Proposals for 15-20 minute papers responding to the following call for papers are invited for the Dickens Society's panel at NeMLA 2027 (March 6-9, Newport, RI).

Special call for specific chapters on the subject of Vampires and Fashion, for a volume under contract at Peter Lang. 

For the last 100 years vampires have graced screens large and small, dressed in clothing that has become part and parcel of their appeal. From drab gray and black German frock coats to full formal tuxes, from diaphanous gowns to sleek, form-hugging dresses, from haute couture to jeans and leather jackets, and from wing-collared capes to Middle Eastern chadors, vampire fashion is varied and exciting, yet has, to date, received little academic attention.

The Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico invites proposals for three
sponsored sessions for ICMS 2027. Proposals must be submitted through the ICMS Confex
Portal (https://shorturl.at/d05So) by 15 September 2026, including title, 300 word abstract and
50 word description.

CALL FOR PAPERS/AMERICAN LITERATURE

COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE

APRIL 1-3, 2027 / ST LOUIS, MO

SUBMISSION SITE IS OPEN: https://www.conftool.pro/cea2027 

DEADLINE: 11/01/2026

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. we also encourage proposals on GENERAL TOPICS, including AMERICAN, BRITISH, AND WORLD LITERATURES.

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Call for Papers | Chronologies 

The Velvet Light Trap, Volume 100 (to be published fall 2027) 

Submission deadline: September 20, 2026 

Framing the Human in the Nineteenth Century

48th Annual Conference

Nineteenth-Century Studies Association

Philadelphia, PA

March 11-13, 2027

Conference website: https://ncsaweb.net/2027-conference-information/

Call for Proposals
Submission Deadline: October 31, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: January 2027
Please submit proposals via this Google Form
Questions? Email the conference organizers at ncsa2027conference@gmail.com 

CALL FOR PAPERSDHARTI 2026 Biennial ConferenceDecolonising the Digital: Social Justice, Inclusion, and Equitable Knowledge Production

18–20 December 2026
KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Hosted by KIIT Deemed to be University in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations (DHARTI).

Conference Theme

This panel seeks to examine the profound significance of food as a central narrative element in literature and its broader implications for literary scholarship. Inspired by this year's conference theme, Empowering Communities, the panel explores moments in which food transcends its culinary function to become a source of cultural knowledge, communal identity, and collective agency. Whether gathered around a dinner table, preserving family recipes, or cultivating food traditions in the face of displacement or oppression, literary communities frequently use food to sustain memory, foster belonging, and resist erasure.

West Coast Review (SDSU Press) is seeking art, flash fiction, short stories, and any creative prose that falls in-between. This includes creative non-fiction, memoires, craft essays and experimental prose pieces. We accept all genres--we just want pieces that are bold and embrace the diversity found on the west coast!

Guidelines:

We are currently accepting flash fiction, short stories, and any creative prose that falls in-between (this includes creative non-fiction, craft essays, and experimental work). Our maximum word count is 5000 words. For flash fiction, we accept up to three stories in a single submission.

What strategies can paper ephemera teach us in the digital age? This panel invites conversations by writing instructors, educators, poets, and artists exploring the work that happens at/within the margins of writing. Both literally and figuratively, we take an expansive scope to the term “margins,” imagining not only the writing that appears on the space of the printed page, but writing that would normally be scrapped, discarded, remixed, or ephemeralized. This can include digital ephemera, such as “disappearing” messages in Instagram or other communication services. At another angle: margins can also mean the liminality of writing, the furthermost edges of what’s often standard and visible.

We are seeking chapter proposals for a new edited collection entitled Modern Meta Myths, examining intersections of mythic adaptation/reception with critical self-awareness. The collection aims to bring together a diverse array of chapters, working through different methodologies, generic focuses, and analyzing adaptations/receptions of various world mythological traditions. We define “myth” broadly, to include legends, fairy tales, religious stories, even folk tales, in addition to more traditional bodies of mythology. In particular, we’re excited to read proposals about world mythic engagement beyond the Euro-American tradition.

In his seminal and final film Black Is…Black Ain’t, the documentarian Marlon Riggs utilizes a pot of gumbo to articulate his thesis that Blackness necessitates an identity built on multiplicity, complication, and depth, a production requiring expansiveness in its sustained attention (Riggs 1995). Such a vision contests and destabilizes narratives depicted within the film that sought to limit Black identities and identifications, and it cuts against the second half of his title, which suggests Blackness in terms of negation, evasion, and minimization. The title to this conference continues a conversation with Riggs and also with Ralph Ellison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Toni Morrison, Stuart Hall, and centuries of international Black thought.

 Society for Reformation Research (SRR) welcomes 20 minute papers across the disciplines for our four Virtual Sessions at the 62nd Medieval Congress May 13-15, 2027. Focus on the Long Reformation (medieval roots to current iterations).

Sessions are:

Call for Proposals: Sessions, Panels, Papers

Come join a vivid and diverse community of scholars and professionals to discuss the history and depiction of the sea through a popular culture perspective!

We are considering proposals for individual papers, panels, creative sessions, and roundtables. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per session. Scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and working professionals are all encouraged to submit. Proposals may include (but are not restricted to):

What if craft is not the lesser twin of art, but another theory of making, one in which the hand thinks, the material answers, and form emerges through a dialogue with earth, fibre, clay, metal, wood, stone, pigment, or thread? What if the translator is not a mere carrier but a craftsperson, whose hands weaves culture, sound, meaning and memory? Is craft merely an act of mechanical repetition, or is it a profound performance of material translation? Is translation a routine reproduction or a craftsperson of cultural artefacts?

CFP for an in person session of papers at the International Cogress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) at Kalamazoo, MI, May 13-15, 2027

Session #8642: Intangible, Intelligible, Intractable: Unruly (Re)readings of the Medieval

We are seeking authors for chapters of a forthcoming book collection, Women, Gender, and Protest: Transnational Activism and Movements of Resistance, edited by Mehra Shirazi, Patti Duncan, and aman agah. This is a reference volume for Bloomsbury Academic Publishing on the topic of transnational feminist protest movements, and will be part of the series, Women and Society around the World, marketed as an accessible text for undergraduate college students, upper-level high school students, and public libraries. Chapters must be structured around specific world regions and each chapter should be approximately 10,000 words.

Hosted by James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

Conference Dates: February 10-12, 2027
Submission Deadline: October 23, 2026

The African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Center at James Madison University invites proposals for its annual interdisciplinary conference Beyond Repair: Reconciliations, Restorations, Resurgences. The conference will be held from Wednesday, February 10 to Friday, February 12, 2027 and brings together scholars, archivists, and practitioners from a variety of overlapping and intersecting fields. Submit proposals by October 23, 2026.

Thinking Stupidity: Literature, Philosophy, and Critical Theory

This seminar explores the problem of stupidity, ignorance, and idiocy in literature, philosophy, and critical theory.

PAEDEIA: NSU Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences

 PLEASE CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK Submit

*"Online First" publication upon acceptance

*Expected print publication in December 2026

ICAF is excited to announce its first conference outside of North America and invites proposals for scholarly presentations for its twenty-second meeting, to be held online and in person at Edinburgh Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland. 

~Call for FULL Chapter:

Update: The manuscript is nearly finished however a planned chapter has fallen through. Replacement chapter needed immediately. Please review the details below and contact me: maureen.fadem@gmail.com

This is a call for chapters for The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison, a new companion volume intended for a scholarly audience, as support for newer Morrison scholars approaching their research, as well as graduate students working on Morrison.

This panel seeks papers that interrogate Asian American injury as a recurring motif and rhetoric in literature and media. Recent Asian American scholarship and aesthetic/cultural production have promoted the political utility of minor affects (Sianne Ngai, Cathy Park Hong), new discourses and praxes of collectivity and community (“cut fruit diaspora”; the emergence of “Wasia” and “Wasian meetups”), and sentimental identification through commodities and commodification in the current moment of late-stage capitalism (Crying in HMart; Ocean Vuong’s inclusion in Oprah’s Book Club).

Nineteenth-century Latin American culture is laden with scenes of deception. The husband who discovers his wife in the arms of another man; the police officer who arrests a male suspect only to find, beneath their trousers, the lace of a dress; the aristocrat whose presumed whiteness is exposed as racial passing—such episodes erupt across novels, short stories, newspapers, and legal archives. Their conclusions are equally familiar: those who deceive are made to suffer, while those who survive their exposure are expected to perform repentance, shame, or moral redemption.