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Upcoming deadline: CFP The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 10:56am
International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture (INNC)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture (INNC) 3rd Annual Symposium

Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

Date: 19 September 2025

Location: Online

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Gabrielle Decamous, Kyushu University, Japan, author of Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age (2019)

UVA Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVIII (9/18-20)

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 10:23am
University of Virginia-Wise Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the University of Virginia’s College at Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies.

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 3:46am
Bodoland University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

International Seminar

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

16 & 17 October 2025

Venue: Bodoland University, Kokrajhar

A Special Issue will be published in Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)

 

My Wild Heart Bleeds: New Perspectives on Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla

updated: 
Sunday, June 22, 2025 - 1:06pm
Dr Sam Hirst
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CFP: ‘My Wild Heart Bleeds: Exploring Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’and its legacy’

 

Sheridan Le Fanu published his sapphic vampire tale ‘Carmilla’ in 1872, reworking the vampire genre, and creating a figure who has inspired subsequent original works and reimaginings. This collection focuses on new explorations and readings of ‘Carmilla’ and its ongoing legacy, from adaptations and reimaginings to more subtle influences on the figure of the female vampire and the vampiric tradition more broadly.

Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2026

updated: 
Saturday, June 21, 2025 - 6:11am
Science Fiction Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 11, 2026

We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation in 2026. To be considered for the competition, please submit an original article on any topic, period, theme, author, film or other media within the (broadly defined) field of science fiction and its academic study. Approximate length should be 6000-8000 words. All submitted articles should comply with the guidelines to contributors as set out on the journal pages of the SF Foundation website.

NRITYAJYOTI FESTIVAL: VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2025

updated: 
Friday, June 20, 2025 - 12:01pm
Foundation for Developed India
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

NRITYAJYOTI FESTIVAL: VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2025

Organised by 

Foundation for Developed India

 

20th September, 2025

Call for Papers

 

Concept Note:

Embodied Masculinities: Reconfiguring the Hegemony

updated: 
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 9:07pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Feminist scholar Peggy Phelan (1993) famously said that “visibility is a trap” and argued for the immense power of the unmarked. Such a theory of the unmarked finds utmost relevance in the case of what R.W. Connell calls hegemonic masculinity, which often maintains its superiority by being the norm and thus abstract, untraceable. However, material bodily practices among marginalized groups of men often subvert such invisibility tactics, expose the nodes of hegemonic and normative masculinities, and articulate a language of resistance. For example, dance scholar Mark Broomfield (2024) observes that black gay male dancers in America use “straight acting” as a way of passing and surviving in a world where white heterosexual masculinity is the norm.

*REMINDER* CFP Screening Women and/in Politics - Film Journal

updated: 
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 9:53am
Film Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Screening Women and/in Politics

Film Journal - special issue

Hélène Charlery and Anita Jorge

 

This special issue of Film Journal seeks papers on the representation of political women and women in institutional politics in audiovisual productions from and on the anglophone world, whether they be documentaries, fiction films (short, medium, feature-length, television or platform) films, series or mini-series.

Hegel and Literature

updated: 
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 9:05am
Northeast Modern Language association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In Positions, Derrida stated that “we will never be finished with the reading or rereading of the Hegelian text.” Hegel's impact on all areas of thought cannot be overstated. Recent decades have seen the efflorescence of publications such as Hegel and the Foundations of Literary Theory (Habib 2018), or Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique (Scott 2025), which attempt to retrace the pervasiveness of Hegel's thought, the hostility as well as hospitality it underwent in literary critical discourse, or Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination (Bates 2010), which cross-reads Hegel and Shakespeare to reciprocally shed light on each other.

(2 Weeks Left) In Living Color: Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 3:54pm
Amir Gilmore
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

In Living Color:

 Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century

Under Contract with Bloomsbury Publishing

 

Edited by

Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University

Vikki Carpenter, Heritage University

 

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair

Call to Host the 2026 Post45 Graduate Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 1:28pm
Post45
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Submission deadline: August 5, 2025

We are pleased to announce an open call for bids to host the 2026 Post45 Graduate Symposium. The Post45 Graduate Symposium is a two-day event, typically held in Spring, which brings together graduate students and faculty members working on post-1945 arts, literature, media, and culture. Around fifteen graduate students each submit a work-in-progress and convene in a workshop-style setting along with faculty respondents to discuss each participant's work. 

Working With Tainted Legacies (virtual NeMLA panel)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 10:10am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Weeks after the death of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro last year, her daughter Andrea Skinner disclosed the sexual abuse she'd suffered as a child—abuse about which Munro had known and stayed silent. The disclosure is but one of many revelations in recent years to upend the legacy of a cultural icon. Neil Gaiman, Louis CK, Jean Vanier, and Avital Ronell are only a few public figures to be reassessed in the wake of accounts of sexual abuse. Similarly, disputed claims to Indigenous ancestry touted by artists including novelist Joseph Boyden and singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie have generated outrage and heartbreak among Indigenous groups and innumerable admirers, compounding generational traumas.

Indigenous and Creole Transcultural Encounters

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Karine Germoni
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The CfP for the hybrid panel "Indigenous and Creole Transcultural Encounters" (NeMLA 2026 convention) is now open (please see abstract and description below). 

 The convention will take place in Pittsburgh, PA on March 5-8, 2026.

