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Muslims in American

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:58am
SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

SAMLA 97 – Knowledge – Atlanta, GA | November 6th - 8th, 2025, https://samla.ballastacademic.com  

This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.

Praxis Conference: Multiplicity

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:58am
English Department, University of Washington Seattle
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

Conference Theme: Multiplicity

We are pleased to invite proposals for the University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ fifth annual Praxis Conference, which will be held at the UW Seattle campus on Friday May 30th, 2025.  The theme for the conference is “Multiplicity” (understood broadly to include how to honor and support the multiplicity of our students’ identities, knowledges, modes of communication, and languages) and its possibilities as they relate to our teaching of English.

Issue 4.1

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:57am
Journal of Consent-Based Performance
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Call for Papers

 

The Journal of Consent-Based Performance invites artists, educators, and scholars engaged with consent-based performance—in theory or in practice—to interrogate our existing practices and propose new ideas in pursuit of increasingly more equitable, ethical, anti-oppressive, and effective consent-based practices within our field. In our endeavor to promote the work of all individuals engaged in improving the intimacy specialization fields, we invite authors to submit any writings centered upon consent-based performance practices. We encourage authors to submit essays that do the work of: 

Routledge Studies on Edward Albee and American Theatre

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:57am
Michael Y. Bennett (Book Series Editor)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 14, 2028

The Edward Albee Society is proud of the launch of The Routledge Studies in Edward Albee and American Theatre and sends out this call for proposals for new projects.

The new book series aims to examine mid-to-late 20th Century American theatre; its most influential and important playwright, Edward Albee; and his contemporaries.

 

Currently, two books are in production:

--David A. Crespy and Les Gray, eds. Emergence of Difference and Diversity in US and World Theatres, 1950s-1970s: Albee and his Contemporaries, forthcoming 2025.

--John P. Bray, Jack Gelber: Consider This, forthcoming 2025.

 

CFP: Nineteenth-Century Legacies Colloquium 3rd June 2025 (Submission Deadline 15th March 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:57am
Royal Holloway, University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

In June 2025, Royal Holloway, University of London, in collaboration with the British Association of Victorian Studies and the British Association of Romantic Studies, will host an in-person research day on Tuesday 3rd June examining realisms across literary, artistic, theatrical, and critical forms, and considering the continuing influence of nineteenth-century thought on our current moment.

Presentations will be held during the morning in which delegates present 15-minute papers attending to nineteenth-century realisms (broadly conceived), followed by an afternoon discussion-based roundtable, structured around the topic: “Managing Difficult Legacies”. 

CFP: Nineteenth-Century Legacies

Running From the Rising Tide

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:56am
Modern Language Association 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 7, 2025

Proposals which study climate migrations through its literary and cultural iterations. The aim is to explore the social, political, and environmental implications of climate change on the crisis of migration.

300 word abstract and bio.

MLA 2026: Wallace Stevens, Influence, and Poets of Color

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:56am
The Wallace Stevens Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

“This song is for my foe, / the clean-shaven, gray-suited, gray patron / of Hartford, the emperor of whiteness / blue as a body made of snow.” Those four lines of dedication close “Snow for Wallace Stevens” (2009) by the African American poet Terrance Hayes—an ambivalent ode, blending wintry detachment and “love without / forgiveness,” “lost faith” and faith regained. Hayes is far from the only poet of color, from the United States or elsewhere, to write a poem after or against Stevens.

"Modernist Infrastructures of Meaning"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:56am
Modernist Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

In keeping with this year’s conference theme, this panel will focus on texts that function as infrastructures or sties of negotiated meaning and which also take as their subject matter real sites of infrastructure around which collective or communal identities or meanings are disrupted, negotiated and crystallized.  Obvious examples include Williams's Paterson and Crane's The Bridge, but proposals on novels and plays as well as on film and painting are also welcome.  Please send abstracts to Charles.Sumner@usm.edu no later than 3/21/25.

Occupied Territories: On Palestine and Imperialism

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:56am
Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS: “Occupied Territories: On Palestine and Imperialism”

 

“The European conquerors are the first who are not merely after subjugation and economic exploitation, but the means of production itself, by ripping the land from underneath the feet of the native population.” – Rosa Luxemburg, “The Dissolution of Primitive Communism”

 

CFP - Journal of the Wooden O

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:55am
Dr. Stephanie Chamberlain/Journal of the Wooden O
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 17, 2025

 

The Journal of the Wooden O (JWO) is a peer-reviewed academic publication focusing on Shakespeare studies. The editors invite papers on topics related to Shakespeare, including Shakespearean texts, Shakespeare in performance, the adaptation of Shakespeare works (film, fiction, and visual and performing arts), Elizabethan and Jacobean culture and history, and Shakespeare’s contemporaries.

 

JAMS@AX25 - Anime Expo Academic Symposium

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:54am
Billy Tringali - JAMS@AX Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 7, 2025

JAMS@AX25

Want to present your work at the one-and-only Anime Expo? The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies(JAMS) and Anime Expo have once-again teamed up to give you the JAMS@AX25 academic symposium, July 3- July 6, 2025 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This symposium presents an incredible opportunity to connect fans of all ages directly to scholars researching and writing about the medium we all love. 

While the JAMS@AX25 welcomes all papers taking a scholarly perspective on anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms, we specifically welcome papers that match Anime Expo’s theme of: “Academics''!

MLA 2026 Convention Session - "Bad Adaptations"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:54am
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Call for Papers: MLA 2026 Convention – Roundtable on "Bad Adaptations"

The Adaptation Studies Forum invites submissions for a roundtable discussion at the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto (January 8-11, 2026). In collaboration with the Screen Arts and Culture Group, this roundtable will engage in a critical exploration of what constitutes a “bad” adaptation and how these works can be understood and assessed both aesthetically and pedagogically.

Title: Bad Adaptations

2025 LCH Julien Mezey Dissertation Award

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:54am
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (LCH)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (LCH) is accepting submissions for the 2025 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. This annual prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture, and the humanities.

A Conference on South Asian Capitalism(s)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:54am
Institute for South Asia Studies | University of California, Berkeley
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

This conference is the second in a sequence of events co-organized by three public universities: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, University of California Berkeley, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst on the theme of the political economy of South Asia. Titled South Asian Capitalism(s), this Fall 2025 conference aims to investigate how capitalist accumulation is socially structured across South Asia.

Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:53am
University of Münster
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 2, 2025

In their introduction to Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism (2016), Karen Coats and Lisa Rowe Fraustino observe that “[w]hether living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or happily good enough, the figure of the mother carries an enormous amount of freight across the emotional and intellectual life of a child” (3).

++ "Videogame Wests" CONFERENCE PANEL, Bergamo ++

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:53am
EAAS "West of the Rest" research network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

While the EAAS’ "West of the Rest" research network will be represented with a total of three panels at the the 28th Biennial Conference of AISNA Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord Americani, we are specifically looking for contributions to our panel dedicated to video games: "Videogame Wests: Playing (at) the Frontier". Since there is the opportunity to have fresh research on video game Wests published as part of this venture, we invite everyone interested to pitch a paper. Please feel free to (re)share the enclosed cfp with interested parties. The panel is coordinated by Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck) and Stefan "Steve" Rabitsch (University of Oslo). Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa writer N.

Layers: Physical and Cultural Constructions of Space in the English-Speaking World

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:52am
Monica Manolescu
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

 

Layers: Physical and Cultural Constructions of Space in the English-Speaking World

 

International conference organised by SEARCH (Savoirs dans l’Espace Anglophone: Représentations, Culture, Histoire)

  

University of Strasbourg, 16-17 October 2025

 

Keynote speaker: Jeremy Davies (University of Leeds)

 

 

Call for papers

 

Translations in Colonial India, 1800-1947: Paradigms, Networks, and Practices

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
Suddhaseel Sen, PI (India), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Dear all,
We invite potential contributors for a Government of India-sponsored SPARC project
titled "Translations in Colonial India, 1800-1947: Paradigms, Networks, and
Practices." The overall goals of the project are as follows:
 
