|
a service provided by www.english.upenn.edu |
FAQ changelog |
all recent posts
Call for Papers
Body, Time, and Digital Technology
2-3 October 2025, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus
CFP: Small Forms in Nineteenth-Century America
This edited collection expands critical approaches to scale in nineteenth-century America by shifting focus from immensity (Baker 2006; Roberts 2014) to “small forms,” or forms disposed toward brevity or reduction. Building on scholarship that examines the operation of individual forms such as epigraphs (Stokes 2021), extracts (Wisecup 2021), footnotes (Cohen 2022), recipes (Tompkins 2013), and the serial sketch (Spires 2021), this collection aims to synthesize analysis of diverse small forms evident in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
PAMLA 2025 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Rhetorical Theory” (Standing Session)
San Francisco, CA, Nov. 20-23
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Abstract
This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.
Description
MAPACA 2025 Summer Virtual Symposium Call for Proposals
The history of "rights" as a concept is mired in complications. Regarded as the moral or legal recognition of interests or entitlements of individuals and communities, rights have been present in history in a variety of ways - both justiciable and not. This history of rights, and the securing of rights, is long and arduous, and has taken various forms along the way - with sudden victories and abrupt revocations all the same - resulting in the present that we find ourselves in now.
Screening Women and/in Politics
Film Journal - special issue
Hélène Charlery and Anita Jorge
This special issue of Film Journal seeks papers on the representation of political women and women in institutional politics in audiovisual productions from and on the anglophone world, whether they be documentaries, fiction films (short, medium, feature-length, television or platform) films, series or mini-series.
Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564) Call for Papers Vol. X, Issue 2 (June 2025)
Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for an OPEN ISSUE to be published in June 2025. As this call is being circulated, older territorial imperial aggression is threatening to bare its fangs across the world, right-wing forces of xenophobia, discrimination and intolerance continue to gather momentum across the world, inequality and ecological crisis continue to escalate and new forms of precarity are being constantly negotiated. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions seeks to explore such issues and more based on postcolonial experiences across the world.
Submission Guidelines:
Editor-in-Chief: Martin Ovens
This international, peer-reviewed journal seeks to encourage and promote research in non-western and cross-cultural philosophy. This may include scholarship typically identified, defined or characterised as comparative philosophy, intercultural philosophy or global philosophy. In addition, the journal offers opportunities to publish research that explores or analyses relations between philosophy, culture and dialogue. In this way Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for scholars in many subfields of philosophical studies.
Editor-in-Chief: Martin Ovens
This international, peer-reviewed journal seeks to encourage and promote research in non-western and cross-cultural philosophy. This may include scholarship typically identified, defined or characterised as comparative philosophy, intercultural philosophy or global philosophy. In addition, the journal offers opportunities to publish research that explores or analyses relations between philosophy, culture and dialogue. In this way Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for scholars in many subfields of philosophical studies.
Dear Colleagues,
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19) seeks to publish the best scholarship on the century that was, in many ways, the time period in which the modern genres of science fiction and fantasy began, and in which the academic study of fairy tale and folklore has its roots.
Silly Old Bear? Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh
Co-sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area and Disney Studies Area
Call for Papers for 2025 Virtual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
Thursday, 9 October, to Saturday, 11 October, 2025
Submissions are open until Tuesday, 15 July by 5 PM EDT
CALL FOR PAPERS
Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society
University of Freiburg, Germany, 27-30 July 2026
See this link for the proposal submission guidelines; submission deadline 5/10/2025:
https://cdn.ymaws.com/newchaucersociety.org/resource/resmgr/files/2026_congress/ncs_2026_cfp.pdf
This edited book seeks to include quality works which provide new insights on the life-writings as an autoethnographical account of the lived experiences of Muslim women in India.
EDITOR
Dr. N. Safrine, an Independent Researcher & Practitioner, Chennai, India
The chapters (abstracts/full-texts) should be submitted to the volume editor at safrine2017@gmail.com
SCOPE & OBJECTIVES OF THE BOOK
We Live Again! Disney's Gargoyles as an Evolving Transmedia Text
Co-sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area and Disney Studies Area
Call for Papers for 2025 Virtual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
Thursday, 9 October, to Saturday, 11 October, 2025
Submissions are open until Tuesday, 15 July by 5 PM EDT
‘Theory Today’ working group [USC] is organizing a two-day theory workshop with one of the preeminent and prolific theorists of our time, Prof. Todd McGowan1. The workshop will take place on March 12-13, 2026, at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), and will have the following schedule:
………………………………………………
Day 1 : March 12, 2026
Session 1 | McGowan: Foundations of Thinking [10 am to 1 pm]
- Workshop session focused on reading and discussing primary texts, including Hegel, Kant, Marx, and Lacan.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culture: Teaching Silent Cinema Today
Guest edited by Carolyn Condon Jacobs and Aurore Spiers
Silent films are critical teaching tools. In film and media studies classrooms, these films give students a crucial understanding of cinema’s emergence and development. Students
The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2025 virtual annual conference will be held from Thursday, October 9-Saturday, October 11, 2025. Sessions will take place on Zoom through Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. More information on the conference can be found here: https://www.northeastpca.org/conference.
250-word abstracts are due by July 15, 2025.
Submission deadline: August 5, 2025
We are pleased to announce an open call for bids to host the 2026 Post45 Graduate Symposium. The Post45 Graduate Symposium is a two-day event, typically held in Spring, which brings together graduate students and faculty members working on post-1945 arts, literature, media, and culture. Around fifteen graduate students each submit a work-in-progress and convene in a workshop-style setting along with faculty respondents to discuss each participant's work.
Call for Papers for a Special Issue
Vernacular City-Narratives from Postcolonial South Asia
We are inviting short abstracts (100 words) of papers on “Vernacular City-Narratives from Postcolonial South Asia”, to be published in a special issue for a Scopus-indexed journal (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Taylor and Francis, Q1). The deadline for the abstract submission is June 14, 2025.
ESO at SAMLA 97: Non-Traditional Souths
Special thematic dossier 7.2 | Native American Visibility and Representations in Contemporary USA: Between Cultural Belonging and Activism
Editor: María Elena Serrano Moya (Universidad de Alcalá)
【Call for Papers】
The Sixth International Conference on the Film Histories of Taiwan and Asia Cinema, 2025
Wars in films and films during war time
Date: August 23-24, 2025
Venue: College of Communication, National Chengchi University
The Historical Fictions Research Network invites you to its international, interdisciplinary online summer workshop on historical fiction. We invite scholars from all over the world to come and join us for this international conversation. We have yet to find a time zone we cannot accommodate, so do join us in June!
2025 Online Summer Workshop: Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions
13 June 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)
15 min talks
Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions
Dialectics of Transformation
UC Irvine Graduate Student Conference
Oct. 9th and 10th, 2025
Keynote speaker: Prof. Andreja Novakovic (UC Berkeley)
Organizers: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington) and Tom Clayton (Colgate University)
This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).
Organizers: Rhema Hokama (Univerisity of Washington) and Jonathan Koch (Pepperdine University)
This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).
This panel invites papers that explore the themes of toleration and cosmopolitanism in early modern English literature and its transnational connections. Tolerationist and cosmopolitan ideals, while often aspirational, also reveal tensions between universal humanism and local or national allegiances.
Organizers: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington) and Mihoko Suzuki (University of Miami)
This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).
Organizer: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington) and Yangyou Fang (Princeton)
This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).
In these turbulent times of global conflict and wars, and with the world witnessing human rights violations, scholars and individuals alike are grappling with the evolving definitions of fundamental issues such as human rights, international law, justice, and community peaceful coexistence. The crises challenge long-held assumptions on the so- called post-colonialist discourses, neocolonialism, systemic oppression, and cultural conflict, especially in transnational and diasporic encounters. Images of destruction and the continuous lurking waves of international sociopolitical plights inflicting the world raise urgent ethical questions that call upon the humanities to critically engage with these contemporary struggles of the human experience.