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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
REIMAGINING FRANKENSTEIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Cross-Cultural Adaptations in Visual Culture
Edited by Cenk Tan & Defne Ersin Tutan
Editors’ Introduction
Please consider submitting an abstract for the edited collection, Reconfiguring Critical Thinking in Higher Education for the 21st Century (Springer, Education).
We welcome research on critical thinking in higher education in Southeast Asia. The first section of the collection endeavours to define critical thinking in the current climate. The essays of the second section share classroom activities and curriculum design that aim to teach critical thinking. And the final section considers how LLMs can both facilitate and inhibit the cultivation of critical thinking in student learners.
We aim to have completed articles ready for submission by August, 2026.
CFP: Soap Opera and Serialized Storytelling Area of the Popular Culture Association
Keynote speakers:
Hannah Williams, Reader in the History of Art, Queen Mary University of London
Daniel Foliard, Professor of Modern History, Université Paris Cité
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will host two panels at the 37th Annual American Literature Association Conference, May 20-23, 2026 in Chicago. We invite proposals for presentations on any aspect of Gilman’s life and work.
Possible topics include but are by no means limited to:
Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku seeks academic essays for a special themed section in Juxta 12: AI and haiku (as well as related poetic forms such as haibun, haiga, senryu, and tanka). Topics may be wide-ranging, including tributes to haijin who have influenced the author’s work by engaging/not engaging AI tools to write in someone else’s style.
Guidelines:
Deadline: July 15, 2026
For the Annual Conference in Atlanta, April 8-11, 2026, PCA will be piloting poster sessions. Poster sessions allow scholars to share their research and ideas in a less formal setting compared to traditional presentations while still being part of the program.
If the proposal is accepted, presenters should create a poster presentation that visually summarizes their topic, highlighting such things as their main argument, their research methods, and overall conclusions.
Poster sessions will be scheduled in a four hour block (8 a.m. - 12 p.m. or 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.). Presenters should be ready to set up and take down at those times and will need to schedule a 90 minute block in which to be with their posters.
For close to nine hundred years, Gawain has been a favorite hero in Arthurian myth, especially when it comes to his appearance in the late fourteenth century chivalric romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While scholarship on the poem continues to expand in many fascinating ways, David Lowery’s 2021 film adaptation, The Green Knight, has changed the way scholars can approach and teach the medieval poem. We have a contract with Boydell and Brewer and confirmed contributors; however, we have lost a few contributors and are looking for one or two more chapters for the book.
orum: Issues about Part-Time and Full-Time Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed journal published by NCTE and CCCC to address working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty. This special issue will be published in the fall of 2026. The submission deadline is January 20, 2026. Issues of identity shape not only who we are as faculty, but also how we perform and the connections we make in the classroom. Identifying one’s place, not just as an educator but as a person, has unique implications for part-time and contingent faculty in higher learning, both in and outside the academic spaces they take up.
Conference Title: Entangled Histories, Shared Futures: South Asia and Africa
Date: June 4 - 5, 2026
Venue: Zanzibar, Tanzania
Aims & Rationale:
Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene
Editor: Dewey W. Hall
Call for Contributions
Call for Papers American Literature Association (ALA) 2026, Chicago
The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) plans to offer two panels.
One panel, “Teaching with Humor” will explore, through specific examples, how humor, in its many forms—literary, visual, performative—can enhance the learning process and make it vivid and more engaging. The panel will examine the multiple ways that teachers in disciplines such as literature and other humanities can employ the humor found in literary texts, cartoons, films, songs, memes and media for a richer understanding of the subject matter.
Rural Futures/Todhchaí na Tuaithe:
Social and Environmental Justice in Ireland
Sacred Heart University, Dingle, Ireland
June 8-10, 2026
The inaugural three-day Rural Futures conference at Sacred Heart University’s campus in Dingle, Ireland, will feature keynote speaker Nessa Cronin (University of Galway), and a plenary conversation on the future of rural Irish literature with authors Belinda McKeon (Maynooth University) and Mike McCormack (University of Galway).
https://ucgradconference20.wixsite.com/utopian-impulses We're excited to share the CfP for this year’s interdisciplinary graduate student conference at the University of Cincinnati titled Utopian Impulses in the 2020s! We're also pleased to announce that Dr. Angela Laflen will be this year's keynote speaker. See bio below: "Dr. Angela Laflen is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, and author of Critical Data Storytelling in the Composition Classroom (Utah State UP 2025).
Orbit: A Journal of American Literature
Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Guest editor: Ali Dehdarirad (University of Rome, Sapienza)
Today, all countries that were colonized by France have gained their independence, yet discussions about its legacy continue. Many films, documentaries, literary works, speeches, and critical writings contribute to the ongoing conversation about liberty and justice in relation to independence. A 2024 documentary produced by Wandrille Lanos, titled Haïti, la rançon de l'indépendance, explores how liberty and justice were interpreted during Haiti’s struggle for independence. From September 22 to 26, 2025, during the United Nations General Debate at the 80th Session, the current president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, argued that colonization should be recognized as one of the greatest crimes against humanity.
Digital Subjectivities
Digital technologies have become integral to our everyday lives – from work, play, and relationships to political engagement and scholarship – shaping our subjective experiences and the ways we relate to others and ourselves. Their proliferation not only offers new tools for communication and knowledge production but also fundamentally reconfigures how the self is conceptualised and lived. This conference will explore the impact of digital technologies on subjective experience, knowledge production within and beyond academia, culture and politics, and questions of individual and collective agency.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Literature/Film Quarterly on “Female Adaptations, Female Sources”
Guest Editor: Betty Kaklamanidou (Aristotle University)
Call for Papers: JAWS: Journal of Art & Writing
Issue 12.1: Utterings and Echoes: ‘The page lures the voice’
(After Rosmarie Waldrop, Reluctant Gravities, 1999)
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/jaws-journal-of-art-writing#call-for-papers
Listening: The Dark Side of Literature, Art and Thought / À L'Écoute: le côté obscur de la littérature, de l’art et de la pensée
Special issue of L’Atelier https://ojs.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/la 18.1 (april 2027)
Guest Editor: Adrienne Janus Proposals (approximately 350 words) in English or in French should be sent to Adrienne Janus [adrienne.janus@univ-tours.fr] and Anne Ullmo [anne.ullmo@univ-tours.fr] by 15 Feb. 2026
Call for Papers
2026 EALA Annual Conference
From Technē to Technology
Conference Organizers: ROC English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan) and Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University
Date: October 17, 2026
Venue: National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
SSAWW at 25: Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures
American Literature Association, 37th Annual Conference
May 20-23, 2026
The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL
SSAWW at 25: Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures
The Music Graduate Student Organization at the University of Pittsburgh welcomes proposals for 20-minute paper presentations, performance demonstrations, or work that integrates research and practice for its 2026 conference, “Sonic Power: Speculation, Surveillance, and Strength.” We invite students, researchers, musicians, sound artists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to consider how sound organizes power and how people reorganize power through sound. Sonic life shapes worlds, whether in the hush of archival erasure, the loudness of protest, or the sorting of listening within media infrastructures.
Inherently interdisciplinary, Medieval Studies is older than many disciplines and departments in universities today. In light of that long history, what disciplinary norms and training do medievalists have in common? What is the state of Medieval Studies as a discipline? What can we do to sustain Medieval Studies at the highest level for future generations? This year’s annual conference of the Texas Medieval Association seeks to foster conversations about the future of our field, while creating a forum for the presentation of new research by medievalists and scholars of related fields at all stages and of all backgrounds.
Call for Book Chapters: Mythological Motifs in German Narratives
The study of mythology transcends the boundaries of time, space, and medium. Myths have always been an integral part of human storytelling, shaping collective identities, cultural ideologies, and individual imaginations. From ancient oral traditions and epics to contemporary literature, cinema, graphic novels, and digital media, mythological motifs continue to evolve and find expression across genres and media.
Call for Book Chapters: Transhuman Futures in Media and Literature
Call for Book Chapters
Reimagining Futures in Steampunk, Cyberpunk, and Solarpunk Narratives
International Conference (Hybrid) on Impact of Globalization on Society, Culture and Literature, January 19-20, 2026, organized by IQAC, Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, and Antarmukh: A Bengali Research Journal.
About the Conference
4th International Environmental Humanities Conference:THE BLUE HUMANITIES
Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir, Türkiye)
May 20-23, 2026
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Steve Mentz (St. John’s University, USA)
Simon C. Estok (Sungkyunkwan University, S. Korea)
2 more keynote speakers to be announced
USM’s English Graduate Organization Conference Call for Papers
(Un)Spoken: Voices of Dissent
April 10th and 11th, 2026
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Stars and Screen’
Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium
May 16, 2026
https://starsandscreen.blogspot.com/?m=0
The ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium is an Interdisciplinary Symposium dedicated to Film History, Archival Research, Cinema and Media History.
CONCEPT NOTE
Call For Papers
Travel is perhaps the most enduring and evocative leitmotif of life, both in a very real and
metaphoric sense. Essentially spinning from that chequered gamut, Travel Literature records
human interactions and experiences within the diverse landscapes and cultures of the world. Its
significance lies in its ability to document encounters with differences, recording their observations
of previously unknown lands and articulating evolving perceptions of space, place, and identity.
One of the earliest examples of this is found in the works of Herodotus. His Histories blend
accounts of his journeys with observations on cultures, customs, and geographies of the ancient
Memories & Dreams: Exploring Perspectives on Past, Future and Possibility in Materials for Young People
Call for Paper Proposals
Deadline for Submission: Friday, January 30th, 2026
A peer-reviewed graduate student conference on children’s literature, media, and culture.
University of British Columbia | Unceded traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Vancouver, Canada | Friday July 17th & Saturday July 18th, 2026
"Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open" - Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia.
The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) is pleased to announce our first graduate conference, New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies, which will take place at the University of Leeds on May 20th 2026. This will be a hybrid conference.
Participants will be invited to contribute to a special issue of the soon-to-be relaunched journal Alluvium, to be published after the symposium.
The CÉMA is pleased to announce the forthcoming conference ‘Beowulf & circulations,’ to be held in Paris at the Institut Historique Allemand and the Sorbonne on March 13-14, 2026, with keynotes by Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) and Francis Leneghan (Oxford University). A public reading of Beowulf is scheduled on Friday 13 March evening.
The text of Beowulf was consigned in writing over two centuries after its initial oral composition. It is extant in only one manuscript, yet resonates in at least Andreas (from another codex), and once circulated as part of a thriving oral literary economy now no longer retrievable.
The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 27–29, 2026. We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars. We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists. The CAC at WonderCon does not accept virtual submissions. The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historian
DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR
Popular Culture Association 2026 (PCA 26): Atlanta, GA
April 2026
"Visual Culture’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures"
The VISUAL CULTURE area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes proposals in anticipation of its 2026 conference, which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, April 8-11.
BLOOMSBURY
Call for Papers
Lives Remembered: Trans Narratives of Memory
Bloomsbury's Trans Studies series
Editors: Dr. Arpana Venu & Dr. Neethu P Antony
VIT-AP University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh
About the Volume
Femspec, an interdisciplinary feminist journal, is seeking new reviewers to contribute to the journal. We particularly welcome contributions from postgraduate, early-career, and independent researchers. Femspec is interested in reviews of new titles within feminist, science fiction, fantasy, and folklore genres. This is not limited to printed text, and we welcome reviews of new TV and film. Please see the list below for suggested review material, but do get in touch with any suggestions. We are also keen to publish reviews of new scholarly works. Again, do get in touch to discuss this.
Recently published and forthcoming books:
Call for Papers
Midwest Winter Workshop 2026
Rhetoric Program
Indiana University Bloomington
Friday, February 6th – Saturday, February 7th, 2026
The Diaspora Child Strikes Back is a multidisciplinary conference held in-person in Camden, NJ, USA, from June 11-13 2026.
Announcement: Call for papers extended and shift to online conference! New deadline: January 7, 2026
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination
Overview
Call for Book Chapters
The Plant Turn: Literature, Ecology, and the Green Imagination Across Periods
“Under Strong Interest” by Bloomsbury Academic's Critical Plant Studies
Editor’s Introduction
Call for Book Chapters
Frankensteinian Resonance: Transtemporal Reanimations in Fiction, Film, and Video
“Under Strong Interest” by Palgrave Macmillan
Editors’ Introduction
Special Issue CFP – Living in Languages
“Becoming Translator: Ontological Shifts and Translational Praxis”
Abstracts due: August 30, 2025
Preliminary drafts due: November 30, 2025
Expected publication: Summer 2026
What happens to the translator in the act of translation?
This special edition of Living in Languages explores translation not only as the movement of
meaning across languages, but as a transformative ontological practice—one that acts upon the
translator, unsettling their assumptions, reconfiguring their relation to the world, and altering
their very being.
Living in Languages Journal
Living in Languages invites submissions of book reviews and review essays for forthcoming issues. We welcome critical engagements with recent publications, new translations or retranslations of literary/theoretical works, performances, exhibitions, and digital projects that speak to translation studies and its intersections across the humanities and social sciences.
Visual Cultures of the Medical Modern
A two-day conference to be held at Azim Premji Bengaluru, 19th - 20th February, 2026 co-
organized by the English and Media Studies group
About the conference:
DEADLINE EXTENDED ONLY FOR ACADEMIC ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS
Call for papers "Literary and Artistic Expressions of Radical Ecology"
Special issue of Capitalism Nature Socialism
Editor: Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
Narrativising Infrastructure
Special issue for The Global South
Issue editors:
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
Payel Pal, The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India