Environmental Hope: Genres and Methods

Environmental humanists and literary scholars have many genres for theorizing environmental fear, injustice, despair, or pessimism. Environmental gothic, noir, picaresque, horror, and crime fiction are all genres theoretically defined by and committed to engaging with exploitation and terror in historically and formally specific ways. And the hermeneutic of suspicion, devoted to diagnosing and revealing obscured forces and causes, is especially attuned to those that produce systemic violence. We know how to read for necropolitics, colonialism and neocolonialism, anti-Blackness, objectification, and misogyny.

Conference Theme: Gateways

For its 2027 annual conference, the College English Association (CEA) invites proposals for papers and panels that explore the theme of “Gateways” and their significance in literature, criticism, and pedagogy.  

Call for Papers: Special Topic "The Profession" at CEA 2027

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

Narrative is among the most enduring and adaptive structures of human meaning-making. Across millennia, it has evolved from oral performance and manuscript cultures to print, cinema, broadcast television, digital platforms, and now algorithmically curated streaming environments and AI-assisted compositions.

Call for Chapters

Architectures of Deceit: Fraud, Imposture, and Deception in Contemporary Screen Culture

(under consideration byEdinburgh University Press)

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Mystery, Suspense, and True Crime for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Theme: Technology, Ecology and Extinction: Narratives of Survival and Loss
Date: 5-6 March 2027, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Organisers: Symbiosis Centre for Media and Communication (SCMC), Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India

Abstract:

The Winter's Tale: From Page to Stage

IASEMS Tempera Seminar 2027 University of Padova, Department of Language and Literary Studies, 7-9 June 2027

Convenors: Rocco Coronato, Alice Equestri, Alessandra Petrina

Scientific Committee: Rocco Coronato, Alice Equestri, Alessandra Petrina, and the IASEMS Executive Board

Guest Editors for the Special Issue
Carlos André Cordeiro de Oliveira (Federal Institute of Paraiba, Brazil)
Alfredo Adolfo Cordiviola (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Danielle Grace de Almeida (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
Nishat Zaidi (Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, NewDelhi, India)
Paul Melo e Castro (University of Glasgow, Scotland)

Call for Papers: Creative Writing at CEA 2027

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Creative Writing for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

AI & Antiquity: Journal of Teaching and Technology in Ancient Studies invites contributions for its first Special Issue, Playing Antiquity: Video Games, Teaching and Historical Knowledge, to be published in June 2027.

Video games have become one of the major environments through which students and wider audiences encounter the ancient world. Yet their significance for Ancient Studies extends beyond questions of historical accuracy. Through mechanics, rules, maps, narratives, economies, political systems, and player choice, games transform particular interpretations of Antiquity into interactive and playable systems.

Storyworlds is an interdisciplinary journal of narrative studies. We publish cutting-edge research on storytelling practices across times, cultures, and media. The journal foregrounds research questions that cut across established disciplines and seeks to promote the understanding of narrative and storytelling as worldmaking—and worldbreaking—practices. 

We currently have a number of books available or forthcoming for review. 

AI and Sovereignty

Artificial intelligence is transforming the conditions through which power is exercised, distributed, and legitimized. The development and deployment of AI systems involve not only technological questions, but also fundamental issues concerning language, communication, authority, identity, autonomy, control, and sovereignty.

Caste and Capitalism in Contemporary India

Call for Papers: Mystery, Suspense, and True Crime at CEA 2027

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Mystery, Suspense, and True Crime for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

“Borderless World: Text, Image, and Sound” 

Florida State University, Tallahassee 

April 1-2, 2027 

How do we imagine life beyond borders? How do disparate texts, images, sounds, bodies, languages, and histories become interconnected? What does it mean to inhabit a world where boundaries are unstable, permeable, or altogether absent? Conversely, how are borders constantly produced, negotiated, and challenged through acts of creation, interpretation, and community-building? 

Call for Papers

The BCPS Conference, inaugurated in 1992, is the oldest and longest-running annual meeting of its kind in the U.S. We call for presentations situated in colonial and postcolonial histories, literatures, creative and performing arts, politics, economics, and all other aspects of the countries formerly colonized by Britain and other European powers.

Please join us at Georgia Southern University's Armstrong Campus in Savannah for the critical engagement, friendly community, and vibrant network that has been a hallmark of the BCPS Conference for over three decades.

We invite proposals situated in both thematic and geographic areas, including:

Call for Papers: BIPOC & Asian American Literature at CEA 2027 (4/1-4/3/27)

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on BIPOC & Asian American Literature for our 2027 conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

How does financialization shift our relationship to the future? And what new insights emerge when we decenter northern approaches in our analysis?

CFP for Futures of Memory Conference 2027

Performing the Past, Witnessing (for) the Future: Memory in the Posthumanist Era

PKMS Graduate Student Conference and Workshop: Dinner Party Medieval Studies 

Thursday, February 18 – Friday, February 19 2027

The Graduate Center, CUNY

The 34th Annual NINE Spring Training Conference (March 3-6, 2027) invites original unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history, literature, and social policy implications. Abstracts only, not to exceed 300 words, should be submitted by December 4, 2026, to co-directors Willie Steele (wdsteele@lipscomb.edu) and David Pegram (david.pegram@paradisevalley.edu) for the abstract committee’s consideration. We ask that you please copy your submission to both of us.

We would like to invite you to join and contribute to the 2nd Shapeshifters Symposium: Plasticity – Here, There, and Everywhere. This symposium brings together people interested in plasticity from a broad range of perspectives, from the natural and formal sciences to the social sciences, humanities, and art. During the symposium, we hope to further expand the concept of plasticity across disciplines.

Who are we? We are a group of interdisciplinary researchers working on the concept of plasticity, sponsored by the Dutch Centre for Unusual Collaborations.

Date & Venue

An International Conference on Climate Change and Epistemic Recovery: Indigenous Pathways

Submission of abstract: 1 October 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2026

Organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, in academic collaboration with the Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar

Concept Note:

CALL FOR PAPERSBetter MenHealing Masculinity and Dismantling Patriarchy From Within

What would it mean for a man to come home to himself?

Not the patriarchal self shaped by silence and performance, but the divine masculine. Patriarchy teaches men that strength has no needs, that manhood means enduring and providing. What does it look like to reclaim a masculine self that knows how to grieve and how to celebrate, how to ask for help and how to offer it, how to listen and how to share?