The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is pleased to announce the following awards: Research AwardProvides $500 towards the completion of outstanding scholarly work on Emerson and the influence of his ideas. The award supports archival research, costs associated with publishing an article, book, or other project-related expenses. We welcome applications from junior scholars and independent scholars as well as established scholars. Please submit a confidential letter of recommendation, and a carefully crafted 1-2 page single-spaced project description, including, where relevant, a summary of project expenses.

The Scottish Archipelago. Literatures and cultures of Scottish islands, of Scottish insularity, of Scotland as an island, or of islands of Scottishness around Britain and the globe: whether homogeneous or heterogeneous, chained together or scattered apart in diaspora.

Please write to Sam Baker at sebaker@utexas.edu with expressions of interest or full proposals (250 word abstract + short cv)

Landscapes of Data and DebtDeadline: April 20, 2026Submission Requirements: Please email a 250-word abstract and brief bio-note to powellti@gvsu.edu. What histories, epistemologies, and systems of power shape the social, spatial, and environmental dimensions of financialization and datafication in the globalized present? And what role does literature, art, and storytelling play in representing life—datafied, indebted, and in climate crisis? Exploring debt and data reveals systems of collection and control, as well as ecological harm.

SEXTANT: Masculinities, Sexualities & Decolonialities

ISSN 2990-8124

doi.org/10.65621/ITRF5506

Observatory of Masculinities

University College Dublin

sextant@ucd.ie 

Call for Contributions

Special Issue: Inclusion in Education: Practices, Politics, and Possibilities

The 

Aims and Objectives

Aims and Scope of the Journal

Panel Title “Gender Archive: Beyond the Evidence”

The ease with which people can scan a database, or source can impact the research process. At times, users of digitally archived sources may overlook authentic artifacts unavailable electronically. Although not done deliberately, this practice can weaken the validity of historical research.

—Naif Albishri “The Future of History: How Digital Archives Provides Another Path for Research” The State Press, 2024.

The short story has proven to be fertile ground for writers seeking to interrogate what the act of recording lives and the search for meaning entails, often through imagined renderings of the machineries of archive. In works such as Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Library of Babel,” Danilo Kis’s “The Encyclopedia of the Dead,” and Ivan Vladislavic’s “The Loss Library,” for example, writers engage with “the forces that govern preservation and erasure” in line with this year’s MMLA convention theme. 

This panel seeks papers that consider how these and other concerns find expression through the short story form.

In the collective global imaginary, humans seemingly write the world in isolation. We dictate the climate, biodiversity, and natural resources but we also control the ways in which the world is perceived through literature. This roundtable considers how literature is a co-constitutive process written through connectivity across time and space, landscapes, species, environments, and voices by humans and more-than-humans.

DEADLINE: April 5, 2026

In light of the recent resurgence in scholarly work on the writings of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, we are proposing an MLA volume on “Approaches to Teaching the Works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.” Freeman’s oeuvre is extensive, and her work intersects with queer studies, disability studies, animal studies, food studies, Gothic studies, ecocriticism, labor history, and more. The MLA will decide whether to commission a book based on the quality and quantity of survey responses, so if you are a scholar who engages Freeman in the classroom, we would appreciate it if you would complete the survey. If you are interested in contributing to this volume, we also invite you to submit a proposal.

Call for Papers (CFP) for ISBN Edited Volume
Edited Volume Title: Body Politics in Literature

About the Volume

The body in literature is never neutral; it is a site where power is exercised, identities are shaped, and social meanings are constantly negotiated. Rather than viewing the body as a purely biological entity, literary texts reveal it as something produced through cultural norms, political structures, and ideological forces. This edited volume, Body Politics in Literature, aims to investigate how writers across different periods and traditions represent the body as a space of control, conflict, and transformation.

**Call for Papers for the 17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic

Violence and the Fantastic
University of Cologne
September 17-19, 2026

**DEADLINE EXTENDED to 13 April 2026**

Call for Papers: 

Listening to Possible Worlds 

Sound and Music in Speculative Literature and Culture 

22-23 October 2026, Leiden University, the Netherlands (in-person) 

Confirmed keynote speakers are Anna Snaith (King’s College London) and Chris Tonelli (University of Groningen) 

Narratives of Resistance and African Literature: Articulating Dissent, Disobedience and Pluriversal Futures

Special issue of English Academy Review (Taylor and Francis)

Link: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/narratives-of-resistan...

Special Issue Editor(s)

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
goutamkarmakar@uohyd.ac.in

The year 2026 marks the centenary of Michel Foucault’s birth, a milestone that invites a profound reassessment of a thinker whose "grey, meticulous" genealogies have fundamentally altered the landscape of the humanities. For the students of literature, Foucault remains an indispensable figure, not merely as a philosopher of the prison or the clinic, but as the premier architect of the "space of language." His move to dissociate the text from the sovereign "Author", famously articulated in his 1969 essay What is an Author?, transformed the literary work from a vessel of personal genius into a site of discursive struggle.

Submission Guidelines 

• The deadline for submissions is March 20th, 2026. Please submit a 300-word abstract with a short 50-word bio to our conference email address: otherothering@gmail.com

• We are only accepting submissions written in the English language 

• Each participant is allocated 15 minutes for their presentation

• Successful applicants will receive an invitation to the conference by 2nd April, 2026

Concept of other and othering 

The LSL Language Change Forum invites proposals for the following panels at the 2027 MLA Annual Conference in Los Angeles:

Empowering Language Change

This guaranteed panel invites papers examining how linguistic changes enable—and emerge from—emancipatory practices across spoken, written, digital, pedagogical, and/or related contexts.

Listening to Language Change: Evidence of Emancipation

This guaranteed panel invites papers examining how emancipatory movements become visible through linguistic changes—historically, contemporarily, or in imagined futures—across disciplines.

Please consider submitting an abstract to present in my conference panel. The conference is open to graduate students (MA and PhD-track), educators, practicing artists, and museum professionals. Details below:

Call for Abstracts – SECAC Panel

Immersive Threads: Narrative, Participation, and the Making of Experiential Worlds

How do narrative and participation become interwoven within immersive environments? How do we, as participants, become threads within experiential artworks, installations, museums, performances, digital platforms, or urban spaces?

Call for Papers: International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics

Special Issue: ‘Entertainment Video Games Within Wider Culture’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-media-cultural-politics#call-for-papers

Context

The Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Centre in Paris and the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Silesia in Katowice cordially invite you to the academic conference entitled:

IN COLLABORATION ON COOPERATION: RESEARCH IN LINGUISTICS WITHIN FRENCH-POLISH TEAMS

9–10 July 2026
Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences
74 Rue Lauriston, 75116 Paris, France

We invite submissions for a special session at the 2026 PAMLA meeting (Seattle, WA; November 12-15, 2026) on “Biblical and Middle Eastern Literatures.” All papers will be allotted about 20 minutes. Papers must be presented in person.

Genre has traditionally been seen as a framework or series of frameworks for organizing texts (and other artworks) so they may be analyzed with some degree of precision, yet the meaning of the term has always been unstable. Disagreements arise around specific classifications, and the term has often been redefined or simply deployed, without explanation, in different ways. The novel, for instance, has been subject to numerous and diverging definitions, from (to name only a few) Gyorgy Lukacs to Mikhail Bakhtin to Ralph Rader to Priya Joshi.  Such classifications, no matter how numerous, are familiar.