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Robert Lowell Society is inviting new papers on Robert Lowell, his work and his times, to be presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 20–23, 2026 in Chicago.
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, one of the livery companies of the City of London, has established an essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal. Other promising entries may also be considered for publication.
ICSSR sponsored
International Conference on
The Ernest Hemingway Society is sponsoring a panel at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, IL (May 20–23, 2026).
Given the centenary of the publication of both The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises (1926), we encourage papers focused on the early part of Hemingway’s life and career.
Please send a 250-word proposal and short CV to Dr. Ross K. Tangedal (University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point) at rtangeda@uwsp.edu by January 10, 2026, for full consideration. Your submission will be confirmed via email.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Charles W. Chesnutt Association
American Literature Association
37th Annual ConferenceMay 20-23, 2026Palmer House
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603
The Charles W. Chesnutt Association welcomes abstracts of no more than 300 words for presentation at two sessions on the work of Chesnutt at the 2026 ALA conference in Chicago.
Subjects for submissions are open but may include one of the following:
The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on medieval race-making.
The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session that will explore disability in the medieval past and/or the ways in which disability studies and medieval studies fruitfully intersect. The session welcomes papers that consider understandings of non-standard human bodies from the medieval past and/or reflect upon the ways in which, as Godden and Hsy write, “the study of disability in the Middle Ages challenges modern narratives of bodily integrity and autonomy” (334). The non-standard body in the Middle Ages takes on a variety of forms both familiar and unfamiliar to us today, from the use of spectacles to colonies of lepers.
The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on queer world-making in medieval studies. This session takes as its starting point the idea that queerness is not only an identity category or critical lens, but also a mode of imagining, creating, and inhabiting other worlds. We are interested in how medieval texts envision alternatives to normative ideals, and in how queer approaches to these texts might open transformative possibilities.
Call for Papers 1: You Are On Native Land: Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island
The EDID Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers on Indigeneity and the medieval.
Since 1988, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature has published material relevant to the life, works, and friends of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Yearling and many other widely respected and beloved works, including Cross Creek, Cross Creek Cookery, South Moon Under, and Golden Apples.
The New American Studies Journal: A Forum (Göttingen University Press) invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue in 2026 that focuses on Chinese American literature. We invite submissions of both academic essays and creative works.
Iperstoria Special Issue no. 28 (Dec 2026) - Playful Literature, Literary Play: (Video) Games and American Fiction
Guest Editors
Francesca Razzi, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (francesca.razzi@unich.it)
Valentina Romanzi, University of Torino (valentina.romanzi@unito.it)
Stefan Schubert, Leipzig University (stefan.schubert@uni-leipzig.de)
3rd International H/Story Seminar
Communism in Historical Fiction
02.04.2026
online
University of Silesia in Katowice
Institute of Literary Studies
H/Story Research Group
Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega (CFG), an international journal on phraseological and paremiological research edited by Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (Xunta de Galicia), is seeking submissions of contributions for its twenty-eight issue. Even though the deadline is permanently open, only manuscripts received by October 24, 2026 will be considered for issue 28.