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Anaphora's two journals, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and Cinematic Codes Review, are seeking submissions of all types of essays, reviews, and creative works.
2025 Dress and Body Association Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s sixth annual conference, which will be held on November 1-2, 2025. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online.
Join our Google Group to learn about opportunities and converse with members of the DBA year-round! Email to request membership: dress.body.assoc@gmail.com.
Comfort and Joy: Locating Hope in Dress and the Body
Victorian Jewish Life University of Heidelberg -- February 9-10, 2026 In the heyday of Victorian England, the era when the sun never set on the British Empire, Jewishculture in England was also experiencing an all-time height. International movements for reformand emancipation were shaping laws about Jewish rights, and as the century progressed,immigrants from Eastern Europe brought their cultures and experiences to London.
Recent years have seen an upsurge of narratives from the Global South that engage in the representation of various African cosmologies. In contrast with Western traditions, these narratives are contributing to an epistemological shift from “the study of African religion as object [to] the study of African religion as subject” (Olupona 2013: xix).
Venue: Dharmasala
Concept Note of Seminar
This book will explore how religion and the sacred emerge from within the structure and narrative of The Legend of Zelda series, one of the most influential and enduring franchises in video game history. Zelda has greatly impacted multiple generations of players, and has an extremely loyal and dedicated fanbse.
Games have long used medievalist or medieval-adjacent settings to engage with audiences. Scholars have noted the various connections to be made between popular perceptions of the medieval in games and historical and textual realities of the medieval world. While games may not always make it a priority to accurately portray medieval (or pseudo-medieval) life, there are still important parallels and intertextual references that games use to harken back to the medieval world—whatever version of that that reality they choose to use as a basis, at least. Just like games construct a faux reality for their players, so too have the popular conceptions of the medieval world been carefully constructed through literature and popular culture.
The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA) is looking for book reviews of any recent books (published in the last 5 or 6 years) in the field of Australian studies, including Indigenous Australian studies.
In particular, JEASA is looking for reviewers for Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene (2024) by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities (2025) edited by Maxine Newlands and Claire Hansen. Other review proposals are also very welcome.
The concept of orphanhood may reveal a liminal yet productive state between figures, identities, homes, cultures and languages, exposing fertile spaces for crafting (re)generative views of self and other through literary texts. As characters, orphans may become queered figures, pointing back to the vulnerable state of childhood itself; as protagonists, orphans have also been connected to the concept of the hero (Rose-Emily Rothenberg), the role of the laborer, and the emotional “regeneration” of adults (Claudia Nelson).
Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work
Call for Papers
Call For Submission: Interdisciplinary Research on Globalisation, Climate and Sustainability
Publisher: Deshbandhu College, University Of Delhi
Deadline For submission: 15th July 2025 (11.59 PM IST)
Deshbandhu Journal Of Social Sciences
ISSN: 2583-7974 (Online)
Deshbandhu Journal Of Social Sciences
Theme: Globalisation, Climate and Sustainability: Changing Perspectives and Hypotheses
“December 2025 Issue”
Call for Papers
Equinox: Volume I: Fables & Firelight
Published by La Société Étoilée
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2025
In its inaugural issue, Equinox invites submissions on the theme of fables and firelight—that is, the stories we gather around, the myths that shape us, and the flickering interplay between tradition, memory, and imagination. We welcome work that explores folklore, mythology, ancestral knowledge, symbolic systems, oral traditions, and the cultural rituals of storytelling across time. But we also invite broader interpretations: How do stories act as shelter? When do they burn or illuminate? What truths lie within the fantastic?
The gothic is a genre of marginalization, foregrounding locales and figures that are ghostly, monstrous, or abandoned. It is no surprise, then, that authors across the Global South, from Akwaeke Emezi to Nick Joaquín to Mariana Enríquez, embrace the gothic when constructing narratives that resist colonialism and its myriad legacies. For this special issue of The Global South, the guest editor is inviting submissions from scholars whose research engages with gothic creators throughout this nebulous region. The gothic is likewise a broad term, and, given the innumerable repercussions of colonization, we welcome contributions from across gothic subgenres—ecological, gendered, neoliberal, or queer, to name a few.
This roundtable seeks to understand the ways in which early modern people conceived of the body as being willful. Early modern poets, playwrights, and prose writers represent the body as having (or almost as if having) a will of its own. For instance, in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, the titular protagonist desires to sign a devilish contract with his blood, but his blood congeals, preventing that damning deed. Margaret Cavendish imagines in Poems and Fancies cognitive processes as being directed by vital matter she metaphorizes as faeries, whose markets, funerals, and marriages dictate the functioning of the brain.
Comparative Woman Journal – Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Comparative Woman is an online journal affiliated with LSU’s Department of Comparative Literature that explores topics related to comparative literature and women/gender studies through art and academic essays.Comparative Woman Journal is inviting papers for Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025) on Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement.
