NeMLA CfP: Death in Translation: The Linguistic Aesthetics of Giallo Cinema
Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome
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Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome
Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome
This panel explores the volatile and seductive intersections of queerness, horror, and psychosexual cinema. Taking inspiration from the defiant slogan “Not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you,” we frame queerness not as static identity, but as a generative force of disruption, resistance, and cinematic disobedience.
Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome.
This seminar seeks to reimagine Trans Studies through the lens of a prefixial turn, where trans signifies a movement across, as well as a digression away from an unchosen starting point. Presenters are urged to negotiate the limits such given points of departure pose to our horizons of thought and emotion.
We invite submissions for a paper panel themed “Non-Western Aesthetics: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Representation” – an exploration of aesthetics from diverse cultural perspectives, non-Western rhetorical traditions, and globalized literary theory. Our aim is to examine non-Western, non-hegemonic discourses from non-White nations that incorporate indigenous critical approaches and local theories within artistic and literary practices. We are particularly interested in South and Southeast Asian literary and cultural studies.
Broad areas of exploration may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following literary and cultural theoretical perspectives:
Call for Roundtable to be prestented at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 2026 Conference!
Session Modality: Hybrid
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LITERATURE TODAY'S SEPTEMBER 2025 ISSUE
Website: https://literaturetodayjournal.blogspot.com/
Email: editorliteraturetoday@gmail.com
Submission Deadline: September 25, 2025
The Journal of South Asian Exchanges (ISSN: 3048-8877) invites submissions for its upcoming special issue dedicated to the rich, layered, and dynamic terrain of South Asian Studies. This issue seeks to cultivate cross-disciplinary conversations that explore both the historical depth and contemporary complexities of South Asia, from its ancient entanglements to its evolving place in the 21st-century global order. We are especially interested in papers that foreground interdisciplinary approaches and prioritize marginalized perspectives—scholarship that moves beyond binaries and embraces the messy, hybrid realities of the region.
Please note: This CFP is for the SAMLA Conference in Atlanta, Georgia Nov. 6-8, 2025:
Please note: This CFP is for the SAMLA Conference in Atlanta, Georgia Nov. 6-8, 2025:
Call for paper proposals
In periods of economic and cultural crisis, cui bono? Who benefits? How are accounts kept, and gains accounted for? Who is accountable and who is not? What forms does the balance sheet take? What is its narrative and who gets to construct it? How is creative accounting investigated?
The early to mid-twentieth century was a period of global economic crisis, revolution, and war that facilitated a shift of global economic and political hegemony from the British empire to the American. The Weimar Republic’s afterlife as a historical nexus of crisis lends itself especially well to issues of accountability and accounting.
Sinners (2025): Critical Approaches to Ryan Coogler’s Groundbreaking Black Vampiric Horror Film
This call for papers invites contributors to submit papers for publication in a university press. The anthology will gather analyses focusing on writers, artists, and others who have engaged with or represented aspects of a Black past. We are seeking works in literature, film, music, art, or any other relevant fields that incorporate elements of the Black past in a broad sense.
NeMLA: March 5 - 8, 2026
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Session Type: Roundtable (this is a hybrid roundtable with in-person and virtual presentations allowed)
Full Call and Submission: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21632
This panel explores how intersectional feminist frameworks reimagine justice as a regenerative process- one that not only repairs harm but actively cultivates equitable futures. Centering marginalized voices (BIPOC, disabled, and Global South perspectives), we interrogate literary, activist, and pedagogical interventions that challenge systemic oppression while envisioning liberation. Papers might analyze speculative fiction’s role in feminist worldbuilding, decolonial pedagogies that restore Indigenous knowledge, or grassroots movements modeling restorative alternatives to carceral systems.
This roundtable explores how literature and allied forms of cultural expression regenerate acts of resistance across generations and geopolitical contexts. Centering on comparative studies of marginalized communities including Dalit, Black, Indigenous, and diasporic voices, this session interrogates how storytelling practices evolve to challenge hegemonic narratives and recover erased or silenced histories. Participants are invited to reflect on how forms such as autofiction, digital narratives, performance art, eco-poetics, or oral testimony function as regenerative tools that produce continuity between past traumas and present struggles.
Session Title: Classical Hollywood
Organiser: David John Boyd, Stirling Maxwell Centre, University of Glasgow
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025
Conference Dates: November 20–23, 2025
Location: InterContinental San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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You do not need to be a NeMLA member to submit a proposal.
NOTE: This session is hybrid. It will be seated and accessible on Zoom. Please indicate which you prefer when you submit your proposals. Thank you.
Annual Northeast Modern Language Association
57th Annual Convention
March 5-8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA
at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown.
Aldous Huxley, who wrote in the 1930s, is famously remembered for his novels Brave New World and Island as well as for the essays he wrote for William Randolph Hearst. Jerome Meckler’s “Aldous Huxley: Dystopian Essayist of the 1930s.” reviews some of Huxley’s writing.
Submit proposals to: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21664
You do not need to be a NeMLA member to submit a proposal.
NOTE: This session is hybrid. It will be seated and accessible on Zoom. Please indicate which you prefer when you submit your proposals. Thank you.
Annual Northeast Modern Language Association
57th Annual Convention
March 5-8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA
at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown.
Prayer was central to religious life in the late medieval and early modern period. Despite growing scholarly interest in religious texts, devotional practices, and spirituality, prayer and prayer books remain comparatively understudied. Prayer could take on a multitude of forms and occur in a range of spaces, from public to secluded and private; from monastic, liturgical prayer to short, indulgenced invocations and meditative prayers that evoked a rich scala of emotions and mental images.
Marxism and the Coercive Forces of Capital: Today’s Implications and Critical Perspectives
“[The state] power rises out of society, placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it.”
–Frederick Engels
Deadline Extended! Call for Proposals
Hate and NonHuman Listening
A Guest Series for Sounding Out! guest edited by Kathryn Huether
Submission Deadline: July 9, 2025, by 11:59pm PDT
Please send a proposed title and 300–350 word abstract to: kathryn.huether@gmail.com
Final pieces should be ~1200 words. Four will be selected for publication.
The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.
Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July.
We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference.
The Film & History Permanent Panel seeks papers for presentation.
Willa Cather: Forms, Genres, and Traditions
We invite papers for the panel “Meeting the (Re)Generated Other” at NeMLA 2026 annual convention. This panel is in-person only.
What will we want from the constructed companions and servants we build? And what will they want/take from us? SF writers, filmmakers, graphic novelists, and game designers imagine futures featuring sentient artificial beings—domestics, soldiers, sexual partners, protectors—interacting with the humans that make them. These texts operate as thought experiments about how we natural-born humans might coexist and interact with the posthumans we will shortly create.
In honor of the 45th anniversary of the publication of This Bridge Called My Back, this panel seeks to explore the many ways in which ecocritical theory has expressed itself in the critical writings, poetry, prose, memoirs, and plays of Cherrie Moraga. In a time of extreme climate change denialism and the continued increase in global temperatures, directly leading to such climate disasters as the January 2025 wildfires in Southern California and the flooding caused by Hurricane Helene in the southern Appalachias in September 2024, Moraga's work will be read for approaches to climate resistance and positive change.
Who’s afraid of Generative AI? At this in-person (only) roundtable session, we intend to find out by revisiting our post-pandemic practices in the composition classroom. In two of our previous peer-reviewed publications from 2013 and 2014, we questioned the acumen of the “digital native,” as Marc Prensky famously termed the respective generation of university students. To a large degree, and with sometimes surprising results, the collective COVID-era put the technological abilities of these students to the test. At our 2024 NeMLA roundtable, we again assessed this population in light of course design and delivery through the “emergency remote” and “blended” modes of instruction necessitated by the pandemic.
During the past years, there has been a renewed interest in the study of Central American cultural productions. As the geopolitical interests of the Americas and the world are shifting towards new configurations, the countries of Central America have also started garnering interest from scholars in the Americas and Europe. This panel seeks to foster a dialogue amongst scholars and researchers exploring new critical perspectives that analyze both new and classic works of literature and cinema from Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador and Belize.