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

Proofreader

Duties include:

Proofreading all material to be published in the journal.  This includes scholarly articles, book and media reviews, event coverage, and other material.  Note that proofreading is restricted to correcting errors of grammar, punctuation, citation, and phrasing - the Proofreader will not be reviewing or altering the content of the submitted material (this is covered in the peer review process).

Call for Papers: The LLC Puerto Rican Forum of the Modern Language Association

invites paper proposals for the 2027 convention in Los Angeles that engage in a

nuanced analysis and reassessment of the trajectory of Puertorriqueñidad in the arts

over the last quarter of a century that critically addresses music, visuality, and

language.

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During the transition between the 20th and 21st centuries, Puerto Rican artists helped

lead the charge of what at the time was denominated the Latin Boom. Artists like Ricky Martin,

Inviting 250-300 words abstracts focusing on intersections between Critical AI and literary/cultural texts to explore how AI driven surveillance and security systems reinforce or counter racism against the South Asian communities in the US.

The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture of Florida Atlantic University invites paper proposals for a conference on “Bodies of Culture: Somaesthetic Explorations” that is planned for November 6-7, 2026, at FAU’s Boca Raton campus. The conference call for papers is as follows:        

                                                Bodies of Culture: Somaesthetic Explorations  

CALL FOR PAPERS

for a topical issue of Open Philosophy

HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION

Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/opphil/html) invites submissions for the topical issue “Hegel’s Philosophy of Action”, edited by Bojana Jovićević (University of Ljubljana) and Gregor Schäfer (University of Basel/University of London).

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Neo-Victorian Crime: A Companion – extended cfp

We are seeking 3 additional chapters for an edited collection, Neo-Victorian Crime: A Companion, which is currently under contract with Peter Lang publishers.

Femspec seeks a guest peer reviewer to review an article submission about the television series The Orville.

Qualifications:

1. The applicant has watched the series.

2. The applicant possesses an MA or PhD in English, Women's and Gender Studies, or a related field, or is an advanced graduate student pursuing a degree in one of these fields.

Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.

The 18th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 12, 2026, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2026 conference theme “Remembering Louisiana,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.

This sessions welcomes 300-word abstracts that actively engage the ways that Black-girl centered literature (novel, poetry, media, etc.) reimagines modes of resistance, resilience, and world-making through historical and modern definitions of freedom and emancipation.

Non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2027 co-sponsored by the Children’s Literature Association and the MLA forum on Science and Literature. This panel seeks papers on how children’s and young adult literature has engaged the natural sciences across historical and contemporary contexts, including plants, animals, evolution, and the scientific study of the natural world. We invite papers exploring the diverse ways literature for children and young adults mediates knowledge of the natural world, sometimes to instruct, sometimes to inspire wonder, sometimes to question the very authority of empirical observation. How does a text balance the excitement of botanical, zoological, or ecological discovery with the weight of explanation?

Critical essays are invited for an edited collection on the Historical Horror novel in the twenty-first century. This volume will focus on the intersection of women, history and the horror novel. It will explore representations of gender, sexuality and power in historical horror novels.

Horror and history have been intertwined since the publication of the first Gothic novel, Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, in 1764. The past is a useful landscape for the horror novel, as it allows both a distancing—horror is imagined to happen on other shores or in other times—as well as a closer exploration of the horrors to be found at home.

The Editorial Team of The Scattered Pelican, the graduate journal of the Comparative Literature program at Western University, is currently seeking peer reviewers for the upcoming issue of the journal.

About the Journal

The Journal of the Wooden O (JWO) is a peer-reviewed academic publication focusing on Shakespeare studies. The editors invite papers on topics related to Shakespeare, including Shakespearean texts, Shakespeare in performance, the adaptation of Shakespeare works (film, fiction, and visual and performing arts), Elizabethan and Jacobean culture and history, and Shakespeare’s contemporaries.

CFP: Chinese Poetry: Institution and Life
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Annual Convention
Conference Dates: October 8-10, 2026
Location: Marriott Courtyard in Ogden, Utah

Session 1 The Institutions of Chinese Poetry

Call for papers for a Special Issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities

Khôra

(preliminary title)

Editors: Nicholas Birns and Marina Christodoulou

For a pdf of the full Call see: https://www.academia.edu/164922361/CFP_for_a_Special_Issue_of_Angelaki_Khôra

Seminar for Modernist Studies Association Conference

How text appears on the page has been of periodic interest to poets for centuries. This interest grew in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century poets as shown by the work of Stephane Mallarmé and by artistic movements such as Dada. Concrete poetry, a style of poetry mostly from Germany and Brazil in the 1950’s (Thomas) adhered to this interest. Other types of experimental poetry have worked on the liminal edges between text and image, where the appearance of the text supersedes its content, as in more recent work by Susan Howe. Generally speaking, as Greg Thomas argues, this poetry is “concerned with complicating or undermining linguistic sense” (Thomas 4) in its turn to the visual.

Multilingualism, Cultural Diversity, and Intercultural Communication for Sustainable Development

Scope of the Book

Call for Papers:

Panel Title: Composition beyond Walls: Writing and Arguing for/in Spaces beyond the Classroom
Location: MLA National Conference, Los Angeles, California
Date: January 7-10, 2027

Panel Hosts: Dr. Jeff Birkenstein and Dr. Sharon Mitchler, Centralia College (Centralia, Washington)

Proposal Deadline: March 22, 2026

The Challenge

Conspiracy Theories in the Wake of Disaster

Matthew N. Hannah

Associate Professor

Department of Communication Arts

University of Wisconsin—Madison

mhannah2@wisc.edu

Zachary Loeb

Assistant Professor

Department of History

Purdue University

zloeb@purdue.edu

Vulnerability has become a key term in contemporary critical theory, ethics, trauma studies, gender studies, disability studies, postcolonial studies, and affect theory. But fiction has long engaged with vulnerability – not necessarily as weakness or exposure, but as a condition of relationality, openness, resistance, and change. From tragic protagonists to marginalized bodies and precarious subjectivities, literary texts have repeatedly returned to fragility, dependency, and risk.

AICED-27

THE 27th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

5-6 June 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Representations of

Crime in Literature and the Arts

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

7-13 Pitar Moș Street, Bucharest, Romania

The Function of Beauty: A Transdisciplinary Conferenc

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
— Khalil Gibran

Conference Dates: Thursday April 22-23, 2026
Location: Online
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 22, 2026
Fee: £100
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/01/26/function-of-beauty/

Guest Editors:  

Prof. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Director, Faculty of Humanities and Liberal Arts, Chandigarh  University Uttar Pradesh, India 

Dr. Aditya Anshu, Chair, Department of Social Science, Faculty of International Relations,  Abu Dhabi University, U.A.E.  

Dr. Madhurima Nayak, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Liberal Arts,  Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh, India 

                                  National Identities (Taylor and Francis), Scopus Q1

Concept Note 

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