THEME
Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement
SUB-THEMES (including but not limited to):
This is an open-CFP for one or more panel session(s) on Aemilia Lanyer. Lanyer has received a resurgence of attention in the last ten years from literary critics as well as popular dramatists and novelists. This panel aims to continue the scholarly conversation by seeking papers that examine new courses of inquiry or reevaluate established topics of Lanyer scholarship. Paper topics might include but are not limited to:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Is a Better World Possible? - Solidarity as a Conversation across Temporalities A one-day hybrid interdisciplinary conference at the University of WarwickSaturday 29th November 2025Confirmed Keynote speaker: Dr Anna Bernard, King’s College London
We invite contributors for a proposed Exemplaria special issue on Medieval Asexualities.
The call for submissions for the next general issue (2026) of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (ISSN 20455852 , ONLINE ISSN 20455860) is now open. The deadline for submissions of full articles for consideration is August 31 2025.
The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS (among others), and its remit is broad and international, publishing innovative scholarly research about a broad range of popular culture topics. Articles should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words and referenced using the Harvard style system. All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.
In “The Art of Fiction” (1884), Henry James writes, “A novel is a living thing, all one and continuous, like every other organism, and in proportion as it lives will it be found, I think, that in each of the parts there is something of each of the other parts.” In the same essay, he conceives of the novel in geographical terms, cautioning that “The critic who over the close texture of a finished work will pretend to trace a geography of items will mark some frontiers as artificial ... as any that have been known to history.” James’s conception of the novel as a “living thing” inhabiting a physical landscape invites us to think about the writer and his work in terms of relationships between organisms and their environments.
The World Health Organisation (2022) states that universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, including abortion, ‘is central to both individual and community health, as well as the realization of human rights.’ International human rights bodies such as the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women therefore recommend that governments decriminalise abortion and provide safe, timely, and legal access to services. The legalisation and provision of safe, evidence-based abortion services is important not only for avoiding unsafe abortion-related mortality, but for substantive, intersectional gender equality and the protection of many other rights.
EXTENSION FOR ABSTRACTS: Submissions for the Democratisation of (Outer) Space Conference to be held in Norrköping, Sweden in November 2025 are expected on Thursday 31ST JULY. Details below.
We look forward to seeing your abstracts!
Graham and Michael
We invite submissions for the upcoming Linköping Space Studies Institute international conference 26-28 November 2025: Campus Norrköping at Linköping University, Sweden.
Democratisation of Space: The decline of the public and rise of the private?
History is horrifying. For horror creators in the twenty-first century, the terrors of the past have become central to the genre’s regeneration. The increasing diversity of who writes and creates horror has been tightly connected to the genre’s ability to depict otherwise occluded historical terrors. Critics have taken on horror’s relation of past and present as different subgenera, from what Sheri-Marie Harrison calls “the new Black Gothic” to Patricia Stuelke’s “anticapitalist feminist horror.”
An urgent focus on ecocriticism in the humanities has developed in parallel to increased cultural engagement with folklore studies, particularly as such areas relate to the relationships between human communities and ecosystems. The application of folklore studies in ecocriticism facilitates the incorporation of previously marginalized perspectives and identities in order to speak to a global reality, building on the 'past' while responding to potential, and potentially unstable, 'futures'.
CFP: Post-9/11 Representation after 25 Years.
A special issue of the European Journal of American Culture Issue 46.2 (Summer 2026)
Edited by:
Colin Halloran, Old Dominion University, chall032@odu.edu
Marc Ouellette, Old Dominion University, mouellet@odu.edu
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage."
–Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Cities and Identities: An Overview of the Global South
deadline for abstract submissions:
20 August, 2025
contact email:
Call for Papers
Call for Papers: AI Integration in Academic Writing and Research – NeMLA 2026
The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) invites submissions for the session “AI Integration in Academic Writing and Research” at its 2026 conference. We welcome papers exploring AI’s transformative role in scholarly practices, including its benefits, challenges, and the effective and ethical use of AI in writing and research processes. Topics may include the impact of AI tools on users’ critical thinking skills, the accuracy of AI-generated content, AI’s role in learning writing skills, and the use of AI in teaching practices.
Call for Papers: AI Policies in Higher Education – NeMLA 2026
The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) invites submissions for its 2026 conference session on AI policies in higher education. We welcome papers exploring the integration, implementation, and impact of AI policies at various levels, including classroom, departmental, or institutional settings. Topics may include classroom AI guidelines, institutional AI frameworks, and effective strategies for ethical and practical AI adoption in academia.
Please submit abstracts of 250–300 words via the submission portal by September 30, 2025.
This panel explores how Latin American comics represent popular spiritualities, racialized bodies, and subaltern knowledge as forms of symbolic regeneration, resistance, and collective healing. Proposals are accepted in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. Those that particularly highlight subaltern religious, racial, and cultural traditions from the Global South and historically marginalized spiritual experiences will be especially valued. See complete description and submit an abstract here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21924
This seminar explores how structural and symbolic violence operate against marginalized bodies as mechanisms of control and exclusion within the contemporary global order, with particular attention to the Latin American context. From militarized borders and detention centers to the necropolitics of neoliberal disposability, violence is not only physical but also institutional, epistemic, and economic.
Propuestas para la colección Terror: Estudios críticos
deadline for submissions:
August 15, 2025
full name / name of organization:
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
contact email:
English version below
Cognition and the Media
International Conference
Sponsored by AIA (Italian Association for English Studies), Aston Stylistics Research Centre (Aston University - Birmingham) and CenTras (Centre for Translation Studies @UCL - UK)
Pescara, 30-31 October 2025
Venue: Museo delle Genti d’Abruzzo
Call for Papers
Call for Proposals
Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures
2025 PNCA Symposium
October 2–4, 2025
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) at Willamette University
511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon
We invite submissions for individual papers for the 2025 PNCA Symposium, Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures, a three-day convening of critical and creative voices engaging ecological thought across disciplines and communities. This symposium explores the intersections of environment, art, activism, pedagogy, and identity—with a focus on how ecological futures are imagined, embodied, and enacted through diverse cultural practices and positionalities.
Cultural Studies Methodology Lab
Department of English and Cultural Studies
In collaboration with
Department of Media Studies
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore India
Organizes
A Research Symposium on Migration Studies in Peninsular India
August 28-30th, 2025
Special Issue: Ecocriticism: Old and New Challenges
The notion of “wellness” as it pertains to university contexts has taken on a problematic valence over the years. Owing to the increasing neoliberalization of academia, wellness has been increasingly tied to pop psychology, self-care spending, pizza parties, and other “self-actualizing” capitalistic practices. By virtue of the precarious nature of their status and labour, graduate students in the university are especially susceptible to experiences of overwork, exploitation, burnout, poor well-being, and existential harm, with studies showing that nearly 40% of graduate students globally experienced symptoms of anxiety, depression, or suicide ideation.
34th Annual CDE Conference, Prague (Czech Republic), 4-7 June 2026
The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) is pleased to announce its 34th Annual Conference. It is organized by Charles University and will be held as a residential conference at Masarykova kolej, Thákurova 1, Prague 6, https://www.masarykovakolej.cz/en/home.
Theatre and Resilience
Dear colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit your creative work and scholarly reflections and papers to participate in the panel Media and Aesthetics of Environmental Decay in the “Global South" to be held at NEMLA's Conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
The year 2025 marked the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, yet Austen seems to be only increasing in cultural relevance on a global scale. This panel at the NeMLA conference in Pittsburgh, March 5-8, 2026 explores Jane Austen-related texts – including films, streaming, novels, graphic novels etc. - of the twenty-first century, including…
This roundtable hopes to bring together faculty and administrators with a vision to invigorate humanities programs. Its goal is twofold: (1) to provide a platform for sharing innovative strategies to enhance collaboration across traditional academic units; and (2) to critically discuss efforts that have led to new successes in (re)generating full-time faculty satisfaction in teaching, research, and service. Such efforts may include valued practices in co-teaching, faculty residency programs, Interdisciplinary Studies programs, joint appointments, and visiting professorships.
2025 Annual Conference
November 6-8, 2025
Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse
Philadelphia, PA
Call for proposals:
Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Philadelphia, PA. Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome.
This session is organized withing the 2025 NeMLA Annual Conference in Pittsburg. Virtual participation is accepted. The panel investigates literature and the Medical Humanities, focusing on the potential of storytelling and narrative medicine to navigate trauma and improve empathy and communication between patients and health care providers. We seek contributions from scholars pertaining to various disciplines who works at the intersection of literature and medicine. Papers will explore how literature and life writing can successfully address traumatic events and improve medical practice.
English Language Pedagogy in India: Tracing the Changing
Paradigms
Edited by Anindya Syam Choudhury and Christine Coombe
Call for Chapters: Edited Volume on Enacting Curtailment: Practices of Censorship in Colonial India.
We are excited to announce the forthcoming publication of an edited volume titled Enacting Curtailment: Practices of Censorship in Colonial India. This interdisciplinary volume will explore themes of censorship, resistance in the literature, art, performance, film, sound, history, and related fields within the humanities and social sciences.
Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome
“Men will literally drive 200km/h through a neon-drenched cityscape instead of going to therapy.”
Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome
Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome
Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome
This panel explores the volatile and seductive intersections of queerness, horror, and psychosexual cinema. Taking inspiration from the defiant slogan “Not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you,” we frame queerness not as static identity, but as a generative force of disruption, resistance, and cinematic disobedience.
Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome.