Hi all,

See the below CFP for a panel on Pacific early American literature for next year’s MLA. Please circulate to anyone you think might be interested!

This cfp is for a proposed seminar at MLA 2027, to be held in Los Angeles from 7 to 10 January 2027. This seminar explores classrooms as sites of care and repair through trauma-informed and inclusive pedagogies and institutional courage, engaging embodiment, memory, and affect as approaches to trauma and learning. Submit a 200-word abstract and bio.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 20, 2026

Submit your abstract via email to:

Aimee Pozorski, Central Connecticut State University (pozorskia@ccsu.edu ) Aili Pettersson Peeker, University of California, Santa Barbara (aili@writing.ucsb.edu )  

Paraphrasing Linda Hutcheon, the neo-Victorians have a habit of adapting just about everything – and in just about every possible direction. The stories of Victorian poems, novels, plays, operas, paintings, songs, dances, and tableaux vivants are constantly being adapted from one medium to another and then back again not only on film, television, radio, and digital or social media, but also theme parks, historical enactments, and virtual reality experiments. In this meeting, we would like to explore the interactions and connections between the different ways contemporary culture engages with the traces of the Victorian past as well as how these different genres or expressions interact.

Call for papers: Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media

International Interdisciplinary Seminar

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

14–15 May 2026 | Hybrid format

The seminar explores islands as mythical, symbolic, and narrative spaces across cultures and media. We welcome interdisciplinary contributions from island studies, environmental humanities, anthropology, cultural studies, linguistics, media studies, and related fields.

Abstract deadline: 30 March 2026

Full CFP and details:

FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following roles:

Website Editor

Duties include:

Updating FEMSPEC's website at the collective's request - this could include updating biographies of collective members, altering the website's layout, adding or removing content from various pages in the website, and updating the website with information about the current issue of the journal

The 2026 International Postgraduate Comparative Literature Conference (IPCLC 2026), hosted by the Master of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies (MALCS) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), brings together postgraduate students and emerging scholars from Hong Kong and beyond for a day of cross-cultural conversation. Taking place in person at HKU on May 26, 2026, the conference offers a supportive forum for sharing work in progress, building scholarly networks, and testing new comparative methods across literary, cultural, and media studies. Featuring themed panels, a keynote lecture, and Best Paper Award(s), IPCLC 2026 invites participants to consider how comparison can sharpen our understanding of urgent questions in the humanities.

If literature has long played a central role in defining what it means to be human, posthumanist thought urges us to reconsider that definition in the face of unprecedented technological, ecological, and cultural transformations. Rather than announcing the ‘end’ of the human, posthumanism interrogates the category itself, foregrounding humanity’s entanglements with other species, material environments, and technological systems. In doing so, it challenges human exceptionalism and exposes the historical contingency and political implications of the ‘human’ as a normative construct.

We're excited to announce that the DIY Methods Conference is back for another year! Pitches are due by April 20th, 2026. Please don't hesitate to email us (annepasek@trentu.ca and trentwintermeier@utexas.edu) if you have any questions.

Call for book chapters

Title: Witness, Voice, and Agency: Chinese Poetry as Emancipatory Narrative

This panel explores how Chinese poetry, from classical to contemporary, functions as emancipatory narrative across historical periods, aesthetic forms, and sociopolitical contexts.

We welcome papers that examine how poets articulate conditions of constraint while imagining, inhabiting, or enacting liberatory possibilities. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

The Superhero Project: 10th Global Meeting

SUPERVILLAINS & ANTI-HEROES

Friday 4th to Sunday 6th September 2026

The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom

“I don’t want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, no! No. You… you… complete… me.” – The Joker (The Dark Knight, 2008)

One Hundred Years of Gabriel García Márquez

Proposed Dates: 1-2 May 2026

Proposed Venue: SRM University, Sikkim

Organized by: MELOW (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World)

Gabriel García Márquez, born in Columbia in the year 1927, is acknowledged as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. As we head towards his birth centenary, it is time to look back at this literary giant, reassess his contribution and its impact on literary history.

The UC Davis English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) is hosting its fourth annual student-led Connections Conference under the wide-ranging theme of “Time.” This year’s conference considers “Time” in its broadest sense. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “time” is defined as “A finite extent or stretch of continued existence.” Time has also been conceptualized in other terms.

Title: Unsettled Englishes: Migration, Displacement, and the Anzaldúan Borderland

Sponsoring Entity: MLA LSL Global English Forum

Description: In alignment with the 2027 Presidential Theme, "Emancipatory Narratives," this session interrogates the linguistic borders that define the migrant experience. Grounded in Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of the "linguistic borderland," we explore the space where identity, displacement, and Global English collide.

This session ignites conversation about teaching feminist and queer studies amid moral panic, exploring how desire, rage, and care become radical tools—keeping classrooms alive, embodied, and defiantly political in the face of ideological chill. (Virtual Session)

Deadline: Monday, March 23, 2026

Send proposals of 200-words with a shot bio to Ryan Calabretta-Sajder (rcalabretta@gmail.com) and Victoria Muñoz (vmunoz@adelphi.edu) 

Abstracts are invited for a proposed special session to be held at the annual meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, scheduled for 5-7 November 2026 at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Join us for our two-day conference on Trade in Legend and Tradition, to be held on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September as the twentieth Legendary Weekend of the Folklore Society, at Tuckers Hall, home of the Guild of Tuckers, Weavers and Shearmen in Fore Street, Exeter EX4 3AN. Whether you’re into fairs or fairy gold, merchant gilds or markets, make us an offer. Contributions are welcome on the lore of trade, commerce or business: from smugglers to street cries and the South Sea Bubble, from murdered pedlars to plague stones, it’s all grist to the mill. Anyone can join us – folklorists, entrepreneurs, economic historians, storytellers, captains of industry and jacks of all trades.

Aural Reorientations, or Sound Studies as Listening Otherwise

MLA Sound Forum, 2027 Guaranteed Session

MLA annual conference, Los Angeles, California, January 7-10, 2027. 

Aural Reorientations, or Sound Studies as Listening Otherwise

Bloomsbury - Trans Studies Book Series

CALL FOR CHAPTERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED

Transgender Entanglements: The shape and limits of transgender

Edited by Levi C. R. Hord and Wendy Gay Pearson

The incoherence of “transgender” as a category is both a feature and

a bug. As an umbrella category, its boundaries are sometimes

deliberately fuzzy, and sometimes vague enough to cannibalize

everything that approaches them. As the field of Transgender

Studies approaches its adolescence, with several decades of

scholarship now behind us, it is crucial to turn to a mainstay of

feminist thought and employ self-critique about the category of

Seeking papers exploring how media forms (methods of inscription, technologies of reproducing text, sound, and image, digital platforms, archives, social media, AI, and beyond) shape the production, circulation, and reception of lyric.

250-word abstract, brief bio and CV by March 20, 2026: nskillma@iu.edu 

Call for Papers: Drama Therapy Review

Special Issue: ‘Reclamation of Asian Voices in Times of Global Unrest’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/drama-therapy-review#call-for-papers

Special Issue Editors: RT, MG, DC

Roundtable considering pressing academic freedom challenges and potential strategies from and for those without tenure protections, especially staff, contingent faculty, lecturers, professional and clinical track faculty, and grad students. ~200-word abstracts, ~100-word bios.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026

Patrick Lawrence, University of South Carolina Lancaster (pslawren@mailbox.sc.edu)

Call for Papers: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, published quarterly by Johns Hopkins University Press for Rice University, invites submissions of original scholarly essays for upcoming issues. We seek work that offers fresh, rigorous contributions to the study of British literature across four historical fields:

• English Renaissance Literature

• Tudor and Stuart Drama

• Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

• Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for 15-minute papers for one or more sessions at the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles. Papers on any aspect of Milton’s works, historical milieu, sources, and reception and comparative approaches are welcome. Send 150-word abstracts and 50-word biographical statements to Marissa Greenberg, MSA Secretary, at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com  by Monday, 16 March 2026.