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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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Artificiality | Surfaciality
An international conference between
Rutgers University (NJ) and Aix-Marseille Université (France)
April 9-10, 2026
“En constatant, en notant la forme de leur flèche, le déplacement de leurs lignes, l'ensoleillement de leur surface, je sentais que je n'allais pas au bout de mon impression, que quelque chose était derrière ce mouvement, derrière cette clarté, quelque chose qu'ils semblaient contenir et dérober à la fois.”
Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann, 1913
Call for Chapters
Streamculture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Platformized Viewing
The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, History, Philosophy and Theology, West University of Timișoara, is pleased to announce its 34th international conference on British and American Studies, on the theme “Reconfiguring Borders and Boundaries in/through the Lens of Literature, Language and Culture,” which will be held on 14-16 May 2026.
10th Annual Global Souths Conference
March 12-14 2026
Outside the Margins: Where We Are and Who We Are
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana
Theme statement:
How do we come to know health—our own or that of others? In a time marked by global crisis, inequality, and rapid technological change, lived experience offers vital, yet often marginalised, forms of knowledge. This one-day conference brings together Early Career Researchers across disciplines to explore health through the lens of lived experience: its stories, its silences, and its capacities for change.
Call For Papers
The Claude McKay Society (CMKS), now an author member society in the American Literature Association (ALA), will convene one or two panels at the ALA conference at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, May 20-24, 2026. Harlem Renaissance author McKay is presently enjoying a healthy resurgence.
Movements and MigrationsResearch Society for Victorian Periodicals, 2026 ConferenceTrinity College, Dublin, 23 - 25 July 2026
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
Stardom and Fandom
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
NEW Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025
Call for Papers: Asian Cinema
Special Issue: 'Moving Violations: Asian Crime Films'
Special Issue Editors: Victor Fan, Kristof Van den Troost, and Earl Jackson
View the full call here>>
We are now accepting submissions for our next regular issue. Manuscripts in MS Word (5,000–10,000 words) adhering to the MLA 9th edition formatting guidelines should be sent to editor@jcla.in.
Website: jcla.in
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Comparative_Literature_and_Aest...
We invite scholars in religious studies and related fields to submit proposals for chapters
that will contribute to an edited volume on Metamodern Spiritualities.
This volume will be the first of its kind to explore metamodernism as manifested in 21st century
religious/spiritual institutions, beliefs and practices. We seek contributions from
different disciplinary perspectives that critically adopt or adapt Vermeulen and Van den
Akker’s theory of metamodernism to contemporary religious/spiritual phenomena. We
welcome submissions that include, but are not limited to, theories and case studies of:
Don't Look Away: The Monstrous, the Gothic, and Survivance in the Worlds of Stephen Graham Jones
Organized by the Stephen Graham Jones Society
Chair: Dr. Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver
The Stephen Graham Jones Society invites proposals for a panel at the 2026 American Literature Association (ALA) meeting. We welcome submissions from emerging and established scholars investigating the vast, ever-expanding body of work by Stephen Graham Jones. This panel will focus on the recent and ongoing scholarship surrounding his horror fiction, as well as its significant pedagogical value in the contemporary classroom.
This interdisciplinary conference invites scholars to explore the rich and evolving relationship between Textual Studies and Memory Studies, two fields that while historically distinct offer vital and complementary insights into the construction, transmission, and contestation of cultural memory. In an era marked by the disruption and reconfiguration of once-stable social, cultural, and political structures, the questions raised by both disciplines feel increasingly urgent: How is the past preserved, edited, and transmitted through texts (where “text” is broadly conceived)? What role do textual forms, variants, and materialities play in shaping collective memory?
The University of Calgary English Department Graduate Association cordially invites both critical and creative proposals for our annual Free Exchange Graduate Conference, taking place from March 20-21, 2026. Going back nearly 20 years, Free Exchange is a transdisciplinary conference that aims to bring together emerging scholars from across Canada and beyond in the spirit of collaboration and knowledge creation.
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Annual Conference 2026:
“Humanity: Agency, Equality, Pleasure, Violence, Death”
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
April 25, 2026
Keynote Speaker:
Graham Harman,
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy,
Southern California Institute of Architecture
Call for Papers:
Black Performing Arts: Sound, Movement, Image, Text
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2025
Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Call for Papers
Special Issue, Fall 2026: “Bad Moms”
Edited by Maik Stanitzke, Bentley University
Abstracts Due: Dec 1, 2025
Full Papers Due: January 18, 2026
This is a call for contributions to a special issue of the Journal of Feminist Scholarship organized around the figure of the “bad mom,” labor, and gender.
