Collection Editor: Wendy Whelan-Stewart, McNeese State University

Contact Email: wwhelanstewart@mcneese.edu

Book Proposal: Edited Collection

Abstracts are invited for chapter proposals for an edited collection titled Motherhood and Its Cultural Artifacts in American Literature.

Description:

Electricdreams - Between fiction and society IV 

VISIONS OF CONTROL: POWER AND TECHNOLOGY IN SPECULATIVE FICTION 

Call for papers for an international in-person conference on speculative fiction, organized and hosted by IULM University of Milan (Italy) in collaboration with Complutense University of Madrid and the HISTOPIA research group, taking place from October 15 to 17, 2025. 

Areas of interest: literature, cinema, television, comics, games/videogames, new media, performative arts, cultural studies. 

July 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This central moment in American history has shaped our national self-perception for 250 years even as writers and scholars have debated the origins and meaning of the events of 1776 from the time they occurred until today. Inspired by these discussions and the national commemoration of independence, the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society is convening a conference in June 2026. What beliefs turned a diffuse movement protesting imperial policy into a radical republican revolution in 1776? How did the events of 1776 play out in the communities that experienced them? How did independence change American society?

Seeking Participants for 2026 CCCC Roundtable on Research Writing in FYW

Dear colleagues,

The 2026 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) invites scholars to contribute what “matters to you most” through conversation and collaboration. In that spirit, we would like to facilitate a roundtable discussion on developing and/or expanding the horizons of how we teach established research genres in the first-year composition classrooms.

CFP on Philosophy and Theatre

Verona, November 20-21, 2025

Organized by S. Bigliazzi, A. Stavru, E. Stelzer, G. Ugolini

The SKENÈ Research Centre organizes a conference on Philosophy and Theatre to be held next November in Verona (20-21 Nov). We invite papers by scholars who in the past years have been publishing and/or organizing events on topics related to the intersection of philosophy and theatre.

This session invites proposals on topics that will (as a session as a whole) embrace the plurality of Feminisms, enlivening current critical practice across languages, literatures, time periods, and genres. In particular, we welcome proposals that approach Feminisms through a transhistorical and/or global lens. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.In their 2022 book Public Feminism in Times of Crisis: From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags, Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager “examine the public practice of feminism in the age of social media and analyze the deep histories threaded through this new(er) enactment” (2).

Call for papers

PORNOGRAPHY IN BABEL

Translation, sexuality, obscenity

International bilingual conference

23–24 October 2025

University of Antwerp, Belgium

MORE PRIDE, LESS PREJUDICE: JANE AUSTEN AT 250

Faculty of Arts and Humanities I University of Porto

2-3 October 2025

Keynote Speakers

Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford) 

John Mullan (University College London)

Novel: A Forum on Fiction is accepting submissions. Founded in 1967 at Brown University, Novel is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best new criticism and theory in novel studies. After several decades under the editorship of Nancy Armstrong, Kevin McLaughlin took over as the chief editor in Summer 2023. Novel holds to these general principles:

This special issue of Horror Studies aims to address female empowerment (cis- and transgender women) in literary and cinematic horror from 2010 to the present. The issue will showcase horror media (literature, films, television, and gaming) created by women. An intersectional approach should be applied to analyses, stressing categories of race, gender, sexuality, class and/or age in submissions. While we are interested in submissions focused on various forms of horror media, we are eager to receive submissions that foreground literary texts.

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

The 19th International Conference of Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)November 6-7, 2026National Central UniversityTaoyuan City, Taiwan---- 

For at least the last fifty years, critics, commentators, and celebrity cognoscenti have repeatedly resounded the death knell of camp. First, facing the political crucibles of the queer civil rights and feminist protests of the 1960s and 1970s, gay men, lesbians, and trans folks were supposed to abandon the shameful practice and kill their darlings. Yet, twenty years later, they found camp coming gloriously back into vogue, striking a pose on the ironic drag stages of the queer 1990s. Now, come forward another twenty years, when self-conscious postmodern parody and biting double entendre are the fuel that makes meme culture go, and we are obliged to wonder at camp’s ubiquity and to question its possible utility.

Call for Papers: Marianne Moore Generations Conference October 23 and 24, 2025
Organizing Committee: Jon Tadmor (Stanford), Celine Shanosky (Harvard)
Speakers: Elizabeth Gregory (University of Houston), Virginia Jackson (UCI), Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo SUNY)
Location: Stanford Humanities Center

The Marianne Moore Generations Conference is an invitation to join in consideration of one poet in the broadest sense, and with a spirit of experiment. How does Moore contribute, or not contribute, to a variety of fields and approaches within literary studies? How might this poet be carried forward?