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Special Issue: Apocalypse and the Biopolitics of Time

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:37am
Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 20, 2025

Link: https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/apocalyptica/cfpsi

 

Apocalyptica is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University.

Deconstructing Knowledge Derived from the Gendered Lens of AI

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:37am
SAMLA 2025 (Special Session)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already recasting numerous aspects of human life. By all accounts, AI has an intense and manifold impact on society, incorporating both positive and negative traits. This session aims to explore how the gendered lens of AI is creating disruptions both for the academic field and the society at large. This panel invites educators, scholars, and researchers to critically investigate the consequences of gendered biases projected through AI stratification. Papers which explore the conference theme (Knowledge) and connect to knowledge production through the gendered lens of AI are especially welcome.

Edited collection: Entanglements: Place-Based Literatures for Ecological Liberation

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:35am
Dr. Gayathri Goel (Boston College) & Dr. Jennifer Horwitz (RISD)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Please submit a 300-word abstract for an edited collection, tentatively titled, Entanglements: Place-Based Literatures for Ecological Liberation

Please read the CFP below for details about the collection. We are expanding our search to include diverse geographies including South America, African countries, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Pacific Islands, and South East Asian countries. In addition to a “place” framework, we welcome diverse theoretical approaches and lenses including ones that apply Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, New Materialism, indigeneity, critical race, nonhumanism, among others.

 

NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 9 to October 11, 2025 CFP for ROMANCE/POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:35am
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 9 to October 11, 2025 AREA: ROMANCE/POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION Deadline: Tuesday, July 15th by 5pm EST

 

Contact email: Wendy Wagner wwagner@jwu.edu

 

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its 2025 annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

 

We are seeking paper proposals on the topic of Romance/Popular Romance Fiction for its annual conference.

 

Pilgrimage, Liberation, and Flux: The (Re)Generated Reader

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:33am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In her 1981 study of surrealist poetry, The Metapoetics of the Passage, Mary Ann Caws considers the capacity of poetic language to simultaneously arrest itself and enable forward movement: "The word is situated, as Jacques Garelli reminds us, between two deaths, so that each cluster of sounds located within this regenerating rhythm is able to resume its impetus, thus refreshed, as if it were starting again." It is the practice of architextural reading, Caws argues, that reveals the sustained surface tension at work in written texts, a tension often concealed beneath plot, message, the presence of characters, or particularly potent visual images.

Pedagogies of Archetypes: A Roundtable on Teaching the Inner Curriculum

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:30am
Mussarat Shahid/ NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Category: Pedagogy & Professional 

Session Type: Roundtable

Modality: F2F/ In-person, only

As educators navigate increasingly complex and emotionally demanding teaching landscapes, the question of ‘who we are when we teach’ becomes as important as what or how we teach’ This roundtable invites participants into a collaborative exploration of pedagogies of archetypes: the idea that teaching is guided not only by rational methods and explicit beliefs, but also by symbolic, emotional, and archetypal energies.

From High School to Higher Ed: Did You Take the Leap? (NeMLA roundtable, March 5-8 2026, Pittsburgh)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:30am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Are proms, homecoming parades, lunch lines, hall passes, detentions, and study halls part of your past work life?

Or maybe show and tell, milk break, and recess duty?

And are you now awash in committee work, grant writing, abstract proposals, and syllabus templates?

If so, we want to hear your stories!

This roundtable seeks narrative presentations from academics who have previously taught in elementary, middle school, or high school settings. We will discuss the challenges of transitioning from a PK-12 environment to higher education, the benefits that our backgrounds bring to the higher ed table, and the lived experiences of professors who once taught in the elementary, middle, or secondary classrooms.

Human or Human-ish: Generating, Regenerating, Degenerating Humanity in Fiction (NeMLA panel, March 5-8 2026, Pittsburgh)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:30am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Many fictional works tackle ethical challenges regarding human relationships with emergent technologies. Specifically, fiction presents issues about generation (invention and use of technologies), regeneration (cloning, simulated people and realities), and degeneration (collapsing of virtual worlds, discarding of clones and simulations).

Revisiting the Uncanny

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:30am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In his essay “The Uncanny” (1919), Freud theorized the psychological implications of those aesthetic effects which disturb us without us quite knowing why.  While, according to Freud, the uncanny or das unheimlich evokes a peculiar form of affect within “the field of the frightening” (123), it is a type of fear distinct from that produced by horror and terror.  The uncanny, he argues, registers the traumatic return of “what was once known and had long been familiar” (124), but which had been repressed.  Explorations of the uncanny have linked the affect to repetition and the death drive (Royle 84), surrealism (97), uncertainty (Jentsch 7), and “a certainty that goes beyond any certainty that science can provide” (Dolar 22).  

Black Studies - MAPACA November 6-8

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:30am
Mid Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Philadelphia, PA. Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome.

Call for Journal Articles

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 8:35am
Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, a peer-reviewed international journal published by Çankaya University in Ankara, is currently accepting submissions of articles and book reviews for its forthcoming issues. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is listed or indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, the MLA Directory of Periodicals, Index Copernicus Master List, ERIH Plus, and TR Index. 

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 July 2025*

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 2:35am
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the sixth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in September. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus, DOAJ, and Gale Cengage.

* Deadline is the end of July but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 11:39pm
Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Issue Editors:

Patricia Belen, Fordham University

Stefano Morello, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Gregory Palermo, Emory University

Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland

Brandon Walsh, University of Virginia

Journal article submissions for William Carlos Williams Review

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 8:07pm
Williamm Carlos Williams Review
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Call for submission of academic articles on William Carlos Williams for consideration by the William Carlos Williams Review. Articles must be between 20 to 30 pages in length. All topics welcome. Queries to the editor at copers@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions: July 28, 2025. To submit, register as an author and upload your article here: https://www.editorialmanager.com/wcwr/default.aspx

 

  

The Plantationocene: On Histories and Narratives of the Plantation

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 8:04pm
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Published by Penn State University Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

The Plantationocene: On Histories and Narratives of the Plantation

Special issue for Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

 

Special issue editors:

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India

Somasree Sarkar, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal, India

 

11th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture (Batman University, Çankaya University, Prešov University, Toruń Nicolaus Copernicus University) Keynote Speakers: Prof. Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University and Prof. Adelheid Rundholz, JCSU

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 8:04pm
Batman University, Dept of English Language & Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

11th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture: “Humanities in the Digital Age” 

https://www.academia.edu/129910678/11th_International_Conference_on_Lang... October 2025, Batman, Türkiye

Keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University & Prof. Dr. Adelheid Rundholz, JCS University

2025 Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College (virtual)

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 8:02pm
Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS: Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College (virtual conference)

2025 Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College

Friday and Saturday, October 17–18, 2025 (Eastern Time)

Virtual conference (digiHPAC)

Deadline for proposals (academics & community members): September 1, 2025

Call for Journal Articles

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 5:07pm
Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, a peer-reviewed international journal published by Çankaya University in Ankara, is currently accepting submissions of articles and book reviews for its forthcoming issues. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is listed or indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, the MLA Directory of Periodicals, Index Copernicus Master List, ERIH Plus, and TR Index. 

PAMLA Undergraduate Forum

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 3:51pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

PAMLA Undergraduate Forum

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23

San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

EXTENDED DEADLINE - JUNE 30

Diverse Francophonie

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 3:51pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Diverse Francophonie

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23

San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

EXTENDED DEADLINE - JUNE 30

Call for Papers: "Sports, Recreation, Leisure, and All Manners of Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century"

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 3:32pm
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Pinehurst, NC - February 19-21, 2026

The South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS) looks forward to welcoming all to its 2026 meeting in Pinehurst, which is slated for February 19-21, 2026.  The incomparable 2026 SCSECS meeting will present a fabulous opportunity to engage in lively intellectual conversation centered on 18th-century topics while luxuriating in all the amenities of a vibrant resort, set in the heart of the Village of Pinehurst, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Warren Manning. Pinehurst offers a spa, history, golf, shopping, landscape, birding, croquet, watering holes, and more! You will not want to miss out on this opportunity.

