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Editors: Elise Boxer (Dakota), University of South Dakota and Travis Franks, Utah State University, Department of English
Call for Papers
American Television and the Rise of Post-Truth America
Submission Deadline, May 15, 2026.
The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Call for Papers for Volume 9
The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his letters, critical volumes of his complete prose, the 2015 edition of his complete poems, and the forthcoming critical edition of his plays.
All critical approaches are welcome, as are essays pertaining to any aspect of Eliot’s work as a poet, critic, playwright, editor, foremost exemplar of modernism, or his influence on twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture.
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS Everything Fab Four Fest: REVOLVERNovember 6-8, 2026, Asbury Park, NJBerkeley Oceanfront HotelYou are cordially invited to submit abstracts and/or panel suggestions for an international symposium devoted to the life, work, and influence of the Beatles, particularly in relation to their legendary album REVOLVER (1966). The festivities will include a host of well-known speakers, journalists, and musicians.
I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions. I encourage you to invite friends/colleagues outside of the Appalachian region, too.
Abstract
Call For Papers for Italian Ecofeminism and Literature
Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2026
Notification date: September 1, 2026
Full name / Name of organization: Nicole C. (Civitano) Dittmer, PhD
Contact email: ncdittmer@gmail.com
The Maritime Literature and Culture special session at PAMLA 2026 seeks papers that engage broadly with human activity at sea, particularly as they relate to the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.” Who rules the sea? How should we navigate and care for our oceans and waterways? What changes—social, ecological, political, cultural—have naval conflicts, commercial ventures, and other maritime activity brought about? How does a ship crew grapple with problems of leadership, mutiny, and internal conflict? This session encourages papers on maritime literatures and media that engage with these and other related questions.
Potential topics include:
- Naval conflict
- Ocean borders and maritime law
The "Shakespeare and the Early Moderns" session at PAMLA 2026 seeks proposals focusing on: Shakespeare and the early moderns; Shakespeare and/or his peers (Massinger, Heywood, Beaumont, Fletcher, Wroth, Middleton, etc.); the influence of Shakespeare and the early moderns on later works of literature. Topics of particular interest include work on Shakespeare and power and authority; labor and hierarchy, national identity, Shakespeare and race, feminism, gender and sexuality, disability studies, post-colonial studies, early modern economies; adaptations, and other proposals that touch on any aspect of Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and related topics.
The Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis, explores Caribbean and /or South American Culture and Education.
Obtaining a deeper understanding of Caribbean and South American festivities, rituals, and celebratory culture informs and impacts people's lives and vice versa.
Our goal is to gain a deeper understanding of Caribbean/South American cultural practices, traditions, and heritage, and how they have changed or sustained themselves and how they influence festivals, rituals, celebrations, etc.
Theme: Interconnections between Utopia and Dystopia in Times of Crisis
Venue: Embassy Suites Portland Downtown (Formerly the 1912 Multnomah Hotel)
Proposal Deadline:June 30, 2026
Conference Co-chairs email: susprogramchair@gmail.com
Conference website: https://utopian-studies.org/conference2026/
Sovereignties in Crisis: Human, Environment, Technology, and the Pharmakon
2026 Situations International Conference
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, October 22-23, 2026
2026 Global K-Culture Conference
August 20 (Thu.) ~ August 22 (Sat.), 2026 (3 days)
Chungbuk National University, Korea
Korean, English, or the presenter’s preferred language
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2026
The Department of Global K-Culture at Chungbuk National University is pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming Global K-Culture Conference, aimed at fostering meaningful dialogue and the exchange of ideas among instructors and researchers working across diverse educational and cultural contexts.
While not for the first time, educators are finding themselves at the center of political controversies as their pedagogies, content, and even profession is questioned, critiqued, and in some cases, banned. Also not the first occurrence, protesting has become one way targeted educators, students, and community members respond to and resist these top-down attacks. For some, these involve taking to the streets, organizing or joining protest efforts with high, public-facing visibility. For others, protests manifest as the books and content they continue to teach or the use of a student’s preferred pronouns.
12th Edition
1–27 September 2026
Freedom. Can We Be Free Together?
Conference: 24-26 September 2026
Keynote in English: Simona Forti (Scuola Normale Superiore)
The Festival
Latin Asian Entanglements: Critical and Creative Responses to Mass Deportation Today This is a CFP for two special sessions at the PAMLA conference in Seattle from November 12-15, 2026. Critical and creative proposals for these linked roundtables can be submitted at the links below
The Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program, along with the Department of English and the Film and Media Studies Program at the University of Rochester are pleased to announce an upcoming undergraduate conference on horror, to be held October 23-25, 2026. The conference will featuring a keynote address by the University of Rochester’s own Jason Middleton, author of numerous articles on horror films, co-editor (with Aviva Briefel) of Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work (U of Texas P, 2023), and a featured expert on the AMC series Eli Roth’s History of Horror.
