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++ "Videogame Wests" CONFERENCE PANEL, Bergamo ++

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:53am
EAAS "West of the Rest" research network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

While the EAAS’ "West of the Rest" research network will be represented with a total of three panels at the the 28th Biennial Conference of AISNA Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord Americani, we are specifically looking for contributions to our panel dedicated to video games: "Videogame Wests: Playing (at) the Frontier". Since there is the opportunity to have fresh research on video game Wests published as part of this venture, we invite everyone interested to pitch a paper. Please feel free to (re)share the enclosed cfp with interested parties. The panel is coordinated by Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck) and Stefan "Steve" Rabitsch (University of Oslo). Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa writer N.

Layers: Physical and Cultural Constructions of Space in the English-Speaking World

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:52am
Monica Manolescu
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

 

Layers: Physical and Cultural Constructions of Space in the English-Speaking World

 

International conference organised by SEARCH (Savoirs dans l’Espace Anglophone: Représentations, Culture, Histoire)

  

University of Strasbourg, 16-17 October 2025

 

Keynote speaker: Jeremy Davies (University of Leeds)

 

 

Call for papers

 

Translations in Colonial India, 1800-1947: Paradigms, Networks, and Practices

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
Suddhaseel Sen, PI (India), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Dear all,
We invite potential contributors for a Government of India-sponsored SPARC project
titled "Translations in Colonial India, 1800-1947: Paradigms, Networks, and
Practices." The overall goals of the project are as follows:
 
1. To trace the networks of translations between modern Indian languages in the
period under consideration;
2. To trace the impact of European languages such as French, German,
Russian, Italian, and Spanish, on modern Indian languages and literatures,
either in the original or mediated through English translations; and
3. To trace how translational activities helped the establishment of modern

ASAP16 CFP: Arts Funding and Its Nationalisms

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
Association for the Study of Arts of the Present
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

Arts Funding and Its Nationalisms, The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), Houston, TX, October 22-25, 2025. #ASAP16

Call For Papers: AfroNordic Feminisms

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
Journal of Scandinavian Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 4, 2025

Call For Papers: 

AfroNordic Feminisms

 

This special issue of  Scandinavian Studies explores and questions what it means to theorize, articulate, and practice a Black/Afrofeminism from a distinctly Nordic standpoint. 

We invite submissions engaging with questions such as: 

 

  • What are the continuities, departures, or specificities that characterize AfroNordic feminisms in comparison and relation to Black/Afrofeminisms rooted in e.g. U.S., African, and other AfroEuropean contexts?

Last Call for Special Issue:Representing Animals in Asian Screen Media

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Special Issue title: Representing Animals in Asian Screen Media

Journal: Society & Animals (SCI & SSCI indexed)

Edited by: Dr. Zhaoyu Zhu (First Author); Dr. Thomas William Whyke (Corresponding Author)

University of Nottingham Ningbo China
 
Background and scope

Carceral Infrastructures and the Modernist Imagination

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
MSA 2025, Boston, Oct. 9-12 [Modernist Studies Association]
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

This proposed panel will address intersections between carceral studies and literary studies, with a focus on modernist literature and art and their contemporary legacies.

CFP Medieval + Monsters in Comics (3/15/2025; online session 10/17-18/2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
Michael A Torregrossa / Medieval Comics Project and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Medieval + Monsters in Comics

 

Online Sponsored Session Proposed for Medieval + Monsters: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM), Mid-America Medieval Association (MAMA), Illinois Medieval Association (IMA) Joint Conference with The Newberry Library

Hosted at Dominican University & the Newberry Library

17-18 October 2025

 

The Medieval Comics Project and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association seek proposals of 250 words for a proposed online panel devoted to the theme of the medieval and the monstrous in sequential art, comics, manga, and related media.

 

Topics might include:

2025 EALA Annual Conference, The theme for the conference is “Disease and Death”

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Call for Papers

2025 EALA Annual Conference

Disease and Death

 

Conference Co-organizers:

English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan), National Taipei University of Education and University of Taipei

 

Date: October 18, 2025

Venue: National Taipei University of Education

 

The deadline for abstract submission is extended to February 25, 2025

 

Transnationalism and Australasian Literatures (MLA 2026)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

This CFP is for a guaranteed session organized by the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) for the 2026 Modern Language Association convention in Toronto (8-11 January 2026).

CELJ 2024 Virtual Conference: Open Dialogues April 4–5, 2025, from 2-6pm ET (Live)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is pleased to host its inaugural conference to expand the knowledge sharing CELJ provides through its listserv, mentoring workshops, and Modern Language Association convention sessions. The online format offers a space where more of our members, and potential new members, can be included. The conference will be virtual and recorded for CELJ members who are not able to attend. 

Call For Papers 

The conference theme is Open Dialogues, and the organizers encourage submissions of roundtable-based discussions specific to editorial and publishing topics of conversation including, but not limited to: 

Medieval Monsters

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
Medieval Association of the Midwest/Mid-Atlantic Medieval Association/Illinois Medieval Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

October 17 & 18, 2025

Hosted at Dominican University and The Newberry Library

Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 1:30am
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

“Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond”

International Conference

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. 

Cultural Intertexts vol. 15/2025

updated: 
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 11:14pm
Cultural Intertexts
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

We hereby invite proposals of original articles related to the general theme of Cultural Intertexts, an academic journal of Literature and Cultural Studies, ISSN 2393-0624, E-ISSN 2393-1078.

 

The editors will consider for publication papers which tackle strategies of representation and of (inter)textual construction emerging from the dialogic relation between:

-       literature and the historical and cultural context of text production;

-       distribution and consumption;

-       literature and other arts (music, film, visual arts, etc.) or sciences (linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, history, sociology and political sciences, internet and new technologies, etc.);

Emerging Scholars: Knowledge Production in Crisis

updated: 
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 5:27pm
Canadian Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Special issue of Canadian Literature — seeking work by new, graduate, and/or early-career scholars

Submission length: 5,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes)

Guest Editors: Z. N. Dylan Jackson, amanda wan, Emma Gilroy (University of British Columbia)

 

Decolonizing the Mind A Journey through; February 17th 4:30 PM (CET) at https://vroom.ut.ac.ir/ffll1

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 9:49pm
University of Tehran, Iran
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 17, 2025

The University of Tehran English Language Scientific Student Association (UTELSSA) presents:

Decolonizing the Mind: A Journey through

Scholars and students are invited to engage in a series of thought-provoking dialogues that examine the process of decolonizing the mind. This series aims to critically explore and challenge the pervasive influences of colonialism on knowledge, culture, and society. Through interactive discussions, we will delve into the complexities of colonial and postcolonial studies, the significance of decolonial theories, and engage directly with a remarkable author in the field.

Dragons, Posthumanism, and Animality

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 1:37am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.

All topics will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Dragon Games and Online Culture

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 1:37am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Dragons in Gaming and Online Culture

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Paleontologists in Film, Literature, and Contemporary Media

updated: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 11:45pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

This collection seeks essays on paleontologists in film, literature, and contemporary media. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of paleontology in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of fictional and/or real-life paleontologists in modern media

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Dinosaurs in Film, Literature, and the Arts

updated: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 11:45pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

This collection seeks essays on dinosaurs in film, literature, and the arts. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of dinosaurs in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and dinosaur portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of special effects renderings of dinosaurs

-Artwork with dinosaurs

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Beyond Green: Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation

updated: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 9:57am
Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Beyond Green: Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation

(Proposed as part of Bloomsbury’s Environment and Society series)

Editors: Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash

Introduction

Home: The Space We Claim

updated: 
Friday, February 14, 2025 - 3:15pm
The University of Ottawa
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Call for Papers Home: The Space We Claim March 14-16, 2025

University of Ottawa, English Graduate Student Association 2025 Conference

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition” - James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room.

Rethinking English Studies in the Age of New Media

updated: 
Friday, February 14, 2025 - 4:35am
The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

The 2025 ELLAK International Conference
“Rethinking English Studies in the Age of New Media”

 

Organized by The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)

Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

December 18-20, 2025

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Taek-Gwang Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Ted Underwood, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA

Slavoj Žižek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

International Seminar on Indigenous Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 9:32pm
Dr. Amitayu Chakraborty, Durgapur Women's College
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Call for Papers
International Seminar on Indigenous Studies: Envisioning Janjatiya Gaurav: The Legacy of Birsa Munda and the Decolonisation of ‘Global’ Indigenous Studies
Date: March 26-27, 2025 (IST)
Venue: Durgapur Women’s College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

Organised by the IQAC, Durgapur Women's College in collaboration with Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

 

Event URL: https://durgapurwomenscollege.ac.in/seminars/

 

Environmental Injustice, Resistance and African Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 1:42pm
English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Call for papers for the special issue of English Language Notes (published by Duke University Press)

 

Special issue editors

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India

Eunice NgongKum, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon

 

Environmental Injustice, Resistance and African Literature

Call for Proposals: LEARNING FROM FEAR

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 10:26am
University of Memphis English Graduate Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

Call for Papers: LEARNING FROM FEAR

The University of Memphis English Department will host a graduate student conference, Learning From Fear, on April 25th-26th, 2025, in Memphis, Tennessee. This conference aims to appeal to a variety of disciplines and interests, including rhetoric, communication, film and media studies, creative writing, linguistics, African American literature, museum studies, philosophy, graphic design, pop culture studies, psychology, educational studies, and web development. 

Key Research Questions

CfP New issue: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 9:32am
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the New ssue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

Call for Papers ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 9:31am
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

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