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American Literature Association: 37th Annual Conference
May 20-23, 2026
Chicago, IL
Neurodivergence and Fandom
The Neurodivergent Studies area and the Fandom Studies area are excited to announce a joint panel on Neurodivergence in Fandom! Neurodivergence can have a big impact on the ways that people interact with popular culture, and this can be seen in the ways that neurodivergent folks approach fandom. This panel seeks to understand different approaches or experiences when it comes to neurodivergence in/and fandom!
Some possible topics include:
“Neurodivergent just means a brain that diverges.” – Kassiane Asasumasu, Radical Neurodivergence Speaking
The first year of Neurodivergent Studies at the PCA, in New Orleans in 2025, showed that there was marked interest in developing this field and expanding conversations. Neurodivergent Studies, a field that has long been relegated to more scientific study, is ready to move into different spaces as we start conversations about how neurodivergent approaches to popular culture, fandom, academia, and our own experiences can shape the way we approach the world.
The 25th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies will be hosted by The University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, April 9-11, 2026. Vagantes is an interdisciplinary community of junior and early career scholars that offers an ideal opportunity for sharing new research. The conference accepts submissions on any topic pertaining to the long Middle Ages. We encourage submissions from scholars across all disciplines that engage with medieval studies and welcome work that explores medieval culture, religion, philosophy, literature, art, historiography, as well as medievalisms and reception studies.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
The Final Frontier: Race, Ecology & Colonialism in Space Opera
Edited by Mikail Boz & Cenk Tan
Editors’ Introduction
Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is devoting a special issue to Genevieve Taggard, her career and legacy. Given the interdisciplinary nature of Women’s Studies, and the breadth and depth of Taggard’s multi-faceted artistic, cultural, and political undertakings, proposals are sought for essays that demonstrate Taggard’s wide-ranging literary and political legacy and her significance to our present moment.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
Workshop: “From Alienation to Affinities”
Organizers: Isabel Osuna Montilla and Klara Tolic, University of Tübingen, Germany
Call for Papers
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DEC 15TH!!
CRS Graduate Student Conference 2026
April 3rd - 4th, 2026
Sprockets/Selvage/Shores
United Lutheran Seminary to Host “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026
Two-day gathering will explore the religious and racialized roots of American democracy and paths toward a more just future.
United Lutheran Seminary (ULS) will host A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy: Examining the Religious and Racialized Roots of American Democracy on February 27–28, 2026, at its Philadelphia campus. The interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars, activists, educators, and faith leaders to examine how religion and race have shaped democratic life in the United States and to explore liberative visions for the future.
THE BILLY JOEL SYMPOSIUM
A Two-Day Academic Conference Presented by the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame
Stony Brook, NY | June 6–7, 2026
OVERVIEW
The Activist Author: Contemporary Forms and Historical Precedents of Activist Literature
Dates and Location:
November 9th & 10th, 2026.
UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).
Confirmed Keynote speakers:
Sara Dimick: Northwestern University; author of Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures.
Juan Meneses: UNC Charlotte; author of Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent and editor of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination.
Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2025
Friday, September 18, 2026
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
The 2026 NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference invites current graduate students to submit abstracts for this year's conference at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville on April 17-18, 2026.
Invisible Wounds: Reframing Adoption Narratives in Children's Literature
MLA 2027 Convention: January 7-10, 2027, in Los Angeles, California
Agriculture and Food Systems: The Role of AI and Digitalization9–12 September 2026 | Cappadocia University, TürkiyeCall for Abstracts
Between the volcanic rock formations of Cappadocia and the shifting landscapes of food and farming, EurSafe 2026 invites you to explore the ethical dimensions of AI and digitalization in agriculture. As we stand at the intersection of urgent climate action and rapidly evolving technology, this conference asks: how can we harness digital innovation to ensure sustainable, just, and resilient food systems?
Deadline extended to December 15!
University of Arizona Graduate Literature Conference: Imagining the End(s)
Conference Dates: March 6-8, 2026, Tucson, AZ, USA
“It is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism” (Mark Fisher)
“But the plot too has its own history” (Wynter 101)
What is it we have in mind when we imagine the end of the world or the end of capitalism?
Is it the temporal–the closing, conclusion, finale, the end of capitalism’s historical epoch?