Conference online (via Zoom): 28-29 May 2026
CFP:
It is widely known that ideologies of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics, society, psychology, culture, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of racism, nationalism and xenophobia are represented in artistic practices: in literature, film, theatre or visual arts.
This issue aims to restore much-needed scholarly attention to analog effects and other hands-on approaches to filmmaking in analog and contemporary digital cinema. Special effects have become a growing area in film studies with the rise of digital cinema since the turn of the century, sparking renewed interest across academic writing, popular culture, journalism, and fandom. Scholars such as Warren Buckland, Stephen Prince, Charlie Keil, Kristen Whissel, and Julie A. Turnock have primarily focused on the cinematic realism of CGI and its ubiquitous use in Hollywood mainstream cinema. Furthermore, as Dan North, Bob Rehak, and Michael S.
Plant Pedagogy: Words Beyond Walls
Series Editor— Prof. Douglas Vakoch
Editors— Dr Subhashis Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Nagaland University, India and Dr Tanmoy Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Women’s Christian College, Kolkata, India
Prospective Publisher— Bloomsbury (Critical Plant Studies Series)
At a time when some are attempting to rewrite the Humanities, it might be questioned as to how archives can not only be preserved but also utilized to fight for the future. Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture are deeply shaped by questions of memory, authority, and cultural transmission. Contributors are encouraged to consider the archive as an ever-evolving site of power that governs inclusion, exclusion, and interpretation. One might posit questions such as How do archival practices shape the stories available to young readers, and how might authors, educators, and scholars work against inherited silences and erasures?
The Lamar Journal of the Humanities is an interdisciplinary journal published annually by the College of Arts and Sciences of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Papers of interdisciplinary or general interest in the fields of literature, history, contemporary culture, and the fine arts are appropriate for submission. Languages accepted are English, Spanish, German, and French. Detailed studies of highly specialized topics, literary explications which do not elucidate broader historical or ideological issues, and statistical essays in the social sciences are not encouraged but will be considered. Manuscripts, normally not to exceed 6,000 words, should conform to the MLA Handbook or the Chicago Manual of Style.
This peer reviewed edited collection will be part of McFarland & Company, Inc.’s Studies in Gaming series.
A two-day conference to be held online by the University of Liverpool, in partnership with the Science Fiction Foundation and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, 12-13 December 2026
Keynote Speaker: Andrew M. Butler (non-voting chair of the Arthur C. Clarke Award)
Roundtable discussion with Clarke Award-winning authors Anne Charnock, Adrian Tchaikovsky and Tade Thompson
The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will take place this November in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15. The PAMLA 2026 conference is entirely in-person. We do not under any circumstances allow papers to be given virtually, online, or in absentia.
We are open to a wide range of papers dealing with French and Francophone literature and culture. However, we are very much interested in proposals that engage with the special conference theme of "Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict." Possible areas of focus include:
Legitimacy and political authority
Leadership and the figure of the ruler
Colonial rule and postcolonial elites
Korean Literature, Language, and Culture at MMLA invites proposals exploring Korean literary studies, language pedagogy, film and media, translation studies, diaspora studies, and cultural production across historical and contemporary contexts. For the 2026 MMLA Convention, we especially invite proposals that engage with the conference theme, “After the Archive.”
Event Title: Truth in (Contemporary) SocietyEvent date: Monday, 29th & 30th June 2026
Location: Workroom 3, 38 Mappin St, University of Sheffield
Greetings everyone!
We are excited to announce the commencement of abstract submissions for the fifth volume of Sophia Luminous.
Sophia Luminous ( ISSN: 3048-6211) is a national-level, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary online research journal for students, published by Sophia College for Women (Autonomous), Mumbai, India. It is devoted to the discussion of the innovative, novel, and contemporary areas of research by undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and early researchers from an array of disciplines.
PAMLA 2026 Seattle: “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict”; Venue- Seattle, Washington, Nove 12-15, 2026.
This session invites papers that examine how contemporary climate fiction (cli-fi) reimagines ruling classes, leadership, and social hierarchy under conditions of ecological crisis. In line with PAMLA 2026’s theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” the panel explores how environmental breakdown reshapes the distribution of power, producing new elites and intensifying conflicts over authority, survival, and governance.
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” claims Percy Bysshe Shelley at the end of his well-known essay A Defence of Poetry, based on the idea that poetry is connatural with the origin of the human. Poetry is one of the most prestigious genres in the literary tradition, if not the most. Whether we go back to its public and ritual function in shamanic chants or in Homeric epic, or we think of its circulation in multimedia formats on digital consumption platforms on the internet, poetry has existed both as an artistic mode of verbal language and as a literary genre that encapsulates the virtues of literature.
