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Call For Proposals
The Upstart Crows: The Beatles and the British Literary Tradition
(Edited Volume)
Deadline for Submissions:
November 1, 2026
Contact email:
tpace@jcu.edu
A Matter of Life and Death
Call for Papers: Victorians Institute Conference 2026
September 11-13, 2026, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Knoxville, TN
Following along from the urgency of last year’s theme, Victorian Studies: Who Cares? this year’s theme asks conference participants to consider matters of life and death in the Victorian era. What did it mean to live and die in Victorian England? How are matters of life and death reflected in the literature of the time?
The 123rd Annual PAMLA Conference's Digital Studies session examines how digital technologies shape human life, culture, the environment, and academia. The area remains interested in a broad range of work at the intersection of the humanities, the arts, and digital culture. However, in line with this year’s conference theme (“Our Ruling Classes: Class, Power, Conflict”), we are particularly interested in the power structures that shape how technologies are used, by whom, and to what ends. Who is included in the design and implementation of digital technologies, and who is left out? Who benefits, and who pays the greatest costs?
The permanent section "Women in Literature" is seeking papers for the MMLA convention held 12-14 November 2026 in Chicago.
Archives are based upon categories, the fundamental one being what is and what is not worth remembering. In literature, rebellious women are also categorized and tend to become exemplars (and are memorialized) or are erased. This panel seeks to complicate what is worth remembering by examining the silences and gaps in what tends to be categorized as “rebellious.” Of particular interest are women in literature who engage in quotidian acts of rebellion, figures who may be rebellious in some ways but traditional in others, and other examples that problematize what might qualify as a “rebellious woman.”
All information is accesible also on the conference website: https://events.ceu.edu/2026-10-08/cfp-collectingcreating-archive-based-m...
TARTALO. 10th International Conference on Myth in the Arts (2026).
17-20 November 2026, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)
Venue: Faculty of Arts, EHU (University of the Basque Country) / online
CALL FOR PAPERS
Call for Chapters in an Edited Volume:
For its forthcoming issue, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration (MSJ) invites submissions that encompass the latest research in film and media studies. Submission categories include feature articles (6,000-7,000 words); mise-en-scène featurettes (1,000-1,500 words); reviews of films, DVDs, Blu-rays or conferences (1,500-2,500 words); interviews (2,500-5,000 words); undergraduate scholarship (2,000-2,500 words) or video essays (8-10 minute range). All submissions must include a selection of supporting images from the film(s) under analysis and be formatted according to MLA guidelines, 9th edition.
International Conference “Pleasure and Pain in Women’s Writing”
Organized by IWWA (International Women’s Writing Association)
and the L&GEND Research Group
9th-11th September 2026
G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Conference Venue: Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Pescara (ITALY)
Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP), a peer-reviewed journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2026 adn 2027 issues. Covering all periods and genres of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. We also welcome proposals for our "Prospects" series in which scholars forecast future developments (and identify scholarly gaps) in the study of major authors.
Instructions for submissions may be found @ http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_rals.html.
Apologies for crossposting.
Call for Papers: Fashion, Style & Popular Culture
Special Issue: ‘Muslim Fashion and Style’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/fashion-style-popular-culture#call-for-papers
Guest Editor
Sabah Firoz Uddin, Bowie State University
Speculative fiction (broadly defined as an umbrella genre encompassing science fiction, fantasy, and horror, among others) offers powerful tools for interrogating systems of authority, social hierarchy, and cultural possibility. By constructing alternative worlds, speculative narratives illuminate the structures that govern our own, revealing how power operates through technology, empire, class, race, gender, and the environment. This session invites papers that explore how speculative fiction critiques, reimagines, or destabilizes ruling systems and dominant ideologies. Possible topics include dystopian governance, resistance and revolution, speculative visions of justice, and the cultural work of world-building.
Multiple hands: Shakespeare and Collaborative Creation
18-20th March 2027, Paris (France) - Annual Conference of the Société Française Shakespeare
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to welcome you to the Fifth International Language-for-All Conference (LfAC’26), which will take place on October 22–23, 2026, at Çukurova University in Adana, Türkiye.
Centred on the theme “Social Justice: Language, Equity, Voice, and Empowerment,” the conference brings together scholars, educators, and practitioners working in language education, linguistics, literary studies, translation and interpretation studies, and cultural studies to examine how linguistic, literary, and cultural practices relate to questions of power, knowledge, ideology, and social inequality.
For over a century, Asian film and media have offered sites ripe for cultural analyses. While resisting the essentializing label of "Asian," this session seeks to benefit from conversations that emerge when we recognize the heterogeneity of Asia as well as the commonalities that run through its various cultural products. In 2026, this session invites particular attention to power and hierarchy in Asian film and media, welcoming analyses that move beyond the binary of domination and resistance to explore the more ambivalent, entangled, and contradictory ways that power and resistance operate across cultural forms and social life.
Interdisciplinary Symposium
GORDON PASK 1928 - 1996 - 2026 — CYBERNETICS, CONVERSATION, INTERACTION & AI
University of Vienna, Austria. Thursday 17 September 2026.
Experience shows that unless you are against something, nobody takes the slightest notice of what you say. On this occasion, the most obvious target for anti-sentiment, is a conference; so I am against conferences, today. Not against this one, for that would be rude, and not against any in particular, for that would be overly general. Taken as a social occasion, as a surrogate for learned society, a conference is a capital affair. (G. Pask, addressing the Society for General Systems Research, 1979)
Prospero Rivista di Letterature e Culture Straniere
A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Cultures
Call for Papers: Volume XXXI (2026):
NARRATIVES OF CRISIS IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN-LANGUAGE LITERATURES
Call for Papers
Medievalisms Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
Edited by Giannis Stamatellos and Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Pluribus (stylized as PLUR1BUS) is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction television series created by Vince Gilligan. It premiered on in November 2025, and a second season has been ordered.
Humanity is infected by an extraterrestrial virus and has muted into a peaceful and happy “Hive Mind.” The Hive is the shared consciousness of the infected people. However, 12 people are immune and not affected by the virus and react in various ways to the new reality.
Call for Papers
War & Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
Call for Papers
Horror (Literary & Cinematic)
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
English Language Notes (ELN) Call for Papers
“Global Queer and Trans Class Relations”
A special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN), Vol. 65, No. 2 (October 2027)
Edited by Matt Brim and Emmanuel David
Submissions due September 1, 2026
The following is a cfp for a roundtable session at the forthcoming PAMLA 2026 conference to be hosted in Seattle, Washington, U.S. from Nov 12-15, 2026.
Please contact Noah Gallego @noahrgallego for inquiries.
All abstracts must be submitted through the PAMLA submission portal.
The deadline is May 15, 2026
This roundtable invites scholars across the disciplines and different stages in their academic career with an interest in horror to undertake critical investigations into specifically male-centered horror media. By “male-centered,” I am referring to texts that spotlight male identity and the male body, cis-, queer, and trans- included, as sites of fear and monstrosity.
We invite proposals for individual papers for the critical mixed race studies panel at the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15, 2026.
Paper proposals are due by May 25, 2026.
This edited volume is an offshoot of a panel that I proposed and chaired earlier this year (https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/08/infrastructural-flesh-the-plural-body-in-the-global-city). Due to the stellar response to that CFP, and from the conversations we had around the theme, it was decided that we will plan an edited volume around the theme.
Volume Rationale
Collecting, Collected, Collective:
Working With Hopkins
June 10 to 12, 2027
Proposals due: 26 October 2026
Ecologies of Kinship: Forms and Genealogies in Anglophone Literatures
Call for Contributions & Online Symposium
8-9 October 2026
Transformative Language: Literacies of Mind, Body, and Soul
Southeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature
Samford University
Birmingham, AL
October 22-24, 2026
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2026
Registration Deadline: September 1, 2026
Keynote Speaker: Jason Baxter (Director for the Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine University)
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.
Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)
Deadline: May 15, 2026
Across continents, the university is being rewritten in real time — its purposes questioned, its futures renegotiated. We would be delighted if you might enter this conversation in our forthcoming issue, where your work could help shape the terms of debate and extend it in new directions.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)
ISSN 3108-0693; Website: https://tgche.ac.in/telangana-journal-of-higher-education-tjhe/
Volume 2 Number 1 (January–June 2026)
Call for Papers – 2nd International CLOSURE Conference
Tropes of Comics and Manga
Kiel, November 19–21, 2026
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)
We are inviting select chapters at this stage as majority of the entries for the volume have been finalised. Apart from the topics mentioned below, prospective contributors are free to propose other topics, but if we have already finalised paper/s on said area, we may have to decline such proposals. For details regarding the concept and theme of the volume, please visit the-handbook-of-bengali-cinema, the original CFP for the volume. Priority will be given to quality proposals in the below areas:
Thematic:
Nandan and the Politics of State Support for Culture
Bengal-isms in Cinema in Bengali
Genres/Movements:
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.
To mark the eightieth anniversary of the Partition of India, we invite submissions for a Special Issue of Sikh Formations to be followed by an edited book volume. The issue will explore the past, present, and future legacies of the Partition in South Asia and beyond with special reference to the Sikhs.
SEXTANT: Masculinities, Sexualities & Decolonialities
ISSN 2990-8124
University College Dublin
Call for Contributions
Special Issue: Inclusion in Education: Practices, Politics, and Possibilities
APPLICATION DEADLINE: MAY 15, 2026
Submissions are now being accepted for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)'s Disability Studies session, which meets at the 123rd annual conference, Nov. 12-15, 2026 in Seattle, Washington.
Disability Studies is a vibrant, interdisciplinary field that examines the ways disability is constructed across society, culture, and history. This session engages with texts from a wide range of genres, media, cultures, and historical periods, analyzed through the lens of disability theory and/or lived experiences of disability. Papers explore physical, sensory, cognitive, and/or mental disabilities, as well as issues related to pain, chronic illness, and invisible disabilities.
Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459 - July 2026
Academic Journal
Research Academy
Aims and Objectives
Aims and Scope
Chenkaantal (E-ISSN: 2583-0481) is a pioneer Diamond Open Access Journal for Tamil studies. The journal is dedicated to the academic research of Tamil language, Tamil Literature, Tamil Culture, Tamil Linguistics and other modern trends in Tamil studies.
Call for
Aims and Scope of the Journal
Name of Organisation: Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
Contact email: literarydruid@gmail.com
Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.
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.
2026 Pacific Ancient Modern Langauges Association (November 12-15) in Seattle
"I Think I'm Gonna Die in this House": Spatiality and Class in Film & Literature
submission link:
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20015
Abstract:
ephemer – Journal for Performance and Theater Research
3rd Call for Co-Editors
On Agitation
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.
"Melville Revivals"
PAMLA 2026
November 12-15, 2026
Seattle, Washington (Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell Street)
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Call for Applications: R.D. Mullen Fellowships
Named for the founder of our journal, Richard “Dale” Mullen (1915-1998), the Mullen
fellowships are awarded by Science Fiction Studies to support archival research in
topics related to science fiction, broadly construed.
We have two categories of awards:
Category 1
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Amount: Up to $3000: 1 award each year
Cunterbury is a scholarly arts & comedy podcast hosted by three Gen Z academics — A.J. Scott, Alice Fulmer-Zelinka and Shannen Escote — exploring the major works of Geoffrey Chaucer and friends, starting with The Canterbury Tales. In our first season, we are providing witty commentary and voices to discuss the Tales and their pilgrims like you’ve never heard them before.