Addressing Ocean and Space Pollution Through the Arts: New Considerations on Indigenous Knowledges and Collaborative Practices
A conference organized by the ERC-funded research project OSPAPIK, the Centre des métiers d’art de la Polynésie française (CMAPf) and the Université de la Polynésie française (UPF, Vice-Présidence Dialogue Sciences, Cultures & Sociétés)
(For the CFP in French, please scroll down)
16-18 November 2026
Global Indigeneities and Life Narratives: Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly—Deadline Extension
A Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Guest Editor: J. Kēhaulani Kauanui,
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Professor of Indigenous Studies and Anthropology, Princeton University
Submit: 400-word abstracts to kauanui@princeton.edu by December 12, 2025
«Letteratura e Letterature», 21, 2027
Call for Papers: Literature and the Visual Arts: Writing and / as Image
L’écriture est une image et le problème de ses rapports avec les autres types d’images est aussi ancien qu’elle-même, mais avec le développement de l’imprimerie, l’énorme multiplication de l’image écrite a provoqué une veritable occultation de la conscience occidentale à cet égard.
Crossings: A Journal of English Studies is an annual double-blind peer-reviewed journal of scholarly articles and book reviews. The articles involve, but are not limited to, issues related to language, literature, culture, and pedagogy. It is a discursive platform to critically examine human behavior and communication, and their larger role in society as well as in knowledge production.
CROSSINGS: A JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES (ISSN 2071-1107; E-ISSN 2958-3179) is inviting scholarly articles for its Volume 17 to be published in 2026.
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2026
Invisible Wounds: Reframing Adoption Narratives in Children's Literature
MLA 2027 Convention: January 7-10, 2027, in Los Angeles, California
Proverbs and Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture
An International and Interdisciplinary Conference
1-3 July 2026
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Hull
PCA True Crime CFP 2026
UPDATED: Abstract Submission Deadline: Officially Friday, December 5th, 2026 with an additional week for late submissions at the discretion of the Area Chairs by Friday, December 12th, 2026. Please note if you have trouble submitting after December 5th, you should contact Samantha or Lauren directly.
PCA/ACA will be held from April 8-11th, 2026 in Atlanta, GA
Deadline 1/1/26
Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association, invites submissions of scholarly papers for a special issue of the journal to appear in fall 2027, edited by Wesley Scott McMasters and Todd Nathan Thompson. The topic of this special issue is “Periodicals, Period: Humor and Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Magazines.” This special issue will be an extension of a well-received panel on this topic (co-sponsored by the American Humor Studies Association and the Research Society for American Periodicals) at the 2025 American Literature Association conference.
Conference online: 22-23 January 2025
CFP:
Call for Submissions!The Janovics Center Award for Outstanding Humanities Research in Transnational Film and Theatre Studies The Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts Studies and the Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babes-Bolyai University invite submissions for their annual award for outstanding humanities research in transnational film and theatre studies.The award will be offered to contributions in the fields of film or theatre studies. The award consists of an invitation to give a talk at the Center and an honorarium. What is awarded?The Janovics Center is committed to supporting highly original research in screen and performing arts studies.
Beyond the Pipe: Hydro politics, Gendered Scarcity, and Water Justice in South Asia Edited by Debapriya Ganguly and Rajni Singh Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad The hydro-political landscape of South Asia is arguably a defining site for examining the nexus of resource scarcity, human security, and regional conflict. While concerns over resource depletion are globally prevalent, this book aims to critique the fundamental premise of scarcity itself, asserting that in contexts like the Indo-Gangetic basin, it is rarely a natural condition. Instead, it is a socially and politically generated phenomenon—a “scare of scarcity”—instrumentalized by powerful groups to consolidate control and justify spatial domination.
The 2026 NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference invites current graduate students to submit abstracts for this year's conference at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville on April 17-18, 2026.
EGSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE (2026): GRIEF IN CONVERSATION
We are inviting chapter abstracts for an edited volume (potentially with Routledge) on Coffee Cultures in South Asia. The proposed volume aims to understand the evolving and emerging coffee cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective. In the process, attempting to curate a scholarship that explores the historical, collective, spatial, cultural, temporal, and transnational aspects of coffee consumption and cultures in the region --- cultures that are being shaped and reshaped by discourses on and practices of new, emerging, and specialty coffee, artisanal brewing, ecological discontents, and digital practices and trends. Submission is through Google Form only
Weird Genres, Weird Gender
For MSA 2026, Loughborough UK (July 1-4)
I am interested in putting together a panel proposal with scholars working in the spaces of genre fiction in the early/mid 20th century, including romance, science fiction, westerns, horror/occult, detective fiction, historical fiction, adventure fiction, and children’s fiction, with an eye to representations of gender and sexuality. Analyses that bridge early 20th century genre study with contemporary genre narratives and adaptations are also welcome.
Some possible topics could include
Jadavpur University
Department of English
Presents
QUEER
POLITICAL
ASSEMBLAGES 5.0
Theme:
Queer and the Cyborg in the Contemporary Understanding of Gender
Important dates:
Last Date of Abstract Submission: 1 February 2026
Confirmation of Selection: 15 February 2026
This call is for the American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, May 20-23, 2026!
