Invitation for proposals for a special session panel - entitled, "Forms of Mutual Aid in American Literature" - at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada from 8 to 11 January 2026. Seeking papers (15 minutes in length) that explore how mutual aid has been represented in American literature (during any historical period). Particularly interested - with the conference theme of "Family Resemblances" in mind - in whether such communal forms do or do not resemble the family form. Send 250-word abstracts and a bio to amangat@niagara.edu. Proposals due by March 17.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Porn Studies

Political Theory, Sexuality Studies, and the Politics of the Body: Honouring the Legacy of

Shannon Bell

300-word abstract and a bio by April 15, 2025

Porn Studies invites submissions for a special issue honouring the intellectual legacy of Shannon

Bell (Professor of Politics, York University)—a brazen feminist scholar whose work has

redefined feminist political theory, cyberpolitics, and sexuality studies. From her radical

ABOUT THE COLLEGE

Conference Theme: Multiplicity

We are pleased to invite proposals for the University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ fifth annual Praxis Conference, which will be held at the UW Seattle campus on Friday May 30th, 2025.  The theme for the conference is “Multiplicity” (understood broadly to include how to honor and support the multiplicity of our students’ identities, knowledges, modes of communication, and languages) and its possibilities as they relate to our teaching of English.

Call for Proposals

Editors:

Whitney Hardin & Julia E. Kiernan

Narratives of persistence and survival: At the intersection of neurodivergence, academic identity, and systemic ableist structures 

In June 2025, Royal Holloway, University of London, in collaboration with the British Association of Victorian Studies and the British Association of Romantic Studies, will host an in-person research day on Tuesday 3rd June examining realisms across literary, artistic, theatrical, and critical forms, and considering the continuing influence of nineteenth-century thought on our current moment.

Presentations will be held during the morning in which delegates present 15-minute papers attending to nineteenth-century realisms (broadly conceived), followed by an afternoon discussion-based roundtable, structured around the topic: “Managing Difficult Legacies”. 

CFP: Nineteenth-Century Legacies

“This song is for my foe, / the clean-shaven, gray-suited, gray patron / of Hartford, the emperor of whiteness / blue as a body made of snow.” Those four lines of dedication close “Snow for Wallace Stevens” (2009) by the African American poet Terrance Hayes—an ambivalent ode, blending wintry detachment and “love without / forgiveness,” “lost faith” and faith regained. Hayes is far from the only poet of color, from the United States or elsewhere, to write a poem after or against Stevens.

CALL FOR PAPERS: “Occupied Territories: On Palestine and Imperialism”

“The European conquerors are the first who are not merely after subjugation and economic exploitation, but the means of production itself, by ripping the land from underneath the feet of the native population.” – Rosa Luxemburg, “The Dissolution of Primitive Communism”

JAMS@AX25

Want to present your work at the one-and-only Anime Expo? The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies(JAMS) and Anime Expo have once-again teamed up to give you the JAMS@AX25 academic symposium, July 3- July 6, 2025 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This symposium presents an incredible opportunity to connect fans of all ages directly to scholars researching and writing about the medium we all love. 

While the JAMS@AX25 welcomes all papers taking a scholarly perspective on anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms, we specifically welcome papers that match Anime Expo’s theme of: “Academics''!

Virginia Woolf Miscellany #104: Woolf and Failure

Mary Wilson

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

This conference is the second in a sequence of events co-organized by three public universities: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, University of California Berkeley, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst on the theme of the political economy of South Asia. Titled South Asian Capitalism(s), this Fall 2025 conference aims to investigate how capitalist accumulation is socially structured across South Asia.

While the EAAS’ "West of the Rest" research network will be represented with a total of three panels at the the 28th Biennial Conference of AISNA Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord Americani, we are specifically looking for contributions to our panel dedicated to video games: "Videogame Wests: Playing (at) the Frontier". Since there is the opportunity to have fresh research on video game Wests published as part of this venture, we invite everyone interested to pitch a paper. Please feel free to (re)share the enclosed cfp with interested parties. The panel is coordinated by Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck) and Stefan "Steve" Rabitsch (University of Oslo). Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa writer N.

Dear all,
We invite potential contributors for a Government of India-sponsored SPARC project
titled "Translations in Colonial India, 1800-1947: Paradigms, Networks, and
Practices." The overall goals of the project are as follows:
 
1. To trace the networks of translations between modern Indian languages in the
period under consideration;
2. To trace the impact of European languages such as French, German,
Russian, Italian, and Spanish, on modern Indian languages and literatures,
either in the original or mediated through English translations; and
3. To trace how translational activities helped the establishment of modern

Call For Papers: 

AfroNordic Feminisms

This special issue of  Scandinavian Studies explores and questions what it means to theorize, articulate, and practice a Black/Afrofeminism from a distinctly Nordic standpoint. 

We invite submissions engaging with questions such as: 

• What are the continuities, departures, or specificities that characterize AfroNordic feminisms in comparison and relation to Black/Afrofeminisms rooted in e.g. U.S., African, and other AfroEuropean contexts?