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Oh, the (Digital) Humanity!: Building a Collaborative Future

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Scaffold: the Journal for the Institute of Comparative Studies of Literature, Art, and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 5, 2025

Since the early days of computational text analysis in the 1940s, the digital humanities has been a space designed for cross and interdisciplinary work. From using digital tools and software to enhance research across the humanities, to using them to create new kinds of research in those same fields, the digital humanities has long been at the forefront of new and exciting research. 

Writing with the Gods: African Influences in African American and Caribbean Literature

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Camille Alexander/Tuskegee University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Editors are seeking contributions to an edited collection titled, Writing with the Gods. This collection of original essays focuses on literary representations of African-influenced religions and spiritual traditions in African-American and Caribbean Literature, such as Voodoo, Hoodoo, Conjure, Obeah, Vodou, Santeria, Myal, and Candomble.  

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

University of Innsbruck (Austria), November 14-15, 2025  

Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global Nineteenth Century

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Maitrayee Roychoudhury
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

The conference, "Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global Nineteenth Century" will be held on 28-29 August 2025 at the School of English, University of St Andrews, and is supported by funding from the British Association for Victorian Studies.

Call for Papers (Vol.4, N.1): Critical Approaches to Speculative Fiction

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 12, 2025

estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities, an online, double-blind peer-reviewed journal from the Centre for Comparative Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (CEComp-FLUL), is currently accepting article and review submissions for the first issue of its Volume 4 until 12 May 2025. The previous issue featured reflections, in the form of articles and interviews, on the life/death dichotomy, approached from an interdisciplinary, comparative, and innovative perspective. In 2025, we are launching estrema's first call for papers specifically focused on a particular field of study: Speculative Fiction.

Call for Chapters: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Chris Shei / Swansea University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Call for Chapters: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation (Revised Edition, 2027)

Editors: Weixiao Wei, Zhaoming Gao and Chris Shei

We are pleased to announce the call for chapters for the revised edition of The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation, scheduled for publication in 2027. Building on the foundation of the 2017 edition, the revised volume aims to reflect the latest developments, research trends, and innovations in Chinese translation studies. We particularly welcome contributions that explore how advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping the theory and practice of Chinese translation across various domains.

CFP: "War & Culture," SWPACA Summer Salon, June 26-28

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:38pm
SWPACA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Call for Papers

“War & Culture”

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2025 SWPACA Summer Salon

 

June 26-28, 2025

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 25, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025

 

CFP: "Horror," SWPACA Summer Salon, June 26-28, 2025

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:38pm
SWPACA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Call for Papers

“Horror (Literary & Cinematic)”

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2025 SWPACA Summer Salon

 

June 26-28, 2025

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 25, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025

 

National Conference on Narratives in English and Foreign Languages: Stories Across Time, Space and Cultures (Hybrid Mode)

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:38pm
SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

ABOUT SRMIST

SRM Institute of Science and Technology's sprawling 380-acre campus along NH45 near Chennai blends cutting-edge infrastructure with lush greenery, fostering innovation and learning. SRMIST is recognized with an A++ NAAC grade and is ranked 12th in NIRF. The Institute stands as a hub of academic and research excellence creating an indelible impact both at the national and international levels.

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Religion and Literature Permanent Section

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:38pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

MMLA 2025 Religion and Literature Permanent Section CFP

  

The Religion and Literature permanent section invites proposals for the 2025 Midwest Modern Language Association convention in Milwaukee. Those aspiring to be on the panel should feel empowered to offer proposals that interpret the concept of religion rather loosely by potentially including “the humanities” and the academy as faith driven institutions. Maintaining a broad interpretation of religion to include all intersections of faith, folklore, belief, and literature; expressions of belief may include creeds, mottos, mission statements, charters, manifestos, doctrines, etc. 

CFP: IUO JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:37pm
Department of English, Igbinedion University, Nigeria
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of English, Igbinedion University Okada, Edo State, Nigeria, invites quality articles for inclusion in Volume 2 of the June/July and November/December editions of IUO Journal of English and Literary Studies. The journal publishes articles and compositions written in English and French in all areas of English Language and Literature, including African and non-African Studies, Canonical, Contemporary, and Comparative Studies, Linguistics Studies, Theatre Arts, Film/Home Video, conference proceedings, editorials, book reviews, interviews, creative works, and sketches. IUO Journal of English and Literary Studies is an online periodical which allows free and unrestricted access to its published material.

Young/Adult: Literatures, Cultures, and Media

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:37pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

We invite papers that explore aspects of Young/Adult literature and/or culture, broadly construed. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related. Paper proposals that engage the following questions are welcome: How have notions of age and development impacted and/or been encoded in literary and cultural materials, including media? How has the story of "young adult" or "adolescent" literature been written over, rewritten, or written out, and with what occlusions?

Reconfigurations 20th- and 21st-Century Literature and the Arts (NTU Singapore)

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:37pm
Humanities @ Nanyang Technological University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 16, 2025

CFP:

Reconfigurations 2025 seeks to explore the innovative and dynamic achievements of contemporary arts and to extend the critical discourses on their significance in our time. The central theme of the Conference is the intermedial, that is, the interconnectedness and interaction of different art forms across aesthetic and cultural boundaries, and the invigorating and rich transformations resulting from these crisscrossings.

CFP: Circus history topics - CHS Convention 2025 Las Vegas

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:37pm
Circus Historical Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

The Circus Historical Society will hold its 2025 Convention in Las Vegas Nevada from October 22 to October 25. More information about Convention is available here: https://circushistory.org/next-convention/ (Registration opens soon!) 

