Call for Book Reviews: Volume 14, Issue 2 (2025)

The editors of Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce an open call for book reviews for a forthcoming volume.

Impact is a peer-reviewed biannual online journal devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and scholarship.

If you would like to contribute, you may submit a review for consideration at https://impact.scholasticahq.com/for-authors. If you would like to serve as reviewer, but have no text in mind, please send your CV and a statement of interest to citl@bu.edu.

Call for Chapters | Variational Translation: Practical and Theoretical Explorations

This edited volume seeks to include quality works which provide new insights into the practical and theoretical explorations of variational translation.

EDITORS

Dr. Chuanmao Tian, Professor, Centre for Translation Studies, Yangtze University, China, Jingzhou, China
Dr. Juntao Deng, Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China
Dr. Zhonglian Huang, Professor, Center for Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

Quality unpublished works as chapters are invited to the book. The chapters should strictly be according to the coverage scope of the book.

In a significant portion of feminist criticism in its populist interpretation, there is an ongoing sense of wanting to shape feminine characters from legends, folklore, and history into models for a kind of feminism and perceived empowerment more closely associated with twenty-first-century understandings of the feminine than those directly connected to social, historical, or cultural sources. This backcasting and interpretation changes these characters into ones that would better suit a modern set of beliefs through syncretism and the creation not of folkloric or cultural beliefs but of a folkloresque sense of the subject.

The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2025, open to all, on the subject of Katherine Mansfield’s Men.

The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 18 (2026), the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.

The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:
D R A N D R E W H A R R I S O N
University of Nottingham, UK
Chair of the Judging Panel
K A T H L E E N J O N E S
Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Biographer
D R M A R T I N G R I F F I T H S
Author and Musician

Researchers at Northumbria University and the Open University invite contributions for a peer-reviewed edited collection of essays on Culture and Offence.

Our current ‘age of offence’ demands that we reflect critically on debates about trigger warnings, ‘cancel culture’, ‘anti-wokeness’, and free speech, to ask:

Poison(s) and Poisoning in Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction

A special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal

Guest-edited by Manon Burz-Labrande and Sarah Frühwirth

Students in Writing Studies 4200, “Writing and Cultures,” will edit a collection of creative writing (visual art, poems and nonfiction writing) entitled "Through my Eyes" -- How we perceive world issues, crises or maybe even beauty. As such, they solicit writings from everyone (students, alumni, and the broader community) on this topic for inclusion in the collection.
Submissions could address the ways that we use our own experience to think about local, global, international or interpersonal issues.  Or, they could address the ways that local, global, international or interpersonal issues change the ways that we understand our own experiences.  

CFP: MEDIA REVIEWERS and SCHOLARLY ARTICLES – MIDDLE WEST REVIEW

Middle West Review (MWR) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that examines the American Midwest. The journal is published biannually by the University of Nebraska Press.

MWR is seeking scholars to review media texts that engage with midwestern identity, history, and/or culture. From popular films and television series to online exhibitions and digital archives, MWR spotlights Midwest-oriented media texts in each issue.

Raymond Williams Society Postgrad Essay Prize 2025

We are delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay competition for its 11th year. It’s open to anyone studying for a higher degree (master’s or doctoral) in the UK or elsewhere, or who graduated no earlier than 31st January 2024. The deadline for entries is Friday 28 February 2025.

The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the George Washington University Cold War Group (GWCW), and the LSE Cold War Studies Project (CWSP) of the London School of Economics and Political Science are pleased to announce their 2025 International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, to take place at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from May 8 to May 10, 2025. 

2025 SSAWW Conference
Nov. 6-9 Philadelphia, PA
Roundtable CFP: American Women Writers and the Civic Humanities

CALL FOR PAPERS

 5th INTERNATIONAL ONLINE CONFERENCE

Media in America, America in Media

27-28 March 2025

Rhetoric of the Borders 

CFP: 

We are seeking participants for a roundtable for the American Literature Association’s 2025 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2025. This roundtable aims to further our understanding of the Federal Writers’ Project’s (FWP) literary legacy. 

The special issue of the SOPHIA journal invites abstract submissions dedicated to exploring philosophical approaches to Precarity. This special issue will engage with the concept of precarity from a variety of philosophical discussions and frameworks, addressing its ethical, existential, political, and social dimensions. The special issue seeks contributions that critically examine the conditions of precarity in contemporary life and reflect on how philosophical frameworks can illuminate, challenge, and potentially offer solutions to the issues it raises. This special issue will come out in March 2026. Abstracts of 300-400 words are invited by January 31, 2025.