While Percival Everett’s novel James (2024) functions as a radical reworking of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)–freeing Twain’s literary creation from the constraints of the nineteenth century novel as well as the expectations of its original audience–”tellings and retellings” have long served as a mode for revising and reimagining canonical narratives.  From Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966) and Ursula K Le Guin’s Lavinia (2008) to Sandra Newman’s Julia (2023), literary retellings often expose the ideological foundations of the canon while amplifying voices historically marginalized or silenced within it.

Since September of 2025 the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University has housed a new publication called The Pittsburgh Review of Books (or PRoB), available at http://www.pghrev.com We are particularly interested in pieces by scholars that analyze or contextualize breaking news - be it political, cultural, or social events - that can be published quickly. 

Edited by author and Public Humanities Special Faculty Ed Simon, PRoB is a home for engaged, creative, and interdisciplinary cultural criticism and analysis across the humanities. The tone of the publication is similar to other para-academic publications intended for both specialists and a general audience. 

You are invited to participate in a research study survey examining the relationship between film and memory.

This study explores how film experiences may shape personal, emotional, neurological, and cultural recollection, including how individuals understand events they did not directly experience. You will be asked to reflect on your film viewing habits, emotional and cognitive responses to specific films or scenes, and the ways films may influence your understanding of memory, history, and identity.

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This journal collection (c. 90,000 words) will be published as a theme issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities in January 2029 (34.1). Angelaki (established 1993, based in Oxford, UK) is an internationally known journal of European philosophy and literary and cultural theory and criticism published by Routledge. Since 2025 the journal is online only. Open access material allowing, all Angelaki theme issues are considered for publication as books in the Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities series.
2025: 160,000 full-article downloads.

How do people narrate movement, imagine home and negotiate belonging? This international conference brings literary inquiry into conversation with interdisciplinary perspectives on borders, migration and diaspora. Inviting academic researchers, artists and creators, independent researchers, policy makers, industry professionals and activists. Human movement across localities, regions, nations and oceans has long shaped societies and their stories. From the Great Depression and the Partition of India to the movement of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, migration has generated literary, cinematic and media representations that illuminate relationships among individuals, communities and nation-states.

The Elizabeth von Arnim Society invites proposals for "Literary Gardens: Cultivation, Movement, and Modernism," an international online conference to be held February 12–13, 2027. The conference is in conversation with "The Literary Garden: The Cultivation of Plants & Gardens in Narratives," an exhibit at the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum, Missouri Botanical Garden (May 2026–March 2027), curated by Nezka Pfeifer.

We welcome papers on gardens as spaces of cultivation, movement, and modernity, across modernism broadly conceived: fin-de-siècle precursors through later legacies. Topics may include:

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Bharatiya Bhasha Pariwar: Indian Languages and Shared Expression in the Age of Digital Media and AI

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Special Issue of Study the South: Performed Plantations

Editors: Teresa Simone and Zayne Vance, University of Mississippi 

Contact email: tesimone@olemiss.edu

Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2026.  

We seek proposals for interdisciplinary creative works and papers for a special issue of Study the South, a peer-reviewed, multimedia, online journal by the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

Creative responses might include: videos, art, image galleries, scripts, animation, etc.  

For All Which We Inherit: Theorizing about Black Male Social Inheritance Both Directions at Once

Authors: Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University; Mike Browne, Napcast

Under Contract with Peter Lang

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies

Annual Interdisciplinary Spring Academy Conference

Heidelberg, Germany, April 5-9, 2027

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The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from April 5-9, 2027.

Immersion is a key concept in the fantastic. From the 3D worlds of Avatar to the in-depth lore of The Lord of the Rings, fantastic narratives thrive on the idea of immersing us in worlds so detailed that we feel as if we are really there. Fantastic worlds often come with their own detailed maps, histories, languages, and cultures, creating the illusion of being a real place. Media industries invest heavily in producing technologies of immersion, such as 4D cinema or VR games. Immersion is one of Henry Jenkins’ “Seven Core Principles of Transmedia Storytelling”, while Mark J.P.

The Kate Chopin International Society is seeking individual proposals for two sponsored panels at the 2027 American Literature Association conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 26–29, 2027

The first panel, a roundtable on “Teaching Kate Chopin,” seeks short (seven- to eight-minute) papers/remarks that address any aspect of or strategy for teaching Chopin’s life or work to today’s students—to students of any kind at any level using any materials or technology in any educational environment anywhere. Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and a paragraph about your proposed remarks. Roundtable chaired by Heather Ostman.

The Kate Chopin International Society is seeking individual proposals for two sponsored panels at the 2027 American Literature Association conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 26–29, 2027

The first panel, a roundtable on “Teaching Kate Chopin,” seeks short (seven- to eight-minute) papers/remarks that address any aspect of or strategy for teaching Chopin’s life or work to today’s students—to students of any kind at any level using any materials or technology in any educational environment anywhere. Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and a paragraph about your proposed remarks. Roundtable chaired by Heather Ostman.

CFP for ISLJ-Sponsored Session at RSVP 2027 Annual Conference in Ottawa, Canada:

Designing Youth: Child Creators and the Victorian Periodical

Housed in the Arizona State University Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Bringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society (BRIDGS) brings social science approaches to the gun debate to forge a forum for those across the debate to engage, learn, and elevate. America is a Gun Culture: The Third Annual BRIDGS Guns in Society Symposium February 25 - 26, 2027Arizona State University Downtown CampusPhoenix, Arizona America doesn’t have a gun culture. It is a gun culture. Framing gun culture in this way asks us to consider the pre-eminence of guns in US society as a shared–if also complex and contradictory–experience, even as our social worlds become ever-more fragmented.

Boston  March 24-27, 2027

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Disasters and Apocalyptic Culture

Submission Deadline: Oct 31, 2026

Scope of the paper topics accepted under this area:

 In 2014 and 2023, Falmouth University hosted two of its most successful conferences: Haunted Landscapes. This conference is round three of that event, which will again be held in beautiful Cornwall on the Falmouth Campus, set in lush tropical gardens and only a few minutes’ walk away from its picturesque town and beaches.

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Affective Worlds: Emotions and Aesthetics in Afro-Descendant Women’s Writing International Conference

24–25 May 2027, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Format: in person

Language: English

Link to the CfP: https://clic.research.vub.be/afropemotions-international-conference

• The relationship between fiscal forms of debt to aesthetic or social forms
• The United States student debt crisis and its role in contemporary culture
• Ungrievable, unpayable, or unlimited forms of debt
• Social reproduction theory approaches to the labors transpiring under the category of debt
• The form of credit and the loan (as well as the gift or the commodity)
• Pedagogical, scholarly, and intellectual debts to traditions, genealogies, and mentors 
• Narratives of aesthetic and cultural succession as those of indebtedness 
• Reparations, racial violence, and debt as management of racialized populations

Myth in Literature and Music

University of Angers, France, 30 June – 3 July 2027

The Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Heritage in Arts and Languages (CIRPaLL) at the University of Angers is proud to host the 15th Conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) on Myth in Literature and Music from 30 June to 3 July 2027 at the Maison de la Recherche Germaine Tillionin Angers, France.

In 2023, the Library of America published a collection of Faulkner’s short stories, the sixth volume of its edition of William Faulkner’s works, which shows a keen and never-ending interest in a part of his work which was perceived by academics in varying ways. In 2017, the prestigious French collection La Pléiade published a 1824-page-long volume containing all of Faulkner’s short stories, including collected, uncollected, posthumous and original versions of stories reworked and incorporated in The Town and The Mansion, in translations revisited by François Pitavy. Faulkner himself admitted: “I never wrote a short story I liked” (Lion in the Garden 59).

The 4th Global Plant Humanities Network Conference

Urban Plantscapes: Cities, Working Landscape, and Botanical Life

30 June – 2 July 2027

 University of Rzeszów, Poland

Plenary speakers:

Michael Marder, the University of the Basque Country, Spain