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DEADLINE EXTENDED! Red River Valley Graduate Student Conference, 2026: Knowledge in the Age of AI: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Learning, Writing, and Teaching

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 3:12pm
English Graduate Organization, North Dakota State University (NDSU)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Extended Deadline: February 15, 2026!

Call for Papers

Knowledge in the Age of AI: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Learning, Writing, and Teaching

The English Graduate Organization at North Dakota State University (NDSU) invites proposals for the 2026 Red River Valley Graduate Student Conference, April 10-11, 2026, on the beautiful NDSU campus in Fargo, North Dakota.

Call for Presenters--Black Scholars in Podcasting Virtual Conference

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 2:29pm
Black Scholars in Podcasting
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Call for Presenters Submit to present for the 2nd Annual Black Scholars in Podcasting Virtual Conference “Picture Me Storytelling”, Saturday, March 28, 2026, 1 pm CST / 2 pm EST via Zoom.  The deadline for submission is February 11, 2026, with notification expected by February 16, 2026.Please use the Google form (linked) to make your submission: https://forms.gle/7b6Bs3PUwSfWaCMv7 This is a call for active scholar podcasters, faculty who teach with podcasts, and/or whose current research agenda includes podcasting.

DLC+ | "Slop" and "Nostalgia" – Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture Mini-Conference

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 2:29pm
Digital Literary Cultures (DLC+)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 14, 2026

Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture: “Slop” and “Nostalgia”

May 14th, 2026

Virtual Mini-Conference

https://dlcplus.org/ 

 

DLC+ is excited to announce the second installment of its Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture series, mini-conferences devoted to studying the most pressing and emerging concepts actively shaping digital literary culture. 

 

Call for Papers: ‘Save State: Ethics, Politics and Poetics of Video Game Preservation’

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 1:28pm
Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

Special Issue: ‘Save State: Ethics, Politics and Poetics of Video Game Preservation’

Guest Editors: Paweł Frelik (University of Warsaw), Magdalena Kozyra (SWPS University), Tomasz Z. Majkowski (Jagiellonian University) 

Important Dates 

  • Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 March 2026

  • Notification of Acceptance: 10 March 2026

  • Full Article Submission: 15 June 2026

  • Peer Review Returned: 1 August 2026

  • Revised Article Submission: 31 August 2026

Accelerationism Revisited

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 1:28pm
Rhona Jamieson / University College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Accelerationism Revisited

 

15 June 2026, University College Dublin, Ireland

 

Guest Speaker: Hari Kunzru, interviewed by Mark O’Connell

Further speakers TBC

 

[In Sondry Ages and Sondry Londes] Reading Chaucer outside the Anglophone World: Receptions, Translations, and Traditions

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 1:28pm
Sophia Yashih Liu et al./ National Taiwan University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

The recent Mandarin Chinese translation of The Canterbury Tales (Linking Publishing, 2025) by Dr. Francis K. H. So offers a timely opportunity to reflect on the growing presence, vitality, and diversity of Chaucerian studies outside the Anglophone world. This significant contribution not only opens new avenues for engaging with Geoffrey Chaucer’s language and narrative art, but also foregrounds the crucial role of translation, pedagogy, and local scholarly traditions in shaping how Chaucer is read, interpreted, and taught across different linguistic and cultural contexts.

Methodologies of Re-creation and Remediation

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 1:27pm
SUNY at Buffalo Department of Media Study
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

A conference hosted by the graduate students of the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study 

Keynote TBA 

March 15 at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

 

While last year’s Media Study conference asked us to imagine artistic and research creation during the world’s prescribed end, this year we imagine methods of existing, creating, and remediating beyond our present moment.

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 12:47pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism
A Transdisciplinary Conference
July 18-19, 2026
July 18: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 19: Fully online
Conference Page: 
https://labrc.co.uk/2026/01/21/ecopoetics2026/

Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
**Prices exclude Eventbrite fees

Call for Presentations:

Performance Between Persistent Post-Truths

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 12:46pm
Daniel Dilliplane / Stetson University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 16, 2026

In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries named “post-truth” its Word of the Year, marking a shift towards skepticism of facts and scientific institutions alongside the rising influence of emotion and opinion in shaping public knowledge. In the decade since, we have witnessed the further erosion of consensus truth as multiple constructions of the “real” proliferate throughout divergent media ecosystems, accelerated by emerging technologies and polarizing political orientations towards race, gender, class, and sexuality. 

