Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic
Annual Symposium of the German Inklings Society

“Epochs throw up the monsters they need.”
— China Miéville, “Theses on Monsters”

Popular Culture Association

 Atlanta  April 8-11, 2026

Subject Area:

Disasters and Apocalyptic Culture

Submission Deadline: 11/30/25

Scope of the paper topics accepted under this area:

Special Issue, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film Call for Papers: 

Adapting Thackeray 

Edited Collection Dark Skies Appalachia

Proposal Deadline: 20 October 2025

Estimated Publication Date: 2027

Call for Papers: Dark Skies Appalachia

We invite proposals for contributions to Dark Skies Appalachia, a multidisciplinary collection which will explore the influence of a dark night sky on identity, culture, and sense of place in the Appalachian region, as well as the ecological and human impacts of light pollution and efforts to protect dark skies in and beyond the region. 

CFP: Media Futures The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 98 (to be published Fall 2026) Special Issue Theme: Media have always been a tool for us to imagine our possible futures. Dystopias, utopias, robotic dominance or human climate catastrophe, media help humanity play out the hopes, dreams, or nightmares of what’s to come. Scholarship on media futures has often focused on representations of the future, but also on how cultural and technological changes have shaped and are shaping everything from media production, creative labor, distribution, and audience reception. Algorithmic engines that shape taste help to determine what individuals choose to watch, A.I.

Special Issue Title: Long Modernism, Altered Natures 

Guest Editors: Matthew Gannon, Patrick Whitmarsh, and Kate Marshall

Deadline for Abstracts: 30 November 2025

Deadline for Manuscript Drafts: 31 July 2026

In the Anthropocene, human activities profoundly reshape the climate and environment, disrupting ecological balance and transforming humans into a potent geological force. Dominant strands of Western thought from Descartes to Heidegger have contributed to reinforcing this perceived superiority of humans over other beings, thereby calcifying a dichotomy between the human and the non-human. In the field of translation studies, this human-centered focus has historically been echoed through the discipline’s sustained attention to human languages and culture. However, posthumanism and post-anthropocentrism, which advocate the interconnectedness between humans and non-humans, have challenged the centrality of anthropos in translation. 

Call for Papers – CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies #13 (November 2026)

Open Call for Submissions

 CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies will once again provide a platform for all facets of comic studies in its thirteenth issue, to be published in Fall 2026. From cultural, visual, and media studies to social and natural sciences and beyond, CLOSURE invites essays and academic reviews that engage with the »state of the comic.« Whether in-depth analysis, comic theory, or innovative new approaches—for the open topic section, we welcome diverse contributions from the interdisciplinary field of comics research.

Thematic Section: »Animal Studies«

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sonic Representations of Jewishness, On Screen and Off

In-person conference at UCLA, April 19-21, 2026

Jews’ longstanding involvement with film and television has drawn much attention from scholars and the general public alike, raising the question of the significance of Jewish heritage and Jewishness more broadly for these creative endeavors, both on screen and behind the scenes. 

Given the centrality of music to Jewish culture, this conference seeks especially to delve into the ways portrayals of Jewishness are reinforced or made more complicated through music and sound in screen culture. 

To mark the 50th anniversary of Stephen King’s landmark 1977 novel, The Shining, editors Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale solicit chapter proposals for an edited collection of scholarly essays with the working title, Fifty Years of The Shining: New Essays. Proposals are welcome on any aspects of the novel, its adaptations, paratexts, and cultural influence.

Please direct 250-word proposals (demonstrating appropriate conversance with relevant existing scholarly literature), as well as inquiries, to Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu and Anthony.Magistrale@uvm.edu. The deadline for proposals is December 1st, 2025.  

Bureaucratic Modernism

Edited by Alexandra Irimia and Jonathan Foster

Both modernist literature and modern bureaucracy reshaped how societies imagined authority, individuality, and the written word. Modernist authors not only depicted bureaucracy—they absorbed and transformed its textual forms, procedural rhythms, and rationalized aesthetics. This volume takes that convergence as its starting point, asking how the rise of administrative culture in the early twentieth century influenced modernist style, and how modernist experimentation in turn reframed the experience of bureaucracy.