We invite proposals for presentations at the convention on any subject related to circus history:

Popular Culture and the Politics of Representation

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:36pm
Department of English, University of Kalyani
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

This conference aims to bring together Postgraduate students and Research Scholars to critically engage with the theme of “Popular Culture and the Politics of Representation.” Culture has always been the force to determine the course of human history, which has been sempiternally constituted by multitudinous and multidirectional fluxes of cultural exchanges, overlaps, and influences of various degrees. The aforementioned dynamics had not only been operative at collective levels but also at individual ones, ceaselessly permeating and turning us into its impacts and mouldings.

Call for Panels and Papers: "Sports, Recreation, Leisure, and All Manners of Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century"

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:36pm
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Pinehurst, NC - February 19-21, 2026

All topics related to the long 18th century are welcome. We especially encourage papers related to this year's theme: reading and writing; rural sports; golf, spas, and resorts; shopping; competitions; gambling; drinking; music; theatre, and all other eighteenth-century pastimes. Those speaking on any eighteenth-century topic will be providing pleasure, hence in keeping with the theme.

Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy (MMLA)

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:36pm
Matthew Horton / University of North Georgia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

CFP for Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy Panel

MMLA 2025, November 14–16, Milwaukee, WI

The Midwest Modern Language Association welcomes proposals dealing with any aspect of the theme "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives" for the 2025 conference. Please find a general description of this theme here: https://www.midwest-mla.org/call-for-papers.

Writing in College (SAMLA)

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:36pm
Matthew Horton / University of North Georgia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

SAMLA 97: CFP for “The ‘Unfamiliar and Unnecessary’ in College Writing Instruction”

November, 6–8, 2025

Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center, Atlanta, GA

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association invites proposals dealing with any aspect of the general theme for the 2025 conference: “Knowledge.” Please find a general description of this theme here: https://southatlanticmla.org/conference-theme-and-cfp/.

Special Issue on "Radical Kinship in the Capitalocene: Interspecies Ontologies and Biopolitical Resistance"

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:36pm
Special Issue on Radical Kinship in the Capitalocene: Interspecies Ontologies and Biopolitical Resistance Publisher: TRACE ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

 

Call for Papers:  

Special Issue on Radical Kinship in the Capitalocene:

Interspecies Ontologies and Biopolitical Resistance

 

Editors: Elizabeth (Eli) Tavella & Cagatay Emre Dogan

Publisher: TRACE ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies

Acts of Writing: Cultural Practices, Knowledge Construction, Authorship

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:36pm
Isabella Maria Engberg, Justus Liebig University Giessen
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Acts of Writing: Cultural Practices, Knowledge Construction, Authorship

Symposium at the GCSC/GGK, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 12, 35394 Giessen, Germany

4th – 6th of June, 2025

 

When thinking of writing as a practice, one might imagine a lone author with shoulders bent over a desk, frantically looking over messy handwritten notes and typing away on a laptop. What ideas are behind this image, and how do practices of writing actually look like?

Critical Approaches to Controversies in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:36pm
Lisa Rowe Fraustino/Children's Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Recent reports about Neil Gaiman’s alleged decades of sexual abuse have led to renewed discussions about how to approach popular and award-winning works by authors and illustrators who draw rebuke in their personal lives.  Censorship over a range of complaints is increasing globally. Social media callouts over content have resulted in withdrawn publications, canceled book contracts, and altered reputations of authors, illustrators, and publishers. 

Routledge-CRC Press-Taylor and Francis - Call for Chapters: Digital Technology and Language Teaching: Exploring New Frontiers in Language Education

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:36pm
Dr. Aby John, Faculty of Philology, RUDN University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 12, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Digital Technology and Language Teaching: Exploring New Frontiers in Language Education

Routledge-CRC Press-Taylor and Francis - Call for Chapters (Will be indexed in Scopus)

 

Important Deadlines

               Abstract Submission (Approximately 150-200 words)                 :               April 12, 2025

               Full Chapter Submission                                                                 :               June 15, 2025

Christianity, Literature, Politics

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:35pm
Peter Kerry Powers/ Conference on Christianity and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 24, 2025

Proposals are invited for a session at MLA 2026 in Toronto (session sponsor, The Conference on Christianity and Literature). The contemporary political and cultural scene in the United States is fraught with religion. Religion is fraught with politics, whether thinking about the ascendancy of the forms of Christian Nationalism in the discourses and halls of power, the continued political relevance and concern of the Black Church, the rhetorical and theological interventions of leaders like Bishop Marianne Budde (ECUSA), Pope Francis, or Billy and Franklin Graham, or the difficult political and cultural engagements across national divides in the clashing of cultures influenced by versions of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

17th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:35pm
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

The 17th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 13, 2025, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2025 conference theme “Louisiana Dramas,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.

Racial Passing On the Page & On the Screen (MLA 2026 Panel)

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:35pm
Donavan L. Ramon, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

The 2026 MLA Convention will take place in Toronto from January 8 to 11 2026. I am organizing this panel on any aspect of racial passing. This panel seeks abstracts that explore racial passing in literature & film. Topics can explore any aspect of racial passing in literature and/or film from any time period. Submit a 300-word abstract and brief bio by March 25 for full consideration.

Patterson Prize 2025 (Simone de Beauvoir Studies)

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:35pm
Simone de Beauvoir Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Patterson Prize 2025 (English submission)
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Prize: $500 USD and publication in Simone de Beauvoir Studies, vol. 36, no. 2

The award is named after Yolanda Astarita Patterson, one of the founding editors of Simone de Beauvoir Studies and Editor in Chief of the journal for more than thirty years (1985-2016). The Patterson Prize is awarded annually to a work that demonstrates excellence in writing while also embodying modes of thought and expression characteristic of Beauvoir’s oeuvre.

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