The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will take place this November in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15.
JFA Presents: The Ruthven Literary Bulletin – FOCUSED ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS
Issue Editor: Elizabeth Schechter
The 2026 general article submission window will be open until the beginning of June 2026. Book review queries and submissions remain open throughout the year. If you passed your accessibility screening and are already in process of working with us for a creative think piece or essay, please remain in touch with the editor with whom you have been working.If you are submitting to JFA Presents: The Ruthven Literary Bulletin, follow issue-specific guidelines here or at the bottom of this page. Submissions for the focused issue will be open until June 2026 and acceptances will go out by September 2026.
Call for Papers
In the Introduction to In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, Margaret Atwood makes a clear distinction between science fiction and speculative fiction: the former concerns events that could not happen; the latter draws on developments that could happen or that have already occurred in some historical form. The distinction was publicly contested, including in an exchange with Ursula K. Le Guin, and Atwood insists her terminology was descriptive rather than hierarchical. She places The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) within the speculative category on the grounds that nothing in the novel exceeds documented historical precedent (Atwood 5–6). This conference takes Atwood at her word.
Call for Papers
Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
CFP: MW/SWCCL, “Taking Care”
Midwest/Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, Missouri
September 25-26, 2026
The Aquatic Presence-Absence in World Literatures
Critical Language and Literary Studies (CLLS) invites original, unpublished research articles for a themed issue to be published in Fall 2026. The theme is examining aquatic presences and absences in world literatures.
Beyond Conventional Screens: New Approaches to Audiovisual Storytelling - Call for Chapter Proposals
Edited by Sotiris Petridis
LFA 2026: ADAPTATION/NATION
LITERATURE/FILM ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Elon University, Elon, NC
October 1st – 3rd 2026
What happens when cosmopolitanism no longer promises the world but reveals its limits?
Cosmopolitanism has long been associated with mobility, openness, translation, and coexistence across difference. In Asian literary and cinematic contexts, it has often been linked to port cities, diasporic networks, colonial encounters, and transregional circulation. Yet this cosmopolitan promise has never been equally available to all.
Theme: The Other Side of the Looking Glass
Call for Papers
UCLA QGrad 2026: SELVAGE
Queer/Trans Studies Graduate Student Research Conference
Keynote: Dr. PJ DiPietro
Conference Date: Friday, October 30, 2026
Abstracts Due: Friday, April 10, 2026
UCLA’s 29th annual QGrad Conference invites graduate students working in any discipline engaging with queer, trans, and sexuality studies to convene under its 2026 theme, “Selvage.”
29th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference
University of Mississippi
August 8th—9th, 2026
Call for Submissions
Supernatural South(s): The Monstrous, The Fantastic, The Grotesque, The Speculative and So On…
The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 29th meeting of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from August 8th-August 9th, 2026.
Anuario de Letras Modernas
Convocatoria
Literaturas modernas y estudios literarios en el primer cuarto del siglo XXI
Editores invitados:
Mario Alfonso Álvarez Domínguez
Universidad de Lille – Universidad Paris Nanterre
Odette de Siena Cortés London
José Alfredo Valerio Luna
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
UVA Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXIX (9/17-19) deadline for submissions: June 26, 2026 full name / name of organization: University of Virginia-Wise Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies contact email: kjt9t@uvawise.edu
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
October 15-17, 2026 | Madison, WI
https://www.artsofthepresent.org/conference/362/
- Call for Papers -
Panel: “Electric Séance: Conjuring Between the Archive and the Machine”
Opening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles
This edited volume proposes the first critical anthology devoted to television title sequences as a distinct and influential mode of visual storytelling. By treating opening titles as complex aesthetic and narrative artefacts, this volume seeks to establish a new interdisciplinary space for the study of title design, inviting scholars to rethink how beginnings shape meaning, memory, and emotional architecture in serial television.
Scholarly discussions on environmental concerns have long been Euro-American-centric. In his 2005 essay, Rob Nixon critiques literary representations of environmentalism as an “offshoot of American Studies,” which has excluded non-American and non-Western perspectives on environmental degradation from critical inquiry. Nixon highlights Nigeria’s Abacha regime’s execution of Saro-Wiwa, a writer, activist and poet, who died fighting for his Ogoni people’s farmlands and the encroachment of their fishing waters by American and European conglomerates, supported by the local despotic regime. Nixon observes that Saro-Wiwa’s writings have received little attention from ecocriticism scholars (2005).
Call for Abstracts (Circle 3)
Literature and the Arts as Sites of Resistance and Solidarities
24 July -31 July 2026, Saulkrasti, Latvia
Focus
Literature and the Arts as tools for intersubjective transformation, resistance, and the forging of solidarities.
Framing Questions