PCA Annual Conference, March 24-27, 2027: Boston, Massachusetts

The Collecting and Collectibles Area invites proposals exploring how “collecting” has become an embodiment of the economic, political, environmental, and digital precarities that shape contemporary popular culture. Collecting now operates as a dynamic source for epistemic production, constantly redefining how popular culture is constructed, construed, mediated, valorized, historicized, and even contested. 

Panel: Precarious and Obsolete Spaces in the Novel

We form strong attachments with the spaces we inhabit, which shape us as we shape them. Spaces house our memories, provide opportunities for encounters, and alter our individual and collective identities. But what happens when these locations deteriorate, become obsolete, or disappear entirely? This panel invites papers considering representations of neglected, abandoned, or otherwise ephemeral spaces in novels from any period or location. We welcome papers on places and spaces of any scale: buildings, towns and cities, landscapes, even nations and worlds.  

Conference Location: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

The relation between a theory and its so-called “object” always poses the danger of reducing an art form (in this case film) to a mere instance testifying to the validity of the theory. In this way, the theory provides the “genus” of which a given film will be a mere “species”. The application of psychoanalytic ideas or Marxist concepts to film would therefore run the risk of depriving the specificity and singularity of the object in favour of the hegemony of the theory. Here, theory would truly live up to its theological vocation (the “theo” in theory refers to God) standing transcendentally above its “object” upon which it would cast its daunting shadow.

Scraps…

Reading Residuality

13-15th April 2027

Krapp: Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited.

Pause.

Krapp: Here I end.

Krapp switches off, winds tabe back, switches on again.

“Here I end” declares Krapp, the titular protagonist of Samuel Beckett’s 1958 play Krapp’s Last Tape. Yet an ending is impossible. Why?

March 6-9, 2027
Newport, RI
Convention Site: Salve Regina University

Procedural Poetry Now: Precedents, Tools, Goals

ACLA 2027 Annual Meeting
University of Houston: May 20–23, 2027
Proposal deadline: September 22, 2026

We are excited to share a CFP for a roundtable we are chairing at NeMLA 2027: “Creating Community in the AI Age: Empowerment in English Classrooms.”The more we talk about AI in education, the more I find myself thinking about what we don’t want to lose. What happens to connection and a sense of belonging in our classrooms? How can literature and writing still bring people together, encourage empathy where students feel that their voices matter?

5th Singapore Literature Conference July 31, 2027

Poetry Festival Singapore (PFS) and the Singapore Literature Conference (SLC) are commemorating ASEAN's 60th anniversary with the theme "Common Ground."

With the arrival of the New Woman at the end of the nineteenth century also came the modernist novel. The beginning of the twentieth century constitutes a period when women struggled with social expectations but decided to leave their own drawing rooms and discover the world; to be power brokers, instead of passive observers; and to gradually move from their interiority to making history. By comparing novels of women writers, both in the US and abroad, this panel attempts to find, in their similarities and differences, the real issues that women faced at the turn of the century, in novels that transitioned from realism and naturalism to modernism.

Call for Papers for III TFO International Seminar Titled "Thinking Beyond Species: Cinema in the Anthropocene" in Collaboration with Alliance University, Bengaluru on 30-31 October, 2026

TIDEL Scholarly Symposium Faith, Ethics, and Digital Transformation

Join TIDEL for a two-day convening exploring the ethical, theological, social, and institutional implications of technological change in an era of rapid innovation and profound social transformation.

Founded in 2022, TIDEL is a Union Theological Seminary–based initiative that brings together faith leaders, scholars, technologists, nonprofit practitioners, and public leaders to explore ethical, justice-centered, and collaborative approaches to technology, innovation, and digital engagement.

Thursday, October 1, 2026 Union Theological Seminary

1:45 PM -- 5:45 PM Boxed lunch available at 12:45 PM

$100 until September 1 $150 after

The term “transgressive fiction” was coined in 1993 by LA Times columnist Michael Silverblatt to describe a loosely related coterie of authors in the ‘80s and ‘90s whose writing has “violation at its core: violation of norms, of humanistic enterprise, of the body.” Silverblatt’s preliminary “sketch” of the genre’s leading voices was primarily American, almost entirely Anglophone, and exclusively white.

