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this is for an in-personal panel for the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference (in-person only), which is taking place in Seattle, WA November 12-15, 2025.
The advancement of artificial intelligence has transformed humanities research and education, deepening computation’s influence on scholarly practice and everyday life. From the early era of “humanities computing” in the 1970s to the rise of “computational humanities” over the past decade, this trajectory highlights the enduring—and expanding—role of computation in shaping inquiry across the humanities. These intersections are especially visible in interdisciplinary work. As T. S. Eliot observes, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” The same spirit can illuminate how methods and tools migrate across fields.
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To be published in the world of contemporary creative writing likely means passing through one exclusive gate or another—even writers once able to make it through are losing access. What are these publishing gates, and who are their keepers? What are they trying to keep in—and out? Perhaps more productively, how might those of us who are passionate about creating a progressive, inclusive, and radical body of literature break down—or go around—or ignore those gates of exclusivity and begin to build new, ungated communities?
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Panel Stream: Early American Forms and Formalisms This panel stream interrogates formalism in early American literature following a postcritical turn in the field. One result of literary studies’ recent postcritical turn has been renewed attention to aesthetics, feeling, and form as essential aspects of literary analysis. In early American studies, this reassessment has taken a distinctive shape, particularly in work that foregrounds the formal and aesthetic dimensions of literary culture across the long eighteenth century — from special issues and essay collections (Looby and Weinstein; Cahill and Larkin; Pethers and Koenigs; Pethers and Couch) to monographs (Armstrong and Tennenhouse; Koenigs, Couch, Tawil, Gardner, Garrett).
Prosperity Fashion
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
9-12 February 2027
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Florence, Italy
Dowload the call for papers here https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/fh/prosperity-fashion-2027
FellowshipsHoratio Alger Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture
The theme of beyond archives is an interesting one for a discipline that relies heavily on existing sometimes still only physical collections. This panel invites papers that explore any aspect of the archive in Old and Middle English literature.
The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will take place this November in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15.
Our panel will focus on American Literature from 1945 to the present. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works (fiction, poetry, drama) but also essays, memoirs, or creative nonfiction. This session investigates texts that are written by American-identifying authors, composed by writers in the US, or address American life.
Call for Papers
MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2026
Media and Sustainability
University of Reading,
Minghella Studios, Whiteknights Campus
Reading RG6 6BT
9th September 2026
Organising committee: Babsie Keulemans, Emir Anday and Elizabeth Heaney
Any questions about the conference or the submission process can be directed to:
Babsie Keulemans – e.l.keulemans@pgr.reading.ac.uk
International conference co-organized
with the French School of Athens
From imagination to remains, from remains to imagination: literary representations of ancient Greece in its materiality (14th-19th centuries)
February 25-26, 2027 at the French School of Athens
The session “Women in Literature” includes papers dealing with any aspect of women in literature or literature by women. The session may contain essays on a wide variety of topics related to literature by and about women, including essays engaging with a wide variety of critical or theoretical approaches. Presentations might include consideration of women/women writers in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and geographical region. Papers may engage with the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict," but doing so is not required. Additional topics might include:
This special session invites papers on zombies and the undead as figures through which literature, film, television, games, and popular culture imagine power, hierarchy, and social conflict. In keeping with PAMLA 2026’s theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” this panel explores how zombie narratives dramatize the fragility of social order, the failures of ruling elites, and the tensions between collective survival and unequal power.
Call for Papers
Stardom & Fandom
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
The volume Women's Autobiographies and Memoirs 1920-2025: Precarity, Resistance and Selfhood attempts to look into the dialectics of identity and writing - the compulsion to respond to the other inhabiting the self, which provokes in her something peculiar and singular - a text of one's own. The self-authenticated narratives are often haunted by many an unsubduable voice that breaks open the self-centred finitude of living and dying.
“Italian Ecocriticism” Panel at the 2026 PAMLA Conference in Seattle, OR.12-15 November, 2026 in Seattle, OR.
Call for Papers
ATHE Theory & Criticism Graduate Student Essay Contest
The ATHE Theory & Criticism Focus Group seeks papers for its annual Graduate Student Essay Contest. The contest presents an exciting opportunity for an emergent theatre and performance studies scholar. It introduces the winning writer to the ATHE conference and provides them with a venue in which to showcase their work.
The contest prizes are intended to support the development of the student’s academic work, ease financial challenges related to conference attendance, and connect the student with appropriate scholarly resources for the paper’s development and impact.
ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA
The Reception of Ancient Greece in pre-modern French Literature and Illustrations of Manuscripts and Printed Books (1320-1550): How invented memories shaped the identity of European communities
Direction : Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas
https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/
Translational Research and Teaching: Bridging Knowledge, Practice, and Community October 29-November 1, 2026 Panama City, Florida
Hosted in partnership by Florida State University, Florida A&M University, and the University of Mississippi
The Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) is pleased to invite proposals for our 48th annual conference. AIS 2026 focuses on the theme of Translational Research and Teaching, exploring interdisciplinary work that bridges the gap between researchers, educators, practitioners, and community partners.
