CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LITERATURE TODAY’S DECEMBER 2025 ISSUE

Website: https://literaturetodayjournal.blogspot.com/
Email: editorliteraturetoday@gmail.com
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2025

We are more connected than ever—yet so many of us feel unseen, unheard, or strangely alone.

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries (https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/) is an open-access, mutually-anonymous peer-reviewed journal exploring the intersection of Defoe and/or his contemporaries and digital humanities.

We strongly encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental essays and pedagogical approaches.

 Full submission guidelines and archived issues of the journal may be found on the website: https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/policies.html

INTERNET CULTURE

CALL FOR PAPERS: PCA 2026 National Conference (April 8-11, 2026) 

The Internet Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association invites proposals for individual papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative format presentations for the 2026 National Conference, April 8-11, 2026. Proposals should explore Internet Culture as it relates to popular culture including, but not limited to:

• Social Media

• Mobility

• Apps/Applications

• Digital Marketing

• The Internet & Social Change

Joan is Awful is the first episode of season six of Netflix’s Black Mirror that talks about the impact of artificially generated content on the lives of citizens, taking their mundane lives and turning them into a streaming special on ‘Streamberry’ for everyone to watch. The titular character Joan (played by Annie Murphy), is subjected to this midway through the episode when she sits to watch a curiously titled episode on the Streamberry streaming service that uses her name, Joan is Awful and has the actress Salma Hayek playing re-enacting her life.

Eudora Welty Society Call for Papers at

American Literature Association 2026 Conference (May 20-23, 2026 at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago)

 Minor Characters in Welty’s Fiction

Call for Papers:  

Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media 
24-25 April, 2026
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 

Keynote Speakers: 
Seth Kim, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Colby College 
Pedro Inock, Filmmaker and PhD candidate, NOVA University of Lisbon 

Call for Papers 

Writing and Social Justices: Praxis, Aesthetics, Pedagogies 

Special Issue, University of Toronto Quarterly 

Co-editors: Julia A. Boyd, Corrine Bent-Womack, Sheliza Ibrahim, Megan Janssen-McBride, Iona Lister, Nelesi Rodrigues, and Clare Warner 

Advisory Editor: Leticia Ridley 

Special Call for Papers, Issue 11.1 (Sprıng 2026)

For its forthcoming issue, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration (MSJ)

Reimagining Black Futures: The Critical Visions of Afrofuturism  

How do we reimagine the past? How can we envision the future? In our present moment, how do we tell the story of a past that has become just as contentious as the many visions of where we want to go? The concept of legacies allows us to think through the continuum, the spectrum, and the sometimes-chaotic mishmash of the relationship of past, present, and future. The ideas of tradition, innovation, nostalgia, and refashionings can open up texts to consider their temporal, historical, and intertextual contexts.

New Directions in Early American Poetry Studies

A panel organized and sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists as part of "American Poetry: A Symposium," sponsored by the American Literature Association and the Society for the Study of American Poetry, to be held March 26–28, 2026 at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, MA. For more information: https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-symposia/a...

The DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES AT MASARYK UNIVERSITY, Brno, is pleased to announce the Brno Graduate Conference in English Studies, to be held on NOVEMBER 20-21, 2025.

This year's theme – "CULTURAL MEMORY: REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN" – invites doctoral students to explore numerous ways in which literary, cultural and linguistic practices contribute to the construction, preservation, and transformation of cultural memory.

The confirmed keynote speaker of the conference is prof. Dr. Volker Depkat from University of Regensburg.

SILENCES
Northeast Victorian Studies Association
Cornell University April 10-12, 2026
Keynote Panel with Rachel Ablow, Jason Camlot, and Priya Joshi

View the full call here >> https://northeastvictorianstudies.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/...

Call for Papers and Workshops: “History up for Debate: Literature, Storytelling and the Imagined Past” 

1-2 July 2026, University of Salzburg, Department of English and American Studies, UniparkNonntal 

Conference within the Framework of the Salzburg Conferences on English Literature and Culture (SEC) 

Organisers: Dorothea Flothow, Julia Hartinger, Sarah Herbe, Christopher Herzog, Eva-Maria Kubin, Markus Oppolzer, and Elisabeth Schober 

Call for Articles - The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power

IDEA – Interdisciplinary Discourses, Education and Analysis launches its new issue on the topic The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power.

Emotions shape the way individuals and communities navigate their personal and collective lives, influencing decisions, relationships and the structures that govern societies. They are deeply embedded in social, cultural and political contexts, acting as both a personal experience and a force that drives public action.

I’m reaching out regarding a proposed forthcoming academic volume titled Other(ed) Worlds: Transgender Representations in Lusophone and Portuguese-Based Creole Societies, which I will be editing. This volume will be part of Trans Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic and edited by Dr. Douglas Vakoch (General Editor) and Courtney Morales (Senior Acquisitions Editor).

This proposed volume will bring together interdisciplinary essays exploring transgender narratives, identities, and resistances in the Lusophone World (from Portugal and Brazil to Lusophone Africa and Asia) / regions shaped by Portuguese colonial legacies (Africa, Asia, and the Americas).

Conference at the University of Bonn, 18-20 May, 2026

The AI revolution has accelerated in recent years, propelled by the widespread use of large language models (LLMs). Today, AI systems are not only transforming technical environments but also shaping our thoughts, emotions, and everyday linguistic practices. Increasingly, AI research and industry are shifting their attention from rational problem-solving toward aspects of human life once considered the last bastions of humanity. We can contrast this approach to AI as a simulation of ‘rationality’ with the expansion of applications into the realm of the expression of emotions and other aspects of human life often seen as ‘irrational’.

Editors-in-chief: Inês Fernandes and Teresa Weinholtz 

Issue 12 | Speak at Your Own Risk: The Many Faces of (Self-)Censorship

International Conference 

Women Filmmakers and New Feminist Cinemas in France, Great Britain, and the USA in the 21st Century 

21-22-23 October 2026, Université Toulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès, France 

Deadline: Submissions due has been extended to October 15, 2025 to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu. 

It feels only appropriate, given the recent UR graduate worker strike, that Issue 41 of InVisible Culture focus on the problem of labor. Amid the erosion of labor protections in academia, increasing challenges faced by immigrant workers in the US, and global labor conflicts in fields like healthcare and agriculture, this moment calls for a reconsideration of what labor is and how its value is structured.

Ecocriticism in German Narratives
Book Series: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology

About the Series

The book series Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology (Istanbul University Press) explores intersections of German literature, culture, and society with broader interdisciplinary fields.

Utopia, Dystopia, and Heterotopia in Narratives
Third volume of the book series: Interdisciplinary Studies on Philology

About the Series

Interdisciplinary Studies on Philology brings together research that bridges literary studies with adjacent human and social sciences.

• Volume I: Mythological Motifs in Narratives (published)
• Volume II: Redefining Communication in Posthuman Age (published)
• Volume III: Utopia, Dystopia, and Heterotopia in Narratives (planned)

Aim and Scope

From Indigenous testimonies about extraction economies to eco-dystopian manga, comics across the world function as powerful visual laboratories for engaging with the natural world. The graphic form—with its unique interplay of word and image, its use of framing, juxtaposition, and sequentiality—stages ecological questions in ways prose often cannot. By dramatizing the temporality of both sudden catastrophes and slow processes of degradation, comics enable us to see environmental crises unfolding across multiple scales of time and space. They ask us to imagine multispecies entanglements, toxic futures, and alternative modes of dwelling, while also foregrounding human complicity in environmental collapse.

The Music Graduate Student Organization at the University of Pittsburgh welcomes proposals for 20 minute paper presentations, performance demonstrations, or work that integrates research and practice for its 2026 conference, “Sonic Power: Speculation, Surveillance, and Strength.” We invite students, researchers, musicians, sound artists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to consider how sound organizes power and how people reorganize power through sound. Sonic life shapes worlds, whether in the hush of archival erasure, the loudness of protest, or the sorting of listening within media infrastructures.