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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.
2026 Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
October 29-31, 2026
Embassy Suites Austin Central
Austin, TX
“Justice”
Keynote Speaker: TBA
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.
Call for Book Chapters
Title:
Adivasi Writings in India: History, Memory, and Contemporary Expressions
Editors:
Dr Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India
Dr Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India
Publisher:
Vedant Knowledge Systems Pvt Ltd
Book Details:
Call for Book Chapters
Title: Folk and Culture: Tradition, Resistance and Nurture
Publisher: VLC Media Publication
VLC Media Publication offers ISBN-certified, peer-reviewed publications with national and international circulation.
Editors:
Dr. Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
Dr. Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India
Scope of the Volume:
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)
Australia from Below: Lived Histories and Material Cultures of Everyday Life
The editors of Australia from Below: Lived Histories and Material Cultures of Everyday Lifeareinviting you submit a research article, essay, creative work, poetic or other creative work reflecting the diversity of ways in which lived experience and material culture can be explored.
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
Call for Book Chapters
Heated Rivalry: Queer Joy and Intimate Masculinity on Television
This edited book collection invites scholarly contributions on Heated Rivalry (2015-). Adapted from Rachel Reid’s romance novel, the Canadian Crave original series system became an unexpected global success via HBO. Set in professional ice hockey, Heated Rivalry is propelled by queer characters and the sustained pleasures of their relationship. Its defining contribution is not exposure or transgression, but queer joy: intimacy, desire, humour, trust, and emotional safety enacted within demanding institutional and work settings.
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):
William Faulkner and Louise Erdrich
A Conference Sponsored by the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
October 22-24, 2026
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.
Call for Papers
MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2026
Media and Sustainability
University of Reading,
Minghella Studios, Whiteknights Campus
Reading RG6 6BT
9th September 2026
Organising committee: Babsie Keulemans, Emir Anday and Elizabeth Heaney
Any questions about the conference or the submission process can be directed to:
Babsie Keulemans – e.l.keulemans@pgr.reading.ac.uk
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.
Paradise Lost, but his shorter poems and treatises also contributed greatly to the political and religious conversations of the seventeenth century. The sphere of Milton’s influence was not limited to his time period, but also shaped later periods, including the Romantics, who were fascinated with what they deemed a sympathetic portrayal of Satan. This panel seeks research investigating Milton’s influences on not only his contemporary society, but the ways that he also affected later literary thought and culture.
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
Call for Papers: Democracy and the Nature of Familial and Unaccompanied Mobilities in the 21st Century
Location: University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
Dates: April 24–26, 2026
Submission Deadline: March 5, 2026 (accepted on rolling basis too after deadline)
Format: In-person (travel support available; honoraria provided)
Keynote: Dr. Lauren Heidbrink, author of Migranthood: Youth in a New Era of Deportation (Stanford University Press, 2020) and Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested Interests (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
Overview
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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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS/ACAS 2026
The Southern Gothic is not merely a regional offshoot of the Gothic tradition—it is a dynamic cultural mode shaped by the histories, violences, mythologies, and contradictions of the American South. Rooted in hauntings both literal and structural, the Southern Gothic interrogates race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, ecology, labor, memory, and the ongoing afterlives of history. Its borders—like its landscapes and bodies—are unstable, porous, and contested.
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
New Literaria: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Humanities
CALL FOR PAPERS
Vol. 8 No.2
Special Issue on “Popular Literature: Culture, Power, and the Politics of the Popular”
Concept Note
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.
Hello! Seeking 1-2 additional papers to join a trans studies panel at the 2026 American Studies Association Conference. Abstract for the proposed panel is below; please contact Anna James (AJames@franklincollege.edu) if interested. Thanks!
Panel Title: Minoritarian Gestures, Improvised Lives: Everyday Performance of Trans Resistance
Our Victorians, Ourselves: Rethinking Victorian Texts & Contexts
An online student conference hosted by the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Victorian Association (UGSVA)
Conference on April 28th, 2026 and Abstracts due March 31st, 2026
Keynote:
Sarah Bliss, Florida State University
“Reading the Forest with the Trees: Victorian Fiction and Periodicals”
Interactive Closing Session:
Sabarno Sinha, University of Texas at Austin
“UnConferencing (v. 1860): The Black-Out Victorian Poetry Edition”
I am hoping to organize a panel for the upcoming NAVSA conference (Nov 11-15, 2026 in Pasadena), examining the exploration of anxieties associated with trafficking and transport in nineteenth-century British literature.
The conference web link is attached: https://traffic2026.ucr.edu/
Please send 300-word abstracts and 1-page CVs to charlotte.fiehn@yu.edu by February 28th, 2026.
Discourse in the Age of Political Upheaval and Artificial Intelligence
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at UCLA
Keynote speaker: Dr. Julia Alekseyeva, University of Pennsylvania
Submission form: https://forms.gle/ynHiRZothVVkgVdp8
If you face any difficulties in the submission process or have questions about the conference,
please email: discourseconferenceucla@gmail.com
Submission deadline: March 13th at 11:59PM PST
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (LCH) is accepting submissions for the 2026 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. This annual prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture, and the humanities.
New (and Old) Experiments in Translation (and Writing)
International Conference, Brock University (St. Catharines, ON, Canada) October 22nd to 24th, 2026
Organized by Dr. Nicholas Hauck, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Brock University (nhauck@brocku.ca) and Dante Ognibene, Brock University
Dates: October 22, 23 and 24, 2026
Location: Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
CFP--MLA 2027: The Melville Society
Melville and McCarthyism
This panel invites papers reflecting on the value of Melville’s work for our authoritarian present. A pivotal revival of Melville during the nineteen-fifties by C.L.R. James and F.O. Matthiessen (both victims of McCarthyist surveillance and fear tactics) catapults Moby-Dick to attain the status of an American “classic” emblematic of a more, free democratic ethos. Moreover, Melville remains the author of the longest poem, Clarel, on Palestine in American literary history. Recent literary scholars of Melville also mobilize his writings to analyze the limits and possibilities of U.S. constitutionalism, including the First Amendment.