On the occasion of the  135th  birth anniversary of Pearl  S. Buck, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1938), this international symposium seeks to revisit her life and  writings   from   the   perspective   of  exchanges   and   mutual   learning   among civilizations. Hailed as “the most influential Westerner to write about China since the 13th  century’s Marco Polo”, Pearl  S. Buck not only introduced Chinese literature and culture to global readers through her literary writings, but also participated actively in transnational   cultural   dialogue,   humanitarian   engagement,   and   the   shaping   of international understandings of China.

Call for Papers

Shakespeare in Pop Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://swpaca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026

Reading, Writing and Translating Early Modern Women’s Fiction: Imagined Communities

Guest editors: Line Cottegnies (Sorbonne Université) and Sonia Villegas-López (University of Huelva)

Dear Fellow Writers and Thinkers,

The Windhover Writers' Festival (February 18-19, 2027) promises to be a vibrant gathering to explore the intersection of faith and creativity, with a central theme of Narrative Beauty.

The Windhover Writers' Festival has long been a cherished space for writers, scholars, and readers to connect, share their work, and delve into the power of words. We invite you to be a part of this exciting event by submitting a proposal for an individual or a panel discussion.

Proposals:

We are seeking proposals for engaging and thought-provoking discussions that explore the theme. Here are some potential areas of focus:

James Baldwin and the Work of Witnessing, Teaching, and Public Intellectualism

I am seeking James Baldwin scholars and contributors to a forthcoming/newly completed Baldwin anthology who are interested in participating as virtual guest lecturers in my Fall 2026 course, ENG 393: Special Topics: James Baldwin, at Philander Smith University, an HBCU in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico invites proposals for three
sponsored sessions for ICMS 2027. Proposals must be submitted through the ICMS Confex
Portal (https://shorturl.at/d05So) by 15 September 2026, including title, 300 word abstract and
50 word description.

Medieval Ruins from Old English Motif to Modern Archaeology:
Past, Present and Future

CALL FOR PAPERS

In Brightest Day: Race, Justice, and the Speculative in HBO's Lanterns and the Green Lantern Mythos

Proposed for New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative -- The Ohio State University Press

Edited by Julian C. Chambliss, Ritesh Khandelwal, and Harry M. Foster (Michigan State University)

ABSTRACT DEADLINE: October 15, 2026
Send abstracts (300-500 words) and a bio (approx. 100 words) to greenlanternbookproject@gmail.com with the subject line "Lanterns CFP -- [your surname]."

OVERVIEW

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Eating for a Green Future

Literature, Culture, and the Politics of Food in Contemporary India

Edited by

Dr. Manisha Mohanty (Assistant Professor, S'O'A University & Fulbright-Nehru Fellow)

Dr. Shashibhusan Nayak (MLA Bibliography Fellow, MLA)

Dr. Sonali Das (Assistant Professor, S’O’A University)

• Event: This seminar is planned as part of the 2027 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meet.
• Mode: VIRTUAL
• Event Dates: May 15 & 16, 2027
• Seminar Title: Narrative Futures and the Politics of World-Making
• All paper proposals are due by September 22,2026.
• Final Decision: Status will be available after December 1, 2026

Concept Note:

Call For Papers: 2027 ALA Symposium

“Music and the American Literary Imagination” 

January 28 – January 30, 2027

Hyatt Centric Downtown Nashville

210 Molloy Street

Nashville, TN   37201 

Call for Papers

Volume 3 Number 2

“Empires’ Echo: Colonial Legacies in Postcolonial South Asia”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Ecologies of Tomorrow

Environmental Humanities, Literature, and Culture in the Twenty-First Century

A Two-Day Online International Conference

(7th & 8th October 2026)

Organised by Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies (An International Journal of English and Cultural Studies)

in collaboration with

the Department of English, Serampore Girls’ College (Affiliated to the University of Calcutta)