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The World of Warcraft Handbook: Twenty Years in Azeroth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)
Edited by David John Boyd (University of Glasgow) & Russell McDermott (Dickinson College)
The ninth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will
take place on Friday October 17, 2025, invites proposals for
papers on Henry James’s novel The Bostonians (1886). The
Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that
chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient
theoretical, historical, political, and narratological
questions about the novel as a genre. (See the 2024 BNS
website and this archive for more information about the
BNS.)
This session explores how multi-ethnic American literature navigates palimpsestic memory—narratives layered with the lingering and hidden imprints of forced migration, slavery, displacement, and systemic erasure. From the brutal dislocations of the transatlantic slave trade to the quiet erasures embedded in ongoing displacement and marginalization, writers have often turned to transcribing stories of the past and present as a process of “Rememory[ing].” This panel seeks papers exploring the ways in which multi-ethnic literature traces stories despite systematic and social mandates to usher such narratives into oblivion. We especially welcome literary papers detailing a resistance and reclamation of racially oppressed identities.
Prospero, Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere (A Journal of Foreign Literatures and cultures)
University of Trieste, Italy, invites contributions for the forthcoming general issue, volume XXX
(2025). Prospero is a double-blind peer reviewed, printed and entirely open access journal, published
annually by EUT, Trieste University Press. It is indexed by MLA, Erih+, DoAJ, ProQuest. It publishes
articles and essays in the field of literary studies which consider texts and textual analysis from a wide
hermeneutic, philological and historical perspective. It specifically focuses on literary studies considered
https://paromitapain.com/call-for-chapter-proposals-queerly-platformed-l...
Call for Chapters
Queerly Platformed: LGBTQ Realities, Resistance, and Algorithmic Life in the Age of social media
Editor: Paromita Pain: https://paromitapain.com/research/
Email: paromita.pain@gmail.com
Publisher: (TBD – Routledge/Taylor & Francis or other academic press)
Deadline for Abstracts: August 1, 2025
Full Chapter Deadline: December 15, 2025
The 20th Anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” Kenyon Commencement Speech is coming up this May! If you can’t make our roundtable at the ALA conference in Boston on May 23rd, we’d love to see you in the virtual realm for a four-day Zoom symposium themed around Wallace’s monumental speech. While it may be disappointing not to see each other in person, this is an opportunity to do things we can’t do at an in-person conference, and a chance to reconnect with our friends from around the globe.
Modernist Studies in the 21st century has rigorously adapted itself to bridge the gap between the narrowly periodized referent of “modernism” and the much broader range of literary-critical interests that the term encompasses. This trend is heralded by Douglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s 2008 call for a spatio-temporally and “vertically” expanded “New Modernist Studies,” and it reaches its logical extreme in Susan Stanford Friedman’s Planetary Modernisms (2015), which locates discrete modernisms both throughout and beyond the scope of recorded human history.
Website: https://thesoliloquistmagazine.my.canva.site/#submitEmail: thesoliloquistmag@gmail.com Submission deadline: July 05, 2025 The Soliloquist Journal is inviting poems and soliloquies for its second issue (Summer 2025 issue).
Abstract
Any proposals dealing with British literature and culture of the long 19th century are welcome. Of particular interest are proposals focusing on authors or works not typically discussed, and proposals that connect to the conference theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion."
Description
While any proposals dealing with British literature and culture from this period are welcome, these topics are of particular interest:
• The remembered and the forgotten
• Photography
• Romantic memory
We invite contributions for an upcoming edited volume on Yaşar Kemal, one of the most influential figures in Turkish literature and world literature. Despite Kemal’s international acclaim and extensive literary output, no comprehensive edited volume in English has yet been published. This book aims to fill that gap by offering critical perspectives on Kemal’s literary aesthetics, social engagement, and cultural legacy.
Scope and Themes
We welcome contributions from diverse methodological and theoretical approaches, addressing (but not limited to) the following themes:
• Yaşar Kemal’s Literary Style and Aesthetics
o Narrative structures, use of folklore, and oral storytelling traditions
RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA67th Annual ConferenceSaturday, 01 November 2025We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our 67th Annual Conference, to be held at Chapman University, in conjunction with the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experience and Research, and the Bernardino Telesio Professorship in Italian Studies CALL FOR PAPERS:RENAISSANCE ADAPTATIONS The RCSC, a regional affiliate of the Renaissance Society of America, welcomes proposals for both papers and complete panels on the full range of Renaissance disciplines (including Art, Architecture, History, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Theater, Language and L
Call for Papers: Marianne Moore Generations Conference
October 23 and 24, 2025
Organizing Committee: Jon Tadmor (Stanford), Celine Shanosky (Harvard)
Speakers: Elizabeth Gregory (University of Houston), Virginia Jackson (UCI), Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo SUNY)
Location: Stanford Humanities Center
The Marianne Moore Generations Conference is an invitation to join in consideration of one poet in the broadest sense, and with a spirit of experiment. How does Moore contribute, or not contribute, to a variety of fields and approaches within literary studies? How might this poet be carried forward?
This volume, under contract with Bloomsbury, will focus on the intersection of Bryher’s work as a writer and filmmaker/critic. Although her contemporaries, particularly H.D., are widely known, Bryher’s far-reaching influence is largely overlooked by scholars of Modernism. With that in mind, I'm thrilled to invite essays that explore Bryher's writings, letters, and films, as well as her influence on other creative practitioners. Please send essays by June 30th, 2025 to Kristina Marie Darling, the volume's editor. Essays of any length are welcome for consideration.
estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities, an online, double-blind peer-reviewed journal from the Centre for Comparative Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (CEComp-FLUL), is currently accepting article and review submissions for the first issue of its Volume 4 until 30 June 2025. The previous issue featured reflections, in the form of articles and interviews, on the life/death dichotomy, approached from an interdisciplinary, comparative, and innovative perspective. In 2025, we are launching estrema's first call for papers specifically focused on a particular field of study: Speculative Fiction.
“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”
University of Innsbruck (Austria), November 14-15, 2025
Conference Call
26th MELOW International Conference to be held at the
Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala
19-21 September 2025
CHALLENGES IN ADAPTATION: INTERPLAY OF TRADITION AND INNOVATION
Seeking additional chapters for the book Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series. This collection showcases the breadth of languages and regional differences within Indian cinema that explores transgender themes. Proposals are due May 4, 2025. Chapters may focus on a single film or multiple films.
The Muses & Melanin Fellowship is a hybrid, fully funded, eight-month professional development program for talented California BIPOC creative writers who aspire to become professional authors. To be eligible, applicants must not:
Call for Contributors:
We Came on a Spaceship: Examining Pseudoarchaeology’s Place in and Out of this World
Editors:
Stephanie Halmhofer (halmhofe@ualberta.ca); Robert Spinelli (rspinelli@ncis.org)
Abstract:
Book Review Editor, Resources for American Literary Study
Resources for American Literary Study (RALS) invites applications for the position of Book Review Editor. Founded in 1971 and published biannually by Penn State University Press, RALS is a peer-reviewed journal focusing upon archival and bibliographical approaches to American literature across all periods and genres.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Psychoanalyzing the Post-Apocalypse:
Psychoanalytic Approaches to 21st Century Fiction and Film
“Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series
CFP CLOSED - THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST -
Editors’ Introduction
Screen Bodies invites submissions to be considered for our Winter issue. We are particularly interested in research on:
Feminist New Wave Cinema
Trans Cinema
Health Humanities
We also welcome exhibition reviews and book reviews (1k-5k words).
The IATIS - International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies invites papers on “Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation” for its 8th International Conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on December 10-13, 2025.
We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South.”
Title: TBD, but potentials include:
Editors (Collaborators): Elizabeth Sanders, Daniel M. Look
Description / Call for Papers:
We are soliciting chapters/articles for an edited academic book on topics relating to the Transformers franchise and gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression.Proposals from academics and independent scholars covering official continuity/properties, fanfiction, the fandom, and content creators will be considered. Proposals should be for new essays, not republications of previous works.
We invite proposals for papers dealing with American Literature from 1945 to the present. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works (fiction, poetry, drama) but also essays, memoirs, or creative nonfiction. Texts that are written by American-identifying authors, composed by writers in the US, or address American life are all welcome.
Many mainstream media outlets have observed an uptick in the mainstream popularity of American women's fiction that center on rage-filled female characters or that express anger at contemporary society. The complicated aftermath of second-wave feminism has in some ways enabled women to speak more frankly about their bodies, desires, and experiences, but these forms of sexual and social liberation of the past several decades have led to a strong backlash against reproductive freedom and a resurgent public-sphere misogyny; many feminist critics have also noticed that media discussions of progress for women—how many female CEO’s run Fortune 500 companies, for instance—have silenced structural critique of a patriarchal society.
An international biannual print and online publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, the Journal of American Studies of Turkey operates with a double-blind peer review system and publishes work (in English) on American literature, history, art, music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography and related subjects.
CFP for Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies 2025
Deadline for Submissions: essays (6,500 words) due 30/06/25, book reviews (2,000 words) due 31/07/25.
JWLS 2025 Wyndham Lewis: Collaboration, Influence, Impact
The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies seeks articles for its 2025 issue.
Articles that centre the broad themes of 'Collaboration, Influence, Impact' are particularly welcome. Articles (c.6,500 words inclusive of Bibliography) should be formatted using MLA, with in-text citations.
Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (uwi.edu) is a new, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.
Call For Book Chapters
Don’t Get Lost in Their Sauce:
Navigating Academic Identity, the Creative Self, and Reductive Practices
Edited by
Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University
Adrianne Mitchell, Washington State University
“See, when I had no money, I still had sauce. See if you don’t got no sauce, then ya lost. But you can also get lost in the sauce.” –Gucci Mane (2013)