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“The American Literary Studies Periodical as Form”
Special Issue of American Periodicals
Ed. Tim Lanzendörfer, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
We are delighted to invite chapter proposals for our upcoming edited volume:
Sociolinguistics of Emojis: Implications for Customer Psychology and Behavior
(Under consideration with Springer, Edward Elgar, and Bentham Science)
This book explores how emojis function as sociolinguistic tools in digital communication—shaping tone, politeness, stance, and perception across platforms like customer service chat, CRM, B2B messaging, influencer ecosystems, and D2C apps. We are especially interested in work that links language use to outcomes such as trust, persuasion, complaint resolution, and user experience.
We welcome submissions across:
I am creating a panel for the OAH 2027 conference in San Francisco. Its focus will be women's engagement with the lived and natural environment, indigeneity, and ecofeminism. My paper will also include women's photography from México and the U.S. in the 19th century. I am open to any theory or topics while maintaining a focus on women and the environment. I'm presenting at OAH 2026 in Philly if you'd want to meet up and chat about 2027. tmorgan@ccp.edu
Internationale Tagung
Istituto Storico Austriaco a Roma
Austrian Negatives
In the Darkroom of the Habsburg Empire
Maria Giovanna Campobasso, Flavia Di Battista, Matteo Zupancic
7-8 October 2026
Deadline: 10th May, 2026
Conference dates: December 10-11, 2026
Location: University of Verona, Verona (Italy) – hybrid
Organiser: Prof. Emanuel Stelzer (emanuel.stelzer@univr.it)
Synchronicity and Intuition: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences and Inner Knowing
an online transdisciplinary conference
June 15-16, 2026
Online, Via Zoom
Proposal deadline: May 3, 2026
Fees:
£100 (for both presenters and attendees)
Prices exclude booking fees
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/03/16/synchronicity/
Guest Reviewers
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creaive Writing (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) seeks guest reviewers with the requisite expertise to join its international Guest Reviewer pool. Reviewers should have knowledge of contemporary creative writing studies. Some understanding of current critical discussions in Creative Writing Studies, Literary Studies or related fields would be well-received.
New Writing is one of the world's leading journals in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies.
The journal can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmnw20/current
he Jagiellonian University’s Comparative Civilization Studies Research Club cordially invites you to the International Academic Conference titled “In the Shadow of the Sky — speculative worlds, xenolinguistic futures, and UFO imagery in postmodern media.”
Date and venue: May 29–30, 2026, at the Institute of Comparative Studies of Civilisations, Jagiellonian University, 52 Grodzka Street, Kraków
Format: hybrid, May 29–30, 2026
Meditations on The Black Garden
Special Issue of African American Review, 2027
Guest-edited by Brandy Underwood (California State University, Northridge); Mia Alafaireet (The University of Texas at Austin); Samantha Pinto (The University of Texas at Austin)
Abstracts due to AARBlackgardensSI@gmail.com by May 1, 2026.
Call for Abstracts:
In a world increasingly marked by geopolitical strife, cultural polarization, and digital fragmentation, literature continues to stand as one of humanity’s most profound instruments for fostering peace, empathy, and human solidarity. From ancient oral traditions to contemporary narratives, literary expression has served as a repository of shared human experience—preserving collective memory, resisting violence, and envisioning alternative futures grounded in compassion and coexistence. The pursuit and preservation of peace have remained among the fundamental purposes and aesthetic aspirations of literature since antiquity.
About Time: Temporality in Theatre and Drama
Special Section of Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies 12.2 (Dec 2026)
(https://skenejournal.skeneproject.it/index.php/JTDS)
Edited by Alessandro Grilli – Università di Pisa – alessandro.grilli@unipi.it
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
English Nineteenth-Century Literature Panel
October 8-10, 2026
Ogden, Utah
Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2026
The 2026 Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association welcomes abstracts related to English Nineteenth-Century Literature. Ranging from the Regency to the Victorian era, the Nineteenth Century was an eclectic time facing significant social, political, and economic changes. Considering this period of change (and perhaps even how our own time is one of change) we invite abstracts dealing with how 19th Century British Literature explored topics such as, but not limited to:
Conference Dates - Nov. 12th to 15th
Location: Seattle, Washington (USA)
This year’s convention theme, “After the Archive,” lends itself well to the study of Religion and Literature. The cultural importance of folklore and sacred stories means that keeping an archive of them for posterity through written and oral storytelling is imperative. However, the nature of that archive is unique in that these stories are ever-changing as they are retold and adapted over the generations.
Evidence, Experience, and Authority in Contested Knowledge
International Interdisciplinary Workshop
Online | 27 - 28 August 2026
When we want to convince others of our beliefs, we usually offer arguments, and, crucially, evidence. Sometimes this evidence is mundane and undisputed; more often it is complex, contested, or ambiguous. But what happens when claims concern phenomena that, by their very nature, resist empirical verification?
Panel Title: New Perspectives on the Federal Writers’ Project in the American West
Dates: August 26–29, 2026
Location: Eugene, Oregon
Deadline for Submissions: Friday, March 27, 2026
Contact Email: Noreen.Rivera@utrgv.edu
Panel Description
Act quickly! Less than one month remains before the editorial deadline for Volume 53 of The Victorians Institute Journal.
Through April 1st, we are still accepting manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture for publication in Volume 53 of the journal, which will be published later this year.
Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP) 17
October 15-17, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Panel title: Energy Activism and Activation
estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities, a digital and open access journal from the Centre of Comparative Studies, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (CEComp-FLUL), has an open call for submissions for the 1st issue of its 5th volume, until June 9th 2026. The previous issue featured reflections around the theme of Speculative Fiction. In 2026, we are launching estrema’s first call for papers specifically oriented towards the potentialities of art and images in technical contemporaneity.
shooting
the action of filming or photographing a scene, film, etc.
Californian Williams Seeking papers that elaborate Williams’s relationship to California and West Coast culture, broadly defined or focused on various Los Angeles poetry scenes, Williams’s reading tours, engagement with Hollywood, or relations to western modernism. One-page abstract to Mark C. Long mlong@keene.edu no later than Friday, March 20, 2026
Hospitality is often understood as an act of welcome, yet it also raises complex questions about boundaries, authority, and belonging. Drawing on the philosophical framework of Jacques Derrida—who describes hospitality as a tension between openness to the stranger and the conditions that regulate entry—this panel invites proposals that explore how hospitality functions as a pedagogical framework for teaching reading, writing, and interpretation. Proposals may explore hospitality through literary analysis, composition pedagogy, rhetorical theory, cultural studies, or interdisciplinary approaches.
Call for Papers: Journal of Writing in Creative Practices
Special Issue: 'Methods & Approaches of Writing for the Performance Studies Stage'
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-writing-in-creative-practice#call-for-papers
PAMLA 2026 Seattle: “Our Ruling Classes: Class, Power, Conflict” - https://www.pamla.org/pamla2026/
The 123rd Annual PAMLA Conference will be held November 12–15, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency Seattle,
808 Howell St., Seattle, Washington 98101.
Afrofuturism in African Literature
Edited Volume — Call for Contributions
Sacred Arts 2026:
Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual
Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/12/11/sacred-arts-2026/
University of Oxford
and online
May 16-17, 2026
Registration fees (for both attendees and presenters):
Concept Note
Research Scholar’s National Conference CFP – 22nd and 23rd April 2026
New Paradigms, New Epistemes: Literature and Criticality in the 21st Century
Perpetrators of genocide destroy people as well as their cultural legacies, including formal archives, libraries, privately held records, and culturally significant texts and other print objects. Colonial occupation both historically and currently consolidates power through destroying records of occupied peoples to deny their past, present, and future. Resistance, in turn, may take the form of preserving such records through smuggling, hiding, converting, memorizing, digitizing, translating, and reconstituting. Inspired by the Phoenix Library in Gaza, the MLA Forum on Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography seeks papers on preserving books, print materials, and other textual records (broadly understood) in contexts of genocide.
Conference online (via Zoom): 16-17 April 2026
CFP:
Affects, emotions and perceptions have always been at the center of philosophical discussion. Yet the so-called “Affective turn” in social studies and humanities is a relatively new phenomenon inspired by Deleuze and Guattari´s influential works among others. Affective turn challenges the still dominant representational approach in semiotics, discourse analysis and text analyses of all kinds.
"I don't know what Christmas is, but Christmas time is here": Santa Claus, Christmas, and Implicit Religion in SFF
Abstracts (250 words) are invited for papers exploring Santa Claus and/or the Christmas holiday in science fiction, speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and graphic novels. Considerations of the interrelation of secular and religious themes in SFF Christmas, implicit religion, and contemporary ritual welcome.
MLA '27 held in LA in January; for more information on the conference see https://www.mla.org/Events/2027-MLA-Convention
Deadline: March 25, 2026
Special issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
We are issuing a brief second call for papers for the special issue Motherhoods around the World in the peer-reviewed, Scopus indexed journal, the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.
Due to the withdrawal of one or two previously accepted contributions, additional article slots have become available.
Special Issue: The Subject and its Estrangements
‘The wounds of the Spirit heal, and leave no scars behind.’ Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit
The Ninth Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2026Conference Date: Friday, June 5, 2026Conference Location: The Westin Pittsburgh1000 Penn AvenuePittsburgh, PA 1522and via HopinConference Website: https://www.stokercon.com/Stokercon 2026 will be the tenth anniversary of Stokercon, and the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference is delighted to be a part of this banner year.
Modernist Nationalisms Conference
St John’s College, University of Oxford
Thursday 10th September 2026
The Editorial Board of “Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis” invites submissions of scholarly articles for the peer-reviewed thematic issue “Faces of Childhood: Representations and Experiences in Art and Society.”
The Journal of Marlowe Studies, the only peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the study of Christopher Marlowe, invites submissions for its 2027 issue. We welcome scholarly exploration of Marlowe’s works, reviews of relevant books, and reviews of productions of Marlowe’s plays from anywhere in the world. Submissions are welcome from scholars at all career stages.
The journal is co-edited by Lisa Hopkins and Andrew Duxfield. If you have any questions, please feel free to email Andrew on a.duxfield@liverpool.ac.uk.
Journal Website: https://journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Marlstud/index
This panel invites scholarship exploring South-Asian diasporic poetics, transnational feminist perspectives, negotiations of identities, and practices of resistance. Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief bio to subrata-chandra.mozumder1@louisiana.edu.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, March 23, 2026
Subrata Chandra Mozumder, U of Louisiana, Lafayette (subrata-chandra.mozumder1@louisiana.edu )
In the late oughts and 2010s, critical and cultural theory across the humanities embraced the power of positive thinking. If we paid lip service to the determinations of (neo)liberal modernity, our thinking nonetheless gathered with feverish intensity around all that was said to escape or exceed its iron cage. Those of us tutored in assembling a historical ontology of ourselves turned to dreams of possible futures – or else to cultural practices and lifeways whose onto-epistemic difference enacted futurity in the midst of a seemingly endless now. This politics of utopian adjacency crystallized in a now-familiar set of keywords: affirmation, futurity, speculation, utopia, worldmaking, and (of course!) the ever-popular injunction to imagine otherwise.
The ongoing developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning automation announce an imminent technological revolution like nothing we have ever seen. Our relation to traditional labor markets, artistic creation, and modes of education has already been drastically disrupted and will potentially change even more. It seems that we are witnessing the dawn of a new age in which human intellectual and productive capacities are outsourced to machines and human connection is mediated by algorithms in digital spaces.
The International T. S. Eliot Society
The 47th Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society
25-27 September 2026
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Rising water levels in oceans and rivers, streams with high flood waves, and torrential rains that turn puddles into lakes: houses that are currently exposed to such increasingly regular water events are becoming a problematic, if not catastrophic, environment. The protective function that the house is supposed to have according to its original idea and design is being compromised. While roofs and walls are supposed to keep out wind and water—and the traditional European gabled roof is primarily designed to divert water from above—in these extreme weather scenarios, basements are flooded, roofs are torn off, entire houses stand like islands in the water or are even swept away.
Special issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
We are issuing a brief second call for papers for the special issue Distinctly Canadian Voices in the peer-reviewed, Scopus indexed journal, the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.
Due to the withdrawal of one or two previously accepted contributions, additional article slots have become available.
We invite new submissions that explore the representations of Canada and Canadians in fields as diverse as literature, film, television, visual art, and other media, both in Anglophone and Francophone contexts.
How do playwrights imagine and stage ways of being, hoping, and memorializing against censorship and erasure? We invite papers that explore alternative historiographies in post-war Sri Lankan theater and performance. Please share a 300-word abstract and bio.
Contribute to a Special Issue of the Pop Culture Studies Journal on TOYS!
Volume Editor: Jonathan Alexandratos
Abstract: ~500 words due by April 25th to the editor via email at jsalexan@gmail.com.
Overview:
Paper. Film. TV screen. Sound recording. Internet. These are common ways popular culture reaches us. However, while scholarship around comics, movies, TV shows, music, and online media expands, one pop culture area too often remains under-explored: toys.
The Eco-esotericism panel invites submissions that examine the intersection of esoteric thought and ecological consciousness as expressed in literature, cultural texts, and critical theory. Eco-esotericism encompasses approaches that unite spiritual or mystical understandings of nature with ecological critique and environmental activism. Engaging with PAMLA’s 2026 theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” this panel asks: How do esoteric ecological imaginaries reinforce, negotiate, or resist ruling ideologies? How have spiritualized visions of nature shaped elite cultural production, countercultural movements, or alternative political communities?
The Literature and Religion session invites abstracts for a panel that explores the multifaceted role of religion and spirituality within literary cultures, especially as they intersect with social hierarchies, power structures, and conflict. Religion has long shaped literary expression.
Special Session Proposal for the 2027 MLA Convention (Los Angeles, 7–10 January 2027).
This MLA 2027 special session, “Unfinished Histories: Literary and Cultural Acts of Hope,” explores radical hope as an emancipatory and dynamic framework for examining how literature, film, and art cultivate creative and relational modes of remembrance. Rather than approaching the past solely through paradigms of loss, grievance, or melancholia, the panel asks how cultural narratives open generative spaces for imagining unfinished futures.
Roundtable reflecting on impacts of disabilities on work life in graduate school, pre-tenure, post-tenure, among contingent faculty, and in leadership positions. Please send CV and 300-word abstract for 8- to 10-minute contributions to: Cassandra.falke@uit.no
For the 2027 Modern Langauge Association Convention, the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession welcomes papers about:
Please submit a 300-word abstract and CV to: Cassandra.falke@uit.no
Redefining Borders in British Literature:
Global and Local Identity Before and After Brexit
Roma Tre University
Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures
29-30 ottobre 2026
Convenors
Michela Compagnoni, michela.compagnoni@uniroma3.it
Lucia Esposito, lucia.esposito@uniroma3.it
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
A Cultural History of the Avant-garde in East Asia
Part of: Cultural Histories of the Avant-Garde: A Companion Series (www.brill.com/CHAG)
The companion series is part of an ongoing, large-scale project launched by De Gruyter Brill (a merger of two international publishing houses) that uncovers the cultural history of the avant-garde in major regions of the world. The series on East Asia consists of four volumes, each dealing with specific decades and topics as follows: