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CFP: MW/SWCCL, “Taking Care”
Midwest/Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, Missouri
September 25-26, 2026
Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Bilbro, professor of English at Grove City College and editor-in-chief at Front Porch Republic
Gothic Nature is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that engages with the Gothic conceptions of, and relationship to, the natural world. For the TV and film review section of its sixth issue, the journal seeks reviews for ecoGothic television series and films released in the last couple of years (2023–2026). Issue VI of the journal is unthemed, so there is no restriction on the types of film and TV we’d like reviews for. As a general guideline, we’d be interested to see reviews of the following (please note that this is not an exhaustive list, reviews of other relevant films and programmes are more than welcome):
Film:
2028 will mark the two hundredth anniversary of Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s completion of the first version of his masterpiece Death’s Jest-Book. This special issue of Studia Neophilologica, coinciding also with the centenary of a journal that has been the home of many significant essays on Beddoes’s writings, will offer new readings and accounts of Beddoes’s life, work, and reputation.
Contributions are invited for essays between 5 and 8,000 words on all aspects of Beddoes’s career. Topics might include:
The tenth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will take place on Friday, October 23, 2026, invites proposals for papers on Han Kang’s 2014 novel Human Acts (original title: 소년이 온다, or A Boy Comes; English translation by Deborah Smith). The Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient theoretical, historical, political, and narratological questions about the novel as a genre. (See the 2025 BNS websiteand this archive for more information about the BNS.)
Christian Writers Conference 2027
“Restoring Creativity”
April 9-10, 2027, Grove City College, PA
The Eastern Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature
and Third Annual meeting of the Holy Moot
Featuring Daniel McInerny, philosopher of art, novelist, and dramatist
Call for Papers
The Forum Section invites scholars to reflect on the different ways that their research and/or pedagogy has intertwined with their lives in relation to the theme of the Volume. It is a more immediate exploration of how one’s research is shaped out of one’s personal experiences and positionalities. This section was introduced in 2023, encouraging contributors to experiment with styles outside academic writing to tease out the intricacies of pedagogy, research, and lived experience. Forum pieces can be more personal and self-reflective, and can include open ended enquiries. There are aspects of research that never make it to the research paper.
Call for Proposals: Star Trek and the CourtroomAn Edited Collection on Justice, Law, and the Trial in Star Trek
We invite proposals for an edited volume examining trial and courtroom episodes across the Star Trek franchise. From “Court Martial” (TOS) to “Ad Astra per Aspera” (SNW), Star Trek has used the trial format to explore questions of personhood, justice, military law, civil rights, ethical responsibility, and the limits of legal systems. These episodes serve as philosophical laboratories, testing the boundaries of law when confronted with, for example, artificial intelligence, alien cultures, time travel, and evolving definitions of sentience and citizenship.
Workshop at the Renaissaince Society of America's annual meeting (Philadelphia. March 11-13, 2027)
Conference online: 20-21 August 2026
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
Call for Papers: International Journal of Education Through Art
Special Issue: ‘Routes & Roots: Transnational Genealogies of Art Education’
Guest Editors:
Dustin Garnet University of British Columbia
Indira Bailey Claflin University
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-education-through-art#call-for-papers
Futures and Frontiers of US American Culture(s) International Conference
30 September – 2 October 2026
John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin
Keynotes: Jenny Stümer (Universität Heidelberg) | Dan Hassler-Forest (Utrecht University)
Theme: Is it a Wonderful Life?
Wonder (n.): a feeling of surprise or awe, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable
Wonder (v.): to feel some doubt or curiosity; to be desirous to know or learn.
Wondrous (adj.): marvelous; wonderful.
In keeping with the presidential theme of the 2026 MMLA Conference, “After the Archives,” to be held in Chicago from November 12-14, 2026, papers that incorporate and/or interrogate the archives are welcomed for this year’s panel on American Literature before 1870.
Background
The Just Transition Knowledge Network (JETNET), an initiative of the Just Transition Research Centre at IIT Kanpur, invites national and international participants to its Annual Conference 2026.
The 2026 Multi-ConTEXT International Graduate Conference
“Interweaving Voices and Worlds: English Studies in Transformative Contexts”
PAMLA 2026 is pleased to present Pacific Northwest Literatures (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20023)!
Past and present, the Pacific Northwest has functioned in literature as a dynamic space defined by transition, ecological precarity, and socio-political friction. This panel explores writers of fiction, poetry, memoir, and non-fiction whose work investigates the unique sense of place, history, and culture defining the region. We welcome papers that engage with the tensions between industry and preservation, indigenous sovereignty, labor movements, and the mythologies of the western wilderness.
PAMLA 2026 is pleased to present Translation and Temporality: Rewriting Ancient and Medieval Texts for the (Post)Modern World (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20010)!
PAMLA 2026 is pleased to present New Directions in Mark Twain Studies (co-sponsored by the Mark Twain Circle) (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20184)!
PAMLA 2026 is pleased to present Together and Apart: Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19955)!
Animal Adaptations
We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).
Submissions are invited for an upcoming edited volume exploring the development of electoral politics in India in the post-liberalization era. This comprehensive publication will be brought out by the Department of Political Science, Seth Soorajmull Jalan Girls’ College (Affiliated to the University of Calcutta), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Concept Note:
The Indian diaspora is the largest diaspora community in the world, with an approximate population of 35.4 million. From the migration of the indentured labour force during the colonial period to the mass immigration of educated Indians to overseas countries in the late twentieth century, the Indian diaspora has indeed become a global phenomenon. Expanding migration circuits, job and business opportunities, shifting lifestyles, skilled and semi-skilled labour force, among others, have resulted in significant socioeconomic mobility, especially over the last 25 years. Besides making significant contributions to varied fields, the Indian diaspora has also arguably brought changes in how others have traditionally seen India.
grounding
recent conversations illustrating the gap between the notion of “living life” and the realities of our day-to-day functioning (often framed as “being in survival mode” or “the difference between surviving and thriving”) have served to underscore the importance of our rituals of pleasure and joymaking. the essentiality of these rituals, as reclamations of agency, methods of healing, and ways of maintaining community, is especially relevant for those throughout the African Diaspora and the broader Third World* global community who identify as femme-of-center.
Often, when thinking of academia, the ideas of books, writing, and theory are what make up the idea of the scholar. Many scholars who speak about activism, liberation, mutual aid, living in a collective community, and many other topics of concern for the JOAA team, do not always live the practice they write. This year, we are hoping to disrupt this focus on the blueprints of freedom and look into the way folks are working in the world to build, support, create, and live praxis in their lives.
Appalachian Glass: Furnace of Meaning and Memory
This edited collection addresses a major gap in current work focused on Appalachia’s glass industry. We have catalogs and reference books. We have histories focused on class, labor, and gender. We have histories focused on the rise and demise of glass factories. But the human work of meaning, identity, and memory--in the context of Appalachian glass--has yet to be gathered and shared in book form.
The Aquatic Presence-Absence in World Literatures
Critical Language and Literary Studies (CLLS) invites original, unpublished research articles for a themed issue to be published in Fall 2026. The theme is examining aquatic presences and absences in world literatures.
Call for Papers:
Cluster on Refusal in Migrant and Refugee Lifemaking
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Convener: Monisha Das Gupta
Submission length: 6,000-8,000 words, including the list of references
Climate change is often discussed as an environmental emergency, but its most profound consequences are social, political, economic, and deeply gendered. The climate crisis does not operate in isolation from existing systems of inequality; rather, it intensifies historically entrenched hierarchies of gender, caste, class, race, labour, sexuality, and power. Women and gender minorities, frequently experience climate change not as a distant ecological abstraction but as everyday reality lived through food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, unpaid labour, agrarian distress, and precarious working conditions.
India is poised to press home its civilisational charisma and unique advantages in the quest to realise its goals under the mission Viksit Bharat 2047. Fuelled by conceptual, imaginative and practical inputs derived from the continuously preserved Indian Knowledge Systems (Bharatiya Jñāna Paramparā), India’s developmental mission is not for its own exclusive benefit; rather, it is to guide the world in its anxious search for an alternative holistic paradigm of growth that preserves the universal core of human life and values, restores our vital spiritual connections with natural environments and rejuvenates an organic sense of community even as global enterprise prospers and enables a sense of economic well-being and security in people.
Cunterbury is a scholarly arts & comedy podcast hosted by three Gen Z academics — A.J. Scott, Alice Fulmer-Zelinka and Shannen Escote — exploring the major works of Geoffrey Chaucer and friends, starting with The Canterbury Tales. In our first season, we are providing witty commentary and voices to discuss the Tales and their pilgrims like you’ve never heard them before.
CFP: History and Popular Uses of the Past – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2026
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2026 (at 5 pm EDT)
Contact email:
Hannah Sophie Schiffner, h.schiffner@zeppelin-university.net
The History and Popular Uses of the Past Area invites submissions for the Northeast Popular Culture Association’s (NEPCA) annual conference to be held online October 15th – 17th, 2026.
