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Collection Editor: Wendy Whelan-Stewart, McNeese State University
Contact Email: wwhelanstewart@mcneese.edu
Book Proposal: Edited Collection
Abstracts are invited for chapter proposals for an edited collection titled Motherhood and Its Cultural Artifacts in American Literature.
Description:
In 1892, the satirical magazine Moonshine published “The Commission on Ghosts,” a mock-article recounting the “first sitting” of the Society for General Psychology’s Royal Commission on spirits. Those present are “The Chairman, the Editor of Light, Mrs. Annie Besant, Miss Florence Marryat, Mr. W. Eglinton, Mr. Dawson Rogers, Mr. C. N. Williamson, and Mr. W. T. Stead” (315). Each member was a public supporter/purveyor of spiritualist belief at the fin de siècle.
Electricdreams - Between fiction and society IV
VISIONS OF CONTROL: POWER AND TECHNOLOGY IN SPECULATIVE FICTION
Call for papers for an international in-person conference on speculative fiction, organized and hosted by IULM University of Milan (Italy) in collaboration with Complutense University of Madrid and the HISTOPIA research group, taking place from October 15 to 17, 2025.
Areas of interest: literature, cinema, television, comics, games/videogames, new media, performative arts, cultural studies.
Philip Roth Studies invites submissions for an upcoming Special Issue titled “Haunted Roth.” A variety of “ghosts” influence and worry Roth and his narrators, manifesting as literary idols and antecedents, lost loved ones, and lingering memories, as well as larger specters of historical trauma and strife. Roth’s protagonists are haunted by emotional and psychological struggles, such as anxiety, fear, and guilt, and physiological illness and pain, and by the prospect of mortality–death itself being one of the central phantoms of Roth’s later works. In The Counterlife, Roth suggests that the idea of haunting is tied to imagination, creativity, and the very act of writing.
July 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This central moment in American history has shaped our national self-perception for 250 years even as writers and scholars have debated the origins and meaning of the events of 1776 from the time they occurred until today. Inspired by these discussions and the national commemoration of independence, the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society is convening a conference in June 2026. What beliefs turned a diffuse movement protesting imperial policy into a radical republican revolution in 1776? How did the events of 1776 play out in the communities that experienced them? How did independence change American society?
Seeking Participants for 2026 CCCC Roundtable on Research Writing in FYW
Dear colleagues,
The 2026 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) invites scholars to contribute what “matters to you most” through conversation and collaboration. In that spirit, we would like to facilitate a roundtable discussion on developing and/or expanding the horizons of how we teach established research genres in the first-year composition classrooms.
Set writing goals & get feedback!
Applications due: May 25, 2025
NEW DIRECTIONS IN VICTORIAN STUDIES
Ah, May! When writing goals are full of promises to ourselves, and summer is full of time... MVSA Summer Seminars can help you reach that goal, with an end-of-summer draft deadline and feedback in a collaborative and congenial seminar group just as the next academic year is gearing up.
CFP on Philosophy and Theatre
Verona, November 20-21, 2025
Organized by S. Bigliazzi, A. Stavru, E. Stelzer, G. Ugolini
The SKENÈ Research Centre organizes a conference on Philosophy and Theatre to be held next November in Verona (20-21 Nov). We invite papers by scholars who in the past years have been publishing and/or organizing events on topics related to the intersection of philosophy and theatre.
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries markets expanded globally, transactions increased, and the circulation of capital accelerated. This new situation, that created an unprecedented concern with the nature of money (in different forms: bullion, coins, bills of payment, and promissory notes) and with economic concepts (inflation, interest, usury), made its way into all sorts of literary texts and cultural artefacts: plays, poems, pamphlets, or emblems, among others. People started to suspect that money, commercial exchanges, and economic transactions at large were becoming mysteriously free from bedrock referents (fixed value, fair prices) in order to be subjected to uncertain and fluctuating social rituals and conventions.
This session invites proposals on topics that will (as a session as a whole) embrace the plurality of Feminisms, enlivening current critical practice across languages, literatures, time periods, and genres. In particular, we welcome proposals that approach Feminisms through a transhistorical and/or global lens. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.In their 2022 book Public Feminism in Times of Crisis: From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags, Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager “examine the public practice of feminism in the age of social media and analyze the deep histories threaded through this new(er) enactment” (2).
This session invites paper submissions that explore the intersections of queer studies, film, media, and digital culture. In connection with this year’s conference theme, we particularly welcome papers that focus on palimpsestic media: how queer narratives have been remediated through new forms, how queer histories have been reimagined, rewritten, or overwritten in works of film, television, video games, and other forms of new media, broadly defined. Papers addressing other aspects of queer identities, communities, readings, and experiences are also encouraged.
Call for papers
PORNOGRAPHY IN BABEL
Translation, sexuality, obscenity
International bilingual conference
23–24 October 2025
University of Antwerp, Belgium
MORE PRIDE, LESS PREJUDICE: JANE AUSTEN AT 250
Faculty of Arts and Humanities I University of Porto
2-3 October 2025
Keynote Speakers
Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford)
John Mullan (University College London)
Call For Book Chapters
Marginal Voices on Stage: Documenting Dalit and Tribal Performance Traditions in South Asia
Editors:
Dr. Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar, Assistant Professor, Department of English Literature, Language and Cultural Studies, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal
Dr. Auritra Munshi, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Raiganj University, West Bengal
Concept Note:
Novel: A Forum on Fiction is accepting submissions. Founded in 1967 at Brown University, Novel is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best new criticism and theory in novel studies. After several decades under the editorship of Nancy Armstrong, Kevin McLaughlin took over as the chief editor in Summer 2023. Novel holds to these general principles:
The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2025) will be held at InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.
Please note that this call has expired! Thank you!
This is a limited and urgent call for chapters in the Art Volume (part of the Routledge series Oceans, Seas, and Shorelines: Cultural, Environmental, and Natural Histories). Since some of the previous contributors were unable to complete their manuscripts, I am reaching out to those of you who have a fitting concept for a chapter within the already themed structure of the book and are able to complete the chapter by June 30. The volume is currently under contract with Routledge.
In the words of the series editors:
Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.
The 19th International Conference of Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)November 6-7, 2026National Central UniversityTaoyuan City, Taiwan----
[CFP: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 21st]
The Art of Living: Living, Learning, and Liberal Education - October 29-31, 2025
Keynote Speaker:
Julie Reuben
Professor of the History of American Education, Harvard University
For at least the last fifty years, critics, commentators, and celebrity cognoscenti have repeatedly resounded the death knell of camp. First, facing the political crucibles of the queer civil rights and feminist protests of the 1960s and 1970s, gay men, lesbians, and trans folks were supposed to abandon the shameful practice and kill their darlings. Yet, twenty years later, they found camp coming gloriously back into vogue, striking a pose on the ironic drag stages of the queer 1990s. Now, come forward another twenty years, when self-conscious postmodern parody and biting double entendre are the fuel that makes meme culture go, and we are obliged to wonder at camp’s ubiquity and to question its possible utility.
Whether it is made an explicit mechanic via countdown clocks and quick-time events, or is simply a natural part of the narrative, games are always already inherently concerned with the passage of time. While it is easy to think of mechanics as being about player control, the relationship of input to output, and how a game’s particular physics engine is encoded, every game has a unique relationship with temporality that players must learn to navigate in order to play successfully, whether that is perfecting the timing of their jumps in a platformer or remembering to log in to complete daily tasks in an MMO.
Call for Papers: Marianne Moore Generations Conference October 23 and 24, 2025
Organizing Committee: Jon Tadmor (Stanford), Celine Shanosky (Harvard)
Speakers: Elizabeth Gregory (University of Houston), Virginia Jackson (UCI), Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo SUNY)
Location: Stanford Humanities Center
The Marianne Moore Generations Conference is an invitation to join in consideration of one poet in the broadest sense, and with a spirit of experiment. How does Moore contribute, or not contribute, to a variety of fields and approaches within literary studies? How might this poet be carried forward?
CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference on Indigenous/Tribal Peoples' "Research Methodology" and Literature
7-9 August 2025
Call for Book Chapters
on Fans, Fandoms, and Tabletop Roleplaying Games
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, June 15, 2025
Contact email:fans.fandoms.and.ttrpgs@gmail.com
Editors:
Maria K. Alberto, University of Utah
Adrianna Burton, University of California – Irvine
We are seeking proposals for chapters to be included in a peer-reviewed edited collection on fans, fandom(s), and tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). The University of Michigan Press has expressed interest in this collection and the book proposal is currently underway.
Get Ready – CFP for FSNNA 2025! Call for Participation
Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2025 (virtual)
October 23-26, 2025
REPUTATION: Influence, Power, and Capital
FSNNA Annual Conference 2025
Drawing on the theme “Underground,” this proposed panel considers the hidden, unearthed role of nineteenth-century forms of education. We think of education broadly here, including textbooks, expositions, World’s Fairs, newspapers, public history, and other print and material culture with didactic purpose. The panel will consider how these forms of education challenge or uphold prevailing nineteenth-century historiographies, as well as how they engage with counternarratives, reveal buried histories, reshape public memory, or critically construct belonging.
The International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting 2025
Modality, Mutability, and Mobility: Currents of Change in Translation and Interpreting
In an era characterised by rapid advances in media and technology, intensifying cross-cultural interactions that shape our languages and identities, the transformative influences of AI, multimodality, and intermediality on our understanding of meanings and forms, as well as emerging challenges in global social, political and ecological contexts, the theme of this year’s conference will be ‘Modality, Mutability, and Mobility’.
Medieval Times in Early Modern Texts
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
The Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the international research group Scientiae are pleased to invite you to participate in the conference:
Medieval Times in Early Modern Texts
that will take place on 3–5 December 2025 in Bratislava, Slovakia.