There is no denying that contemporary audiences have an insatiable appetite for killers: myth, legend, and reality. The soaring success, and continued demand, for fictions and nonfictions that document the dealings of serial killers and murders provide ample evidence for this. We are fascinated by their narratives and by their psychologies, and it is perhaps this need or want to understand the killer’s thinking that, in part, makes them so attractive to read and view. However, delineation between fiction and nonfiction continues to be a greyscale area. There are no longer certainties in crime fiction, nor in true crime writing, when it comes to the factual and the fictive.

Panel at ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment) 2025: Collective Atmospheres
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park

The Folklore Area of the Popular Culture Association is considering proposals for sessions organized around a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers related to Folklore Studies for the 2025 Popular Culture Association Conference by November 30, 2024. The conference will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana (April 16-19).

Sessions are typically scheduled in 1½ hour slots, with four papers per standard session. Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes. As always, proposals addressing any topic related to folklore or folklore studies are welcome, including but not limited to the following:

JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS
Special Issue | Call For Papers

(De)Bordering Aesthetics: 19th-Century German Philosophy and the Migratory Turn
Guest Editor: Gabriele Schimmenti (Roma Tre University, Italy)

The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is currently inviting proposals for events that will take place between February 2025 and May 2025. The deadline for applications is November 1.

The BSA can offer financial and logistical support for a variety of events, including lectures, panel presentations, hands-on workshops, conference sessions, or other online or in-person events.  Examples of past and upcoming events can be found here. Please reach out to the Events Committee if you have questions about event formats, financial support, or topics.

Call for Papers 

ReFocus: The Films of Fred Zinnemann 

“Something that concerns me very much is human dignity…or the lack of it.” – F.Z.

Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?: American Children’s Literature in an Era of Heightened Censorship

In a country advocating, loudly, the rights of the individual, what about child readers? Are they granted an expansive vision of their world? What rights do children have where books are concerned?

CFP: Heritage Tourism and Race in Early America

Panel for the Society of Early Americanists’ Biennial Conference

University of Notre Dame

June 5-8, 2025

READING NOTHING ACROSS LITERATURES: A HANDBOOK

“No friend is He who to his friend and comrade who comes imploring food, will offer nothing.” (Rig Veda CXVII)

“Did you rise to the crisis? Not a word, you and your birds, your gods – nothing.” (Oedipus the King)

“Nothing will come of Nothing. Speak again.” (King Lear 1.1)

“Some people think the future means the end of history. Well, we haven't run out of history quite yet.” 

- Captain Kirk, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Building from a successful summer conference, this edited collection is about science fiction media in the 1990s. We are looking for high quality papers that examine science fiction properties and fiction during that decade. As several papers from the conference have already been selected, we are now calling for additional chapters for the collection generally related to the following topics:

Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564)

CFP for Vol. X, Issue 1 (January 2025)

Reviewing Diaspora: Dispersal, Dislocation, Diversities

Humanities Bulletin Journal - Call for papers
Submission Deadline: October 25, 2024
Vol. 7, No. 2 - November, 2024

ISSN 2517-4266

Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts.
This journal is not allied with any specific school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue between ideas and people with different points of view. Our aim is to bring together different international scholars, in order to promote the dialogue between cultures, ideas and new academic research.
The Journal is hosted by London Academic Publishing, London, UK.

RSAJournal, the journal of the Italian Association of American Studies (AISNA) seeks contributions for its n. 36 issue (September 2025) for both its General and Special Sections.

Full papers for the General Section, on any aspect of American Studies, should be submitted by January 31st, 2025, using our OJS portal, at rsa.aisna.net (which includes full submission and stylesheet details).

The Northeast Victorian Studies Association 2025

50th Anniversary Conference

April 4-6, 2025

Keynote panel with Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti, and John Plotz

View the full call here >> https://nvsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/call-for-papers-nvsa-2025-1.pdf