SESSION DESCRIPTION
Afrofuturism, Latinx altermundos, Indigenous futurisms, solarpunk, cli-fi — the speculative modes through which BIPOC writers have imagined, contested, and survived the present are not marginal subgenres. They are among the most politically urgent literary formations of the last half-century, and among the least fully mapped by existing scholarship. This special session invites papers that read across these formations to ask: what does speculative fiction do when it is written from the borderlands, from the barrio, from the reservation, from the maquiladora corridor, from communities that have been made to inhabit the dystopian present that other traditions only project?
The First Global Algorithmacy Conference
Acronym
ALGOCON 2026
Web page
https://algorithmacy.com
Location
La Brea Pitch Lake, Trinidad and Tobago
Submission deadline
15 August 2026
Notification due
Rolling (public review on the PR thread, typically within ~5 business days of submission); final decisions by September 1 2026
Final version due
At acceptance — accepted papers are published with their full review history on the public repository
Call for Papers: The Legacy of Norman Bates: Essays on the Psycho Franchise
Editor: Shane H Weathers, Bowling Green State University
Editors Introduction:
We invite proposals for individual papers for the critical mixed race studies panel at the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15, 2026.
Paper proposals are due by June 6, 2026.
Welcoming submissions for a free scholarly conference on scary literature to be hosted online from October 22nd-24th, 2026 by graduate student, Anais Shelley.
Research may draw inspiration from (but is not limited to) these prompts:
Supernatural themes
Domestic horror
The role of setting within scary stories
Frightening myths and folklore
The gothic novel and short story
Monsters and the monstrous
Multicultural superstition and regional ghost stories
Throughout the history of political thought and cultural production, multitudes and mobs that stir up disturbance across the nation, whether revolutionary or reactionary, have frequently been portrayed by the images and metaphors of monstrosity. From the many-headed hydra which was adapted into a political discourse in the early modern age and later revisited by historians such as Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, to contemptuous terms toward the insurrectionists such as swarms or locusts described in Samuel Dolbee’s Locusts of Power, monstrosity and various of dehumanizing terms have long been employed as a signifier through which fears of insurrections are expressed.
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended until 30 June, 2026.
2026 Global K-Culture Conference
August 20 (Thu.) ~ August 22 (Sat.), 2026 (3 days)
Chungbuk National University, Korea
Korean, English, or the presenter’s preferred language
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2026
The Department of Global K-Culture at Chungbuk National University is pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming Global K-Culture Conference, aimed at fostering meaningful dialogue and the exchange of ideas among instructors and researchers working across diverse educational and cultural contexts.
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the literatures of the Spanish State have witnessed a remarkable proliferation of Bildungsroman-inflected narratives, testimonial accounts, and coming-of-age fictions that fundamentally interrogate received models of subjectivity, identity formation, and social progress. This international congress invites critical engagement with a corpus of works — spanning authors such as Najat El Hachmi, Marta Sanz, Belén Gopegui, and Alana S. Portero — that contest hegemonic discourses of selfhood and becoming from positions of social, gendered, and cultural marginality.
PAMLA Seattle (2026) - November 12-15, all in-person conference
2027 is the centenary year of the birth of US American poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Galway Kinnell (1927-2014). This session seeks to celebrate his life and legacy while pointing to future thematic and prosodic engagement in Kinnellian studies. Papers offering approaches to any aspect of Kinnell’s work are invited and most welcome.
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We invite you to submit an abstract and bio by June 17, 2026, to participate in a Modern Language Association (MLA) 2027 seminar, "Queer Literary Studies NOW." Seminar participants will precirculate 1500-word papers on the theme, and we will discuss the papers and the larger theme during the seminar on the first day of the MLA 2027 conference. MLA 2027 will take place in Los Angeles, California, January 7-10, 2027. Participants must be MLA members and register for the conference.
Call for Papers
Journal of Narrative Theory (JNT)
Special Issue (Fall 2027)
Contemporary Narratives and Storytelling Cultures
Concept Note
Call for Papers
The Playful Monster
24–25 September 2026
The 123rd Annual PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) Conference will be held in person, November 12–15, 2026, in Seattle, Washington.
20th Century Southern Women Writers Conference
presented by the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society
October 15-18, 2026Springfield, Kentucky
The International Journal of James Bond Studies is now accepting submissions for Volume 10.
Language programs across the United States are navigating a period of significant uncertainty marked by declining enrollments, the loss of federal funding, shifting institutional priorities, and increasing budget constraints. In many cases, these pressures reflect broader institutional and political dynamics in which decisions about resource allocation, curricular value, and program viability are shaped by structures of power within higher education. As a result, language programs often find themselves particularly vulnerable within these hierarchies, with some facing downsizing or closure.
Extended deadline for chapter proposals: 10 June 2026.