Call for Abstracts: Barbie in Latin America (Special Issue)

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 12:53pm
Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez (West Chester University of Pennsylvania)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Call for Proposals: Special Issue on Barbie in Latin America

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: August 15, 2025
Edited by: Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez(West Chester University of Pennsylvania) and M. Paula Bontempo(National Science and Technology Research Council and the National University Arturo Jauretche)

Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pandemic Literature and the Postcolonial Imagination (SAMLA 2025/In-person)

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 10:10am
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention 2025.
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 2025. 

SAMLA97, KNOWLEDGE: CALL FOR PAPERS (In-person), Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Conference Date: November 6-8, 2025

Special Session/Panel on "Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pandemic Literature and the Postcolonial Imagination"


 

NeMLA 2026 Panel: The Volcanic Imagination in Print and Visual Culture, 1780s-1880s

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:57am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Volcanic matter really matters. During a one hundred year span from the 1780s to 1880s, a series of volcanic eruptions occurred that altered the atmosphere, disrupted weather conditions, and caused unprecedented loss due to famine and widespread disease: Laki Iceland (1783-1784); Vesuvius, Italy (1794); Pico Viejo, Canary Islands (1798); Tambora, Indonesia (1815); Ferdinandea, Sicily (1831); Hekla, Iceland (1840, 1845); and Krakatoa, Indonesia (1883). Various critics have written about the systemic effects geologically, meteorologically, and ecologically such as Richard Altick, David Higgins, Monique Morgan, Marilynn Olsen, Nicholas Robbins, Jesse Oak Taylor, and Gillen D’Arcy Wood.

NeMLA 2026 Roundtable: Reading as a Political Act: Exploring the Confluence of Literacy and Politics

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:57am
Daniel C. Charlton / Montana State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

From book bans to executive orders, the question of academic freedom and the freedom to read has become increasingly urgent. In the wake of the 2024 election, debates around “parental rights” and ideological control have intensified, fueling challenges to literacy and intellectual freedom. According to preliminary data from the American Library Association, 1,128 unique titles were challenged between January 1 and August 31, 2024 (“American Library Association reveals preliminary data on 2024 book challenges,” September 23, 2024).

The (Re)generation of the Nonhuman: Nature and Text in Dialogue

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:57am
Israel Eweka/NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The last decade has seen a surge in scholarly interdisciplinarity, exploring the nonhuman in a broad range of critical perspectives. Whether through Glenworth et al (2024)’s conservationist prism which contextualises ‘Rewilding’ as a way of restoring ‘non-human autonomy’; or perhaps, through Bram Büscher (2021)’s capitalist reflections on nature’s alienation and entanglement, both of which are recent approaches that seek to champion the cause of ‘decentering the human in favor of a concern for the nonhuman’ (Grusin, 2015: 1), we see a growing pace of intersectionality within which nature and literature are brazenly intertwined.

Margins of Edibility: Non-food in Postcolonial South Asian Literatures Edited Volume — Call for Abstracts

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:57am
University of Würzburg and IIT Kanpur
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Food, in any society, is defined as much by what is consumed as by what is excluded. The concept of edibility is shaped not only by nourishment or taste but also by cultural, religious, political, and social boundaries. This edited volume investigates non-food—items or substances that are technically ingestible but culturally rejected, stigmatized, or taboo—in postcolonial South Asian literature. From famine-induced substitutes to ritually impure matter, we seek to explore how literary representations of non-food reflect evolving dynamics of power, identity, and cultural values in a region deeply shaped by colonialism and its afterlives.

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