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New Perspectives on Central American Literature and Cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 11:06am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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.

3RD UTAD Conference "Evolution" (Turkish Society for Theatre Research) (extended deadline 30 June)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 11:06am
Turkish Society for Theatre Research
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

3rd International UTAD Theatre Research Conference

“Evolution”

Transformations in Theatre, Drama, and Performance

Hosted by:
Turkish Society for Theatre Research (UTAD), Süleyman Demirel University, Departments of English Language and Literature and  Theatre, Türkiye
Conference Dates: 4-5-6 September 2025
Venue: Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Türkiye

 

Early Modern Stationers and their Shop Signs (RSA 2026 Paper Panel)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 11:04am
Andreas P. Bassett / San José State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

This panel interrogates early modern stationer signs by situating them within topographical and cultural contexts of the period. Before the advent of numbered street addresses, wooden signboards fixed in the frontages of printing houses and bookshops signaled sites of literary and social exchange. These signs did double duty: they were simultaneously public-facing trade emblems and paratexts in the title-page imprints of books they authorized. As uniquely biblio-visual arguments, then, they worked in concert to broadcast a stationer’s stock, specialization, and geopositioning in the book trade.

Previously on...: Queer Representation, Racist Ideologies, and the Cultural Navigation of Reality TV

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 10:54am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This virtual panel will discuss and argue how reality shows such as RuPaul’s Drag RaceWe’re HereSurvivorThe Rehearsal, and Nathan for You challenge expectations and limitations of narrative and media, and how these shows impact social and cultural understanding of underrepresented communities through spectacle, queerness, race, and gender.

This panel welcomes papers, presentations, and works-in-progress (?!) on reality television and how this genre intersects with critical race and gender studies, critical media studies, fan studies, and digital fandom subcultures.

https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21837

 

 

Transcendental Rhetoric in the Times of Rise of GenAI

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 10:53am
NeMLA's 57th Annual Convention, March 8-6, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In the words of Nathan Crick, transcendentalism is a “rhetorical genre of public advocacy” and “a way of crossing a divide or reconciling a contradiction through a radical act of imagination whereby people are able to see and judge themselves from the perspectives of some distant and different ‘beyond’ (9). How can the transcendentalist philosophy of learning inform our 21st-century pedagogy of higher education, when GenAI is rising? GenAI's one challenge in higher education, especially in teaching writing and interpreting literature, is its increasingly seamless integration into digital devices, which has posed a threat of erasing learners' self or individual voice and perpetuating algorithmic bias.

The Pittsburgh Review of Books (PRoB)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 10:53am
Carnegie Mellon University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026

This September the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University will be launching a new publication called the Pittsburgh Review of Books (or PRoB). To be edited by author and Public Humanities Special Faculty Ed Simon, PRoB will be a home for engaged, creative, and interdisciplinary cultural criticism and analysis across the humanities. The tone of the publication will be similar to other para-academic publications intended for both specialists and a general audience. In addition to book reviews and excerpts, essays and criticism across the humanities and social sciences will be published. Queries and pitches are to be sent to Ed Simon at esimon@andrew.cmu.edu

The Works of Tonino Guerra

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 10:53am
Geoffrey Lokke
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 18, 2025

Dear Colleagues,

 

I am editing a volume dedicated to the work of the prolific Italian poet and screenwriter Tonino Guerra (1920–2012). The book is under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. 

 

Guerra is perhaps best known for his collaborations with auteurs including Federico Fellini (Amarcord), Michelangelo Antonioni (Red Desert), Andrei Tarkovsky (Nostalghia), and Theo Angelopoulos (Voyage to Cythera), among others. 

 

Recovering Southeast Asian Identity through the Postcolonial Archive

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 10:53am
James Matthew Villanueva / Temple University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Northeast MLA, March 5-8 2026

This session explores how postcolonial Southeast Asian literature grapples with memory, trauma, archival recovery, and cultural identity. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging, agency, and identity. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures.

Rethinking the Human: Artificial Intelligence, Dystopia, and Dismantling Power Structures

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 10:53am
Ruma Sinha/Rider University and Billie Thoidingjam Guarino/Saint Anselm College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

A few days before the Independence Day of India in 2023, the Special Police Unit for North-Eastern Region (SPUNER) under the Delhi police circulated a Google form to collect information on “North-Eastern People, Ladakhis & Gorkhas of Darjeeling residing in Delhi” for “better policing Safety & Security.” This incident raises serious concerns due to its discriminatory nature against these marginalized communities and poses security risks involved with the storage and ethical use of such data. This aspect of collecting information becomes even more pertinent during critical moments such as elections or the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.

(CFP: NAMLA 2026) (Un)Belonging and Becoming: (Re)generating Identity and Cultural Reinvention

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 10:53am
Wenyuan Wang / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This panel explores how immigrant and multiethnic writers in the U.S. (re)generate identity and cultural belonging through literature, language, and storytelling, focusing on experiences of (un)belonging, displacement, and fractured selfhood.

International Conference on Ethics and Spectatorship in Film and Screen Media

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 10:53am
Giacomo Leoni, University College Cork
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025


International Conference
Ethics and Spectatorship in Film and Screen Media
University College Cork, Ireland
29–30 November 2025

The International Conference “Ethics and Spectatorship in Film and Screen Media” will take place on 29–30 November 2025 at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. 

We are pleased to announce that our keynote speakers will be:

Completely Nailing the Job Interview (NeMLA roundtable)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 10:46am
Northeast MLA, 3/5-8/26 Pittsburgh
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

A job interview can be a terrifyingly mysterious part of the job application process. This roundtable for the 2026 NeMLA Convention, to be held March 5-8 in Pittsburgh, seeks recently hired faculty and those who have recently served on search committees to discuss their successful experiences with the job interview process, and offer tips or strategies to those currently on the market. We particularly hope for a range of perspectives from international scholars and people employed by diverse institutions in a variety of roles.

Submit proposal here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21585

Call for Papers for dialog no 45 (spring 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 3:30am
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Call for Papers

dialog, No. 45, Spring 2025

dialog, a Peer-reviewed, Bi-annual International Journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India is open to submissions for its next issue, No. 45, Spring 2025 (ISSN: 0975 - 4881). dialog provides a forum for interdisciplinary research on diverse aspects of culture, society and literature. For its forthcoming issue, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University specifically invites:

 

Teaching Twenty-First Century Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 2:29pm
Mitch R. Murray
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Edited Collection: Teaching Twenty First Century Literature


*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 7/30/2025 ***

“One cannot have too large a party”: a 250 años del nacimiento de Jane Austen

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 10:18pm
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

La Cátedra Extraordinaria Virginia Woolf

El Colegio de Letras Modernas 

El Departamento de Letras Inglesas

 

Convocan al Coloquio

 

“One cannot have too large a party”: a 250 años del nacimiento de Jane Austen

 

Upcoming deadline: CFP The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 10:56am
International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture (INNC)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture (INNC) 3rd Annual Symposium

Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

Date: 19 September 2025

Location: Online

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Gabrielle Decamous, Kyushu University, Japan, author of Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age (2019)

UVA Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVIII (9/18-20)

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 10:23am
University of Virginia-Wise Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the University of Virginia’s College at Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies.

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 3:46am
Bodoland University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

International Seminar

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

16 & 17 October 2025

Venue: Bodoland University, Kokrajhar

A Special Issue will be published in Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)

 

Call for Book Chapters - Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 1:17am
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 28, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.

My Wild Heart Bleeds: New Perspectives on Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla

updated: 
Sunday, June 22, 2025 - 1:06pm
Dr Sam Hirst
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CFP: ‘My Wild Heart Bleeds: Exploring Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’and its legacy’

 

Sheridan Le Fanu published his sapphic vampire tale ‘Carmilla’ in 1872, reworking the vampire genre, and creating a figure who has inspired subsequent original works and reimaginings. This collection focuses on new explorations and readings of ‘Carmilla’ and its ongoing legacy, from adaptations and reimaginings to more subtle influences on the figure of the female vampire and the vampiric tradition more broadly.

Extended 2025: "Teaching Texts Remotely: Challenges and Strategies for Teaching Asynchronously."

updated: 
Saturday, June 21, 2025 - 10:57pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 29, 2025

"Teaching Texts Remotely: Challenges and Strategies for Teaching Asynchronously"

 

This roundtable encourages classroom narratives of successful moments teaching texts in a virtual learning management system (LMS) space. Considerations for using open educational resources (OER), novels, short stories, poems, graphic novels, readers, articles, films, or other texts are welcome. Classes can be composition- or literature-based and presentations may focus on the strategy, challenge, or the selection of texts.

Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2026

updated: 
Saturday, June 21, 2025 - 6:11am
Science Fiction Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 11, 2026

We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation in 2026. To be considered for the competition, please submit an original article on any topic, period, theme, author, film or other media within the (broadly defined) field of science fiction and its academic study. Approximate length should be 6000-8000 words. All submitted articles should comply with the guidelines to contributors as set out on the journal pages of the SF Foundation website.

NRITYAJYOTI FESTIVAL: VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2025

updated: 
Friday, June 20, 2025 - 12:01pm
Foundation for Developed India
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

NRITYAJYOTI FESTIVAL: VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2025

Organised by 

Foundation for Developed India

 

20th September, 2025

Call for Papers

 

Concept Note:

Embodied Masculinities: Reconfiguring the Hegemony

updated: 
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 9:07pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Feminist scholar Peggy Phelan (1993) famously said that “visibility is a trap” and argued for the immense power of the unmarked. Such a theory of the unmarked finds utmost relevance in the case of what R.W. Connell calls hegemonic masculinity, which often maintains its superiority by being the norm and thus abstract, untraceable. However, material bodily practices among marginalized groups of men often subvert such invisibility tactics, expose the nodes of hegemonic and normative masculinities, and articulate a language of resistance. For example, dance scholar Mark Broomfield (2024) observes that black gay male dancers in America use “straight acting” as a way of passing and surviving in a world where white heterosexual masculinity is the norm.

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