Proverbs and Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture

An International and Interdisciplinary Conference

1-3 July 2026

School of Arts and Humanities, University of Hull

Deadline 1/1/26 

Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association, invites submissions of scholarly papers for a special issue of the journal to appear in fall 2027, edited by Wesley Scott McMasters and Todd Nathan Thompson. The topic of this special issue is “Periodicals, Period: Humor and Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Magazines.” This special issue will be an extension of a well-received panel on this topic (co-sponsored by the American Humor Studies Association and the Research Society for American Periodicals) at the 2025 American Literature Association conference.

Call for Submissions!The Janovics Center Award for Outstanding Humanities Research in Transnational Film and Theatre Studies The Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts Studies and the Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babes-Bolyai University invite submissions for their annual award for outstanding humanities research in transnational film and theatre studies.The award will be offered to contributions in the fields of film or theatre studies. The award consists of an invitation to give a talk at the Center and an honorarium. What is awarded?The Janovics Center is committed to supporting highly original research in screen and performing arts studies.

The 2026 NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference invites current graduate students to submit abstracts for this year's conference at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville on April 17-18, 2026.

We are inviting chapter abstracts for an edited volume (potentially with Routledge) on Coffee Cultures in South Asia. The proposed volume aims to understand the evolving and emerging coffee cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective. In the process, attempting to curate a scholarship that explores the historical, collective, spatial, cultural, temporal, and transnational aspects of coffee consumption and cultures in the region --- cultures that are being shaped and reshaped by discourses on and practices of new, emerging, and specialty coffee, artisanal brewing, ecological discontents, and digital practices and trends. Submission is through Google Form only

Jadavpur University

Department of English

Presents

QUEER

POLITICAL

ASSEMBLAGES 5.0

Theme:

Queer and the Cyborg in the Contemporary Understanding of Gender

Important dates:

Last Date of Abstract Submission: 1 February 2026

Confirmation of Selection: 15 February 2026

The Literary Encylopedia is lacking an entry on the life and literary career of Leonard Cohen of ca. 2500 words covering biography and historical context and giving a brief overview of relevant works.

More detailed information on the Encyclopedia – including its publishing model, editorial policies, specific information for authors, etc. – can be found on its homepage at www.litencyc.com, under the ABOUT tab. If you wish to contribute, please contact volume editor Justin Parks (justin.parks@uit.no).

Chapter Proposal Abstract: Part I – Medieval Seeds

In Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom & Myth (2023),Gerry Smyth links the importance of sea stories to the 2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report on the endangerment of the world’s oceans. According to Smyth, retelling and interpreting sea myths helps to underline the centrality of the ocean to planetary health.[1] Other contemporary writers, artists, and filmmakers have also remade and reinvented water mythologies both within and beyond the sea as a way of grappling with our current oceanic crises.

Literature of Color

Call for Papers I: The Haunting of the Past, Memory, and Archive

Call for Book Chapters

Influence of Indian Philosophers on Indian Writings in English: A Socio-Cultural Perspective

Editors: Dr. Ashutosh Singh and Dr. Sahabuddin Ahamed

deadline for submission extended: 15 February, 2026 

Call for Papers for Western Literature Association’s guaranteed panel at the 2026 American Literature Association Meeting (Chicago, May 20-23)

This year’s general call seeks proposals related to any aspect of the study of literature of the American West.  Papers on single texts or single authors are welcome, though comparative, transnational, and/or multiethnic approaches are especially encouraged. Graduate students are encouraged to apply.

Call for Submissions! The Lamp is seeking submissions for its 2026 issue (Volume 16)!

The Lamp is an international literary journal dedicated to showcasing the creative writing of graduate and professional students. If you write poetry, short fiction, scripts, creative nonfiction, or any other form of textual art, please submit your work to The Lamp at thelampeditor@gmail.com. The deadline is Sunday, 11 January 2026. Please follow our submission guidelines below.

Submission Guidelines:

Reinventing Borderlines in a Transnational World
April 10-11, 2026
Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis- University Tunis El Manar

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Since 1975, pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual (formerly Pacific Poetry and Fiction Review) has thrived as an experimental editorial cohort made up of driven, wily, undergraduates & graduate students in the department of english and Comparative Literature, san diego state university, san diego, ca 92182-6020. This year, we take on comix again! 

Bloomsbury - Trans Studies Book Series

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Transgender Entanglements: The shape and limits of transgender 

Edited by Levi C. R. Hord and Wendy Gay Pearson

CFP: The Medieval Comic

MEST Symposium, Indiana University Bloomington

March 6-8

Keynote from Dr. Albrecht Classen: "Laughter on the Stage, Laughter at Court, and Laughter in Public Spaces During the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time."

The Comic is a multivalent concept, which can pull or push scholarship in many directions. It  has been at times described as a social balm, binding agent, and lubricant. This call for papers asks for submissions considering the various ways in which the Comic manifests in the medieval and medievalism, its implications, and importance.

Potential panels might consider:

"Speculative Cultures and the Metamodern Turn"
AmLit: American Literature Special Issue (October 2027)

Guest Editors
Vasileios N. Delioglanis (deliogla@enl.auth.gr)
Aylin D. Walder (aylin-dilek.walder@tu-braunschweig.de)

Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference 2026

“Building Spaces of Freedom,” March 28th-31st at Fisk University, Nashville, TN

Panel: The Future of Southern Studies

Building on the 2026 theme, Building Spaces of Freedom, this panel seeks work that imagines where southern studies is going and who will help carry it forward. The Emerging Scholars Organization (ESO) invites papers from emerging scholars for an open-call panel that looks ahead toward the next questions, methods, and interventions shaping southern studies. 

“When Humans are On the Menu: Cannibalism and Modernity”

BAMS/MSA 2026

Loughborough, UK, 1-4 July 2026

I’m seeking abstracts for papers exploring representations of cannibalism in global modernist literature and culture for BAMS/MSA 2026. I’m planning this as an entirely virtual panel, but I am open to an in-person panel if that is everyone’s preference!

The representation of fatness in media has long been a subject of scrutiny, often intertwined with discourses of desirability, stigma, humor, and social control. Whether in films, advertisements, cartoons, or social media, fat bodies are frequently portrayed through the lens of excess, deviance, or comic relief, shaping cultural perceptions and reinforcing existing hierarchies of appearance and worth. This issue seeks to explore the multiple ways in which fatness is constructed and negotiated across various media forms, interrogating its intersections with gender, sexuality, class, power, and social anxieties.

CFP | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society (PEHS) session 

American Literature Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026

Hopkins’s America, Then & Now

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference, hosted by the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France.

This year's conference invites papers on any topic relating to histories of women and gender non-conforming people in the Americas, but encourages proposals for papers, panels or roundtables that explore the subject of confinement.