L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs
“All she really wanted, or seemed to want, was to…see that as few changes as possible came into existence there.”— L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat
“Is it really the same world I saw then that I see now? It seems so very different.” — L.M. Montgomery, Selected Journals vol. I
“The only constant in life is change.” —Heraclitus
In Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations, Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew insist that capturing the breadth of a disaster of this scale is “an inherently interdisciplinary task, one that draws us into conversation with a host of different ways of making sense of others’ world” (4). To portray this polycrisis as too large to be contained to one discipline is apt, with credible estimates designating between one- and two-thirds of species on earth as “likely to disappear within the foreseeable future” (Myers et al., 856).
Latin American fandom is a topic that rarely appears in peer-reviewed articles in English and irregularly in Spanish. Phenomena such as fan fiction (fanfic), cosplay, and online communities allow us to explore the representation (Aranda et al., 2013) and appropriation (Yucra-Quispe et al., 2022) of national content (telenovelas and narcocorridos) as well as content from other countries, whether it be movies or streaming platforms.
The intersection between crises and selves has long been a fertile ground across literary and artistic explorations. This CFP invites papers that examine how individual and collective crises—ranging from pandemics, ecological disasters, and political upheavals to personal and generational trauma—have shaped the articulation of selfhood across literature, film, visual art, and other media. Through this topic, we urge scholars to explore how various identity positions and orientations interact with crises to produce unique modes of writing the self.
Call for Papers
JAWS 11.1: Bodies in Process
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/jaws-journal-of-arts-writing-by-students#call-for-papers
Education systems worldwide are undergoing significant transformations driven by globalization, technological advancements, and evolving societal needs. Exploring global best practices in education offers valuable insights into strategies that enhance teaching effectiveness, student engagement, and institutional excellence. This international conference aims to bring together educators, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to share and learn from exemplary educational practices that have proven successful in diverse cultural and institutional contexts.
Objectives
To identify and analyze global best practices in education that enhance learning outcomes.
Panel Title: Quantum Narratives: AI and Multiverse in Asian American Literature and Film E-mail Address: claire.yijiec@gmail.com Description & Requirements: This panel explores how speculative discourses around AI, quantum physics, or the multiverse influence representations of identity and consciousness in Asian American literature and film. Submit abstracts to Erin Suzuki: esuzuki@ucsd.edu ; Claire Rodan: cchen200@umd.edu Submission Deadline: Saturday, 15 March 2025
What can books teach us about character? The people in literary works face moral dilemmas—choosing between personal gain and doing the right thing, whatever the consequences. Fictional heroes often explore the boundaries of character, asking us which traits we deem noble. The same choices and internal struggles appear in nonfiction works such as biographies or histories, deepened by the impact of character on the real world. Looking at character in books helps us stay true to our values, even in the most threatening of circumstances. By immersing ourselves in the stories of others—be they true or imagined—we develop a stronger moral compass and a deeper understanding of how to live with character.
This call seeks paper proposals for a panel at the 2026 MLA convention that explores the intersections between American literature and various emergent or developing technologies during the period of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. The panel is sponsored by the MLA Forum on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature.
Participants with accepted papers must be members of the MLA by April 7, 2025.
The 2026 MLA Convention will be held in Toronto, Canada, on January 8-11, 2026.
Please send a 250-word abstract and brief bio to Heather.Ostman@sunywcc.edu by March 15, 2025.
International Conference at the Universities of Bern and Zurich, Switzerland, 09.-11. September 2025
The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society seeks proposals for a roundtable discussion at the next meeting of SSAWW, held in Philadelphia from November 6-9, 2025. The theme of this year’s SSAWW is “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW.” With this theme in mind, our roundtable is titled “The History and Future of Author Societies.” The roundtable will ideally consist of participants from various author societies, who will discuss anticipated changes and relevance for author societies, talking about both their histories and their imagined futures. We imagine this roundtable will examine many of the important elements highlighted in the call for papers for the conference, including the way that author societies create communities to “en
We are pleased to announce that the theme for our second annual online Conference next year as well as for Volume 12 of the journal is Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, and we invite submissions to both CFPs that contemplate what is the arguably most ubiquitous and diverse literary genre of the medieval and early modern centuries.
