Arts Funding and Its Nationalisms, The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), Houston, TX, October 22-25, 2025. #ASAP16

Special Issue title: Representing Animals in Asian Screen Media

Journal: Society & Animals (SCI & SSCI indexed)

Edited by: Dr. Zhaoyu Zhu (First Author); Dr. Thomas William Whyke (Corresponding Author)

University of Nottingham Ningbo China
 
Background and scope

Medieval + Monsters in Comics

Online Sponsored Session Proposed for Medieval + Monsters: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM), Mid-America Medieval Association (MAMA), Illinois Medieval Association (IMA) Joint Conference with The Newberry Library

Hosted at Dominican University & the Newberry Library

17-18 October 2025

The Medieval Comics Project and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association seek proposals of 250 words for a proposed online panel devoted to the theme of the medieval and the monstrous in sequential art, comics, manga, and related media.

Topics might include:

This CFP is for a guaranteed session organized by the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) for the 2026 Modern Language Association convention in Toronto (8-11 January 2026).

October 17 & 18, 2025

Hosted at Dominican University and The Newberry Library

“Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond”

International Conference

Sibiu, Romania | 1-3.07. 2025

Lucian Blaga University is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the upcoming international conference, “Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond,” to be held between July 1-3 in Sibiu, Romania. The conference aims to explore tragedy as it is reflected in literature, theater, and other cultural forms from antiquity to the present day, with a focus on European (semi)peripheries and non-European cultural spaces. 

Special issue of Canadian Literature — seeking work by new, graduate, and/or early-career scholars

Submission length: 5,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes)

Guest Editors: Z. N. Dylan Jackson, amanda wan, Emma Gilroy (University of British Columbia)

The University of Tehran English Language Scientific Student Association (UTELSSA) presents:

Decolonizing the Mind: A Journey through

Scholars and students are invited to engage in a series of thought-provoking dialogues that examine the process of decolonizing the mind. This series aims to critically explore and challenge the pervasive influences of colonialism on knowledge, culture, and society. Through interactive discussions, we will delve into the complexities of colonial and postcolonial studies, the significance of decolonial theories, and engage directly with a remarkable author in the field.

Dragons in Gaming and Online Culture

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

This collection seeks essays on dinosaurs in film, literature, and the arts. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of dinosaurs in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and dinosaur portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of special effects renderings of dinosaurs

-Artwork with dinosaurs

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Call for Papers Home: The Space We Claim March 14-16, 2025

University of Ottawa, English Graduate Student Association 2025 Conference

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition” - James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room.

Call for papers for the special issue of English Language Notes (published by Duke University Press)

Special issue editors

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India

Eunice NgongKum, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon

Environmental Injustice, Resistance and African Literature

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the New ssue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

Call for Essays

Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)

Call for essays for a book on the late medievalist Donald C. Baker who left us in 2019.

Donald C. Baker taught English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for twenty years then pursued teaching opportunities in Finland, England, Tunisia, Jordan, and Macau. 

Donald C. Baker published or co-published a variety of books and articles (in PMLA, Studia Neophilologica, Speculum, Studies in Philology, Philological Quarterly, The Literary)  on Geoffrey Chaucer and Beowulf in particular.

All forms of liteary studies (around 6,000 words using APA style) are welcome.