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
NEW submission deadline: November 14, 2025
Despite the outsized influence of technology on everyday cultural practices and classrooms, its role has never been more contested. Indeed, even in the case that such practices are not digitized, our societal roles are increasingly governed by systemic expectations, rules, and algorithms. These expectations create hierarchies, enforce boundaries, and classify individuals and their work.
The Bonnie Jo Campbell Society is sponsoring a panel at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, IL (May 20-23, 2026).
As a native Michigander, Campbell is associated strongly with the American Midwest, where much of her fiction takes place. This panel hopes to interrogate that relationship, either through analyses of the Midwest in Campbell's work, or in relationships with other Midwestern writers and their fiction.
Please send an abstract (200 words) and a brief bio to Dr. Ross Tangedal (ross.tangedal@uwsp.edu) for consideration by January 1, 2026.
The CUNY Graduate Center Theatre and Performance department is holding in-person and virtual Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance open houses. Our in-person open house is on Thursday, November 13th at 5:30, and our Zoom open house will be on Tuesday, November 18th at 10am.
This will be a full event with talks from faculty and current students. Email Assistant Program Officer Patricia Goodson at pgoodson@gc.cuny.edu to RSVP and receive Zoom information.
48th Annual Comparative Drama Conference
Conference Dates: July 9-11, 2026
Location: Madison, Wisconsin (hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Deadline for Abstract Submission: December 10, 2025
Disability Studies, Dramatic Texts, and Performance
Special Issue: ‘Discarded Bodies and the Crisis in Indian Cinema’
Call for Papers: Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance | March 27, 2026
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Diana Martinez, Assistant Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley
Graduate Student Symposium
Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Tufts University, Medford, MA
The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University invites graduate students to submit paper proposals for the 2026 Graduate Symposium titled Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance, which will be held on March 27, 2026, in Medford, MA.
Call for Papers
Nightmare ‘26
The Northern School of Art: Thursday 2nd April 2026
Submission Deadline: Friday 13th February 2026
CFP: "If our lives are already written, it would take a courageous man to change the script"- The reciprocal relationship between horror cinema and video games
Call for Papers: Theory and Criticism Focus Group- ATHE 2026Communities of Imagination and Theoretical FuturesBaltimore, Maryland- July 22-26, 2026 Call for Complete Session Proposals and Roundtable SubmissionsSponsored by the Theory and Criticism Focus GroupComplete Session ProposalsThe Theory and Criticism focus group seeks proposals for the general conference that include a variety of approaches and inquiries into the theme “Communities of Imagination and Theoretical Futures.” We encourage multidisciplinary submissions from across the various subfields of theatre and performance studies and seek participants from a range of focus groups.Our focus group welcomes and embraces a multitude of approaches and definitions of theory, criticism
CFP: The Imposter
The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 99 (to be published Spring 2027)
Imposter is a loaded term that has invaded and fascinated media including accusations of
illegitimacy, fraud, and fakery. The imposter unsettles understandings of our media’s
truth, authority, and belonging. More than ever, the imposter feels unavoidable in our
lives: generative AI challenges the very idea of creativity, algorithms create debates
around curation and manipulation, and the evolving labor landscapes make us question
who is recognized as a legitimate media worker. Beyond technology, this figure is
political, social, and juridical. The imposter makes us think about precarity; precarity for
Please see this Call for Proposals for an upcoming special issue of Feral Feminisms:
https://feralfeminisms.com/cfps/
This special issue, “Scrapwork: Foraging Feminist Fragments” will be guest edited by Dr. Amber Moore (University of British Columbia) and Dr. Kaye Hare (University Canada West).
Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250
Willa Cather Spring Conference | Thursday, June 4 - Saturday, June 6, 2026
This year marks the centennial of My Mortal Enemy, one of Cather’s least affirmative works and one not produced in the Cather Scholarly Edition (translation: much important work remains to be done!) We invite papers on new approaches to My Mortal Enemy, including but not limited to the following considerations of style, form, provenance, and themes: