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Call for Nominations:
In keeping with the Lydia Maria Child Society’s goal of honoring and continuing Child’s legacy, the Society is pleased to recognize Humanities scholars who have demonstrated a commitment to social justice through teaching, research, and/or service.
Call for Papers: Society of Music Production Research (SMPR) Conference 2026
The Society of Music Production Research (SMPR) conference will be hosted at the University of Huddersfield, UK, 9–11 September 2026.
The call for proposals is currently open, with a submission deadline of 2 March 2026.
Further details about the conference, along with the full call for proposals and submission form, can be found at the link below:
We are currently accepting submissions for Vol. 1.1 of Bad Vibes Only: Critique Today (Summer 2026).
Founded by a collective of PhD students and affiliated faculty at Brown University, BVO is a forthcoming online independent journal committed to fostering critical conversations about contemporary literature, popular culture, and intellectual production. The publication features essays, reviews, and the occasional work of satire or poetry. Contributors include Nebula and Hugo award winners, Yale Drama Award recipients, and emerging writers. If you’ve got a bone to pick and if you believe that critique is an indispensable complement to artistic, cultural, and intellectual production, then this might be the venue for you.
Two conferences, one in Halle (Saale) and the other in Atlanta (Georgia), aim to bring together researchers interested in the Francke Foundations in Halle, the English missionary societies, and the founding of the colony of Georgia. While the conference in Halle will focus on a systematic comparison between these institutions, the conference in Atlanta will address the social consequences. The main question is what types of social order the Protestant reform movements in Prussia, England, and Georgia promoted.
Renewing Faith, Improving Society. A Comparison of Protestant Reform Movements in Prussia, England, and Georgia (first half of the 18th century)
The 21st century has been defined by large-scale global change driven by migration, exile, border reconfigurations, political upheaval, and shifting power dynamics – all of which have profoundly shaped debates surrounding human rights, identity, culture, and belonging. Furthermore, as digital platforms collapse geographic distance and intensify new forms of surveillance, nationalism, and exclusion, diasporic subjects must navigate complex landscapes of memory, language, race, gender, and political belonging.
Literature and Global Popular Music 2027 Modern Language Association Adaptation Forum Call for Papers How does literature travel through global popular music? How do novels, poems, plays, and other literary forms resonate when translated into sound, lyrics, stage performance, music videos, and media circulation across borders?This guaranteed session invites studies of musical adaptations that illuminate the cultural, social, and political resonances of literary works. How do literary forms find new life in global popular music? In what ways do these adaptations reshape questions of identity, memory, translation, and power across national and linguistic boundaries?Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
This roundtable seeks proposals on the challenges and opportunities posed by combining literary studies, community-engagement, and the urban humanities in pedagogy, research, community programming, or any other context. 200-word abstract and 100-word bio.
Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (ISSN 2993-1053) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other areas of the humanities and social sciences, across temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries.
The Journal of Literature in Language Teaching, the refereed research journal of the Literature in Language Teaching (LiLT) Special Interest Group of JALT (The Japan Association of Language Teaching), invites research articles and research reports on using literature in language classrooms. Submissions from international contexts are accepted based on overall interest and applicability to the journal’s readership. Further details can be found at https://liltsig.org/publications/
Articles should be written for a general audience of language educators; therefore statistical techniques and specialized terms should be clearly explained.
What does it mean to do Black queer/trans studies now? Amidst intensifying state violence both in and outside of the academy, this graduate conference is an invitation to explore the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and power through a global lens. The conference will be a space for inter- and cross-disciplinary dialogue amongst scholars of Black queer and trans life and politics, capaciously defined.
Call for Papers
Deadline for abstracts: March 31st, 2026
Journeying Between Thresholds and Metamorphoses
International Conference
May 8th-9th, 2026
Tallinn University, Narva mnt 29, Silva Building, Room S-529 (Tallinn, Estonia)
Submission Deadline: (200 word abstract in English) 29 March 2026
Conference Dates: May 27 and 28, 2026
Submit here: https://exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5nabnNTlGeGUHMG
This panel explores capitalism's role in accelerating human extinction. How do late-stage economic systems shape ecological collapse, biopolitical abandonment, and end-times subjectivity? We welcome interdisciplinary work confronting survival, disposability, and the limits of the human. If accepted, this Special Session panel will convene during the 2027 Modern Language Association Conference in Los Angeles, January 7-10, 2027. Please send an abstract of 200-400 words to Dr. Amit Ray at axrgsl@erit.edu no later than March 21, 2026.
We extend a warm invitation for you to share your contributions for our upcoming publication in 2026.
The Grove. Working Papers on English Studies (ISSN: 1137-005X, ISSNe: 2386-5431, DOI: 10.17561/grove) is a peer-reviewed, indexed periodical. Published annually and distributed both nationally and internationally, The Grove is sponsored by the research group HUM-271 of the Regional Andalusian Government, published by the University of Jaén (Spain). It is indexed by MLA, IEDCYT-CSIC, Latindex, Dialnet, MIAR, Dimensions and DICE and has been awarded the FECYT Quality Seal.
CFP Link: https://www.entanglements.in/call-for-papers-docs/CFP_Entanglements%202.2_Jun-2026.pdf
Call for Papers_Entanglements_Volume 2, Issue 2 (Open Issue)
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30.04.2026
Tentative Publication Date: 30 July 2026
Entanglements: The Journal of Posthumanities is an international, double-blind, peer-reviewed, open- access,
bi-annual (January & July), transdisciplinary journal dedicated to critically interrogating and dismantling
Call for Papers - Fall 2026 Issue
The Dragon Lode Journal, a peer reviewed publication through the International Literacy Association, is now accepting submissions for the Fall 2026. The Dragon Lode is dedicated to literacy, language arts, and the teaching of reading and writing.
We seek original, unpublished work that engages with contemporary issues and questions, genre studies, literary theory, and research related to children’s literature and reading. Submissions may address (but are not limited to):
2026 Conference New Orleans, LA October 15th- 17th
The Popular Culture Association in the South and the American Culture Association in the South meet annually to present and discuss ideas about popular culture, American culture, and culture world-wide. This year we meet at the The Royal Sonesta in New Orleans located in the center of the French Quarter.
Literature and Global Popular Music 2027 Modern Language Association Adaptation Forum Call for Papers How does literature travel through global popular music? How do novels, poems, plays, and other literary forms resonate when translated into sound, lyrics, stage performance, music videos, and media circulation across borders?This guaranteed session invites studies of musical adaptations that illuminate the cultural, social, and political resonances of literary works. How do literary forms find new life in global popular music? In what ways do these adaptations reshape questions of identity, memory, translation, and power across national and linguistic boundaries?Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
This panel invites papers examining Italian American engagements with Hollywood and Los Angeles as a central locus of literary production, cinematic labor, and cultural myth-making. Long understood as a global factory of images, Hollywood has also functioned as a crucial site where Italian American writers, filmmakers, performers, and cultural workers shaped—and were shaped by—the American and transnational imaginarium.
This panel examines how literature circulates beyond fixed ethnic identity by bringing together the work of John Fante and Charles Bukowski as a case study in Italian American literary afterlives. While Fante is firmly situated within Italian American literary studies and Bukowski is more often framed within postwar American counterculture, this panel argues that reading them relationally reveals how Italian American literary aesthetics travel, mutate, and endure beyond explicitly ethnic frameworks.
Description: The session is currently accepting submissions for papers on all topics related to Shakespeare. Submissions from Ph.D. candidates and early career scholars are especially encouraged.
NOTE: This call is for papers to be presented at the conference.
Please direct your brief abstract (less than 250 words) and/or any questions to Jennifer Topale at rmmla2026proposals@gmail.com. Abstracts are due by 1 April 2026.
Call for Papers — ASA 2026 (Chicago)
Black Feminist Book Cultures and Experimental Methodologies
We seek papers for a panel on Black feminist book cultures and experimental methodologies for the American Studies Association's annual convention (theme: improvisation) in Chicago in October 2026. Please send an abstract (max. 1200 characters), title, and bio to kwitaszek@mta.ca.
Deadline for submissions: February 27, 2026
Boccaccio Beyond Boccaccio: Reception, Adaptation, and Afterlives from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
Panel Co-Sponsored by the Forum on 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian Studies and the American Boccaccio Association
CFP - MLA 2027, "Translation as an Emancipatory Practice in Italian Literary and Cultural History”
Roundtable Sponsor: Forum on 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
CFP - MLA 2027, "Science and Intellectual Emancipation in Italian Literary and Cultural History”
Panel Sponsor: Forum on 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
Borders and Languages
One-day Conference at the University of Kent
21 May 2026
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Anna Bernard (King’s College London)
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Richard Linklater’s Slacker (1991) is a cult classic with a crucial role in the history of American cinema. The movie is unusual in many ways. It does not have a traditional narrative; it follows 100 characters around the UT Austin area in a way that seems completely random. There is no protagonist, no story, no thread to the individual events, yet somehow it is a completely coherent and engaging movie that sparks as many reflections as the number of scenes it has.
We are looking for chapter proposals in the form of abstracts. Topics already included are work, capitalism, Buddhism, film as a dream, narrative, episodic views of life, and absurdity. Possible topics for new chapters include:
The Louisiana Creole Research Association (LA Creole, http://www.lacreole.org) invites submissions for its 2026 journal, La Créole, on subjects relevant to its mission of advancing family research, providing education, and celebrating Creole history and culture. There is evidence that both French and Spanish colonial Louisiana identified all its people (white, black, and mixed), both free and enslaved, who were born in the new world of old world stock, as Créole. That included the offspring of Europeans (predominantly French and Spanish), Africans, and a mixture of both that could also include Native Americans. Therefore, the descendants of all these people
THE 25th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURAL POLICIES (LLCP)
WEATHERING CHANGE:
THE HUMANITIES IN A WARMING WORLD
to be held in Craiova, Romania
22-24 October 2026
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
“When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
(Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.1: 1-2)
Call for Chapters
Matricentric Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Motherhood
Edited by Dr Antonia Mackay (Oxford Brookes University)
Under contract with Palgrave Macmillan
Abstract deadline: Friday 5 June 2026
Full chapter drafts due: Friday 30 July 2027
We invite you to participate at the 19th annual Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes summer conference:
NFEAP 2026 - Mythologies
First Call for Papers
The 2026 NFEAP summer conference will take place on Thursday the 11th and Friday the 12th of June 2026 at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Oslo, Norway.
The theme for the 2026 conference is Mythologies.
In the last fifteen years, a new generation of African female and nonbinary authors have made major interventions in the field of African Literatures, from Akwaeke Emezi to NoViolet Bulawayo, Djaïli Amadou Amal to Kopano Matlwa. In parallel, women writers from earlier generations, such as Tsitsi Dangarembga (winner of a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2021), Paulina Chiziane or Ana Paula Tavares (who were both awarded with the Camões Prize in 2021 and 2025 respectively) have received major literary distinctions, celebrating their contributions to African postcolonial literatures in particular, and literature in general.
Since September of 2025 the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University has housed a new publication called The Pittsburgh Review of Books (or PRoB), available at http://www.pghrev.com We are particularly interested in pieces by scholars that analyze or contextualize breaking news - be it political, cultural, or social events - that can be published quickly.
Edited by author and Public Humanities Special Faculty Ed Simon, PRoB is a home for engaged, creative, and interdisciplinary cultural criticism and analysis across the humanities. The tone of the publication is similar to other para-academic publications intended for both specialists and a general audience.
Since September of 2025 the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University has housed a new publication called The Pittsburgh Review of Books (or PRoB), available at http://www.pghrev.com
Edited by author and Public Humanities Lecturer Ed Simon, PRoB is a home for engaged, creative, and interdisciplinary cultural criticism and analysis across the humanities. The tone of the publication is similar to other para-academic publications intended for both specialists and a general audience. Currently we are particularly interested in analysis that intersects with breaking news that can be produced by scholars quickly.
~Call for FULL Chapter:
Update: The manuscript is nearly finished however a planned chapter has fallen through. Replacement chapter needed immediately. Please review the details below and contact me: maureen.fadem@gmail.com
This is a call for chapters for The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison, a new companion volume intended for a scholarly audience, as support for newer Morrison scholars approaching their research, as well as graduate students working on Morrison.
In the introduction to the Fourth Edition of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Valerie Smith emphasize the imitativeness of literature—Black literature, specifically. To them, literature begets newer literature. At the same time, readers have traced formal patterns of repetition and imitation in Black literature across centuries, dating back to the antebellum.
I am proposing two "Just In Time" sessions at the MLA Convention (January, Los Angeles) on reparations for empire. They are prompted by the passing of UN Resolution A/80/L.48 at the end of March. JIT session proposals can't be submitted until September, and I believe we hear in early November if the session is accepted and added to the convention program, or not. Also, you need to be a member of MLA to present.
PCA/ACA Fat Studies 2027 Call for Papers/Presentations/Panels
Deadline: 10.31.26
PCA Fat Studies Area Call for Papers
Attention all Fat Studies academics, activists, and artists: Please join other Fat Studies scholars for the 2027 PCA/ACA National Conference in Boston, Massachusetts from March 24-27, 2027. Presenters must become members of the Popular Culture Association. Find more information on the conference and organization at https://sites.google.com/view/2026pcaconference/home.
Black Performing Arts: Sound, Movement, Image, Text
Submission Deadline: October 31, 2026
The Black Performing Arts Area provides a scholarly forum to share research pertaining to Black performance across expressive forms. Broadly defined, the area focuses on all forms of performing and visual arts, including all musical genres, theatrical performance and performance art, performance elements in visual art, and connections between different Black expressive forms. In all these contexts we are interested in investigating where aesthetic technique and embodiment merge across Black diasporic expressivity.
AIYA: Artificial Intelligence and Young Adult Studies [working title]
Edited by Sidney I. Dobrin and Kenneth B. Kidd, University of Florida
Deadline for proposals: November 1, 2026
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Human Creativity in the AI Era: New Horizons for Literature, Translation, and Linguistics
Faculty of Alsun – Fayoum University – Egypt
26–27 October 2026
Hybrid Conference (In-person & Online)
Conference Theme
Love and Its Reversals in Peninsular and Latin American Literature (Panel – Virtual Only)
NeMLA 2027 — 58th Annual Convention
March 6–9, 2027 | Newport, Rhode Island
Virtual Only
Love has long occupied a central place in Peninsular and Latin American literature, but literary representations of love also expose its reversals, contradictions, and darker dimensions. This panel explores representations of love and its reversals—including desire, rejection, violence, hate, and eroticism—with particular attention to questions of gender, subjectivity, power, and social norms.
Explore Shakespeare in a variety of media beyond traditional stage productions, including film, television, anime, manga, and recent novelizations of the plays. We have previously had papers on the following topics and invite new ideas all the time.
Seminar Title:
Based on a True Story: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Retelling What Really Happened
Organizers:
Dr. Priscilla Charrat Nelson, Providence College
Dr. Claire Rodan, University of Maryland
Paper submissions are currently open.
International, interdisciplinary conference titled:
Healing Narratives: Exploring Humanity in Medicine and Healthcare
In the realm of medicine and healthcare, narratives- whether spoken, written, visual, or performed- serve among others as powerful tools to humanize clinical experiences, challenge biomedical paradigms as well as foster empathy and understanding. These stories reveal the complex interplay between biological, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of health, illuminating the ways in which healing is intertwined with human dignity, identity, and societal values.
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Post-apocalypse in Cinema and Television (edited book)
Edited by Christina Lee (Curtin University)
I am soliciting contributions for a scholarly, edited book that will explore representations of the post-apocalypse on-screen, specifically in cinema and television. While the “apocalypse” denotes a cataclysmic finale, what is left in its wake is an equally provocative thought experiment. To borrow from the seminal work of James Berger: what comes “after the end”?
We are currently inviting abstracts for an upcoming Special Issue on “Reparation in Sinophone Literatures”. We are delighted that this issue will be guest-edited by Dr Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Editor-in-Chief of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Honorary Researcher at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto, and former Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE), Saarland University.
The deadline for abstracts for this Special Issue is 15 October 2026, while full papers are expected by 28 February 2027.
Call for Papers
Primary Area / Secondary AreaGlobal Anglophone ModalityIn Person Only: The session will be held fully in person at the hotel. No remote presentations will be included. Chair(s)Roma Lucarelli (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) Abstract
SAMLA 2026 Panel: Adapting Alice: Alice in Wonderland in the 21st Century Imagination
SAMLA 98 (Thursday, November 5 - Saturday, November 7, 2026): Call for Abstracts
Link for Submissions: https://samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19713
To decompose is to live too, I know, I know… (Beckett, Molloy)