*Extended deadline* 5th Biennial John Dos Passos Society Conference: Ponta do Sol, Madeira, Portugal (May 20-23, 2026)

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 11:28am
John Dos Passos Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 8, 2026

The Dos Passos Society has extended the deadline for its 2026 biennial conference in Posta do Sol, Madeira, by one week to February 8th. We do hope you will join us in Madeira this May for a celebration of the life and works of one of America's greatest chroniclers of the twentieth century. 

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The John Dos Passos Society is proud to announce its 2026 biennial conference in Ponta do Sol, Madeira Island, Portugal. The conference will be held at the John Dos Passos Cultural Center in the municipality of Ponta do Sol, the home of the author's Portuguese ancestors.

The Handbook of Ecofeminism

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 6:35am
Nicole C. Dittmer, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 13, 2026

Chapters for The Handbook of Ecofeminism
deadline for submissions: February 13, 2026
full name / name of organization: Nicole C. Dittmer, PhD
contact email: ncdittmer@gmail.com

In 1974, Françoise d’Eaubonne coined the term ecofeminism in Le féminisme ou la mort, foregrounding the intertwined domination of women and nature and calling for the liberation of both from systems of exploitation. Since its emergence, ecofeminism has inspired scholars and activists across disciplines and global contexts.

Beyond the Power of Words: Language as a Tool for Radicalization, Subversion, and Social Change

updated: 
Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 3:13pm
Idaho State University English Graduate Student Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Jürgen Habermas suggested that it is through communicative action, that is reasoned and open discourse, that we transmit, change, and recreate cultural knowledge, and that in so-doing we can achieve mutual understanding. 

Communicative action and communicative rationality are self-reflexive dialogues through which we can learn from others, question dominant paradigms, and advocate for cultural change. 

SDGs through Hindu Worldviews: Spiritual Care in a VUCA-BANI World

updated: 
Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 11:26am
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, Department of Humanistic Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 25, 2026

International Symposium: SDGs through Hindu Worldviews – Spiritual Care in a VUCA–BANI World
February 25–26, 2026 | IIT (BHU), Varanasi | Hybrid (Online + Offline)

Gender, NOW!! (Hybrid Conference)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - 8:11am
Penn State Graduates in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Our present conjuncture demands urgent engagement with the now of gender. Authoritarian resurgence, border militarization, algorithmic
governance, climate precarity, and uneven recoveries from overlapping pandemics shape how gender is lived, and resisted across diverse contexts: from settler colonial democracies to postcolonial nation-states and stateless territories. Anti-trans legislation, family policing, and reproductive surveillance intensify biopolitical control, while migration regimes, humanitarian aid economies, and asylum adjudication render certain genders and kinship forms precariously provisional.

Crossroads of Literary Creation: Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 7:38pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Crossroads of Literary Creation:
Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between

A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, February 11-12, 2026

Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/12/06/crossroads-of-literary-creation/

Participation fee: £100
Prices exclude eventbrite fees

Call for Papers:

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie” – Stephen King

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” – Doris Lessing

Unfaithful Adaptations of Jekyll and Hyde: Essays on Hybridity and the Gothic Double

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 6:23pm
Eric Riddle / McFarland Press
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most adapted, parodied, and referenced works of Gothic fiction. Even those who have never read the novella know the “story,” or at least the twist: Henry Jekyll becomes Edward Hyde to live a double life, disconnected from societal pressures and expectations. Many, if not all, of these media adaptations add, edit, or remove elements from the story, making it a hybrid narrative, one part Stevenson’s and one part the adapter’s. 

 

In a Conference Far, Far Away…Traversing Forms of the Folkloric

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 3:33pm
NYU Comparative Literature Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

 In a Conference Far, Far Away…Traversing Forms of the Folkloric  (Graduate Student Conference)

 

New York University: Friday, May 1, 2026

 

Proposals Open on Circus History Topics and Circus Paper Student Prize

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:39pm
Circus Historical Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Circus Historical Society Convention 2026

The 2026 Circus Historical Society Convention will be held in Baraboo Wisconsin from June 10 – 13, 2026. Convention will conclude with Baraboo’s Big Top Parade. Registration and other information will be available soon. 

Call for Papers 

Proposals are now being accepted for Convention presentations on any subject related to circus history. We invite proposals for single speakers and groups. All proposals must be received using the online form by March 31, 2026. Visit https://circushistory.org/next-convention/ to submit your proposal today. 

2026 CHS Student Prize

Of Clay and Dust: A 6 Day Extensive Body Movement Workshop

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:38pm
Centre for Comparative Literature, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, in collaboration with Department of Yogic Art and Science, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva-Bharati
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Centre for Comparative Literature, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati,

in collaboration with

Department of Yogic Art and Science, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva-Bharati

presents

 

Of Clay and Dust

 

6 days extensive body movement workshop

 

Body awareness

Narrative based movements

Body conditioning

Introduction to Odissi with marshal arts like Mayurbhanj Chhau and Kalaripayattu

Introduction to basic Abhinaya

How to work with musicians and script

How to develop performance

 

Facilitated by Monami Nandy

 

February 16-21, 2026

Venue: Dhyana Kutir, Yoga Village Premises, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva-Bharati

 

Irish Association for American Studies Annual Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:37pm
Irish Association for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 26, 2026

“Unfinished Declarations: Independence, Identity, and Imagination in American Culture” 

Hosted by the Irish Association for American Studies 

Date: 24th and 25th April 2026 

Location: Ulster University, Coleraine Campus, Northern Ireland 

CCL - All Things Made New: Creation, Re-Creation, & Redemption

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:37pm
Western Regional Conference on Christianity & Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Our conference theme, “All Things Made New: Creation, Re-creation, and Redemption,” aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of the creative and re-creative acts embedded in our discipline practices and the works we study. As a number of Christian scholars have pointed out, reading and writing literature is one way we can carry out our responsibility to establish a world that pleases and praises God by cultivating its potential. Just as Adam and Eve cultivated the fruits of the Garden of Eden, so are we to cultivate the talents and abilities God has given us in all areas: technology, literature, art, music, science, social and political structures, etc.

Global Perestroika and Soviet Literatures (conference and subsequent edited volume)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:37pm
Global Perestroika and Soviet Literatures project
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Global Perestroika and Soviet Literatures

Conference and Subsequent Edited Volume
University of Dresden, March 18–21, 2027

 

Organizers:
Klavdia Smola (Technology University of Dresden)
Naomi Caffee (Reed College)
Zachary Hicks (UC Berkeley)

Endnotes 2026: Environment, Extraction, Evolution

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:37pm
University of British Columbia - Vancouver, Department of English Language and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of Environment, Extraction, Evolution. 

 
“What do I want from literature, anyway? 
A new way of living, a new way to talk  
About the trees that doesn’t endanger them” 
- Billy-Ray Belcourt, “Endnotes” 

Volume on Kaouther Ben Hania

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:36pm
Nicole Wallenbrock
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 14, 2026

 

29th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:36pm
Southern Writers/Southern Writing, University of Mississippi
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 30, 2026

29th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference 

University of Mississippi

August 8th—9th, 2026

Call for Submissions

Supernatural South(s): The Monstrous, The Fantastic, The Grotesque, The Speculative and So On…

The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 29th meeting of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from August 8th-August 9th, 2026. 

American Carnage (conference; October 23-25, 2026)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:36pm
Canadian Association for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

CFP: “American Carnage”

Canadian Association for American Studies, October 23-25, 2026 (In person at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)

Call for Guest Editors/Guest Edited Special/Themed Issues of The Apollonian

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies has foregrounded special issues as crucial sites for shaping emerging conversations, opening new interdisciplinary pathways, and bringing into visibility critical questions that cut across literature, culture, philosophy, interdisciplinary humanities, and posthumanities thinking. Continuing this commitment, we invite proposals from potential guest editors for several forthcoming special issues of the journal as we shift from our recent annual issue format to a bi-annual format in an attempt to revive the previous publication schedule of the journal (2014-2019).

Leonard Cohen 2026: Global Perspectives on a Multi-disciplinary Artist

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
Joel Deshaye
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

The ten-year anniversary of Leonard Cohen’s death in November 2026 invites renewed critical reflection on his life, work, and significance today. The past decade has witnessed a surge in publications on Cohen for both academic and general audiences, posthumous releases of music and the publication of an early novel, as well as his appearance in the works of other artists as both inspiration and antagonist. A singer-songwriter, poet, novelist, and visual artist, Cohen was both an icon of his home city, Montreal, and a citizen of the world. Now, as in his lifetime, his art resists divisions between nations and audiences, media and genres, philosophies and religions, academic disciplines and styles of fandom.

Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
Victorian Popular Fictions Journal (VPFJ)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Victorian popular fiction is replete with animals – racing horses, loyal dogs, caged birds, exotic creatures, and anthropomorphic companions. These beings carried immense symbolic significance: they could function as status symbols, metaphors for the body or soul, expressions of sentiment, or instruments of moral instruction. Animals also frequently offered a lens through which Victorians addressed issues surrounding empire, industrialisation, science, social mobility, and domesticity. In popular fiction, animals were not merely background – they were moral barometers, class indicators, narrative devices, and symbols of broader anxieties regarding industrialisation, gender roles, and empire.

Call for Papers — H2D: Digital Humanities Journal — Volume 8 (continuous publication)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
University of Porto
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

H2D (Revista de Humanidades Digitais) is an interdisciplinary Diamond Open Access journal dedicated to advancing research and dialogue in Digital Humanities. We welcome contributions that explore how digital tools and methods reshape humanities scholarship and practice, bridging humanistic inquiry and technological innovation while engaging contemporary societal challenges aligned with the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Gender and Supernatural

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
Early Modern Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Call for Papers 2026

Deadline: February 28th 2026

Theme: Gender and Supernatural

“You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.” Macbeth 1.3.46-47

Call for Submissions: Eye to the Telescope "Paying Tribute"

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
Eye to the Telescope
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Call for Submissions

Eye to the Telescope Guest Editor Angela Acosta is accepting poetry submissions for Issue 60, Paying Tribute

 

The Zeitpyramide in Germany gains a new block every decade to mark the passage of time until the year 3183. Will future humans remember this art installation, or will it cease to have any meaning by the next millennium?

CFP-The Text: Vol.8 No.2-July 2026 Issue

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:33pm
The Text (ISSN: 2581-9526)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language, Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original, unpublished research papers for July 2026 issue.
Indexed in:
1.     ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
2.     IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
3.     Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)
4.     DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)
5.     ResearchBib (Research Bible)

APOCALYPSE AS UTOPIA: Hopeful Visions of Apocalypses in Literature, Media and Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:33pm
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies

Thematic Issue 2027

Apocalypse as Utopia:

Hopeful Visions of Apocalypses in Literature, Media and Culture

 

Guest Editors:

Magdalena Cieślak, University of Lodz

Paola Spinozzi, University of Ferrara

Katarzyna Więckowska, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun

 

Teaching American Poetry Now

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:33pm
American Literature Association/Society for the Study of American Poetry
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026

The Society for the Study of American Poetry invites proposals for a roundtable to be held at the 37th annual American Literature Association conference in Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026. 

Roundtable: “Teaching American Poetry Now”

This roundtable invites participants to reflect on the challenges, possibilities, and urgencies of teaching American poetry in the current moment. Across institutions, student populations, and media environments, instructors are rethinking how—and why—we teach American poetry now.

Mediating American Poetry

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:33pm
American Literature Association/Society for the Study of American Poetry
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026

 

The Society for the Study of American Poetry invites proposals for a session to be held at the 37th annual American Literature Association conference in Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026. 

Panel: Mediating American Poetry

This panel invites papers that examine American poetry through the lens of media, broadly construed and across historical periods. We seek work that explores how poetic production, circulation, reception, and interpretation have been shaped by media forms—from print technologies and the history of the book to digital platforms, archives, and social media.

Final Reminder: First Book Institute Applications due by 2/9 (Hard Dealine)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:33pm
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 9, 2026

Announcing

The 2026 First Book Institute

May 31-June 6, 2026

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book

Restanza. Linguistic, Literary and Geographical Imageries of Permanence

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:33pm
University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Call for Papers - Doctoral Conference 

 Restanza. Linguistic, Literary and Geographical Imageries of Permanence

University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara 

Pescara, 4-5 June 2026

Doctoral Course in Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Contact  Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

 

 

«Restare, quindi, non è statica come azione, 

ma dinamica, non cristallizza il presente ma si permea di futuro»(Teti, 2022: 119).

CALL FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS TO SERVE AS KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SPEAKERS

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:32pm
The Undergraduate and Graduate Victorian Studies Association (UGSVA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 8, 2026

 

CALL FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS TO SERVE AS KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SPEAKERS: due by 2/08/26

The Undergraduate and Graduate Victorian Studies Association (UGSVA) is announcing our fourth annual online conference. The UGSVA conference is run by a team of undergraduate and graduate students primarily from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada and Carroll University, Waukesha, WI. The conference will take place on Tuesday April 28st from about 9:00 AM-4:00 PM EST (time approximate) via Zoom.

 

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