In a 1926 issue of the Nation, Langston Hughes published his famous essay, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” a response to George Schuyler’s essay, “Negro Art-Hokum,” wherein Schuyler lampoons the idea of a distinctive African American culture. This special issue will examine the literary and cultural impact of Hughes’s essay a century later.

Call for Papers: Sinophone Research Forum: Island Voices on the Move 

11-13 June 2025, University of Leeds

The forumfocuses on the global Sinophone communities. We welcome proposals for individual papers (20-minute papers) and 3-paper panels.  

Watermark, the annual, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by graduate students in the English Department at California State University, Long Beach, is now seeking submissions for its nineteenth volume. Our journal is dedicated to publishing original, critical, and theoretical papers concerned with literature of all genres and periods, as well as representing current issues in the field of rhetoric and composition. As this journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only student work will be considered.

The Post/Colonial Eye: Visual Discourses of Empire

With expressed interest from Routledge

Please note: At this point, we are only looking for additional chapters focussing on the second part of this volume as highlighted below. To expand our geographical scope, we are, unfortunately, not able to include more contributions studying postcolonial India.  

In examining the intersections of (post)colonial studies and visual culture, the proposed volume employs a dual approach. 

Please Post and Share CALL FOR PAPERS W.D. FARD: MAN, MYTH, AND MYSTERY Edited by Dr. John Andrew Morrow Academics, scholars, professors, and researchers are invited to submit studies on the following and related topics for consideration for publication in a new work delving into the identity and ideology of W.D. Fard, the founder of the Nation of Islam. We are looking for anything and everything related to W.D. Fard. - W.D. Fard and the First Nations / The Native American connection- Previously unpublished letters, family stories, and photographs of W.D.

The Kay Boyle Society is calling for proposals for an open panel or roundtable at the American Literature Association conference on May 21-24, 2025 in Boston at the Westin Copley Place hotel. We are looking for papers on any aspect of Kay Boyle’s work in prose or poetry. Topics could include (but are by no means limited to) Boyle and other writers and artists, transatlantic modernisms, literary and print cultures, racial and social justice, ageing, war and exile, approaches to Boyle’s letters, and teaching Boyle.

If interested, please email a proposed title and abstract of approximately 200 words by January 20th to anne.reynes@univ-amu.fr

The ongoing—and now significantly escalated—genocide of Palestinian peoples by the Israeli government has been uniquely, painfully, and steadfastly documented and shared for far-flung viewers to instantaneously bear witness to atrocities that might otherwise remain unfathomable to the international community. Palestinian peoples have been recording their own intensified annihilation in a brave, painstaking, persistent, and not-always-intentional manner.

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Psychoanalyzing the Post-Apocalypse:

Psychoanalytic Approaches to 21st Century Fiction and Film

 “Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series

Editors’ Introduction

Philosophy and its Form

Throughout its history, philosophy has appeared in myriad forms: Plato’s dialogues; Montaigne’s Essais; Nietzsche’s aphorisms; Rosa Luxemburg’s Public Lectures; Simone de Beauvoir’s journalism, travelogs, and novels; Aimé Césaire’s dramas; and Fred Moten’s poetry collections. This is before we recognize the variety of styles employed by philosophers within more traditional essay forms: Benjamin’s critical biographies of Baudelaire, Deleuze’s Plateaus, and W. E. B. DuBois’ interpolation of musical passages in The Souls of Black Folk.

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge) seeks high quality articles, as well as creative work 

Articles submitted might focus on any aspect of Creative Writing Studies.

Submission length is open. 

Celebrating the journal's fabulous 20th Anniversary in 2024, there are increased opportunites for publication, for guest reviewing and for involvement in regular New Writing events (held online, globally).

Screen Bodies invites submissions to be considered for a forthcoming general issue. We are particularly interested in research on:

• The Monstrous-Feminine and Feminist New Wave Cinema

• Trans Cinema

• Queer Noir

• Textiles, fiber arts, weaving screens  

• Films of Kelly Reichardt

• New French Extremity

• Art of the AIDS Crisis 

• The Politics of Gaming

• Health Humanities

• Science and Technology Studies (STS) 

We also welcome exhibition reviews (1k-5k words). 

American Literature Association
36th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, MA

The American Religion and Literature Society welcomes proposals for one guaranteed, open-topic panel at the forthcoming American Literature Association Conference.

We invite presentations on any topic related to the intersection of religion and literature. Papers on any time period, genre, and religious tradition are welcome.  

Please submit a one-page abstract to andrew_ball@emerson.edu by January 20.

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to: