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Intangible, Intelligible, Intractable: Unruly (Re)Readings of the Medieval

International Congress on Medieval Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 12, 2026

We seek submissions on unruly (re)readings of the medieval that drive a wedge into Derrida's conception of differánce between the signifier and signfied of the sign. Various modern media types, including but not limited to literature, film, television, animation, TTRPGs, video game RPGS, comics and graphic novels, podcasts, etc., offer an array of opportunities for exploring what we make of the "medieval" and why. We are interested in work that engages more than traditional examples of medievalism, especially that which might speak for or represent perspectives traditionally deemed "unruly." Under-represented paradigms encouraged.

Climate Adaptation

Deborah Cartmell / De Montfort University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 30, 2028

Special Issue: Climate Adaptation

Adaptation (OUP)

 

Deadline for papers: 30 January 2028

Submit: https://academic.oup.com/adaptation

(early papers accepted for continuous publication) 

 

Ed. Robert Geal and Deborah Cartmell

 

Horror Studies Special Issue (2027) CFP: "What Did Get Out Get Us?"

Horror Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 31, 2026

         When Get Out was released in 2017, Jordan Peele’s landmark debut feature signified a major inflection point in the history of horror. Not only did the film garner a rare blend of blockbuster commercial success and critical reputability perhaps not seen since The Silence of the Lambs (1991) or The Sixth Sense (1999), but it also broke through the confines of genre to become a larger pop cultural phenomenon.

The Corporate Uncanny

Saramanda Swigart
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 15, 2026

The Corporate Uncanny

Edited Collection | Vernon Press
Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2026

Vernon Press has accepted the proposal for The Corporate Uncanny, an interdisciplinary edited collection examining how contemporary media represent—and make experiential—the strange familiarity of corporate power.

Composition & Rhetoric: Practice (CEA 4/1/27-4/3/27)

College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 1, 2026

Call for Papers: Composition and Rhetoric: Practice at CEA 2027

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Composition and Rhetoric: Practice for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Writing Centers (CEA 4/1/27-4/3/27)

College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 1, 2026

Subject: Call for Papers: Writing Centers at CEA 2027

 

Call for Papers: Writing Centers at CEA 2027

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Writing Centers for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

CFP: Adaptations and Retellings 2027

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 31, 2026

CONFERENCE IN BOSTON, MA - March 24-27, 2027

https://pcaaca.org/

Adaptations and retellings, much like nostalgia, are deeply tied to the past. They confront the challenges of integrating past elements into the present and often engage with each other in this process.

BIPOC & Asian American Literature (CEA 4/1-4/3/27)

College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 1, 2026

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on BIPOC & Asian American Literature for our 2027 annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

We welcome a wide range of approaches, periods, genres, and traditions. In keeping with the conference theme of “Gateways,” proposals might take up any of the questions and possibilities suggested below in the general call for papers as they relate to BIPOC & Asian American literature.

 

The deadline for abstract submissions is 11/01/2026.

Conference Theme: Gateways

Proposed Volume: Teaching without GenAI in the Age of AI

University of North Texas
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 15, 2026

Since the widespread emergence of Generative AI a few years ago, educators across disciplines have been reconsidering how technology shapes teaching, learning, writing, and assessment. While some departments and faculty have leaned into these new Large Language Models and the technological "advances" they offer, others have worked just as diligently to keep AI out of their classrooms.

The Hidden Faces of Violence II: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Abuse, Trauma and Resistance

KN: F.L.A.ME.S. by Konstantina Kliagkona
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 11, 2026

Dates of Conference: 4-8 November 2026Format: Hybrid – Online (via Zoom) & In-Person (Thessaloniki, Greece)Note: The onsite/in-person conference will take place exclusively on 6-7 November, 2026 and be streamed live on Zoom.Organizer: KN: F.L.A.ME.S. by Konstantina Kliagkona (www.knflames.gr) International, interdisciplinary conference titled: The Hidden Faces of Violence II: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Abuse, Trauma, and Resistance Followi

2027 Global Asias Summer Institute — “Global Asias’ Cold War: Cartographies of Intimacy”

Global Asias Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 6, 2026

The 2027 Global Asias Summer Institute will be held June 14-18, 2027. SI2027, co-directed by Shuang Shen, Jooyeon Rhee, and Tina Chen, adopts Global Asias’ approach of “relational nonalignment” to consider the previously invisible, forcefully concealed, less studied, yet culturally far-reaching sites of coordination and connection in the histories of Cold War at the intersection of imperialist expansion and domination, postcolonial nationalism, migration, and diaspora. Institute participants spend a week reading and thinking about the annual theme, as well as significant time workshopping their work in progress.

CFP for the ACLA VIRTUAL 2027 Annual Meeting (May 15&16, 2027) Queering the Settler Colony: Comparative Perspectives on Canadian and Australian Literature

Lydia Roupakia and Theodora Patrona/ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

This CFP is currently accepting paper proposals for the VIRTUAL 2027 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association

Queering the Settler Colony: Comparative Perspectives on Canadian and Australian LiteratureAbstract

The comparative study of Canadian and Australian literature has long demonstrated the value of reading these two settler-colonial traditions alongside one another. Building on the pioneering comparative work of Sneja Gunew, this seminar seeks to extend this dialogue by foregrounding queer identities, sexualities, and non-normative forms of belonging as central categories of comparative inquiry.

Richard Gooder Prize for PhD Students

The Cambridge Quarterly
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 15, 2026

Submissions are invited by the Editors of Cambridge Quarterly for the Richard D. Gooder Graduate Essay Prize. The Prize is open to doctoral students and those who have submitted their thesis within the last calendar year, and offers a prize of £300 and publication in the journal. Essays of up to 7,500 words, including notes, on topics in literary and cultural criticism, broadly conceived, are warmly invited. Further details, including competition rules and how to submit, can be found at

"Speculative Souths" Symposium

The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Tennessee
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 2, 2026

"Speculative Souths" 

The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts 

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

June 10-12, 2027 

 

CFP Deadline: November 2, 2026 

 

Keynote Speaker: Kiese Laymon, Rice University, author of Long Division and Heavy 

 

Critical Insights: Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)

Jericho Williams
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 31, 2026

Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes remains a beloved classic novel among readers, many of whom first encountered this book during their adolescent years.

This forthcoming essay collection seeks to deepen high school and undergraduate reader engagement with Something Wicked This Way Comes and contribute to ongoing studies of Bradbury’s work.

Although all essay proposals will be considered and additional proposed topics are highly encouraged, some possibilities include:

Call for Submissions: "HELLO GODOT! (VOLUME 12)

Fresh Words An International Literary Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS  FRESH WORDS — AN INTERNATIONAL LITERARY MAGAZINE

Website:https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/home
Submissions: dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com

  HELLO GODOT! (VOLUME 12)  An Anthology of Existential & Absurd Plays

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2026
Acceptance Notifications: October 05, 2026
Publication: October 2026

Call for Submissions: “Tiny Revolutions: A Flash Fiction Anthology”

Fresh Words: An International Literary Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS  Tiny Revolutions: A Flash Fiction Anthology

Small acts. Quiet rebellions. Lives changed one choice at a time.

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2026

Acceptance Notifications: October 05, 2026

Submissions: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com

Website:https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements

“Medical Humanities and Feminism in Literature and Film”

Mary Thompson James Madison University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

“Medical Humanities and Feminism in Literature and Film”
(https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22501)
58th Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Annual Convention to be held March 6 to 9 2027 in Newport, Rhode Island. 

See the CFP below.  You also can click on the link above to read the CFP and to submit an abstract.  Abstracts should be no more than 500 words and include a works cited; the deadline for submission is 30 September.

The Archival Turn: Re-anchoring Memory and Identity across Literature, Language and Media

College of Language and Communication 4th International Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 1, 2026

4th International Conference

 

The Archival Turn: Re-anchoring Memory and Identity across Literature, Language and Media

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17 – 18 December 2026

College of Language and Communication 4th International Conference (LANACOM 2026)

The Archival Turn: Re-anchoring Memory and Identity across Literature, Language and Media

CFP: 28th Southeast Conference for Languages, Literatures, and Film (St. Petersburg, FL, Feb. 2027)

Margit Grieb SCFLLF
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 16, 2026

28th Southeast Conference for Languages, Literatures, and Film (Feb 27-28, 2027) in St. Petersburg, Florida (on the University of South Florida St. Petersburg Campus)

Languages and Cultures in a Changing World: Identity, Responsibility, and Justice

Abstracts for papers (and panels) are now being considered. Deadline for abstracts: Nov. 16, 2026

Selected papers will be published in a post-conference anthology. To view prior publication, visit the conference website.

Ecosystems in the Long Nineteenth Century

Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 25, 2026

15th January 2027 | Royal Holloway, University of London (Hybrid)

"We need, urgently, to reconnect with our planet, and recognise ourselves as inseparable rather than special; reliant upon rather than dominating" (Erica Fudge, 2022)

Call for Papers: History and Art Journal (Volume 2) – Submissions Open

Editorial Board, History and Art Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 1, 2026

The Editorial Board of the History and Art Journal officially invites original and unpublished research articles for its upcoming Volume 2.

We welcome interdisciplinary submissions in English and Spanish across history, art history, and museology. Our main thematic tracks include Early Modern and Modern History, Visual Culture, Archival Research, Material Culture, and Digital Humanities.

2027 SAAS CONFERENCE: Queer Bounds: Circulating Affects in Contemporary Ethnic US Literature (panel)

SAAS (Spanish Association for American Studies)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 15, 2026

18th SAAS Conference “Negotiating Identity and Power: Resistance, Rebellion, and Resilience in U.S. Literature and Culture” (Universidad de Oviedo, March 15-17, 2027)

 

PANEL: Queer Bounds: Circulating Affects in Contemporary Ethnic US Literature 

CHAIRS: Paula Barba Guerrero & Beatriz Hermida Ramos (Universidad de Salamanca)

 

From Authenticity to Commodity: Italian Food in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 21, 2026

Abstract

This seminar proposes to examine Italian and Italian American food studies through the comparative frameworks of transnational circulation, intermedial representation, and cultural translation. Rather than approaching food as a stable marker of heritage or authenticity, the seminar treats it as a mobile signifying practice through which texts, images, commodities, and affects travel across linguistic, national, and medial boundaries. Food thus becomes a privileged comparative object: it links literature to film, advertising to visual culture, and national discourse to diasporic rearticulation.

John Steinbeck and Robinson Jeffers: A Special Issue of Steinbeck Review

The Steinbeck Review
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 31, 2026

John Steinbeck once remarked that fellow-Californian Robinson Jeffers wrote some the “greatest poetry since Whitman.” Steinbeck kept a significant collection of Jeffers work both in his personal library and Ed Ricketts’ Lab, where Jeffers was an influential topic in their endlessly varied conversations. When asked about possibility of meeting the poet, Steinbeck declined with a telling degree of reverence: “His poetry is perfect to me, and I don’t think one should get the man mixed up with his work.” Although they did eventually meet—notably when Steinbeck lived in Monterey in 1944—their relationship was one of distant, though friendly, mutual respect.

The Visual Cultures of YA Romance: Seeing Desire, Reading Relationships

University of L'Aquila; University of Bergamo
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

The Visual Cultures of YA Romance: Seeing Desire, Reading Relationships - The International Journal of Young Adult Literature 8/2027

Guest editors:

Dalila Forni (Università dell’Aquila - IT)
Alessandra Mazzini (Università di Bergamo - IT)
Valentina Baeli (Università di Catania - IT)

[2027 ACLA CFP] Attuning to Noise: Other Modalities of Sounding, Listening, and Writing

American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

This seminar is seeking like-minded presenters for a productive discussion focused on noise as a concept and an approach to exploring the intersection of sound studies and literature! The 2027 ACLA conference will take place in Houston, Texas (the University of Houston) on May 20-23, 2027. Please submit an abstract (around 250 words) with title to the seminar via the ACLA online portal by September 22, 2026. Please feel free to reach out to the seminar organizer Dr. Yiren Zheng (yiren.zheng@dartmouth.edu) with any questions!

2027 International Famine Summer School

National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 11, 2026

Global Irish Famine Diaspora Stories

2027 International Famine Summer School, National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, Ireland. 

May 13-15, 2027

Call for Papers:

The 2027 International Famine Summer School will take place at the National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, Ireland on May 13—15. The theme of the 2027 International Famine Summer School is “Global Irish Famine Diaspora Stories”.  It commemorates the 180th Anniversary of Black ’47.

Call for Essay Proposal: Essay on Water and Myth in Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch

Barbara Barrow and Monika Class
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 15, 2026

The editors of a volume under contract with Routledge’s Environmental Literature, Culture and Media series are seeking a 7,000-word essay on Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch. The volume focuses on rewritten water myths in English and situates itself in current debates in the blue and environmental humanities. It grows out of an international conference on the topic that the editors held at Lund University in June 2026.

Coaching, Psychology and the Art of Leadership: A Transdisciplinary Conference Inspired by Ted Lasso

London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 1, 2026

Coaching, Psychology and the Art of Leadership
A Transdisciplinary Conference Inspired by Ted Lasso

 Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/08/17/coaching-psychology/

Date: November 27-28, 2026

Location: Nov 27: Duke Street Church Richmond, London, United Kingdom (and online)

Nov 28: Online

Fees (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
Prices exclude Eventbrite fees

CfP: Deleuze and Laruelle - A Special Issue of Deleuze and Guattari Studies

Andrija Filipovic
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 25, 2026

In a footnote in What Is Philosophy? (1991/2009), Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari write that François Laruelle “is engaged in one of the most interesting undertakings of contemporary philosophy” (220). Referencing Laruelle’s Philosophy and Non-Philosophy (1989/2013), they continue that Laruelle “invokes a One-All that he qualifies as ‘nonphilosophical’ and, oddly, as ‘scientific,’ on which the ‘philosophical decision’ takes root” (220). They conclude that “this One-All seems to be close to Spinoza” (220).

Graphic Narratives in Cultural Transitions

Kristu Jayanti (Deemed to be University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 5, 2026

Graphic Narratives has become part of an expanding literary field, absorbing and redirecting the ideological, formal, and creative energies of contemporary fiction.

(Chute and DeKoven768)

Let’s Dance: Musicals, Dance, Bodies and Popular Culture

PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 30, 2027

PopCRN Online Conference 26-27 August 2027

Popular culture dances. Across stages and screens, ballrooms and nightclubs, streets and stadiums, dance has produced some of popular culture’s most enduring images of bodies in motion. From musicals and music videos to television, theatre, popular music and sport, dance crosses cultural forms and national boundaries, continually reinventing how bodies move, perform and become visible.

Punk in Popular Culture: Noise, Style, Politics and Afterlives

PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 31, 2027

Online Conference 26-27 November 2027

Punk has never stayed where it was put. Emerging from the economic, political and cultural upheavals of the 1970s, punk became music, style, attitude, subculture, political language and cultural mythology. From London, New York, Sydney, Belfast, Berlin, Tokyo and Jakarta, punk travelled rapidly while taking radically different local forms. It transformed music and fashion, challenged conventions of gender and sexuality, generated distinctive visual and material cultures, and provided a language through which alienation, anger, resistance and belonging could be expressed.

Learning Communities that Work

Randy Laist/University of Bridgeport
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 30, 2026

At many universities, learning communities foster connectedness and belonging among students.  Learning communities are typically composed of cohorts of students taking aligned first-year classes, but they take many other forms as well.  At their best, they promote the perspective that learning is a collective activity in which knowledge is constructed through relationships with peers, professors, and communities, bringing together diverse voices and interdisciplinary perspectives. They provide a welcoming environment that eases the transition to college and provides a foundation for a peer network of academic support (Schreiber & Valle, 2013).

Evelyn Scott Society -- American Literature Association -- Deadline January 8, 2027

Evelyn Scott Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 8, 2027

The Evelyn Scott Society invites abstracts of 1-2 pages on the American writer Evelyn Scott (1893-1963).

Papers may focus on any of her works (novels, memoirs, poetry, young adult literature) and take any contemporary critical approach. We are especially interested in papers investigating the canonicity process, the literary networks to which Scott belonged, or the role of disability in her career, but all topics will be considered. Scott participated in various and major literary currents during her writing life, including Imagism, naturalism, and modernism,. She had a variety of literary mentors, including Lola Ridge, Theodore Dreiser, Waldo Frank, William Carlos Williams, Emma Goldman, and Jean Rhys, among others. 

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