1. To trace the networks of translations between modern Indian languages in the
period under consideration;
2. To trace the impact of European languages such as French, German,
Russian, Italian, and Spanish, on modern Indian languages and literatures,
either in the original or mediated through English translations; and
3. To trace how translational activities helped the establishment of modern

ASAP16 CFP: Arts Funding and Its Nationalisms

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
Association for the Study of Arts of the Present
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

Arts Funding and Its Nationalisms, The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), Houston, TX, October 22-25, 2025. #ASAP16

Call For Papers: AfroNordic Feminisms

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
Journal of Scandinavian Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 4, 2025

Call For Papers: 

AfroNordic Feminisms

 

This special issue of  Scandinavian Studies explores and questions what it means to theorize, articulate, and practice a Black/Afrofeminism from a distinctly Nordic standpoint. 

We invite submissions engaging with questions such as: 

 

  • What are the continuities, departures, or specificities that characterize AfroNordic feminisms in comparison and relation to Black/Afrofeminisms rooted in e.g. U.S., African, and other AfroEuropean contexts?

Last Call for Special Issue:Representing Animals in Asian Screen Media

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Special Issue title: Representing Animals in Asian Screen Media

Journal: Society & Animals (SCI & SSCI indexed)

Edited by: Dr. Zhaoyu Zhu (First Author); Dr. Thomas William Whyke (Corresponding Author)

University of Nottingham Ningbo China
 
Background and scope

Carceral Infrastructures and the Modernist Imagination

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
MSA 2025, Boston, Oct. 9-12 [Modernist Studies Association]
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

This proposed panel will address intersections between carceral studies and literary studies, with a focus on modernist literature and art and their contemporary legacies.

CFP Medieval + Monsters in Comics (3/15/2025; online session 10/17-18/2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
Michael A Torregrossa / Medieval Comics Project and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Medieval + Monsters in Comics

 

Online Sponsored Session Proposed for Medieval + Monsters: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM), Mid-America Medieval Association (MAMA), Illinois Medieval Association (IMA) Joint Conference with The Newberry Library

Hosted at Dominican University & the Newberry Library

17-18 October 2025

 

The Medieval Comics Project and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association seek proposals of 250 words for a proposed online panel devoted to the theme of the medieval and the monstrous in sequential art, comics, manga, and related media.

 

Topics might include:

2025 EALA Annual Conference, The theme for the conference is “Disease and Death”

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Call for Papers

2025 EALA Annual Conference

Disease and Death

 

Conference Co-organizers:

English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan), National Taipei University of Education and University of Taipei

 

Date: October 18, 2025

Venue: National Taipei University of Education

 

The deadline for abstract submission is extended to February 25, 2025

 

Transnationalism and Australasian Literatures (MLA 2026)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

This CFP is for a guaranteed session organized by the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) for the 2026 Modern Language Association convention in Toronto (8-11 January 2026).

CELJ 2024 Virtual Conference: Open Dialogues April 4–5, 2025, from 2-6pm ET (Live)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is pleased to host its inaugural conference to expand the knowledge sharing CELJ provides through its listserv, mentoring workshops, and Modern Language Association convention sessions. The online format offers a space where more of our members, and potential new members, can be included. The conference will be virtual and recorded for CELJ members who are not able to attend. 

Call For Papers 

The conference theme is Open Dialogues, and the organizers encourage submissions of roundtable-based discussions specific to editorial and publishing topics of conversation including, but not limited to: 

MSA Boston 2025: Queer Print Infrastructures in Literary Modernism

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
Sophie Yates, University of British Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

This panel invites papers addressing the formative roles played by the queer print infrastructures that established, defined, and perpetuated literary modernism. Via the material production systems of independent magazines, small-run presses, special edition printings, and specialist bookstores (including Shakespeare & Co., The Little ReviewThe Egoist, Hogarth Press, Fire!!, etc, etc) queer/non-normative people had a remarkable shaping effect on the material productions and aesthetic coherences/incoherences of commercial and ‘high’ modernism.

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