Call for Papers: LEARNING FROM FEAR

The University of Memphis English Department will host a graduate student conference, Learning From Fear, on April 25th-26th, 2025, in Memphis, Tennessee. This conference aims to appeal to a variety of disciplines and interests, including rhetoric, communication, film and media studies, creative writing, linguistics, African American literature, museum studies, philosophy, graphic design, pop culture studies, psychology, educational studies, and web development. 

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ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
May 29-30, 2025. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan

About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study. 

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for a sponsored panel at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada. Papers (15 minutes in length) should examine Milton’s writings through a lens of adaptation studies, media studies, or reception studies, or their appropriation (social, legal, or political). Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

The 17th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association

Heights, Depths, and Extremes

The Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham UK

14th-16th July 2025

The Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) is delighted to announce its 17th annual conference for 2025, inviting scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts of Victorian literature to explore this year’s theme, Heights, Depths, and Extremes. This theme encourages an examination of the limits, boundaries, and expanses of Victorian popular fiction, encompassing everything from physical and metaphorical heights to the extremities of human emotion, imagination, and social structures.

1st International Conference
Contemporary Art & Extractivist Culture
14 May 2025: Facultat de Lletres, Universitat de Lleida
15 May 2025: Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Juan Martín Prada (Universidad de Cádiz), Dr. Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University), Dr. Joaquín Barriendos (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), Dra. Bárbara Fluxá (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Dra. Paula Bruna (artist and researcher), Gabriela Bettini (artist and researcher)

Hi folks,

I hope everyone is happy and well.

I would like to announce that I am putting together a new edited collection on horror film promotion in the US. At present, I am sketching out a due date for chapter submissions of January 2027, but obviously this can only really be provisional at this point. For the record, once a line-up is in place, I will be approaching Anthem Press about including the book in its "Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema", of which I am a board member.

Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Promotion & the American Market

Edited by Richard Nowell

Religion and the Arts is issuing a call for papers on the theme “Buddhism and Literary Nonfiction” for a special issue to be published in March, 2026. We are looking articles on the topic of Buddhism and literary nonfiction: including memoir, biography, the essay,  literary and art criticism, the diary, the handbook, and the sermon or dharma talk. Articles should be roughly 5,000-10,000 words long. Color and black and white Images are also welcome, and should be 300 dpi for the size they are to be reproduced for photography/ 600 for linework.

Articles are due 1 September 2025.  For inquiries, please contact James Najarian, editor, at relarts@bc.edu

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 2025 issues. Covering all periods 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. 

Theorizing (Sub)peripheries: Strategies of Synchronization 

in Southeast European Literary and Cultural Criticism

(1821–2025)

Dates: May 9–10, 2025

Location: Sibiu, Romania

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

I would like to (co)organize a panel on trans studies under Trump 2.0 for the 2025 meeting of the American Studies Association, which will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from November 20-22. This is, obviously, a fraught and rapidly evolving subject, but here are some of the topics I would like to broach: 

We are currently putting together a plenary roundtable on ‘Understanding Medieval Race-Making’ for the June 9-11 conference in Waterloo, ON.

CFP - Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature , vol. 6/2025

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

Writing Human: Post-Chatbot Approaches to College Writing

We are seeking short, first-person narratives (2,000-3,000 words) from college instructors in any discipline who use writing activities and assignments in ways that foster engagement, enhance learning, and stimulate creativity.  We are compiling a book of stories that affirm the educational value of human writing at a time when more of our writing is being done for us by generative AI.