Dreams and visions could be personal or communal. They could be of the past, present, or future. Some touched on real events or people, while others were entirely imaginary, and most were somewhere in between. They can encompass the horrors of nightmares to the bliss of salvation, or calls for political freedom and mobilisation as much as an afternoon daydreaming in the sunshine.
How have modern Hispanic queer cultures taken shape and been remembered, forgotten or censored over time? What networks or collaborations sustained them in and beyond Spain and Latin America? Send 250-word abstracts and 100-word bios in English or Spanish.
Submission deadline: March 10, 2025
Contact information:
Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State U, KS (jzamostny@ksu.edu)
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
2025 Conference | 6–9 November 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“A Conversation about Coalition Building:
The Role of Women Author Societies in Times of Political Crisis”
organized by the Margaret Fuller Society
CFP: 2025 International Remote ISC at SC State
March 28, 2024 via Zoom
Crossing Borders: Building Bridges in Today’s Global Community
The Department of English and Communications at South Carolina State University invites proposals for individual twenty-minute papers/presentations for the 2025 Intersectional Studies Remote Conference via Zoom on Friday, March 28, 2025.
Deadline extended to February 2nd.
Call for Papers: International Conference on (Former)Third World Literature and Culture
Conference Theme: “What happens to (Former)Third World Literature and Culture in a Multipolar World?”
Keynote Speakers: Theo D’haen (Ku Leuven), Svend Eric Larsen (Aarhus University), Daniel Pratt (McGill University)
Call for Papers for 5th International e-Conference
Bridging Realms: Exploring Intersections in Humanities and Social Sciences
Conference Dates: 4th October – 05th October, 2024 (Friday & Saturday)
To be Organized by
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
in collaboration with
In commemoration of the centennial of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids (1925-2025), led by labor organizer and civil rights activist A. Phillip Randolph, Morgan State University, the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Science Institute, the Department of English and Language Arts, The James H. Gilliam, Jr. College of Liberal Arts, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGST) Program proudly announce the second one-day WGST Graduate Symposium (WGST-GS). This symposium will take place at The National Treasure, Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 3, 2025, from 8 a.m. – 7 p.m.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Annual Queens College English MA Conference
ALONE TOGETHER
Conference Date: March 10, 2025
Abstract Submission Deadlines: Feb 8, 2025
The Eighth Faulkner Studies in the UK Colloquium
Under the Red, White, and Blue: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and America
May 10th and 11th, 2025
Online via Zoom
With keynote addresses by:
Dr Michael P. Bibler
(author of Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature Southern Plantation, 1936-1968 [University of Virginia Press, 2009])
and
Dr Laura Rattray
Following the success of WOKE SHAKESPEARE: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era ...
This * new * edited volume aims to explore some of the most recent conversations about teaching and performing Shakespeare in the age of woke cultural politics, culture wars, and social justice debates.
In the context of media hostility and panic, what are the challenges faced by new scholars, audiences and learners?
How should Shakespeare be positioned in the twenty-first century cultural landscape?
Contributors are invited to consider:
Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions Series
Series Editor: Heather Ostman
The Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religion Series invites book proposals for essay collections or monographs that align with the Series’s intention:
Conference online: 27-28 February 2025
CFP:
Coined by Marianne Hirsch in the 1990s, the term postmemory by now entered various disciplines who search to understand how memory form our identity and how we position, articulate or just make sense of our place in the society and our relations with it. The term postmemory problematizes the concept of memory by bringing attention to the memories that are not exactly personal but that keep on shaping one’s life and one’s way of seeing the world.
Archives are valuable sites of memory and knowledge, as well as sites of violence and power. In a hyper-saturated world of post-truth and fake news, archives provide a powerful tool to understand the past, interpret the present and imagine better futures. Following Walter Benjamin’s saying, scholars have a responsibility to “brush history against the grain” when delving into archival documents, to find what is absent or hidden and make it speak again. This conference presents scholars with the opportunity to explore various questions that arise when facing archives as dynamic sites of memory: How do we challenge and deal with archives as sites of power? How can queer and marginal subjects be found or salvaged in archives that erase their presence?
15- 17. 05. 2025, KU Leuven
Keynotes:
Prof. Stefan Willer (Humboldt University)
Prof. David Amigoni (Keele University)
Dr. Jennie Bristow (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Seeking presentations on literatures, theories, and pedagogies conducive to fostering metalinguistic appreciation and awareness in an age of disappearing foreign language requirements. 300-word abstract and short CV.