How Not to Be a Misogynist: Un/Intentional Sexism in Early Modern Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Lilly Berberyan & Jess McCall
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Stemming from the “How Not to Be a Misogynist” panel at the 2025 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, we are soliciting chapters for an edited collection that engages with matters of gender, power, and misogyny. We are particularly interested in interrogations of how—perhaps unwittingly—misogyny is inscribed onto early modern texts and contexts by contemporary scholars and scholarship. Some of the questions we seek to answer in this collection include: 

 

FRAME 39.1 “Controlling the Narrative”

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 5, 2025

Dissension exists on a spectrum. It can be expressed on an individual scale—by rejecting challenges to ethical or moral beliefs—or within collectives that object to systems that harm or subjugate. Literature can be used as an act of protest and resistance, to create counter narratives that combat oppressive agendas; it can mirror the outcry of societies that wish to test the limits of oppression but lack the voice to do so. Now more than ever, it is imperative that we listen to those voices that systems continually work to silence. Authoritarianism, protest, incarceration, and revolution are interwoven themes that dominate allegorical genres such as dystopian fiction.

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Worldview Critical Edition)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Dr Subashish Bhattacharjee and Dr Indrajit Mukherjee
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We invite original, unpublished essays (maximum 5,000 words) for an upcoming Worldview Critical Companion to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. This volume aims to serve as both a scholarly resource and a generative site of contemporary dialogue on one of the most significant dramatic works of the twentieth century. Contributors are encouraged to revisit canonical readings while also offering new, boundary-pushing approaches that open Godot to current critical, theoretical, and performative discourses.

The Handbook of Bengali Cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Dr Subashish Bhattacharjee and Dr Indrajit Mukherjee
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We invite original and unpublished essays for inclusion in a forthcoming Handbook of Bengali Cinema. This interdisciplinary volume will offer a comprehensive and critical survey of Bengali cinema across periods, geographies, genres, styles, and theoretical frameworks. It will serve as a key reference for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in one of South Asia’s most influential regional cinemas.

Essays should be no longer than 5,000 words, inclusive of notes and works cited, and must follow the MLA citation style (current edition). Contributions may be historical, thematic, theoretical, or practice-based, and are expected to demonstrate critical rigor and originality.

 

Regenerating Technical Communication: Creative Pedagogies & Practices

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Technical communication, as a field of practice and study, has grown larger and more varied in response to the rapidly developing technologies, new forms of globalization, and shifting institutional demands of the past 20 years—all greatly intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic within the last five. How, then, do today's instructors of technical communication meet the current moment as well as current student needs?

CFP: (Chapter Abstracts) German Romantic Humour (Aug. 1, 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Pascale LaFountain
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

CFP: (Chapter Abstracts) German Romantic Humour (Aug. 1, 2025)

 

Call for Chapter Abstracts

Due: August 1, 2025

Subject fields: German Romanticism, Humour Studies, Philosophy, Literature Studies, Musicology, Art History, History of Religion

 

This is a call for abstracts for book chapters to be included in an edited volume on “German Romantic Humour”

 

Edited by Dr. Pascale LaFountain (Montclair State University, USA)

 

The Roles of 20th Century Regionalisms: Past and (Re)Generation.

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
NeMLA 57th Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This NeMLA panel invites proposals exploring the social, cultural, and political uses of regionalist aesthetics throughout the 20th cnetury.

Representing Authoritarianism in Modern Latin American Politics and Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Joseph Mulligan, Weber State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Throughout the nineteenth, twentieth and into the twenty-first century, authoritarianism has proven to be an enduring leadership style in Latin American and has manifested in diverse forms, including the uprisings of regional caudillos, the ascendency of personalist rulers, the formation of solemn cults of personality, the imposition of military dictatorships, the establishment of single-party States, the totalitarian perpetuation of the state of exception, the cultural promotion of ethnonationalism, and the installation of illiberal technocracies, among others.

NeMLA 2026 Roundtable - Villains Reborn: Redemption and (Re)Generation of Comic Book Antagonists

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) | Sydney Nelson and Josie Kochendorfer
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

From brainwashed assassins to complicated anti-heroes to villains on a redemption arc, comic books, films, television, and novels frequently present readers with complicated antagonists-turned-superheroes, many of which become beloved characters. Through varied processes of regeneration, former antagonists remake themselves into superheroes in fascinating and often unexpected ways.

Children’s Rights &/in Popular Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Northeast Popular Studies Conference (Virtual)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 13, 2025

Children’s Rights &/in Popular Culture (panel/roundtable for NEPCA conference taking place virtually Oct 9-11 2025) 

How are children’s rights represented in current popular culture (e.g., videogames, board games, graphic novels, film, TV, social media, music, toys etc.)? In what ways does pop culture today curtail children’s rights (e.g., cellphone apps, tracking devices, surveillance equipment)? How do children themselves define their rights, notions of justice, law and order in their interactions with popular culture (e.g., toys, games, art, fashion, hobbies, social media etc.)?

[NeMLA 2026 Panel] The Name of the Witch

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:52am
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We seek panelists for Northeast MLA 2026, "The Name of the Witch." 

Conference Details

57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5 - 8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA. Visit https://www.nemla.org/convention/future.html for more details. 

Modality 

Panel / In Person Only: The session will be held fully in person at the hotel. No remote presentations will be included.

Submissions and Deadline

Conflict and Literature: Perspectives from Global South

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:25am
Indira Chakraborty (Bhattacharya)/ St. Xavier's University, Kolkata, India
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Global South is a phrase often heard in the academic parlance to categorise a group of nations which have been broadly classified in economic terms by the United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD) based on certain defining characteristics (socio-economic and political factors). The countries or continents which come under this category are Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (excluding Australia and New Zealand). However, to classify economic grounds poses severe questions about factors contributing to the dissemination of this inequality. This unevenness as one suspects can be a major reason for armed conflicts often leading to tensions and permanent war zones.

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