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PAMLA 2026 - The Monstrous Multitude (ddl extended) (still opening) (All kinds of monsters are invited!) (Panel/Special Session)

updated: 
Sunday, June 7, 2026 - 1:33pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Throughout the history of political thought and cultural production, multitudes and mobs that stir up disturbance across the nation, whether revolutionary or reactionary, have frequently been portrayed by the images and metaphors of monstrosity. From the many-headed hydra which was adapted into a political discourse in the early modern age and later revisited by historians such as Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, to contemptuous terms toward the insurrectionists such as swarms or locusts described in Samuel Dolbee’s Locusts of Power, monstrosity and various of dehumanizing terms have long been employed as a signifier through which fears of insurrections are expressed.

CFP for upcoming volume of Anglica Wratislaviensia

updated: 
Sunday, June 7, 2026 - 7:47am
Anglica Wratislaviensia of University of Wrocław
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 25, 2027

Anglica Wratislaviensia 65.2/2027

Anglica Wratislaviensia invites scholarly submissions for its forthcoming issue, which focuses on Anglophone literary and cultural studies and related interdisciplinary fields. While the journal's scope encompasses linguistics, translation studies, and language teaching methodology, this issue welcomes contributions in literary and cultural studies specifically. We seek rigorous, critically engaged work that brings together diverse critical traditions and perspectives from around the world. Comparative and methodologically innovative contributions are particularly welcome.

Submission Guidelines

Indraprasth: An International Journal of Culture & Communication Studies

updated: 
Sunday, June 7, 2026 - 6:37am
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

    Indraprasth: An International Journal of Culture & Communication Studies, (ISSN 2278-7208), the annual journal published by the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences (USHSS) at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University invites unpublished research papers for its upcoming issue, Volume XV (2026), titled “New Paradigms, New Epistemes: Literature and Criticality in the 21st Century.”  

CfP: Themed Dossiers for Mediapolis – A Journal of Cities and Culture

updated: 
Sunday, June 7, 2026 - 4:30am
Linda Kopitz | Mediapolis – A Journal of Cities and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

Mediapolis – A Journal of Cities and Culture is an interdisciplinary open access online journal, drawing a connection between culture and the built environment – understood in the broadest sense. We publish research in different forms, from research articles to Q&A interviews and readings list, and across different academic fields, including but not limited to media studies, urban studies, geography, architecture and art history as well as digital humanities. 

CSULA Eagle Con 2026 – Neo-Los Angeles

updated: 
Saturday, June 6, 2026 - 5:39pm
California State University Los Angeles
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 19, 2026

Join a panel at the 14th annual CSULA Eagle Con!  Eagle Con is an annual event devoted the power and potential of speculative and fantastic media to critique social formations, interrogate subjectivities, and constitute alternative worlds. 

Geographies of Horror

updated: 
Saturday, June 6, 2026 - 6:14am
Department of English Studies (University of Zadar) in collaboration with The Society for the Study of the American Gothic (SSAG)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 1, 2026

Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Central Michigan University)

May 20-21st 2027, University of Zadar (Zadar, Croatia)

Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature

updated: 
Saturday, June 6, 2026 - 2:44am
Department of English Literature, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature

https://critique.gcuf.edu.pk

Submission Deadline: 31 July 2026

 

 

The Editors of Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature invite the submission of original scholarly articles for consideration in the forthcoming issue of the journal.

British Literature and Culture to 1700 (PAMLA Session)

updated: 
Friday, June 5, 2026 - 11:03pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

CONFERENCE

2026 PAMLA Conference, taking place November 12–15 at the Hyatt Regency Seattle

SESSION/PANEL ABSTRACT

Now Reading American Popular Culture Submissions

updated: 
Friday, June 5, 2026 - 7:13pm
Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to present
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 20, 2026

Americana: Call for Submissions Deadline for submissions: Revolving submissions
Now reading through 06/20/2026 for next issue full name / name of organization: Americana contact email: editor@americanpopularculture.com 

Americana invites submissions in Film Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Women's Studies, and American history, and so on -- especially as it pertains to Americana popular culture, 1900 to present.

Call for Hosts for the British Women Writers Conference

updated: 
Friday, June 5, 2026 - 4:07pm
British Women Writers Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

The British Women Writers Association (BWWA) seeks organizers for our
2028 conference and beyond, both in the United States and abroad. The
BWWA’s mission is to bring women from the margins to the center of
literary history by promoting scholarship on and the teaching of long
18th-and 19th-century British women writers in diverse global and
cultural contexts. In practice, the conference invites papers
addressing women’s writing as early as 1660 and as late as 1920,
inclusive of the work of transatlantic and Anglophone authors.

SAMLA 98: Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Friday, June 5, 2026 - 3:38pm
Lisa Wenger Bro / Middle Georgia State University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 15, 2026

Speculative fiction covers a broad range of narrative styles and genres. The cohesive element that pulls works together under the category is that there is some “unrealistic” element, whether it’s magical, supernatural, or a futuristic/technological development: works that fall into the category stray from conventional realism in some way. For this reason, speculative fiction can be quite broad, including everything from fantasy and magical realism to horror and science fiction—from China Miéville to Margaret Atwood to Philip K. Dick.

Grimoires as scholarship, scholarship as grimoires

updated: 
Friday, June 5, 2026 - 11:54am
The Oxford Symposium of Occult Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 3, 2026

‘The pluralism of a postcolonial or decolonial philosophy of religion should be “on both ends” of the discipline; that is, both the phenomena and subjects considered and contemplated by the discipline should be diverse, but also the people, perspectives, and methods engaged in this project should come from diverse backgrounds—not only in terms of race, class, gender, geography, etc. but also in terms of ritual practice, training (both academic and otherwise), initiation or membership in tribes, societies, or “religious” traditions.’

—Oludamini Ogunnaike, “Expanding the Menu or Seats at the Table? Grotesque Pluralism in the (Post)Colonial Philosophy of Religion.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89, no. 2 (2021): 734.

Gender in Fantasy

updated: 
Friday, June 5, 2026 - 10:30am
Dr Kevan Manwaring/The British Fantasy Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2026

Fantasy has long explored lifeworlds and paradigms outside of societal norms. Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s gender-fluid protagonist, declares, ‘I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.’ World myths, legends, folk tales, and fairy tales are early promoters of gender-fluidity, populated by the likes of Inanna/Ishtar; Hermaphroditus, the offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite; androgynous Dionysus; Ardhanarishvara; Ometeotl; Guanyin; cross-dressing thunder and trickster gods; heartsick seafaring maidens disguised as sailors; and the mercurial ontologies of the Fae. In this issue we will explore how gender is portrayed and explored in Fantasy.

The Social Contract in Dispute: Discourse, Legitimacy and Transformation

updated: 
Friday, June 5, 2026 - 5:23am
University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 20, 2026

An interdisciplinary space for critical reflectionThe Social Contract in Dispute: Discourse, Legitimacy and Transformation  

Living in a context of intense political tensions and polarisations that threaten how society is organised and the fundamentals of democratic legitimacy, the 28th International Meeting of Research and Investigation (EIRI) is dedicated to reflecting on the social contract and its contemporary transformations.

"Live Long and Prosper": 60 Years of Star Trek in Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 9:09pm
Popular Culture Research Network PopCRN
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 10, 2026

Call for Conference Papers

"Live Long and Prosper": 60 Years of Star Trek in Popular Culture - 10-11 September 2026

Free and Online

The Popular Culture Research Network, Australia

In September 1966, the first episode of Star Trek aired on American television, introducing audiences to a future shaped by exploration, diplomacy, scientific discovery, and the possibility of social progress beyond the limitations of the present.

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism

updated: 
Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 6:49pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 18, 2026

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism
A Transdisciplinary Conference
July 16-17, 2026
July 16: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 17: Fully online
Conference Page: 
https://labrc.co.uk/2026/01/21/ecopoetics2026/

Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
**Prices exclude Eventbrite fees

Call for Presentations:

PAMLA 2026: Applied Linguistics and Literature Roundtable

updated: 
Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 5:43pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association: Applied Linguistics and Literature Roundtable: Multilingual Practices and Pedagogy
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will take place this November in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15, 2026.

 

SAMLA 2026 Panel: Post-American Hospitalities

updated: 
Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 1:51pm
SAMLA - South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

The 98th annual SAMLA Conference is taking place Thursday, November, 5, through Saturday, November, 7, 2026, at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA.  For more information, see https://southatlanticmla.org/.

FRAME 40.1 "(Be)Longing"

updated: 
Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 11:26am
FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 4, 2026

 

CALL FOR PAPERS FRAME 40.1 “(Be)Longing”

Call for abstracts - Forward Thinking: New Voices for the Future

updated: 
Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 9:28am
Utrecht University / University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Call for abstracts - Forward Thinking: New Voices for the Future

In an era marked by ecological breakdown, epistemic instability, and widening global precarity, the very notion of “the future” has become a site of intense conceptual struggle. We invite scholars carrying out visionary work across the humanities — philosophy, literary theory, political thought, cultural studies, and related fields — to articulate bold and innovative interventions on what it means to think futurity today. 

Queer Ecology and the Supernatural

updated: 
Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 7:07am
Loughborough University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 3, 2026

Call for Papers and Artworks

 

Queer Ecology and the Supernatural 

 

A Two-day Symposium and Exhibition at Loughborough University 18th-19th September 2026

Agricultural and Rural Development in the Twentieth Century

updated: 
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 - 7:43pm
Leo Chu
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 15, 2026

Agricultural and Rural Development in the Twentieth Century
Yearbook for the History of Global Development

Volume co-editors Leo Chu (University of New South Wales) and James Lin (University of Washington, Seattle)

Queering Professional and Technical Communication

updated: 
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 - 4:12pm
Trent M. Kays
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 1, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS
Queering Professional and Technical Communication: Intersectional Approaches to Theory and Practice

Editor: Trent M. Kays, PhD

PAMLA 2026: American Literature from 1945 to the present (deadline extended to 6/30)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 - 3:44pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association: American Literature from 1945 special session
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

The 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference will take place this November in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15.

Our panel will focus on American Literature from 1945 to the present. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works (fiction, poetry, drama) but also essays, memoirs, or creative nonfiction. This session investigates texts that are written by American-identifying authors, composed by writers in the US, or address American life.

Motherhood in the American Imagination

updated: 
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 - 2:14pm
Amanda Konkle
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

I seek proposals for brief scholarly essays (3500-5000 words) that provide an overview of a chosen aspect of motherhood in the American imagination for a volume under contract with a new Bloomsbury series called Exploring the American Imagination: Ideals, Values, and Myths in Popular Culture. 

 

These overview essays should cite a number of popular culture texts to provide an overview of the tensions and contradictions as well as the foundational beliefs inherent in various aspects of American motherhood. If there is an aspect of motherhood that you are interested in discussing, please propose it! Potential topics include: 

 

In Case of Emergency: Catastrophe, Climate, and Capitalism

updated: 
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 - 12:00pm
University of Chicago - Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

University of Chicago | November 5–7, 2026 When we trace the genealogy of crisis, it can seem as if we’ve always been surrounded by catastrophe. Different factions of the ruling class tell us that we need to be prepared, but also that preparation may be fruitless. Crises shift and expand, strengthening their hold on us through their very instability. The state of emergency, after all, “is not the exception but the rule,” as Walter Benjamin theorized. It is not a single event but what Lauren Berlant called a norm “embedded” in the everyday.

Extended Call for Papers for dialog-Special Issue No. 47

updated: 
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 - 8:38am
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 12, 2026

[EXTENDED DEADLINE] CALL FOR PAPERS FOR DIALOG JOURNAL

Special Issue No. 47

Theme: Creative Afterlives of Texts

Note from the Editor: Owing to technical difficulties, the journal website has not yet been updated to display the revised and extended submission deadline (12th June, 2026). Please consider the extended deadline communicated through this announcement as official and valid.

 

Philip K. Dick at 100: Fiction, Philosophy, and Cultural Afterlives Edited Volume (Centenary Collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 - 8:37am
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ercan Gürova, Ankara University, Turkey/ Prof. dr Mladen Jakovljević, University of Priština in Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Call for Papers

Philip K. Dick at 100: Fiction, Philosophy, and Cultural Afterlives

Edited Volume (Centenary Collection)

Editors:
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ercan Gürova
Ankara University, Turkey

Prof. dr Mladen Jakovljević
University of Priština in Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia

 

“Under consideration for publication by a reputable international academic publisher.”

 

Update (new deadline, keynotes): CFP SUS conference, Nov 12-14, 2026 (Portland, OR)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 - 2:28am
Society for Utopian Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Just a quick update regarding the Society for Utopian Studies conference, November 12-14, 2026, in Portland, Oregon. Please see the following link for further information: https://utopian-studies.org/conference2026/.

 -The deadline has been extended to July 15, 2026. -We are thrilled to announce our two keynote speakers: 

Tentative Title- Cross Imagination and Literary Production: African Writers and Indian Characters, Indo- African Writers and African Characters

updated: 
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 - 11:40pm
Dr. Prachi Behrani
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Tentative Title- Cross Imagination and Literary Production: African Writers and Indian Characters, Indo- African Writers and African Characters

 

Globalectics is the interrelationship of all things, the mutual containment of the local and the global.”
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing (2012)

 

AAS 2027 CFP - Boston, MA (March 18-21)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 - 10:50pm
the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Industrial Modernity: Energy, Labor, and Media in 20th Asia

[Extended June 20] "Justice" (SCLA, October 29-31 2026, Austin TX)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 - 6:47pm
Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 20, 2026

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

Taking Care

updated: 
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 - 11:15am
Midwest/Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

CFP: MW/SWCCL, “Taking Care”

Midwest/Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature

College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, Missouri
September 25-26, 2026

 

Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Bilbro, professor of English at Grove City College and editor-in-chief at Front Porch Republic

 

Gothic Nature Issue VI: TV and Film Reviews

updated: 
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 - 8:25am
Gothic Nature
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 1, 2026

Gothic Nature is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that engages with the Gothic conceptions of, and relationship to, the natural world. For the TV and film review section of its sixth issue, the journal seeks reviews for ecoGothic television series and films released in the last couple of years (2023–2026). Issue VI of the journal is unthemed, so there is no restriction on the types of film and TV we’d like reviews for. As a general guideline, we’d be interested to see reviews of the following (please note that this is not an exhaustive list, reviews of other relevant films and programmes are more than welcome):

 

Film:

Special Issue of Studia Neophilologica on Thomas Lovell Beddoes

updated: 
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 - 8:04am
Andrew Hodgson (University of Birmingham)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 2, 2026

2028 will mark the two hundredth anniversary of Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s completion of the first version of his masterpiece Death’s Jest-Book. This special issue of Studia Neophilologica, coinciding also with the centenary of a journal that has been the home of many significant essays on Beddoes’s writings, will offer new readings and accounts of Beddoes’s life, work, and reputation.

Contributions are invited for essays between 5 and 8,000 words on all aspects of Beddoes’s career. Topics might include:

 

DEADLINE JUNE 15: Brandeis Novel Symposium 2026: Human Acts (2014)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 - 6:15am
Brandeis Novel Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

The tenth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will take place on Friday, October 23, 2026, invites proposals for papers on Han Kang’s 2014 novel Human Acts (original title: 소년이 온다, or A Boy Comes; English translation by Deborah Smith). The Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient theoretical, historical, political, and narratological questions about the novel as a genre. (See the 2025 BNS websiteand this archive for more information about the BNS.)

Christian Writers Conference: Restoring Creativity

updated: 
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 - 5:20am
Grove City College / Conference on Christianity and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 11, 2027

Christian Writers Conference 2027 
“Restoring Creativity”
 
 
April 9-10, 2027, Grove City College, PA 

The Eastern Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature 
and Third Annual meeting of the Holy Moot 

Featuring Daniel McInerny, philosopher of art, novelist, and dramatist 

 

Call for Papers 

 

Call for Proposals: Star Trek and the Courtroom

updated: 
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 - 1:35am
Craig A. Meyer
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

Call for Proposals: Star Trek and the CourtroomAn Edited Collection on Justice, Law, and the Trial in Star Trek

We invite proposals for an edited volume examining trial and courtroom episodes across the Star Trek franchise. From “Court Martial” (TOS) to “Ad Astra per Aspera” (SNW), Star Trek has used the trial format to explore questions of personhood, justice, military law, civil rights, ethical responsibility, and the limits of legal systems. These episodes serve as philosophical laboratories, testing the boundaries of law when confronted with, for example, artificial intelligence, alien cultures, time travel, and evolving definitions of sentience and citizenship.

Call for Papers: ‘Routes & Roots: Transnational Genealogies of Art Education’

updated: 
Monday, June 1, 2026 - 12:01pm
International Journal of Education Through Art
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 28, 2027

Call for Papers: International Journal of Education Through Art

Special Issue: ‘Routes & Roots: Transnational Genealogies of Art Education’

Guest Editors:

Dustin Garnet University of British Columbia

dustin.garnet@ubc.ca

Indira Bailey Claflin University

ibailey@claflin.edu

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-education-through-art#call-for-papers

CFP: Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference 2026 - DEADLINE EXTENDED

updated: 
Monday, June 1, 2026 - 8:23am
Tufts University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

Theme: Is it a Wonderful Life?

Wonder (n.): a feeling of surprise or awe, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable

Wonder (v.): to feel some doubt or curiosity; to be desirous to know or learn.

Wondrous (adj.): marvelous; wonderful. 

Deadline extended: 2nd International Conference of the Just Transition Knowledge Network (JETNET) - Transitions in Extractive Regions: Sustainable Closures, Repurposing and Developmental Pathways

updated: 
Monday, June 1, 2026 - 1:47am
Just Transition Research Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

Background

The Just Transition Knowledge Network (JETNET), an initiative of the Just Transition Research Centre at IIT Kanpur, invites national and international participants to its Annual Conference 2026.

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