The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar.  The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.

The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.

Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published.  Please send electronic submssions in Microsoft Word format and a current CV to hjamesr@creighton.edu.

The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, published since 1988, is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the fantastic in Literature, Art, Drama, Film, and Popular Media. It is published three times a year by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

For Authors – Submissions2025 Article SubmissionWindow will open Monday, March 24, 2025,and will close Monday, June 30, 2025.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS – DEADLINE JULY 15TH 2025

THE DIMENSION OF CONFLICT IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE: DELIBERATION, POLARIZATION, IDENTITY, MEDIA, GLOBAL BALANCES

2nd PhD and early-career scholars transdisciplinary seminar

October 9th-10th 2025

“Guglielmo Marconi” University – Via Plinio, 44 – Rome, Italy

Telling Italy Abroad: National Narratives and the Transnational Adaptation of Italian Literature on TV

Deadline for abstract proposals (500 characters): August 31, 2025

Concept Note

This seminar uses fiction across media to host a dialogue between critical space theory and contemporary frameworks of political relationality. We look for the crossroads of intersectional politics, the empty lots where to construct "a people," the putrid, fertile soils of post-human entanglements. Demolishers against all future: you are also welcome.

We produce the space of sociality, and, in return, space shapes social reproduction (Henri Lefebvre). This dialectic is traversed by the blueprint of form as "the precondition of possible space" (Anna Kornbluh). Narrative fiction -literary, filmic, graphic- objectifies those forms and configures new ones, reworking the very entanglement of space and society.

CFP: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2025

Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2025 5pm EST

Contact email: 

Hannah Sophie Schiffner, h.schiffner@zeppelin-university.net 

Protichi Chatterjee, protichichatterjee@gmail.com. 

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 9 – 11, 2025.

Book Proposal for the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)

Type: Edited volume

Title (provisional)

Craft Culture of Odisha:

A Study of Handicraft Heritage and Changing Dynamics of Craft-making

Rationale:

Call for Papers

(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (In-Person)

Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference 

Sonesta Hotel Philadelphia (1800 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103)

6-8 November 2025

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture invites proposals for an in-person panel on the theme of "(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media" for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference, which will run from Thursday, 6 November, to Saturday, 8 November 2025. 

CALL FOR PAPERS
Minding the Present: Bodies, Places, Matter in and between Australia and Europe    
17-19 September 2025    
Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Padova
(Via Vendramini, 13, Padova, Italy)

SAMLA 97 – Knowledge – Atlanta, GA | November 6th - 8th, 2025, https://samla.ballastacademic.com  

This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.

PAMLA 2025 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Rhetorical Theory” (Standing Session)
San Francisco, CA, Nov. 20-23
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Email: leack@usc.edu

Abstract

This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.

Description 

This accepted PAMLA special session panel explores memory and oblivion as they relate to queer culture and literature of the modern Hispanic world. Focusing on Latin America, Spain, and the global Hispanophone in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, the panel explores practices of remembrance, commemoration, censorship, and forgetting both in queer culture (i.e., as practiced by queer individuals and groups) and of queer culture (in a broader cultural ecosystem). How have queer people sought to memorialize their predecessors and bequeath their legacy to future generations? How have these practices interacted with more expansive societal forces that alternately commemorate, silence or marginalize queer culture?

Sir Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes are associated with the phrase, “Knowledge is power,” articulated by both writers about four centuries ago.