How does lyric address create forms of relation across difference? This panel invites papers examining the intersections of poetry, lyric address, and peacebuilding, with particular attention to coexistence, care, responsibility, witness, repair, and collective life.

Northeast Modern Language Association 58th Annual Convention, Newport, RI, March 6-9, 2027 (Salve Regina University)

Deadline for abstract submissions: September 30, 2026 

Please submit abstracts via the NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/User/SubmitAbstract/22533

Philip Kan Gotanda’s play Yankee Dawg You Die centers a conflict between two Asian American actors. The aging Vincent Chang built his career playing bumbling Japanese soldiers and one-dimensional Asian stereotypes in classic Hollywood. He’s confronted by the up-and-coming Bradley Yamashita, who insists that Asian (American) characters should be played with dignity and accuracy. The heart of the play is an ambivalence about Asian (American) representation and whether viewers should sympathize with Chang for taking the only acting jobs available or with Yamashita in his condemnation of the racist roles—or with both.

Editors: Ruth V. Gross, Peter Beicken & Gernot Wimmer

Publisher: Brill

Theme: The Kafkaesque

CFP Reminder:

Special Session: Cultural Patrimony in Wartime: Destruction, Protection, and the Question of Ruling Classes

123rd Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)

Submission process:
Please send a 300-word abstract and a short bio (100 words) to amazuet@stanford.edu.

Final extended submission deadline: July 15, 2026.

This virtual seminar takes its inspiration from Saidiya Hartman’s citation of the Greek etymology of the word chorus: “to dance within an enclosure.” For Hartman, the chorus also furnishes a paradigm for thinking—to play on Jean-Luc Nancy’s notion—Black (non)being singular plural. In Wayward Lives, Hartman suggests that any of the minor figures can stand in for the others, not as a claim of homogeneity, but rather as a contention that their singularity can be read as paradigmatic of waywardness—in its queer heterogeneity—in general. The chorus of black femme and queer youth is thus at once a singular plurality and a plural singularity as they make beautifully riotous lives within the enclosure of social death.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 19 OF
Katherine Mansfield Studies
THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY
PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
on the theme of
PLACING KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Editors
Dr Erika Baldt and Dr Gerri Kimber

FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks a volunteer to fill the role of Peer Review Coordinator.

Duties for this position would include the following:

• Coordinating the scholarly peer review process for the journal
• Liaising with authors who submit scholarly articles to the journal and distributing their submissions to peer reviewers
• Returning feedback from peer reviewers to authors
• Attending collective meetings on a regular basis (now Thursday 12:30 PM EST) - meetings are held every week during production, then move to every other week afterward

Preferred qualifications include:

Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists

American Literature Association | “The American Novel: Forms, Genres, and Traditions”

November 5–7, 2026 | Santa Fe, NM

The Novel in/and Early America

For this upcoming ALA Symposium, the SEA invites papers and presentations that deal with any aspect of “The American Novel: Forms, Genres, and Traditions” prior to (approximately) 1830. Topics might include (but are not limited to):

Call for Papers

Imagining the Global Past:
Antiquities, Early Modernities, and the Humanities Today

Research Symposium, May 17–18, 2027

University of Washington Division of the Humanities

Keynote Speakers: Russ Leo (Princeton, English Literature) and Andrew Hui (National University of Singapore, Comparative Literature and Sinology)

Organizer: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington, English Literature and Religious Studies)

Call for Abstracts/Chapter Proposals

SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Jaco Van Dormael

Edited by Albert Lee

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how teaching and learning take place across educational contexts. This seminar explores innovative and evidence-based approaches to integrating AI into classroom practice, language education, skills development, and assessment.

We invite proposals that examine practical applications of AI in teaching and learning, including but not limited to:

Due to the rhetorical challenges of sharing the unmentionable, infertility is often underdiscussed in both Early Modern society and today. It has discomforted and continues to discomfort theologians, medical practitioners, politicians, scholars, and everyday people trying to build identities through societies deeply founded on the structure of the family. The very concept of family is built around parents and children–what happens when a couple is childless, what happens when the children aren’t materially seen, only known to the parents that lost them before birth? It has historically forced thinkers to grapple with their understanding of life and death, grace and agency, reality and the supernatural.

Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) 

This roundtable envisions writing as a collaborative act and centers writings that empower Environmental Justice communities. How have/do writing communities negotiate and enact environmental justice? How do writing communities disseminate scientific and technical information towards environmental action and justice? Participants in this roundtable are encouraged to consider:

o How does/can writing raise collective environmental consciousness?

o Writing in the Humanities to mobilize marginalized communities in the age of climate change

o Aesthetic writings beyond the pleasure of nature writing but those that fuel ethical actions

Call for Papers – Volume 37, Issue 1 & 2 (2027)

Dear Colleagues,

Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies – Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, the official publication of the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Istanbul University, invites submissions for its 2027 issues (Volume 37, Issues 1 & 2).

Call for Papers: Alizés 47 (2027)

Special issue edited by Talal Hochard (University of Reunion Island) and Zuzana Fonioková (Masaryk University)

Discursive Resistance in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Public Discourse

Abstract submission deadline (400 words) and short biographical notes (150 words): September 1, 2026

Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2026

Full draft papers submission: February 15, 2027

Final papers submission: June 30, 2027

Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) remains a cornerstone of the modernist literary canon. Often celebrated as Woolf’s greatest novel, the plot is set in post-World War I London and revolves around a single day in the life of its protagonist, Mrs Clarissa Dalloway, as she prepares to host an evening party. Beneath its seemingly simple plot, the novel exemplifies a profound exploration of consciousness, time, and the inner lives of characters through its extensive use of the stream-of-consciousness technique. Although narrated in a third-person omniscient voice, the narrative primarily focuses on the inner consciousness of the characters.

The International T. S. Eliot Society invites you to propose a conference paper for a guaranteed member society panel at The ALA (American Literature Association) Winter Symposium--"Music and American Literature" Jan 28-30 in Nashville, TN

NeMLA's 58th Annual Convention March 6-9, 2027 | Newport, RI 

I'm seeking participants for an APPA roundtable discussion on "The Poet in the Novel" at the upcoming ALA symposium "The American Novel: Forms, Genres, Traditions," to be held at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Santa Fe, NM, 5-7 November 2026.

Proposals on novels or experimental prose forms that feature a poet as protagonist will be welcome for this session. Our definition of "novel" can be as broad as your claims for it will support. Samuel R. Delany is likely to feature significantly.

For best consideration, please send a precis of no more than 500 words to mrh@unm.edu by Sunday, 19 July  

Please note: This CFP is for the SAMLA Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 5-7, 2026.

In 1996, Carl Sagan warned us of a time when people would lose their ability to question, “when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few . . . when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.” Maybe Mr Sagan was somewhat pessimistic when writing The Demon-Haunted World. But then again, in times of conspiracy theories, Ancient Aliens, Antivaxxers, and Holocaust Deniers, the Age of Information appears just as capable of spreading dangerous frauds and charlatans as it is of disseminating reliable scholarship.

For Reference:

https://europe.umgc.edu/content/dam/umgc-europe/documents/upload/cultura...

Cultural Constellations:  A Journal of Literature and Art

How to Be a Global Humanist begins with the tension built into its title. The humanities, as an academic field, emerged through Western histories of learning and the institutions that made those histories legible as scholarship. Yet the practices gathered under that name exceed that narrow genealogy. Across the world, people have made meaning from language and image. They have preserved the past, taught inherited forms of wisdom, and argued over what human life is for. Such work does not need the construct of “the humanities” to authorize it. The better question is what the category reveals about the traditions it encounters, and what it renders difficult to see.

Host Institution: Sapienza University of Rome (Scientific Director: Prof. Federico Batini)

Conference Dates: December 2–3, 2026 (Rome) & December 4, 2026 (Perugia, Italy)

Official Website: www.sharedreadingaloud.com