Storyworlds is an interdisciplinary journal of narrative studies. We publish cutting-edge research on storytelling practices across times, cultures, and media. The journal foregrounds research questions that cut across established disciplines and seeks to promote the understanding of narrative and storytelling as worldmaking—and worldbreaking—practices. 

We currently have a number of books available or forthcoming for review. 

AI and Sovereignty

Artificial intelligence is transforming the conditions through which power is exercised, distributed, and legitimized. The development and deployment of AI systems involve not only technological questions, but also fundamental issues concerning language, communication, authority, identity, autonomy, control, and sovereignty.

Caste and Capitalism in Contemporary India

Call for Papers: Mystery, Suspense, and True Crime at CEA 2027

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Mystery, Suspense, and True Crime for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

“Borderless World: Text, Image, and Sound” 

Florida State University, Tallahassee 

April 1-2, 2027 

How do we imagine life beyond borders? How do disparate texts, images, sounds, bodies, languages, and histories become interconnected? What does it mean to inhabit a world where boundaries are unstable, permeable, or altogether absent? Conversely, how are borders constantly produced, negotiated, and challenged through acts of creation, interpretation, and community-building? 

Call for Papers

The BCPS Conference, inaugurated in 1992, is the oldest and longest-running annual meeting of its kind in the U.S. We call for presentations situated in colonial and postcolonial histories, literatures, creative and performing arts, politics, economics, and all other aspects of the countries formerly colonized by Britain and other European powers.

Please join us at Georgia Southern University's Armstrong Campus in Savannah for the critical engagement, friendly community, and vibrant network that has been a hallmark of the BCPS Conference for over three decades.

We invite proposals situated in both thematic and geographic areas, including:

Call for Papers: BIPOC & Asian American Literature at CEA 2027 (4/1-4/3/27)

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on BIPOC & Asian American Literature for our 2027 conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

How does financialization shift our relationship to the future? And what new insights emerge when we decenter northern approaches in our analysis?

CFP for Futures of Memory Conference 2027

Performing the Past, Witnessing (for) the Future: Memory in the Posthumanist Era

PKMS Graduate Student Conference and Workshop: Dinner Party Medieval Studies 

Thursday, February 18 – Friday, February 19 2027

The Graduate Center, CUNY

The 34th Annual NINE Spring Training Conference (March 3-6, 2027) invites original unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history, literature, and social policy implications. Abstracts only, not to exceed 300 words, should be submitted by December 4, 2026, to co-directors Willie Steele (wdsteele@lipscomb.edu) and David Pegram (david.pegram@paradisevalley.edu) for the abstract committee’s consideration. We ask that you please copy your submission to both of us.

We would like to invite you to join and contribute to the 2nd Shapeshifters Symposium: Plasticity – Here, There, and Everywhere. This symposium brings together people interested in plasticity from a broad range of perspectives, from the natural and formal sciences to the social sciences, humanities, and art. During the symposium, we hope to further expand the concept of plasticity across disciplines.

Who are we? We are a group of interdisciplinary researchers working on the concept of plasticity, sponsored by the Dutch Centre for Unusual Collaborations.

Date & Venue

An International Conference on Climate Change and Epistemic Recovery: Indigenous Pathways

Submission of abstract: 1 October 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2026

Organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, in academic collaboration with the Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar

Concept Note:

CALL FOR PAPERSBetter MenHealing Masculinity and Dismantling Patriarchy From Within

What would it mean for a man to come home to himself?

Not the patriarchal self shaped by silence and performance, but the divine masculine. Patriarchy teaches men that strength has no needs, that manhood means enduring and providing. What does it look like to reclaim a masculine self that knows how to grieve and how to celebrate, how to ask for help and how to offer it, how to listen and how to share?

Sonic mismatches in contemporary audiovisual media

Abstract 

Call for Proposals: Sessions, Panels, Papers

Come join a vivid and diverse community of scholars and professionals to discuss the history and depiction of the sea through a popular culture perspective!

We are considering proposals for individual papers, panels, creative sessions, and roundtables. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per session. Scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and working professionals are all encouraged to submit. Proposals may include (but are not restricted to):

Call for Proposals: AI and the Humanities An Interdisciplinary Conference Hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee Southern

March 6-7, 2027 | Pulaski, Tennessee
Proposal Deadline: October 20, 2026

The University of Tennessee Southern is pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference exploring the crucial intersection of AI and the Humanities. 

Conference dates: March 6-7, 2027

Submission deadline: October 20, 2026

Location: University of Tennessee Southern, Pulaski, TN

Call for Proposals:

Dear Colleagues,

Please circulate the following CFP for NeMLA 2027, particularly among colleagues working in the fields of posthumanism, ecocriticism, the Anthropocene, or New Materialism. Thank you and have a great semester!

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NeMla session: Ecologies of the Human and Nonhuman in Italian Literature

This session explores how Indigenous literary and cultural productions transform histories of colonial violence, dispossession, and erasure into acts of community witness and collective empowerment. Across Native American, First Nations, and other Indigenous traditions, writers have challenged state-controlled narratives that render Indigenous experiences invisible, replacing imposed silence with storytelling practices rooted in survivance, kinship, and communal memory.

From Christopher Strachey’s Love Letter Generator to today’s generative AI writing tools and multimodal models, AI technologies are reshaping how literary works are created, adapted, and circulated across media. Texts can now be generated, illustrated, voiced, animated, and transformed into comics, audiobooks, visual art, and video, prompting renewed questions about creativity, form, authorship, authenticity, and human agency.This seminar asks: Can AI-generated literature and art be understood as forms of artificial creativity? Does AI expand, automate, or redefine human creativity? How does human–AI collaboration challenge traditional ideas of authorship and authenticity?

The construction of archives has long been a fraught process that brings dominant ways of knowing, which are often Western and colonial, into conflict with cultural knowledge.

This panel will investigate representations of Korea, Koreanness, and Korean women's bodies and consider how these representations serve as a site for the reproduction of the sexualized and gendered relationship between the US and South Korea. It will also interrogate these racialized bodies as the site for the articulation of trauma, memory, and historical discontinuities or, alternatively, as potential sites of empowerment.

It will consider how Korean nationalism, national unity, and diaspora are complicated by gender and body politics, and how we may envision gaining agency through depictions of the colonized and militarized Korean peninsula and Korean/American women's bodies as represented in literary, film, and other cultural iterations.

International Conference

Université de Montréal

February 5-7, 2027

Call for Papers

Geo-Medical Syndemics: Earthquakes, Geotrauma, and Mental Health in the Planetary Imagination

NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SEPTEMBER 22, 2026

"The Power of Repetition"

Chairs: Curtis Browne (Brown University) and Chi Le (Brown University)