Call for Papers for the Samuel Beckett Working Group at the IFTR World Congress in Melbourne, Australia, 6–10 July 2026

‘Nothing to be done’: What Samuel Beckett’s Theatre Does and What We Do with It

Through this Call for Papers, the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) invites submission of proposals for breakout sessions and applications for the New Voices Breakout Speaker Grant at the 2026 JASNA Annual General Meeting (AGM) October 29-November 1, 2026 in Tucson, Arizona.  The Call for Papers forms also include the application for the JASNA New Voices Breakout Speaker grant.

2026 AGM Theme: "Jane Austen's Bath Novels: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion." 

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2025

In 2025-2026, Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture will host two virtual mini-conferences consisting of four thematically-linked keywords actively shaping digital literary culture in the very online, very present moment. We are working at the bleeding edge of culture, and these mini-conferences are designed to be intimate, safe, and collaborative spaces to think with others about what we see emerging, as it is emerging.

Call for Abstracts!

Classic Rock and Philosophy: Dispatches from the Dark Side of the Moon

Edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene

The 57th annual NeMLA Convention is taking place Thursday, March 5, through Sunday, March 8, 2026, at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown in Pittsburgh, PA.  For more information, see https://www.nemla.org/.

Call for Research Article

For December 2025 Issue

Last date for Research Article Submission is 10th December 2025 for December Issue ,

The Creative Launcher

An International, Peer Reviewed Indexed, Refereed Journal in English

Indexed in MLA, ERIHPLUS, MIAR, Sherpa Romeo, World cat, Fatcat, Google Scholar, BASE, Crossref, EBSCO, Google Scholar, and World wide acknowledged.

Useful in Thesis submission and CAS promotion

Editor-in-chief: Dr. Ram Avadh Prajapati

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Each article will be published with DOI.

This panel invites papers that engage with aspects of performance, mediated by concepts of gender, in English and Anglophone theatre and drama. The panel is not restricted to any particular period, but preference may be given to proposals that engage with British theatre from 1500 to 1800.

Please submit abstracts through the NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21738

Conference Details

We are seeking papers for the "Kafka's Fiction" panel at the 57th annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), which will be held between March 5-8 in Pittsburgh, PA. You can find more information about the event on NeMLA's website: https://www.nemla.org/convention.html

Modality

Hybrid: The session will be held in-person but a few remote presentations may be included.

Panel Abstract

From Lisa Barlow’s claim of being “Mormon 2.0,” to Meredith Marks’ immortal declaration about “the rumors and the nastiness,” The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City has captured imaginations far beyond Utah. The show is at once high drama, cultural export, and local funhouse mirror—inviting us to think seriously (and playfully) about how Salt Lake City is represented, interpreted, and mythologized.

This event will bring together fans, critics, scholars, and community members for a day of lively discussion, re-enactment, and reflection. We are less interested in the strict application of academic methods than in thoughtful, stimulating insights rooted in local culture, fandom, and appreciation.

The CUNY Graduate Center French Department invites submissions for our Spring 2026 student conference on the theme of “étrangeté.”

Étrangeté evades easy translation. It encompasses "strangeness," "foreignness," and "otherness," offering expansive variability. Etrangeté inhabits both the self and the other. It arises through external judgment and internal reflection alike. It can be unsettling, absurd, and beautiful.

57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5-8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA

The emergence of Age and Disability Studies as critical fields of inquiry has paved the way for pioneering work tracing the historical construction of age and disability within cultures, revising cultural artifacts that shape hegemonic discourses of normalcy/difference, and advancing innovative approaches to (re)imagine more inclusive and empathetic ways of social coexistence. Despite the growing body of work within these fields, numerous cultural texts remain underexplored, misunderstood, or in need of what Adrienne Rich (1972) describes as re-vision—a fresh critical examination that infuses the text with new life.

"That Ain't a Girl, That's a Fighter" – (Million Dollar Baby)

Name of Organisation: Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)

Contact email: literarydruid@gmail.com  

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.