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CFP: Spanish I (Peninsular Literature before 1700) -- MMLA 2025 (Milwaukee, WI)

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:25pm
Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 4, 2025

The Spanish I (Peninsular Literature before 1700) permanent section of the Midwest Modern Language Association seeks proposals for the upcoming MMLA Conference in Milwaukee (November 14-16, 2025). Though proposals on any topic related to Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature are welcome, we also seek proposals that specifically engage with the 2025 MMLA theme of “Health in/of the Humanities.” Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief bio (or brief CV) to John McCaw at rjmccaw@uwm.edu by April 25, 2025.

Shakespeare Session at RMMLA 2025 Conference

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:25pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Papers to be prestented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 2025 in Spokane, WA!

Description of Session: The session is currently accepting submissions for papers on all topics related to Shakespeare. Submissions from Ph.D. candidates and early career scholars are especially encouraged.

NOTE: This call is for papers to be presented at the conference.

Please direct your brief abstract (less than 250 words) and/or any questions to Jennifer Topale at Jennifer.topale@du.edu. Abstracts are due by 30 April 2025.

Milton Session at RMMLA 2025 Conference

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:25pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Papers to be prestented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 2025 in Spokane, WA!

NCS 2026: Languages Beyond Borders: Multilingual Contact Zones (Session 10)

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:09pm
Daniel Davies, Philip Knox, and Elizaveta Strakhov
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 27, 2025

This panel explores the movement and circulation of texts within multilingual contact zones, spaces that, through cultural exchange, commerce, and conflict, are defined by the presence of multiple languages. Multilingualism is often heralded as a feature of cosmopolitanism, defined against nationalist monolingualism, yet it can also be the product of forces including incipient capitalist mercantilism, imperialist conquest and colonization, and exile.

Echoes of Hope: Resilience and Renewal in Irish Literature

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:09pm
2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

Call for Papers

Irish Studies Permanent Section

Echoes of Hope: Resilience and Renewal in Irish Literature

 

2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference

14-16 November 2025

Marquette University

Milwaukee, WI

 

Critical Pedagogy in ELT: Empowering Learners

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:09pm
Asim Kumar Betal, Ph. D, Faculty, Dept. of English, Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Call for Papers for an Edited Volume with ISBN
Tentative title of the book-
“Critical Pedagogy in ELT: Empowering Learners”
Editors- Dr. Asim Kumar Betal
Dr. Kishwar Badakhshan
It is a great pleasure to announce that an edited volume tentatively titled “Critical Pedagogy in ELT: Empowering Learners” by a national publisher of repute is going to be published soon. Critical Pedagogy in ELT has gained significant attention in recent years, emphasizing the need to challenge dominant power structures, promote social justice, and empower learners. This special issue seeks to explore the intersections of critical pedagogy and ELT, highlighting innovative approaches, research, and practices that foster learner empowerment.

PAMLA 2025: Care and Cure: Critical Approaches to Medical Humanities in the Modern World

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:09pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

In all medical practices, two goals stand out: to cure and to care. In a vernacular context, care is discursive, relational, and mutual, while cure is linear, utilitarian, and quantifiable. In his book Care and Cure: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Medicine, Jacob Stegenga iterates on two sides of the care-cure conundrum: “[...] when an intervention mitigates harm then it provides some care, and when an intervention mitigates abnormal biological functioning
then it goes some way toward cure.”

Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South

updated: 
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 11:20pm
IATIS; Sultan Qaboos University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

 

 

The IATIS - International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies invites papers on  “Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation” for its 8th International Conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on December 10-13, 2025.

We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South.”

The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus

updated: 
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 6:23pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Call for Papers:
The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus
A Transdisciplinary Conference
May 24-26, 2025

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/storytelling-2025/

Where:
May 24-25, 2025: Oxford University (and Online)
May 26: Online only

Fees:
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees

Rethinking English Studies in the Age of New Media

updated: 
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 10:48am
The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

The 2025 ELLAK International Conference
“Rethinking English Studies in the Age of New Media”

 

Organized by The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)

Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

December 18-20, 2025

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Taek-Gwang Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Ted Underwood, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA

Slavoj Žižek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Cinema and Posthuman Bodies

updated: 
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 12:27am
Asijit Datta
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Cinema and Posthuman Bodies

Edited by Asijit Datta 

NCS 2026: 42. Queer and Trans Temporalities Within Chaucer and the Lancastrian Poets

updated: 
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 6:40pm
New Chaucer Society, 2026 Congress, University of Freiburg
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Session Format: Seminar

This session invites scholars to bring Chaucer and the Lancastrian poets in

conversation with the latest criticism and theoretical underpinnings in

relation to queer and trans studies of the last few years. Particularly, using

time as a teleological field to measure queer and trans experience,

embodiment, and memoir. Chaucerian and medieval studies have been33

responsible for groundbreaking work over the years on pre-modern

conceptions of gender and sexuality. However, those fields are also

responsible for the perpetuation of cisgender/cissexual centred optics that

have continued to influence the reception of texts like The Canterbury

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

updated: 
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 9:55am
Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 16, 2025

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

University of Innsbruck (Austria), November 14-15, 2025  

"Memory, Affects and Emotions" 7th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Monday, April 7, 2025 - 3:59pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Conference online (via Zoom): 24-25 April 2025

All details: 7th "Memory, Affects and Emotions" Conference

CFP:​

Affects, emotions and perceptions have always been at the center of philosophical discussion. Yet the so-called “Affective turn” in social studies and humanities is a relatively new phenomenon inspired by Deleuze and Guattari´s influential works among others. Affective turn challenges the still dominant representational approach in semiotics, discourse analysis and text analyses of all kinds.

[deadline extended] Boundaries: Preserving and Creating Space (October 9–11, 2025)

updated: 
Monday, April 7, 2025 - 2:29pm
Vermillion Writing and Literature Conference at University of South Dakota
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 5, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED! [send proposals by 5 May 2025]

Vermillion Writing and Literature Conference at University of South Dakota

Boundaries: Preserving and Creating Space (October 9–11, 2025)

University of South Dakota (Vermillion, SD)

 

Featured Readers: Laird Hunt and Eleni Sikelianos

 

Call for Papers

Now What? What Now?: The 'Writing' Classroom after 2025

updated: 
Monday, April 7, 2025 - 11:15am
SUNY Council on Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Seismic developments in technology, politics, and cognition are radically transforming the traditional writing classroom, which has been a site of contradiction (and at times controversy) since its formation after the GI Bill and the “democratization” of the university. Whether one starts with Raymond Williams or the New Critics through the Sputnik era, the cultural interventions of the late ’60s and the process movement, or the cultural turn of the ’80s, the “field” on which “the writing classroom” is founded has been a contested zone all along.

Second Call for Proposals: Cosmopolitan Korean Wave Edited Collection

updated: 
Sunday, April 6, 2025 - 11:24pm
Prof. Hazel T. Biana (De La Salle University), Prof. Molly D. Boyd (University of Arkansas) and Prof. Joon Ho Hwang (Ewha Womans University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 9, 2025

We are seeking critical papers from all academic disciplines on the Korean Wave for an edited collection titled Cosmopolitan Korean Wave

Wanted Series Editors, Volume Editors and Copy Editors

updated: 
Sunday, April 6, 2025 - 10:12am
Rupkatha Books
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Join us at https://rupkatha.com/books/join

Rupkatha Books is launching as a leading academic publisher dedicated to advancing scholarship by releasing high-quality books. With over 16 years of experience in scholarly publishing, we are committed to offering meticulously curated monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings, book series, and high-quality research/survey project reports. We are looking for dynamic editors in various positions. All positions are voluntary at present, and editors may get commissions in the future.

More information:

CFP: Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts

updated: 
Sunday, April 6, 2025 - 10:12am
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

 

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™ 2023: 0.2, 5 Year JIF: 0.2, Category Quartile: Q2, is now inviting papers on Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts. 

Call for Papershttps://rupkatha.com/cfp-indigenous-2025

SWPACA Summer Salon: Taylor Swift and Swiftie Studies

updated: 
Saturday, April 5, 2025 - 1:03pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Call for Papers

Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies 

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2025 SWPACA Summer Salon

 

June 26-28, 2025

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/ 

Submissions open on March 25, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025


 

Call for Papers on "Confinement and Freedom"

updated: 
Friday, April 4, 2025 - 4:02pm
Arkansas Philological Association Conference 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

 

“Confinement and Freedom”

Call for Papers

2025 Arkansas Philological Association Conference

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Nov. 14-15, 2025

 

NCS 2026: Institutions (Session 29)

updated: 
Friday, April 4, 2025 - 11:16am
Daniel Davies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 27, 2025

This panel examines the role of institutions in late-medieval literature and the contexts in which it is encountered and studied.

*Deadline Extended* Caméra-Stylo 6 Conference: The Entanglement - Networks, Intersections, Polyphonies, and Intertextuality in Literature and Cinema

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 8:15pm
Sydney Literature and Cinema Network
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Macquarie University (Sydney, AU) and online, 16-18 July 2025 

Life and art are entangled. […] Art makes life new. We become something different in an art world. And crucially, our world has always been an art world.  

(Alva Noë, The Entanglement, 2023)

Teaching with Taylor: Pedagogical Approaches to Taylor Swift in the 21st Century Classroom

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:48pm
Drs. Kim Hensley Owens and Devori Kimbro
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Taylor Swift is everywhere, it seems, and teachers at all levels have begun to Taylor-tailor their courses to harness her popularity for student learning. At the K-12 level, the TeachersPayTeachers site boasts TS figurative poetry lessons, TS-themed reading comprehension mystery games, TS rhetorical analysis units, and pages more of TS-specific materials (“Taylor Swift”). At the college level, courses devoted explicitly to Taylor Swift are proliferating, from BYU’s political science offering, “Ms.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Looking for Specific Chapters on Mike Flanagan's Netflix Series

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:48pm
Baylor University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

This is an updated version of a previously submitted CfP for Planet Flanagan, a collection examining the Netflix series of Mike Flanagan. The call for chapters was very successful and we have some great work in progress, but we are still missing chapters covering two key content areas:

  • Gender/Sexuality
  • Space/Architecture


So, this is a specific call for submissions for chapters of about 10,000 words looking at these topic areas across all five of Mike Flanagan's Netflix series. The original call for chapters is replicated just below to give more detail.

Edited collection: The Work is Mysterious and Important: Critical Perspectives on Severance

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:48pm
Vera Cuntz-Leng, Philipps-Universitaet Marburg & Ruth Knepel, Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

The critically acclaimed science fiction series Severance (produced by Ben Stiller and created by Dan Erickson, 2022-) explores the idea of surgically dividing a person’s memories between their work and private lives. It raises many thought-provoking questions, embedded in a rich environment of cultural references and equipped with a distinct visual style, nuanced storytelling, and outstanding performances of its cast. With its second season, it has become the most successful production by Apple TV+ so far and is widely discussed by critics and fans. A large part of the fascination for the series comes from the multitude of possible readings it elicits.

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