Call for Chapters: Decolonial Sámi Feminism: Memory, Resilience, and Reconciliation
Call for Chapter Proposals: Tana French and Ireland Deadline for abstract submissions:May 1, 2026 Deadline for paper submissions:November 1, 2026 contact email:escheible@bridgew.edu Popular genre fiction offers an influential platform for the critique of Irish cultural containment and the victimization of women. Despite commercial dominance, genre fiction holds a complicated position in the literary marketplace, which carries over to scholarly appraisals.
Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality and the Archival Impulse
Call for Papers
Kingston University, Tony Visconti Studio, 11-12 September 2026
The Call for Papers of the academic journal The Grove. Working Papers on English Studies for its following volume is open until May 31, 2026. Volume 33 will be published in December 2026.
The Grove is a peer-reviewed, indexed periodical. Published annually and distributed both nationally and internationally, The Grove is sponsored by the research group HUM-271 of the Regional Andalusian Government, published by the University of Jaén (Spain).
The primary scope of The Grove is literatures in English, critical theory, English language and linguistics, translation, English as a foreign language and cultural studies.
The Indian National Emergency (1975 – 1977) and its afterlife: creative engagements and the cultural politics of memory
Special Issue Proposal - CFP
This Special Issue is a follow up to a panel organised at the 2025 ECSAS (European Conference for South Asian Studies) in Heidelberg on Emergency and Its Afterlife. Panel convenors (Dr Deimantas Valanciunas, Vilnius University, and Dr Clelia Clini, London Metropolitan University) would like to invite proposals for articles for a special issue on creative engagements with the Emergency.
Queer Heroes and Queer Villains
Call for Abstracts for Issue 21 (Spring 2027)Embodiment
Guest Editors: Alexandra Stuhlmann and Siyu Li
54th Annual Conference on South Asia, October 28-31, 2026
Call for Papers
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
“Literary texts are not, of course, merely passive conduits. They actively shape what the technologies mean and what the scientific theories signify in cultural contexts […] culture circulates through science no less than science circulates through culture.” (Hayles How We Became Posthuman 21) We can expand this view beyond science and technology. All aspects of human cultures circulate in artistic productions, most notably in prose fiction, and in return, fiction has the potential to influence cultures and to inspire innovations.
University of Siedlce
Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies
and
University of the Balearic Islands
Faculty of Philosophy and Art
would like to kindly invite all scholars from across the Humanities to take part in the
11th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues
in Language and Literature
Call for Papers
Digital & Analog Cultures
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
Call for Proposals for
Easy and Early Readers in Children’s Literature and Culture: New Approaches to Theorizing Books for Beginning Readers (tentative title)
deadline for submissions:
August 1, 2026
full name / name of organization:
Jennifer Miskec, Longwood University and Annette Wannamaker, Eastern Michigan University
contact email:
This roundtable, inspired by the 2026 PAMLA conference theme “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” invites short (5-minute) presentations on possible approaches and challenges to teaching figures who have been rejected by cancel culture for their harmfully dated representations of marginalized figures and communities or their creators’ mistreatment of other people or toxic attitudes: writers like Mark Twain, Vladimir Nabokov, and J.K. Rowling; filmmakers from Alfred Hitchcock to Woody Allen; and performers like Kevin Spacey and Louis C.K. Possible approaches might include:
This special session, taking its inspiration from the conference rubric “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” invites presentations that explore the dynamics of power differentials in adaptations of any kind. Following David Mamet’s notorious maxim, “Film is a collaborative business—bend over,” it seeks to investigate whether the production and reception of adaptations are marked by inevitable power imbalances, how collaborations in making and making sense of adaptations address these imbalances, and whether collaborations among equals are either possible or desirable.
Call for PapersLiterature-General Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 2026 SWPACA Summer Salon June 25-27, 2026Virtual Conferencehttps://swpaca.org/Submissions open on March 30, 2026Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026 Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the SWPACA Summer Salon. SWPACA offersnearly 70 subject areas in a variety of categories encompassing the following: Film, Television,Music, & Visual Media; Historic & Contemporary Cultures; Identities & Cultures; Language &Literature; Science Fiction & Fantasy; and Pedagogy & Popular Culture.
The Comparative American Ethnic Literature session at the 2026 PAMLA Conference in Seattle, WA seeks proposals for papers (about 15-20 minutes in length) related to a wide variety of topics regarding multi-ethnic texts, relationships between multi-ethnic writers, and/or connections among ethnic and religious communities. While proposals may engage with this year's conference theme of “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict," the session is open to broad interpretations and explorations of the field, including considerations of historical period, geographic area, genre (including film and music), gender and sexuality, bi- and multi-lingual texts, and so on.