The Sherwood Anderson Society is dedicated to the examination and exploration of the works of Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941). The scholarly interests of this society are, but not exclusively, Anderson’s relationship fellow writers, author’s biography, the Midwest, expatriatism, the fiction of war, cosmopolitanism vs provincialism, urban vs rural, stylistic modernism, and pre and post-industrial United states. Please contact Doug Sheldon at sheldond@uic.edu with any inquiries.
Call For Presentations I: Sherwood Anderson at 150!
The Literary Encylopedia is lacking an entry on the life and literary career of Leonard Cohen of ca. 2500 words covering biography and historical context and giving a brief overview of relevant works.
More detailed information on the Encyclopedia – including its publishing model, editorial policies, specific information for authors, etc. – can be found on its homepage at www.litencyc.com, under the ABOUT tab. If you wish to contribute, please contact volume editor Justin Parks (justin.parks@uit.no).
Greetings, fellow scholars of Middle-earth!
Gentle reminder to all that we are still taking abstracts for our Call for Papers for the 2026 Popular Culture Association National Conference in Atlanta! Let's make this the best year ever for exploring the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and his ongoing legacy.
We recognize growing concerns surrounding travel and the challenges it presents. To ensure everyone can participate, we will happily accept remote papers! These can be submitted as either pre-recorded video presentations or delivered live via Zoom.
Chapter Proposal Abstract: Part I – Medieval Seeds
Call for Submissions to Conversations:
Margaret Fuller Society’s Special Issue on “Protest”
In Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom & Myth (2023),Gerry Smyth links the importance of sea stories to the 2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report on the endangerment of the world’s oceans. According to Smyth, retelling and interpreting sea myths helps to underline the centrality of the ocean to planetary health.[1] Other contemporary writers, artists, and filmmakers have also remade and reinvented water mythologies both within and beyond the sea as a way of grappling with our current oceanic crises.
Speculative Futures in CanLit
Call for Papers
Article submissions in English or French are invited for a special 50th-anniversary issue of Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne on the theme of Speculative Futures in CanLit. The issue will be co-edited by John Clement Ball, Laura Moss, and Cynthia Sugars, and with a submission deadline of 15 May 2026.
This issue invites submissions on the myriad manifestations of the “speculative” and “future” in the field of Canadian literature, from submissions about speculative fiction and cultural texts, to environmental and/or political futures, to speculations about the future of Canadian literature itself.
Literature of Color
Call for Papers II -- Queer and Trans of Color Critique: Colonial Legacies, Decolonial Futures
Call for Papers I: The Haunting of the Past, Memory, and Archive
We are living in a rapidly changing world. For the last many decades, the contemporary world has been undergoing fundamental shifts and transformations in the social structures, systems, organisations, institutions, values, norms, and functions of a society. These social changes are often driven by technological breakthroughs, the penetration of social media, economic globalisation, ecological crises, war, disease, disorder, and so on, along with shifts in cultural and social paradigms.
CFP — Edited Volume
Watery Worlds: Decolonial Ecologies and the Mediterranean
This edited volume explores water as a decolonial, ecological, and affective force across Mediterranean geographies, including but not limited to contemporary Turkey. Rather than treating water as background or metaphor, the volume considers it a central analytic force shaping experiences of colonialism, displacement, border-making, memory, and belonging.
Call for Book Chapters
Influence of Indian Philosophers on Indian Writings in English: A Socio-Cultural Perspective
Editors: Dr. Ashutosh Singh and Dr. Sahabuddin Ahamed
deadline for submission extended: 15 February, 2026
Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents
Urgent Lessons from Antifascist Works of American Literature and Culture
Friday, December 12, 2025, Noon—1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom
Register here
https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QD77CICpR267kwXJgIB56g
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
Call for Papers for Western Literature Association’s guaranteed panel at the 2026 American Literature Association Meeting (Chicago, May 20-23)
This year’s general call seeks proposals related to any aspect of the study of literature of the American West. Papers on single texts or single authors are welcome, though comparative, transnational, and/or multiethnic approaches are especially encouraged. Graduate students are encouraged to apply.
Call for Papers for the International Conference on “Reading Disruptions, Mapping Alterities: of Australian Trans-Tendings, and India in an Age of Reimagined Plurilaterals” to be held on 03.02.26-04.02.26
Centre for Global Migrations Symposium
Crossing Borders
Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago
17-18 February 2026
Keynotes: Anne McNevin | Simon Barber & Gabriella Makerita Hinetu Brayne
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Digital Marginalisation, AI Bias, and Cultural Representation in South Asia