Call For Proposals
The Upstart Crows: The Beatles and the British Literary Tradition
(Edited Volume)
Deadline for Submissions:
November 1, 2026
Contact email:
tpace@jcu.edu
A Matter of Life and Death
Call for Papers: Victorians Institute Conference 2026
September 11-13, 2026, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Knoxville, TN
Following along from the urgency of last year’s theme, Victorian Studies: Who Cares? this year’s theme asks conference participants to consider matters of life and death in the Victorian era. What did it mean to live and die in Victorian England? How are matters of life and death reflected in the literature of the time?
The 123rd Annual PAMLA Conference's Digital Studies session examines how digital technologies shape human life, culture, the environment, and academia. The area remains interested in a broad range of work at the intersection of the humanities, the arts, and digital culture. However, in line with this year’s conference theme (“Our Ruling Classes: Class, Power, Conflict”), we are particularly interested in the power structures that shape how technologies are used, by whom, and to what ends. Who is included in the design and implementation of digital technologies, and who is left out? Who benefits, and who pays the greatest costs?
The permanent section "Women in Literature" is seeking papers for the MMLA convention held 12-14 November 2026 in Chicago.
Archives are based upon categories, the fundamental one being what is and what is not worth remembering. In literature, rebellious women are also categorized and tend to become exemplars (and are memorialized) or are erased. This panel seeks to complicate what is worth remembering by examining the silences and gaps in what tends to be categorized as “rebellious.” Of particular interest are women in literature who engage in quotidian acts of rebellion, figures who may be rebellious in some ways but traditional in others, and other examples that problematize what might qualify as a “rebellious woman.”
All information is accesible also on the conference website: https://events.ceu.edu/2026-10-08/cfp-collectingcreating-archive-based-m...
TARTALO. 10th International Conference on Myth in the Arts (2026).
17-20 November 2026, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)
Venue: Faculty of Arts, EHU (University of the Basque Country) / online
CALL FOR PAPERS
Call for Chapters in an Edited Volume:
For its forthcoming issue, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration (MSJ) invites submissions that encompass the latest research in film and media studies. Submission categories include feature articles (6,000-7,000 words); mise-en-scène featurettes (1,000-1,500 words); reviews of films, DVDs, Blu-rays or conferences (1,500-2,500 words); interviews (2,500-5,000 words); undergraduate scholarship (2,000-2,500 words) or video essays (8-10 minute range). All submissions must include a selection of supporting images from the film(s) under analysis and be formatted according to MLA guidelines, 9th edition.
International Conference “Pleasure and Pain in Women’s Writing”
Organized by IWWA (International Women’s Writing Association)
and the L&GEND Research Group
9th-11th September 2026
G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Conference Venue: Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Pescara (ITALY)
Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP), a peer-reviewed journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2026 adn 2027 issues. Covering all periods and genres of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. We also welcome proposals for our "Prospects" series in which scholars forecast future developments (and identify scholarly gaps) in the study of major authors.
Instructions for submissions may be found @ http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_rals.html.
Apologies for crossposting.
Call for Papers: Fashion, Style & Popular Culture
Special Issue: ‘Muslim Fashion and Style’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/fashion-style-popular-culture#call-for-papers
Guest Editor
Sabah Firoz Uddin, Bowie State University
Speculative fiction (broadly defined as an umbrella genre encompassing science fiction, fantasy, and horror, among others) offers powerful tools for interrogating systems of authority, social hierarchy, and cultural possibility. By constructing alternative worlds, speculative narratives illuminate the structures that govern our own, revealing how power operates through technology, empire, class, race, gender, and the environment. This session invites papers that explore how speculative fiction critiques, reimagines, or destabilizes ruling systems and dominant ideologies. Possible topics include dystopian governance, resistance and revolution, speculative visions of justice, and the cultural work of world-building.
Multiple hands: Shakespeare and Collaborative Creation
18-20th March 2027, Paris (France) - Annual Conference of the Société Française Shakespeare
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to welcome you to the Fifth International Language-for-All Conference (LfAC’26), which will take place on October 22–23, 2026, at Çukurova University in Adana, Türkiye.
Centred on the theme “Social Justice: Language, Equity, Voice, and Empowerment,” the conference brings together scholars, educators, and practitioners working in language education, linguistics, literary studies, translation and interpretation studies, and cultural studies to examine how linguistic, literary, and cultural practices relate to questions of power, knowledge, ideology, and social inequality.
For over a century, Asian film and media have offered sites ripe for cultural analyses. While resisting the essentializing label of "Asian," this session seeks to benefit from conversations that emerge when we recognize the heterogeneity of Asia as well as the commonalities that run through its various cultural products. In 2026, this session invites particular attention to power and hierarchy in Asian film and media, welcoming analyses that move beyond the binary of domination and resistance to explore the more ambivalent, entangled, and contradictory ways that power and resistance operate across cultural forms and social life.